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I'm going to be putting a new downpipe on my car to hopefully fix my turbo boost issues. The problem is I already have a catback exhaust from another manufacturer that has a flange connection, but the downpipe kit has a slip-fit connection.

To use pictures. I need to connect this thing:

To this thing:

It would be awesome if I could find a part that would adapt the two, but my Google-fu doesn't find anything that has a slip-fit on one end and a two-bolt flanged connector on the other end.

Also: How much would it cost to get an exhaust shop to do this for me?

Whether it be movies, books, oral tradition. What is it we humans love so much about fictional tales?

I have the basics down, a few books read and a few books I'm reading and reviews and comments and followed a few people.

I'm interested in hearing how everyone else uses bookwyrm, like who they follow and recommended books or lists or people to follow.

This link is my website that has books I plan to read at some point. https://blog.machinations.space/media-vault/

I have this mental fanfiction that every god has a way to be killed, and when you kill them you can get things from them.

For instance, the one that I refer to the most often is Ben Franklin using a kite and a key to slay Zeus and to steal electricity from him.

And then of course there's Prometheus who intentionally and willfully laid down his own life so that humanity could have fire.

But there are more gods than there are words to describe them.

What other gods have we claimed existed, that we humans have likely slain, and what do you think we got from them?

For me this is the closest reddit alternative i know of. Sure lemmy isint as big as reddit and reddit has far more tech issues, But im new here so i cant really say much.

Do you prefer lemmy or reddit? are there any other social media i should try? please briefly explain your thoughts and ideals.

I'm allergic to cats, dogs, kangaroos, peaches, and cherries. I've been taking allergy meds so my wife could get a service dog without killing me. Been taking the meds for about six months.

Last week we picked up the dog He's adorable, pretty smart, somewhat normal-dog trained, and definitely not service-ready. His professional training will begin later this month. I believe he can succeed assuming my wife doesn't die from exhaustion before he can learn to keep her alive.

Last week I also made fruit salad for a picnic, and included peaches and cherries (peaches, cherries, nectarines, oranges, honeycrisp apples, red grapes, cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, banana, and I used all-natural concentrated grape juice for sweetener, my wife didn't let me add grapefruit, and I forgot to add the damn pineapple).

Over the weekend I ate fruit salad, and I've been slobbered on by the dog all week, with no signs of any allergic reaction.

The last time I ate cherries, I had to get meds to stop my throat from closing up, and cherries are my favorite fruit.

Anyway, I was feeling pretty good about conquering my immune system, and we had a whole bag of cherries left, so just now I decided to eat some cherries as a snack.

Well, it looks like I've been pissing in my immune system's eye, and it just blinked.

My daughter had left to get veggies for the guinea pigs (no, not allergic to them, but the orchard grass is a little troublesome, and Timothy Hay is completely intolerable). My wife and her dog are sleeping.

I stopped eating the cherries as soon as I started feeling a bit off. No symptoms other than the slightest itch in the left side of my bottom lip.

I'm not concerned about dying. I'm not allowed to kill myself because I made a stupid promise to my wife years ago. However, this would be an accident, and I've pointed out to her that just because I'm not allowed to off myself on purpose, I don't have to submit to any life-saving efforts. She tried to argue with me about that, but I played the bodily autonomy card and she had to concede the point.

Anyway, my unlikely death isn't really what I'm concerned with right now.

It just occurred to me that if I think the end is coming, there's an opportunity to have some really cool final words, but I can't think of anything.

"I was thinking of the immoral words of Socrates, who said, '...I drank what?'"

• Val Kilmer as Chris Knight in 'Real Genius'

My question for you lemmings is, what are some cool final words for me to say?

Also, for anyone concerned, as I finish this post, I'm feeling now like my immune system has decided that flushing out my digestion is the best course of action. So death doesn't seem to be in the cards today, although I might end up wishing it was.

Hi, Sorry if this has been asked before! But I really wanna know why and what people here use instead! Do you use matrix instead? Why/why not?

Update: canceled. Thanks for all your thoughts and opinions! I didn't even mention the Terrifier gifs he'd sent re: our first date. 😅

So I'm about two weeks out of a year-ish long relationship, but even if I wasn't, I think this guy I'm seeing tonight would give me the willies. I decided to jump back on the horse pretty quickly - that relationship had been fizzling for awhile and I didnt really feel the need to mope on about it.

Anyway, I got onto Facebook dating and have and a few nice dates with a couple guys. I'm supposed to go out for the first time with this guy tonight, and I was really excited at first. We've chatted a lot of jokes, memes, silly things already. But I get the sense that he may be a "falls hard and fast" sort of person. He's made a few sexual innuendos I've largely ignored. He's also already referred to the zero dates we've had so far as "dating" and asked if I want kids. When I let him know that I didn't want any biological children but may be open to adopting at some point and told him why (gestures at the world), he said he wants at least one bio kid. I let him know it was fine to cancel since we're on different pages there, but he insisted he's really excited to meet me. Then he said he actually wants two lol.

He's already texted me this morning a pretty deep-cut picture of me from Facebook with, "Can you judge me for wanting to kiss this girl?" or something like that. I know it was a mistake to let him have my profile so soon, and what's worse is there was a picture of my house on there I feel like he could reverse image for my address. I've deleted that pic, but even feeling like I needed to for this guy probably means I need to not meet him, right? Or am I overreacting? It's just a movie date, nothing fancy, and I can leave if I'm skeezed, but wanted to get an unbiased take on if my pre-skeeze seems warranted. Maybe I just need to be more clear on him slowing tf down?

What does it even expand into like in terms of displacing the presumably "Nothing" that previously existed or didnt exist when the universe expanded and should have displaced or subsumed it?

By large I mean by area, not [necessarily] density or weight. Preferably something that isn't collapsable or capable of being easily disassembled. I want the delivery of the item to be a major pain in the ass.

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Sufficiently and feasibly

I was just thinking that it might be interesting to approach this question from the perspective of Inverse/Reverse thinking.

Is it basically what are the rules? What are the inputs and outputs? What blood-written regulations have come into being to prevent the worst cases and risk from repeating exchethera

This was posted under the punch clock at work. I assume it's some kind of occult symbol but that's just a guess. Anyone know what it is or what it means?

• Circle/Sphere of competence
• Capture all the utillity one or a tool is most experienced and accomplished in doing and let them do exclusively that, Delegation,
• Energy uncaptured is energy lost

I'm about 12,950 Kilometers from my spawn point, according to Google Earth. That place is not "home" since I barely have any memories of it, and left the country during primary school.

Ciabattas are pretty dope. Also croissants

I know EU has the Right to Repair initiative and that's a step to the right direction. Still I'm left to wonder, how did we end up in a situation where it's often cheaper to just buy a new item than fix the old?

What can individuals, communities, countries and organizations do to encourage people to repair rather than replace with a new?

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To let a breeze into your room, do your windows open out from the bottom or the top?

If your windows are stacked (upper and lower) which part opens and which part stays fixed?

(Germans with 3D windows don't count. Lüften is a weird cultish ritual and you should all feel bad.)