There’s also such thing as hardened steel chains and padlocks that require something more than bolt cutters to defeat.

Though even if those spokes are hardened, they look long enough that you could probably still bend them by sticking a good solid bar in there and yanking.

Or if you want to really fuck it up, instead of using that bar to lever them into a different shape, weld a bar horizontally that is too long to do a turn without pressing into the ground. Then see if the whole thing is strong enough to lift the car and turn the wheel, if the motor stalls when it tries, or if something snaps first.

Trying to race songs is how I got much better at having quick showers. I did pick long ones like Green Grass and High Tides or Through the Fire and Flames, and it took a while to be able to beat them.

First about a minute for the water to heat up and water rinse for the whole body. Short hair, but it’s like 30 seconds for shampoo, scrub, rinse, then another 30 seconds for face lather, scrub, and rinse. Then lather up a washcloth, scrub pits and groin, rinse, about 1 minute total. That still leaves two extra minutes for a 5 minute shower to shave your ass or whatever, and the two songs I listed are over 5 minutes (Over 9 for GGHT, over 7 for TFF).

If you want a 5 minute song, Muse - Uprising is 5:04. Though if you can follow the schedule I laid out above, you could shower to Toxicity and have 30 seconds of song or so after you get out of your shower.

I’ll give it a try for my next shower because it does sound a bit tight and I didn’t progress beyond being able to shower beyond being able to finish before TFF, but I think it’s doable.

That speech he gives to that Prince before he destroys their land was such bullshit considering they manufactured the whole situation in the first place. It only really works as a fascist power fantasy. The thing I’m not sure about is whether Momonko was deliberately written as a loser being propped up by an overpowered character and guild or if the writers are on his side and themselves admire and aspire to be like that character.

But it feels like fascist propaganda.

… And then netflix will cancel it when it takes some time to become popular and instead produce more reality competitions edited to maximize drama at the cost of a coherent understanding of how the competition is going. And even for action shots, it’s like they are editing to show off how many angles they are shooting rather than selecting the best shots to show out of all the angles they have.

Yeah, that “This is that we’ve waited for, this is it boys, this is war” part is literal. Enjoy your first post-realization listen :)

Or he was able to power through it. Depending on spice tolerance, some might see it as more of an unpleasant condiment than a weapon. He might have biked a couple blocks away and found a place to cry in peace once the adrenaline wore off.

I used to have dreams where driving was very difficult because the pedals would be positioned awkwardly close. It pretty much defied spatial geometry because it wasn’t like there was space behind them for my legs, they were just really close with the wall right behind them but it was only hard to access and manipulate the pedals; I still somehow fit fine into that position.

I gave him a dollar to make him go away.

If there’s anything to the quantum immortality idea, a nuclear exchange might be impossible. We’re here right now because we aren’t here in the timelines where someone launched in response to 99 red balloons floating in the summer sky.

There’s a chance it didn’t copy over fine because it might have grabbed the icon from the shortcut target rather than save it with the shortcut file. So the transfer might have ended with a sinking feeling seeing that blank icon that was confirmed when it was double clicked (maybe with a brief moment of hope upon seeing that it wasn’t just an OK error box but had a browse button to find the correct target, before realizing that they didn’t have the files).

When I was watching Naruto Shippuden on Netflix, I eventually caught up to the episodes NF had but obviously it wasn’t the end of the series. I quickly found alternative places to stream the rest, and from there would occasionally find new animes to watch. Sites would last for a while and then get taken down, then the usual response on my end would be to just do another search and pick up where I left off.

The last time a site went down for me, I wasn’t able to find another one quickly. I’m sure they still exist, but my assumption is that the big search engines are using LLMs to filter results based on what their owners deem acceptable, at least when they can say it wasn’t legal anyways.

I’ve also been surprised at some of the “zero results” searches. Can’t think of any examples offhand, just that some were surprising.

Though I use DDG instead of Google, so YMMV and it might just be Microsoft doing this.

