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Comments Back Up

Comments Back Up

Update: Back up. Guess we’re going to try these for a while. They’re working on helping import disqus comments.

Original: Waiting for a credit card to arrive to possibly buy these ones. (for my 2 friends)

Just scroll to the bottom. It was supposed to import our old comments but doesn’t seem to be working.

Car Audio / Electrical / Connecting Wires

Car Audio / Electrical / Connecting Wires

I’m year (3) into Car Audio. If you need to connect some wires but don’t want to solder (suck at it), heatshrink connectors, or use the other things available. Try these. Lockitt Posi-Tap 6pc pack #605/6 16-18 awg Blue

The reason to use these if you want somewhat temporary connections (but I’ve had some in there 19 years) where if you upgrade something later (stereo, backup camera), then you can disconnect and reuse these. I love them. They are more expensive than the $10-20 case of wire connectors but I use each of these. Once I’m done with something or change something, I pull them out and reuse them. They’re the best. Now they have different sizes but these blue ones work on the smallest wires so far or bigger ones. To me, this size is ideal but you can try other ones. Now this is the lazy option other than getting out the heat gun and wire connectors with heat shrink but they’re easier in my opinion. I really do both methods. If I think something is forever, I then use a heat gun/heatshrink.

 

Tesla Drivers New Shittiest Drivers

Tesla Drivers New Shittiest Drivers

First, it was the Prius but now most of them have bought Teslas. And Teslas are now the new shittiest drivers besides the remaining Prius owners. I could make driving video compilations of them weekly. So far I’ve only seen ONE get pulled over. When I look, every time they are Asian female. hah.

DIPSHIT MACHINES. They’re the new BMW/Mercedes:

  • Never signal
  • Sit at light doing stupid shit on their screen when it’s green
  • Drive down two lanes at once. Seen that a lot.
  • Leave 1-3 car lengths ahead of them at lights
  • Can’t stay in their lanes
  • Wearing masks in their car alone/together for no reason
  • Stop way too slow at the light. I drove around on right, stopped then waited like 20-30 seconds for them to arrive despite them being almost at the light. haha.
  • Drive too slow considering how fast the car is
  • Drive way too fast and out of control because they can’t control that level of speed and acceleration

But as far as I can tell you can force them to auto-stop (works on some other cars too) by cutting them off. I keep doing it. haha

The HR Defense

The HR Defense

There was this girl on my team and I bonded with her because we both were able to evaluate things that sucked and point it out better than anyone else. When they decided to expose everyone’s REAL NAMES, only she and I were the ones to say hey that’s the dumbest idea ever. But everyone ignored us because we were both “negative.” I think I was the ONLY one who got along with her. Anyway, besides that, she wasn’t especially good at her job but she was one of the first or few female tech people on the team. She was really conniving though. She’d backstab people for no reason. When she didn’t get her way she’d go over people’s heads to their bosses. She’d stir up all this shit for no reason (probably why we bonded). Eventually, it was really clear she HAD TO GO. She was the only pure toxic person on a team of 60+. At least I had earned the right to be toxic by being the first person. =D. But this was a place that never got rid of ANYONE for the first 20 years, no matter how bad they were at their jobs and so on. You also used to see that reflected a lot on glassdoor but at least the games were better during that time.

So they slowly worked to remove her. (and I was NO PART OF THIS KEEP IN MIND. I said nothing). She probably figured that out and then started to work HR into it. She told them she had ANXIETY issues and demanded her own personal office and got it. Then she immediately demanded everyone get their shit out of HER office. haha. There was some decoration stuff stored in there. And she was a total scrub in rank. There were tons of higher-level people that deserved their own office that couldn’t get one but she had exploited HR into getting one. Every other office had like 4 people minimum in it. So then she lasted another year(s) because of the HR defense. No one could get rid of her. One day they called an all-team meeting and they announced a producer was removed that we all loved. She made a comment that it’s not cool to have a meeting like this on one person and that she’d hate to know someday we’re all having a meeting about her. I think they just had the meeting because it would be such a shock to us since we loved the guy they removed. Anyway, I was looking at my friend (who hated her) and we were both trying not to bust up laughing. So eventually they FINALLY fired her after having met all the requirements for California or HR or whatever else and had a legal defense in place to finally get rid of her. And then we had that meeting she hoped we wouldn’t have on her removal (lolololol). And every year we’d celebrate the day she got fired. Because she was toxic as F.

Amazon Business

Amazon Business

I had no idea it existed. Pretty interesting. They have an Amazon Business credit card too. Their account is free too. If you sign up for their business credit card you get $125. Then they seem to have some deal of $50 free + 1 year of their Business Prime.

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Inflation

Inflation

Is everyone loving all this inflation, interest rate rises (6% for home loans vs. 3%), gas prices, food prices, fast food prices, guns/ammo prices (since 2020), 401k drops (down 15-18%), etc?

People wondered what living in the 1970s was like. Here we are.

Movie Watching

Movie Watching

My memory is so bad, think Memento, I’ve told people before, that I can rewatch stuff again and again and it’s a near-new experience. Some things are really locked in but most things I mostly forget.  It’s a perfect combination for movie and TV watching. My kids have way better memories and they can remember all the scenes in comparison. They go, why are you watching this again. It’s because I don’t remember it. I’ve probably watched 100ks to 1Ms of movies. Who knows.

This really affected my work but I got around it by using email, and keeping lots of documents to refer to. The last year though, my bosses were uber sacks-O-S and gave zero consideration even when I explained to them my issue. For woke warriors, they sure weren’t very tolerant.  Luckily I’ve left them long behind.

I really do well with Google Word for documenting everything or files on the desktop.

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