I’ve made this case to Christians before. If people who don’t hear about it get a free pass into heaven, after Jesus died, if they just didn’t say anything, everyone on earth would go to heaven.

Any time they go somewhere new and preach, they have to get 100% to believe just to keep the number of people going to heaven the same. Anything less and hell has gained some new souls.

Christianity is a recruitment tool for hell.

I like that she’s steering while tumbling through the door and was hoping she’d land it clean

Yeah, The first sentence on the atf website says “ATF launched a new era of reform in 2025…” and the rest of the page is listing the “new era actions taken.”

It does say it was updated in May 2026, which is somewhat recent, but there’s nothing that indicates this page is listing everything they’re currently doing.

I’ve been here 2-3 years and have up or down voted like 5 times. I just don’t care about it and don’t look at the numbers. Seems to work

Was it synthetic oil? Synthetic used to be a little more uncommon and was more expensive, now it’s more common and the same price as conventional oil. But oil change places still charge double for synthetic.

A big Mac combo is $9.xx after tax where I’m at

Yeah I don’t know, that’s just what Slate said “the telematics module is primarily for fleet customers, Slate told Ars.”

https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/06/we-take-a-ride-in-slates-24950-electric-pickup/

I read that the telematics package is meant for fleets, not average buyers

That site is just a map of Flock cams. You can detect them with a tool called Flock You

You gotta choke the fuck out of her to get her going, just like my lawnmower

That’s a Buick thing. Was it a CTS? I’ve seen two year old CTS total from small accidents because there were no parts available for it.

That’s not passive income

This the the guy two inches behind me when I’m already doing 15 over the speed limit

A guy and his wife went to marriage therapy…

Therapist: Your wife says you don’t pay attention to what’s going on in her life and you’re not romantic, for example, you never buy her flowers.

Husband: Gosh, I guess that’s true. I mean… I didn’t even know she sold flowers.

Our TV got 1-5 channels depending on the weather. Our antenna rotator was one person outside turning the tube that held the antenna and one person inside saying “A little more! A little more! No, go back! Go back!”

I remember visiting a rich person’s home and his son showing me his cable TV. He was bragging that he could watch Dukes of Hazard on the regular channel at 4pm and a cable channel also had the Dukes at 7pm.

Two Dukes of Hazards in a day?! That’s how rich folks live!!

This depended entirely on where you lived. My parents were divorced and one lived in the country and one lived in the suburbs. I could ride freely around the neighborhood in both places, which was literally within sight of my house, but beyond that were dangerous roads and nowhere nearby to go anyway.

Neighboring kids were hard to find. In the country, there were 5 houses on our road and only one had kids my age. We were kinda friends but they were kinda weird.

The suburban neighborhood had 25 homes, and all the kids were older or younger. I never met anyone my age in that neighborhood.

Hanging out with friends meant you called them to see if they could come over. If both parents agreed and one was available to drive, you had a friend for the day.

And if any younger people are reading, you can get a hostel for 20-50 per night. My daughter started working at mcdonalds at 16 and saved up to spend 6 weeks in Europe right after she graduated high school (2024). She bought the plane ticket a year in advance but once she was there she probably only spent $2500.

As we get older we need a nicer hotel, a pet walker/housesitter, time off work, money to pay bills ahead of time, etc. I wish I knew that was possible when I was young.

Carbon-14 dating only works back to about 50,000 years, most fossils are older than that and they use radiometric dating.

(Not a scientist, I’m sure my wording will make experts cringe, but I think my gist is good)

Fossils are basically rocks that form around hard things like bones. They look at radioactive elements in the rock and figure out how much has decayed and they know when the rock was formed.

Uranium lead dating is one of the most used methods. In it, they look at zircon crystals and measure the amount of uranium and lead. Uranium decays into lead, so that tells them how long the decay has been happening.

That always seemed sketchy to me, how do they know it didn’t just have a bunch of lead in it to start with? Then I learned something…

When zircon forms, lead can’t bind with it and it gets pushed out of the zircon. Uranium doesn’t get pushed out, so there are small pockets of uranium in fresh zircon and no lead. A million years later, we just look at how much lead and uranium there is and get a very good idea at when it was formed.

Agree 100%. My first printer was a cheap Kobra 2. I had a lot of problems with it and I’m not sure if it’s because of the printer or because I was changing settings without knowing what I was doing.

At any rate, I wanted something better and didn’t want anycubic, but Kobra 3 with AMS was only $299 at the time so I got one. It worked great. I started on some large printing projects and ended up getting a second one for $299 to spread the workload around.

I have about 600 hours on both and they’ve both been great. I have a Snapmaker U1 but I’m going to keep using the Kobra 3s for basic prints as long as they last.

Watches I suppose, although I wouldn’t want to be called a watch collector because I have zero interest in most of the watches that most watch collectors consider must-have