Ah ok, that sounds consistent with what I’ve been seeing. So if I’m understanding correctly, tofu has a flavour/texture tradeoff (best texture I’ve gotten from it was once when I cut it into like 1cm slices and seared them, managed to get a decent sear on both sides without them sticking to the pan and crumbling. Actually the flavour wasn’t that bad either, that one was more simple so I think it was mostly just the tofu and the sear, plus some olive oil that infused it.

I just realized I haven’t tried marinating it yet and a quick search looks like people are saying good things about that.

When I’m a pedestrian, I pretty much ignore right of way and treat crossing more like frogger (unless it’s at a traffic light), though generally prefer taking moments where I can cross either fully or to a raised divider. It won’t really help me if some driver that hits me gets in legal trouble.

While driving, I actively try to avoid hitting pedestrians, using various tools at my disposal, such as my eyes (useful for seeing that there’s a pedestrian I shouldn’t hit), my feet (my car is equipped with a pedal that converts my momentum into heat, as well as another one that disengages the motor so that it doesn’t add more momentum back in, allowing me to slow down or even stop to avoid), and my arms (my car is also equipped with a device that allows me to convert the direction of my momentum to a different direction, which can work as a last line of defense when avoiding hitting pedestrians, though honestly it’s a pretty big fuck up to even need to do that because there aren’t many other options for directions on city streets). I also chose my car with “good visibility of things around me” as one of the features I wanted it to have.

Though it helps that the crosswalks here that aren’t at intersections have lights that flash rapidly only when someone presses the button to cross. It’s probably safer to cross at these than it is at an intersection due to varying levels of attention to pedestrians while turning, especially if it’s a left on a busy street that doesn’t offer many opportunities to make that turn.

Pedestrian bridges are nice whether I’m walking or driving. Assuming they don’t collapse, that is, in which case they aren’t very nice.

Any advice on how to make tofu flavourful? I’ve been trying to use it but anytime I do, it’s more just kinda there rather than really adding anything to the flavour profile. Ironically, some of the “failures” where it all crumbled into something similar to scrambled eggs might have been one of the times where it did seem to pick up flavour, but while I wouldn’t say the texture was bad that way, I’d like to get more out of it without it falling apart if possible.

Some chefs on shows like culinary class wars put great effort into making tofu for their dishes (one guy even won the whole show with a dish like that), so I feel like there’s gotta be something I’m missing.

Not that I’d buy meat labeled “Made in USA” in the first place.

What about a southern sweet tea? I understand the high temperature is taken advantage of to dissolve more sugar into it (which just sounds gross to me).

Oh right, those worked by calling up someone who also had a teletyper who would then handle the speech part of whatever call they were making. I forgot it was a human doing the “translate from typed to spoken and back” and assumed there was a text-to-speech and voice-to-text in the loop.

As I recall, they used to be more similarly priced. Like I remember being flabbergasted at how cheap the Elise was compared to my expectations. I was expecting something more like $60-80k but they were like $30-40k. Miata was a bit cheaper but not by a huge margin.

Though it was a bit different because the Miata was more of a comfort sports car while the Elise was more of a racing sports car with bare minimum interior. Though that makes it sound even better for Doc Brown to tinker with because he wouldn’t have to strip out as much to fit his extra stuff in.

Oh another option just occurred to me, though I don’t recall the specifics, but wasn’t John Titor’s time machine mounted in a vehicle of some sort? His story timeline matches up fairly well with this BTTF remake idea, though iirc he left from the 30s rather than the 20s, and I think his wasn’t closely integrated with the vehicle (like I seem to recall he had said something about swapping the vehicle it was in during his journey). Could update the method from flux capacitors to virtual black holes and even show that laser bending trick (where all other light mysteriously isn’t affected by whatever is affecting the laser lol) as a satirical nod to whoever did that hoax.

Yeah, my thought was either a Miata or maybe go a bit more exotic and go with the Lotus Elise (first released in 1996).

Scrabbling a script isn’t something you can to while scrambling. You end up dropping way too many letters and your dialog ends up consisting of mostly two and three letter words.