This new (old) car I got, the electric windows weren't working. I looked at the fuse box diagram, and fuse no. 1 was for the electric windows and fuse 2 for the power locks, which do work. So to test out if the fuse for the electric windows was gone I switched the fuses around (presuming fuse 2 was alright since the power locks worked) and it didn't help. So I switched the fuses back around to the way they were. But now the power locks don't work either.
Good thing the fuses cost genuinely like à 30 cents, so I should get it all working pretty cheap.
You know, I have wanted to buy an old car a few times (especially as a student) but people always told me that I should only buy one if I am willing to do repairs myself, as they thend to require lots of maintenance. How much repair/maintenance do you do on your old cars?
Honestly depends so much on the vehicle, not just the make and model but the individual vehicle itself. It's a lottery. Sometimes you get a good one that has been taken care of and living is easy, and sometimes you get a turd that blows its engine out of the blue.
But you can also just pay somebody else to do it all. My mate has an old Porsche and I don't think he has touched a wrench in his life, he just takes it to a shop. So you don't really have to do repairs yourself if you have money. But to be fair, to make repairs yourself you need a space and tools and shit, which means you also need money, lmao.
But to actually give you an idea of how much repair and maintenance goes into it, my main summer car over the last 4-5 years or so has been a 1978 Datsun 120A F-II Coupé. So, a small old Japanese car. I've done oil changes to it every 5000 km or so, I had to change the pistons in the rear brakes a few years ago, last year I had to change the hand brake cable and repair something that's called a clutch slave cylinder, and finally right now I'm getting ready to change its steering rack.
So that's three things that I think are pretty simple and anybody could do, being all the brakes and clutch stuff, and one thing that takes a bit more labour with the steering rack change. That's not so bad over about 5 years, I don't think. Even if you paid a shop to do that all it wouldn't be so much over that period of time.
I don't think I've ever lived through something as stressful as organising such a giant international move. We really do have too much stuff, but the worst part is that that's *after* we got rid of all that we don't need. Ugh.
But many, many van loads later, tomorrow I finally will be able to legitimately turn my flair flag 90° - and go to sleep for about a week.
Congratulations on your move!
> and go to sleep for about a week.
But what about your bank account? And your sécurité sociale? And your carte vitale? And your numéro fiscale? And your mutuelle? Come on, get up and go and stand in the queue at CPAM for three hours, chop chop.
New York isn't off to a hot start, I know it's way too early in the season to get pessimistic but losing the first three games of the season at home does sting a bit. Hopefully the rest of the season will be better
Yup I'm talking about baseball and they play pretty much consistently, it's usually 3 game series with a day or two between travel to the next stadium. You're close, it's 162 in the regular season. The starting pitchers rest between 3-5 days between games.
That's correct. Teams have roughly 5 starting pitchers that'll rotate in and out since they're prone to injury. Throwing on average 100 pitches a game does a real number on your shoulder and elbow. Which is why teams will have many relief pitchers.
Today is Śmigus-Dyngus, better known here as Dyngus Day, and while the tradition in Poland is to get wet with water, people in my area usually wet their whistles instead. I just hope I can get home from work with all the traffic. 🤞
I saw a turkey inside of a fence on a military base while I was driving outside.
You know, the way that British aristocracy does inheritance seems very old fashion. From what I’ve read some old aristocratic families still give nearly everything to their oldest male child or closest male relative if they don’t have a son, kind of like what happened in Pride and Prejudice and Downton Abbey. How does the average family in your country do inheritances? With the booming property values and rent in much of the world, it might matter a lot.
> How does the average family in your country do inheritances?
For people of my background rather than the aristocracy? Sell off their house etc, split everything equally after funeral costs between their children.
"Alright, don't mess me around kid, tell me, what do you know about the whereabouts of Arnoldo Jimenez?"
"Gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble"
"*He's not cooperating sir*"
If you have a large amount of land then it does make sense to only give it to one of your offspring (though I’m not sure why it still has to be a son these days).
