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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I’ve done it. It was a grub screw - so the hex was entirely within the shaft - that was surrounded by loctite, and frankly I never had a chance to get it out. It went circular immediately, just with hand pressure. I ended up having to use a screw extractor.

    I was told this was a common problem on ARRMA vehicles and that I should get a more precise type of hex driver. They were expensive but I haven’t had the problem since.




  • Your gnomes shouldn’t be dead, they’re technically immortal and a stint in the dishwasher is their ticket out of the salt mines. If you’ve got dead gnomes the last thing you want is to keep their bodies on the premises. If you leave them in the cartridge they can be revived when you exchange it for the new cartridge. If you put them in the ground they will find… other ways back to their realm, and they will remember what you did.

    And please remember to buy gnomane dishwashing tablets, I cannot stress enough how much they should not be dead.

    Also don’t ask me why the gnome salt mine slavery exists, I didn’t create it, I just benefit from it.




  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAnyone Hiring?
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    3 days ago

    In my experience that is not a true defence against disappointment.

    My expectations weren’t low enough to guard against my boss’s husband getting drunk, shoving his kid around in front of me then driving like a lunatic with us both in the car. When I quit over it I didn’t get my last paycheck or even an email back.

    There had been red flags in the hiring process which these days I would absolutely bounce over, especially since they’d taken so long to get my contract in order, but you just don’t expect people to be complete monsters.

    When I emailed again a week later to ask what was taking so long the second business partner’s email bounced. Apparently she’d left in that time. The business is still somehow running because you don’t need to be competent to get startup capital and run a business, you just need to talk fast enough to get the bag.


  • I tried to get a refund on WRC after they added anti-cheat that stopped it running on linux even though it did previously. Anti-cheat on a primarily single player game.

    Steam rejected it because it “didn’t count as non-functional under consumer protection laws”.

    I mean they deliberately rendered it non-functional for certain users.

    Anyway, the dirt series will be mourned but I’m excited to see if anyone else will take up the mantle. BeamNG’s rally mode is getting really good and they have a very detailed simulation, and VR. In fact a detailed damage model is key to a realistic rally simulation, and obviously theirs is second to none.



  • Well sure, psychos with nukes are scary and there may be an element of the US losing control of their attack dog, but the idea that the Israelis are calling the shots is not really accurate. It cuts dangerously close to the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Israel through AIPAC controls the US government, which also conveniently lets the US off the hook for sponsoring them.

    I just think it’s important to remember that for all their brutality, Israel is not charge, and they are not the military superpower that has dominated much of global politics for the past century. They are a vassal state and they would listen if anyone in power had the will to tell them no, they are far too dependent on US support.




  • Everyone should read the words of one of Nixon’s top aides regarding why they started the war on drugs:

    “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

    “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

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    And yet the wikipedia entry for the war on drugs starts like this:

    The war on drugs is a global anti-narcotics campaign led by the United States federal government, including drug prohibition, foreign assistance, military intervention, and counterterrorism, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the US.

    Emphasis added. I would say that is flat out false. It may be the openly stated aim, but it is not the true aim, and they’ve admitted it. Just another reminder that these fascists know exactly what the fuck they’re doing and that wikipedia is subject to propaganda influences.