Car commercial: "...leaving just one question: when you turn your car on, does it return the favor?" Friend's mom: "Well there was the one time I accidentally sat on the stick shift."

Create stealth bomber in the 80s, Air Force wants a fighter. Create stealth fighter in the 90s, Navy is sad. Create another stealth fighter but this one has a version that can launch and land on a carrier. Even the Marines are happy with a V/STOL version. ... Somehow, battleships have returned.

That's an insane number of kidney stones, I get sympathy pains just thinking about it. I've seen just one stone debilitate people for days

God, please, it would be so funny

Also, when looking for that picture I finally found what is my favorite picture of yours, as this gun is the tiniest amount of greebling short of being a pure Star Wars hold-out blaster. This is the gun your sci-fi protagonist draws after being shoved to the ground of the starport for late payments.

The shear number of weird Soviet guns that demand to be a gun in some sci-fi survival horror or post-apocalyptic open-world game is frankly astounding. If your game demands a gun impractical for general use so as to never let the player feel safe just 'cause they have a gun, you look at Soviet shit

LRS Ever since that year I've kept a pack of house filters on hand to tape to a box fan to help clear the smoke from the air inside the house. A hell befitting 2020. I'd also painted a canvas white and had it sitting outside under cover and it came out looking like a TV tuned to a dead channel

Lizzie isn't exactly a pet but did you know that goats will loaf too?!

I really like that they dress like a faction of The Bad Guys™️ from a Call of Duty game. Like ~10 years from now we'll be playing a CoD where you wrest control of D.C. back from domestic terrorists instead of Ruskies and it'll be the game I replay every January, for totally no reason, instead of MW2

Sorry mutes but spicy noods on main

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"Remember that time you had to use logic gates to build a circuit that ran a car wash? And you were one of two people to have it finished on time (instructor extended the deadline)? And you were all 'grr I'm CS not EE'? Good times."

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever compute

My Outback is excellent for most farm tasks, but rolling down windows to get 8' 2x4s in, unable to fit 4' sheets of plywood inside, H4 is unhappy with 700lbs of concrete, low hay bale capacity, can't load with forklift; they just make some stuff a bit of an extra pain

If I was in charge of the Department of Education I'd have a mandatory course in high school to hand-work soil, plant grains, and finally harvest and prep for storage/consumption, and that's why I can't be in politics. Some lessons are best learned the hard way (e.g. washing clothes by hand)

My favorite required pulling a ring around the downspout on the tub down, which I never would have figured out if there weren't directions in the shower itself

Attempting to explain to younger generations that advertisement used to have a bunch of words telling you how amazing and cool something was and why you should buy it instead of just a picture, name, and vibes.

Oh that explains so much! BRB, improving my in-game and irl jewelry crafting with a sexy low-cut tube top

we don't usually see each others headers, but here's mine. quote post with yours (if you feel like it)

This can crusher came with thin arms which quickly buckled under use, I finally replaced them with bars from a reclining chair, so now it can return to crunching cans.

It's always so strange to see Russia start a war with a former Soviet satellite state and then see a bunch of other former Soviet satellite states seek the safety of NATO. Weird. Maybe a political scientist could figure it out but I'm not, so coincidence, I guess. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I always think of this xkcd comic. "A major reason 9/11 happened was that there wasn't good communication between different government agencies; intel that combined would have helped to prevent the attack was kept separate and unknown." "Okay, lets add another agency!"

One thing I really appreciate with the new stuff is their willingness to have sets for multiple price ranges and age groups so that the kid that wants to play with his toys and the adult that wants to basically build a model kit are both marketed to. Makes me think of Gunpla's HG/MG/etc model grades

You learn plenty doing hard work like farm labor, but honestly I bet you learn a way better suite of lessons from being in Chicago. A city teaches you that you aren't the main character in the world and not everyone looks like you. Silly goat picture because why not

Things I have learned from raising cattle: They're pretty neat, smarter than that have any right to be, generally refuse orders, it's weird and sad to spend the time raising them to see them just become meat. Give me an office job Things I have learned from raising goats: They're basically seagulls

LRP I would have so much fun playing forbidden lawn darts* (*mortar-launched lawn darts. Not really forbidden but the NFA does make such things a tad more difficult. I guess it really is Nerf or nothing)

I feel like part of high school education needs to involve making bread from scratch; as in growing the damn grains yourself. The luxury of $1 store loaf. Mine toppling over last year was devastating but all I could think was "at least my family won't starve from this." acoup.blog/2020/07/24/c...

*punch, but otherwise yeah

I'm still not used to how bluesky does notifications versus twitter, so when I see +30 notifications I Patrick_Star_scared dot jpg thinking there's a bunch of people arguing in my mentions before seeing it's just people liking a shitpost

One of the loadingreadyrun crew once quipped that "you know Raid: Shadow Legends sucks because there is no porn of it" and it's honestly hard to argue with that logic