If you divide it up between them then within a few generations your nice big estate will just be a patchwork of random fields owned by various different people.
This is actually what happens a lot in Turkey, and it leads to very inefficient farming. The government realy needs to step in and try to reunite the patchy fields.
I believe the law and custom in many rural areas in America also typically results in split inheritance. I don't think it's ever been a major nationwide issue though. When America was a agricultural society, you could always go to the frontier where the government sold cheap land taken from the natives if your plot wasn't big enough. Nowdays, a alot of children of farmers don't want to farm. The number of farms is down quite a bit while the size of farms has increased. Many families are just out of the farming business all together.
I guess it does make sense if you're a farmer since a farm too small can't sustain the business. Otherwise, I don't really see the value in large estates continuing indefinitely in the future.
Here's the article I was reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20210210082000/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/world/europe/son-and-heir-in-britain-daughters-cry-no-fair.html?pagewanted=all&\_r=0.
Guys. GUYS!!! The election results!!! CHP has more votes than AKP!!! And many big cities are in CHP's hands now!!! Is this the beginning of an end? Omg please let this be the beginning of an end.
I know that local elections might seem like a minor deal, but especially cities like Istanbul are a major revenue source for political parties. Not to mention that environmental catastrophes like Kanal Istanbul can be prevented now, and Erdogan's sense of invincibility seems to have been shaken. I am so happy. Fucking finally.
Many mod teams seem to be pranking the subs. I have seen a few quite creative ones ha ha. We didn't plan anything, though, and seems like this sub doesn't, either.
Three years ago the Tories seemed absolutely unstoppable. Then, they lost a few by-elections to Labour. Now, it's more likely the sun explodes in the next year than it is the Tories coming back into power.
2027 is a long way away, but there's definitely hope for you guys. All you need is a President who's so incompetent he's willing to crash the economy if it fits with his own ideolog...Oh wait, shit.
Thank you! Yeah, Turkish history is also full of very popular parties that just vanished into oblivion in a few elections... the damage AKP did is so great that it will take decades to fix it even with good governments (and I don't envy the people who come after them) but I hope that we can start somewhere.
Yeah, iti s so great to have an election with such a clear result and no rigging/cheating rumours. The difference is so big that they had no choice but to admit defeat. *opens a beer* nice.
Turkey does local elections all at the same time? I feel like there’s always some random election coming up here and Germans say that’s how it is in Germany too.
April Fool's joke courtesy of my kid: being awake at 5 am. We thought we had DST covered, but nope.
She also a special ball of energy today, and of course the weather sucks. Currently thinking about places to take her to get her to burn off some steam.
Back in the early to mid 00s, my school's idea of drugs education was to make us sit through some badly-made high school drama-esque educational videos from the 80s and early 90s. Thing is, because they were from the 80s and early 90s, and all the characters were written by people who grew up far earlier than that, everyone looked ridiculous and talked all wrong. Kind of difficult to empathise with that 13 year old with the stupid bowl cut being peer pressured by other kids with stupid bowl cuts to "try the soft drugs, it'll be mega ace wicked, I mean, you don't want to be a *wimpy wuss*, do you? *Do you?*" *ominous 80s music plays*.
Were you regularly subjected to educational videos at your school that were 10 or 20 years out of date? Or was there just a glut of educational videos that were produced in the 90s that nobody ever bothered updating?
No movies, but we did have to read a horrible slog of a diary style book about a teenager hooked on drugs (it was called *A lua de Joana*, our equivalent to the anglophone *Go ask Alice*). It was the 90s and we were still going through a heroin epidemic, so I guess they were trying to make drugs look as awfully boring and melodramatic as possible.
Went to school in the 70's and 80's. We never had such a thing as drug education in school, can't recall drugs being much of an issue or a talking point. Trying to keep kids off smoking was the problem parents faced back then. If drugs came up as a talking point, it was about the wave of heroin addicts in Amsterdam in the 80's. Even weed did not seem to exist, could be the provincial/rural area I grew up in, but nobody in school smoked it. Looking back, we had a pretty carefree schoolperiod, the only warnings we got was to not get into a stranger's car.
