BigMikeInAustin

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Racist Americans are getting their appetite whet seeing brown people getting hurt, and are on the edge of their seat waiting to see Black people get hurt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yay. Keep it going. More states and higher income.

Or, you know, the ultra, ultra rich could pay more taxes. That's the trade off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Are you depending on Hungary's modern and authoritarian-leaning surveillance state to be 10+ years behind? Consumer-grade Face Id on phones and computers uses infrared light.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This goes over how infrared light see through a lot of disguises.

How to Block Facial Recognition Cameras (IRL Tested!) - Business Reform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFeS72IM6M

I'm not saying his method are the best way to stay anonymous, just that he demonstrates how hard it is to stay anonymous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This seems to be just visible light. Infrared light facial recognition sees through all of the makeup and dark sunglasses.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The big, well reported protests were the result of decades, nay centuries, of protests.

Sit-in protests were common.

Rosa Parks was, by far, not the first Black person to be arrested for keeping her seat.

Hundreds of thousands of workers died or were hurt in preventable dangerous workplaces and labor protests.

It is hard and costly to go against the government.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Racists are so bad they won't even allow Black people to volunteer to defend the America.

Racists are so bad and afraid of brown people that white America racists are removing child labor laws to prefer to have their own white children working in fast food instead of in school learning just so that they don't see a brown adult.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago

First the racists said that Black people were born for physical labor. Then the racists said that Black people were not good enough to do physical labor to defend the country. Racist people are horrible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Et tu, Brother?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rewards points are 5%, not 15%.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Obama could have gotten a deal.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Where is this 15% discount? I have the card and don’t get that.

 

It's been at 80F / 26C for 10 hours.

There goes $8. Dang.

 

Except it wasn't all the dull because some yahoo decided to save 5 bucks by returning to AutoZone a cheaper part from Amazon.

Took me 2 hours for a 10 minute job because the parts didn't fit, and that snowballed into using so many tools and spare parts to get it all good and solid.

And since I do work on my car, I needed this to be as solid as I could get it because I don't want that pointed hood latch, with 100 lbs of hood to fall 4 feet into the back of my head when I'm in the engine bay and someone or the wind knocks into the car.

I'm still slightly uneasy about it, but maybe that's just the anger. The only AutoZone with this part in stock is 30 miles away, which is where I got it when I had an errand on that side of town. And this part now clearly has some surface level battle scars since I've been working on it. So even if I made the drive, I would be at the mercy of the manager believing me over the guy they already got scammed by.

 

I was lazy, so only did the side mirrors and both front door windows.

I usually just use gas station squeegees, so using the Windex and a cloth towel was a step up and got it really clean.

It's so nice looking out the side mirrors. I keep looking at them and marveling at how nice the world looks. Like when a person gets their first pair of glasses and sees the world in detail for the first time.

It's been a week and I'm still smiling about the clear view. Luckily it hasn't rained in that time.

I only get rain, no snow, so I keep telling myself the side mirror rain guards aren't useful at all for me.

 

Started on one computer mouse needing a new AA battery. Then re-glued the foot pad that had fallen off and was making it rock. While vigorously testing the other foot pads, they came off, and so I ended up re-gluing them all.

Then went one to another mouse and started to clean some dust in the corners of it. Turned out the dust was enough that I had an excuse to take it apart. Then there was enough random tiny fibers/hairs that I couldn't get off that I went to use the air compressor to really get it clean. And re-glued the feet pads here, because, why not.

With as much as I take apart my computer mice, it causes the factory sticky tape to fail. So I actually cut out an access whole where the foot pad covers the hidden screws. And then I can use gel super glue to keep the foot pads down fully without curling.

 

Currently installed is a recent (about 10 years) Harbor Bay 5 blade ceiling fan with 44" blade diameter.

In a box I have a recent (about 10 years) Harbor Bay 5 blade ceiling fan with 52" blade diameter.

Yes, the large blades will run the motor harder.

Would these two fans likely use the same motor, so that I can just swap the larger blades and leave the current motor? Or is there a high chance the motors are sized specific to their blades, and I would need to fully swap the motor to use the larger blades?

The blades appear to use the same connection.

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