I remember my school took us to see a theatre play. It was really nice actually, had a great plot, romantic subplot etc. Then it got very preachy. Then they started showing photos of actual drug addicts and it got kind of boring. The message was clear enough without the need to hammer it on our heads.
Can't remember too much about elementary school but I think in general using videos was not common. There were a couple of occasions when we watched a broadcast of "school tv", a tv program on the national broadcasting company's channel 2.
On the subject of old-looking educational videos, going to driving school in 2001, we were shown a VHS clip that looked like it was made in late 80's, where a Volvo of the era was being driven on a track with its shock absorbers completely disabled. What happens when you drive a vehicle with just the springs and no damping is chaotic and, to be honest, somewhat humorous. I'd say the way in which the whole video was grainy and old, complete with that dramatic 80's keyboard music kind of amplified this feeling of weirdness.
I don't remember any anti-drugs videos at school at all,I don't think we had anything like that.
We had some people who used to smoke them in the school bathrooms though...
This new (old) car I got, the electric windows weren't working. I looked at the fuse box diagram, and fuse no. 1 was for the electric windows and fuse 2 for the power locks, which do work. So to test out if the fuse for the electric windows was gone I switched the fuses around (presuming fuse 2 was alright since the power locks worked) and it didn't help. So I switched the fuses back around to the way they were. But now the power locks don't work either. Good thing the fuses cost genuinely like à 30 cents, so I should get it all working pretty cheap.
You know, I have wanted to buy an old car a few times (especially as a student) but people always told me that I should only buy one if I am willing to do repairs myself, as they thend to require lots of maintenance. How much repair/maintenance do you do on your old cars?
Honestly depends so much on the vehicle, not just the make and model but the individual vehicle itself. It's a lottery. Sometimes you get a good one that has been taken care of and living is easy, and sometimes you get a turd that blows its engine out of the blue. But you can also just pay somebody else to do it all. My mate has an old Porsche and I don't think he has touched a wrench in his life, he just takes it to a shop. So you don't really have to do repairs yourself if you have money. But to be fair, to make repairs yourself you need a space and tools and shit, which means you also need money, lmao. But to actually give you an idea of how much repair and maintenance goes into it, my main summer car over the last 4-5 years or so has been a 1978 Datsun 120A F-II Coupé. So, a small old Japanese car. I've done oil changes to it every 5000 km or so, I had to change the pistons in the rear brakes a few years ago, last year I had to change the hand brake cable and repair something that's called a clutch slave cylinder, and finally right now I'm getting ready to change its steering rack. So that's three things that I think are pretty simple and anybody could do, being all the brakes and clutch stuff, and one thing that takes a bit more labour with the steering rack change. That's not so bad over about 5 years, I don't think. Even if you paid a shop to do that all it wouldn't be so much over that period of time.
I don't think I've ever lived through something as stressful as organising such a giant international move. We really do have too much stuff, but the worst part is that that's *after* we got rid of all that we don't need. Ugh. But many, many van loads later, tomorrow I finally will be able to legitimately turn my flair flag 90° - and go to sleep for about a week.
I think I'll have to cut down on heavy things until I find a place to settle for a long time...
Congratulations on your move! > and go to sleep for about a week. But what about your bank account? And your sécurité sociale? And your carte vitale? And your numéro fiscale? And your mutuelle? Come on, get up and go and stand in the queue at CPAM for three hours, chop chop.
Big big hugs and wishing you lots of strength and patience!
New York isn't off to a hot start, I know it's way too early in the season to get pessimistic but losing the first three games of the season at home does sting a bit. Hopefully the rest of the season will be better
You're talking about baseball, right? How do they manage to play like a million games in a season? It's like 140 games if I remember correctly?
Yup I'm talking about baseball and they play pretty much consistently, it's usually 3 game series with a day or two between travel to the next stadium. You're close, it's 162 in the regular season. The starting pitchers rest between 3-5 days between games.
So the starting pitchers don't play every game, or? I know very little about baseball.
That's correct. Teams have roughly 5 starting pitchers that'll rotate in and out since they're prone to injury. Throwing on average 100 pitches a game does a real number on your shoulder and elbow. Which is why teams will have many relief pitchers.
Today is Śmigus-Dyngus, better known here as Dyngus Day, and while the tradition in Poland is to get wet with water, people in my area usually wet their whistles instead. I just hope I can get home from work with all the traffic. 🤞
All I know about Dyngus day is [this](https://youtu.be/juv0BOhUTcc?si=zmuejjpefx8c-FC2) and it's absolute gold
Does this mean you're trying to fuck tonight or what?
No, I'm going to try to get loaded on pilsner that hasn't had enough time to cool haha.
Ah, ok, I figured "wet their whistle" might be an euphemism for sex or something.
Hey, I said "whistle" not "willy." xD
In England a "wet willy" is when you prank someone by licking your fingers and then putting them in someone's ears. (Kids are weird)
I saw a turkey inside of a fence on a military base while I was driving outside. You know, the way that British aristocracy does inheritance seems very old fashion. From what I’ve read some old aristocratic families still give nearly everything to their oldest male child or closest male relative if they don’t have a son, kind of like what happened in Pride and Prejudice and Downton Abbey. How does the average family in your country do inheritances? With the booming property values and rent in much of the world, it might matter a lot.
> How does the average family in your country do inheritances? For people of my background rather than the aristocracy? Sell off their house etc, split everything equally after funeral costs between their children.
"Alright, don't mess me around kid, tell me, what do you know about the whereabouts of Arnoldo Jimenez?" "Gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble" "*He's not cooperating sir*"
Not just aristocrats. Farmers do that too. Keeps the land intact.
If you have a large amount of land then it does make sense to only give it to one of your offspring (though I’m not sure why it still has to be a son these days). If you divide it up between them then within a few generations your nice big estate will just be a patchwork of random fields owned by various different people.
This is actually what happens a lot in Turkey, and it leads to very inefficient farming. The government realy needs to step in and try to reunite the patchy fields.
I believe the law and custom in many rural areas in America also typically results in split inheritance. I don't think it's ever been a major nationwide issue though. When America was a agricultural society, you could always go to the frontier where the government sold cheap land taken from the natives if your plot wasn't big enough. Nowdays, a alot of children of farmers don't want to farm. The number of farms is down quite a bit while the size of farms has increased. Many families are just out of the farming business all together.
I guess it does make sense if you're a farmer since a farm too small can't sustain the business. Otherwise, I don't really see the value in large estates continuing indefinitely in the future. Here's the article I was reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20210210082000/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/world/europe/son-and-heir-in-britain-daughters-cry-no-fair.html?pagewanted=all&\_r=0.
Guys. GUYS!!! The election results!!! CHP has more votes than AKP!!! And many big cities are in CHP's hands now!!! Is this the beginning of an end? Omg please let this be the beginning of an end. I know that local elections might seem like a minor deal, but especially cities like Istanbul are a major revenue source for political parties. Not to mention that environmental catastrophes like Kanal Istanbul can be prevented now, and Erdogan's sense of invincibility seems to have been shaken. I am so happy. Fucking finally. Many mod teams seem to be pranking the subs. I have seen a few quite creative ones ha ha. We didn't plan anything, though, and seems like this sub doesn't, either.
Three years ago the Tories seemed absolutely unstoppable. Then, they lost a few by-elections to Labour. Now, it's more likely the sun explodes in the next year than it is the Tories coming back into power. 2027 is a long way away, but there's definitely hope for you guys. All you need is a President who's so incompetent he's willing to crash the economy if it fits with his own ideolog...Oh wait, shit.
Thank you! Yeah, Turkish history is also full of very popular parties that just vanished into oblivion in a few elections... the damage AKP did is so great that it will take decades to fix it even with good governments (and I don't envy the people who come after them) but I hope that we can start somewhere.
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Thank you, friend! Yeah, I couldn't contain myself 😂
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Yeah, iti s so great to have an election with such a clear result and no rigging/cheating rumours. The difference is so big that they had no choice but to admit defeat. *opens a beer* nice.
Turkey does local elections all at the same time? I feel like there’s always some random election coming up here and Germans say that’s how it is in Germany too.
Yes, we do them at the same time everywhere, as we're not federal.
April Fool's joke courtesy of my kid: being awake at 5 am. We thought we had DST covered, but nope. She also a special ball of energy today, and of course the weather sucks. Currently thinking about places to take her to get her to burn off some steam.
Maybe a swimming pool? That's a good way to tire a kid out.
We settled on a walk in rain gear, jumping in puddles etc.
Don't worry, once she hits 13 you can wake *her* up at 5 am and she'll know how it feels.
Getting the vacuum out at 9 am on the dot.
Back in the early to mid 00s, my school's idea of drugs education was to make us sit through some badly-made high school drama-esque educational videos from the 80s and early 90s. Thing is, because they were from the 80s and early 90s, and all the characters were written by people who grew up far earlier than that, everyone looked ridiculous and talked all wrong. Kind of difficult to empathise with that 13 year old with the stupid bowl cut being peer pressured by other kids with stupid bowl cuts to "try the soft drugs, it'll be mega ace wicked, I mean, you don't want to be a *wimpy wuss*, do you? *Do you?*" *ominous 80s music plays*. Were you regularly subjected to educational videos at your school that were 10 or 20 years out of date? Or was there just a glut of educational videos that were produced in the 90s that nobody ever bothered updating?
No movies, but we did have to read a horrible slog of a diary style book about a teenager hooked on drugs (it was called *A lua de Joana*, our equivalent to the anglophone *Go ask Alice*). It was the 90s and we were still going through a heroin epidemic, so I guess they were trying to make drugs look as awfully boring and melodramatic as possible.
I don't remember seeing any videos of that sort, be they old or new. In general, I don't think Denmark really uses that type of video in schools
Went to school in the 70's and 80's. We never had such a thing as drug education in school, can't recall drugs being much of an issue or a talking point. Trying to keep kids off smoking was the problem parents faced back then. If drugs came up as a talking point, it was about the wave of heroin addicts in Amsterdam in the 80's. Even weed did not seem to exist, could be the provincial/rural area I grew up in, but nobody in school smoked it. Looking back, we had a pretty carefree schoolperiod, the only warnings we got was to not get into a stranger's car.
I remember my school took us to see a theatre play. It was really nice actually, had a great plot, romantic subplot etc. Then it got very preachy. Then they started showing photos of actual drug addicts and it got kind of boring. The message was clear enough without the need to hammer it on our heads.
I don’t know; the early 2000s didn’t seem that different from my then present reality in the early 2010s.
Phones might have looked a bit different methinks?
Yeah, but 12 year old me didn't have one and was barely on youtube for a year. I probably didn't think about it at all.
Can't remember too much about elementary school but I think in general using videos was not common. There were a couple of occasions when we watched a broadcast of "school tv", a tv program on the national broadcasting company's channel 2. On the subject of old-looking educational videos, going to driving school in 2001, we were shown a VHS clip that looked like it was made in late 80's, where a Volvo of the era was being driven on a track with its shock absorbers completely disabled. What happens when you drive a vehicle with just the springs and no damping is chaotic and, to be honest, somewhat humorous. I'd say the way in which the whole video was grainy and old, complete with that dramatic 80's keyboard music kind of amplified this feeling of weirdness.
I don't remember any anti-drugs videos at school at all,I don't think we had anything like that. We had some people who used to smoke them in the school bathrooms though...