Ace-Garageguy

Haven't seen him yet, but there's been an owl hooting every night for a couple weeks now. He (or somebody that sounds like him) comes around every fall, and as I sleep with my windows open most of the year, I always hear him. Wild turkeys and Canada geese at the office park a few blocks away at times, but not in my yard. Several different species of hawks on occasion though.

Control and power over others is often the desire of insecure personality types.

Nice work!! Really really.

"Stuff and nonsense" is an idiomatic expression for "absurd foolishness".

Related questions include "do you really want to know what's in those hot-dogs?"

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Stomach and organs come from critters that have meat on the outside, however.

Banned meat...oh wait...canned meat-like bug-based imitation animal-protein substitute probably doesn't make the best haggis. https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2016/01/25/watch-insect-haggis-served-up-for-burns-night/#:~:text=The main ingredient of the,a special vegetarian diet first.

"Hey mang...yoo wanna buy some spray-paint, mang?"

"Etc." covers a multitude of sins.

More stuff from the ACME show, so the AMT oldies part of the stash wouldn't feel left out if I didn't bring a present. Another '60 Ford Starliner, 'cause I've always loved 'em, and I wanna do a Sunliner convertible custom. Never had much interest in the '66 Nova SS until recently, when we had one in the shop that was restomodded by someone who had a very good eye for stance, wheels/tires. etc., and it looked every bit as good as anything on the road. This is, of course, an old kit, it was cheap...and I was very pleasantly surprised that it does not have a blobular chassis with everything molded in, as I'd expected. The one in the shop is a factory 327/350 horse 4-speed car, has a set of these in 18" on it, is mildly tubbed and lowered just enough, has a perfect rubber rake, is finished in a dark brownish red, has a dark camel leather interior, and is absolutely stunning. And fast.

Ah yes, the brave new techie-ticky-tacky-tokky world. Ain't it great?

But doncha understand...this is the kind of dweeble who doesn't believe that objective truth or actual knowledge has any value, and besides...he's generating clicks and income by spewing this gibberish, and probably laughing at everyone who criticises it. See man...he doesn't HAVE to actually know anything or how to DO anything, including drive, other than move his little cursor around a screen. In his mind, the quality of what comes out is of no consequence, and people like you are just jealous old fossils who're so stuck in the past-it concept of "physical reality" and "accurate information", you really need to just go away. AND...it's entirely unnecessary for a human to have written the script anyway, what with the current level of consumer-oriented AI video production products. So all Mr. Dweeble has to do is type in a few keywords, or a subject phrase, and the AI will do the rest. It'll even produce an audio track in a pretty decent simulation of his voice He CAN edit it, but you know, why bother? Trash still generates clicks.

Chinese-manufactured parts and tools, while sometimes just fine and good value, are often of inferior quality in fit, finish, material, and durability.

Yeah, and they can do anything they want to their vehicles. I don't care. But I certainly don't have to praise the results, and I'm still free to laugh at and criticise this stuff...for now.

Dude...numbers are hard.

I kinda think it's real. There's no shortage of '90s-2000s pickups around here sporting exactly the same kinds of visual "enhancements". Like this. Honest.

Plans for any military engagement often become useless shortly after battle is joined.

Month to month expenses, like food, energy, and fuel, have gone up faster in the last few years than I've seen over the rest of the last 50+ that I've been paying my own way.

If you watch much history, or aviation, or military technology, or much of anything on YT made these days, the number of garbage vids made either by entirely clueless AI or equally clueless humans is pretty depressing. A lot of the stuff is useless clickbait, with scrambled timelines, mis-pronounced words (sometimes several different pronunciations of ONE word within a single vid), photos from entirely different time periods or of airplanes/tanks/trucks/trains/engines/nuclear reactors/whatever that are not even mentioned in the audio track. The downside of the internet is that it's given a global voice to every fool with a computer and a web connection, and it's becoming painfully obvious that for the most part, AI is doing a great job emulating stupid humans. EDIT: And the fact that Google is becoming increasingly unreliable as a source of accurate information makes it increasingly difficult for YT viewers of trash video presentations to independently check their validity. For a long time, Google has had a propensity to vomit up results that were inaccurate, and in order to glean the actual truth on any subject, a searcher had to have a fair amount of baseline knowledge on the subject being searched going in. With AI Overview often spewing garbled gibberish at the very TOP OF THE RESULTS page, lazy searchers are only going to get worse about accepting lies, whether intentional or not, as truth. EDIT 2: The state of today's mainstream-accessible AI is proof-positive of the old GIGO maxim: garbage in, garbage out. There's no doubt in my mind that AI WILL get much smarter over time, but for now, it's still not ready for the bigtime.

Between Googlie's little idiot AI that scrambles info and doesn't understand context, and dreck like this on YT, the flood of instant internet experts mindlessly rebleating what they've heard from "authoritative sources" is sure to accelerate. EDIT: Is it coincidence that these two massive sources of false or scrambled "information" are both arms of Alphabet Inc.? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.

"Find my keys I must" said Yoda, never.

Taste the rainbow.

FeePay has been supplying "help" for ad copy-writing recently. Whether it's "AI enhanced", or just a magically stupid fill-in-the-blanks generic template I don't know, but a large number of feePay items have very similar descriptions now...whether they be cars, clothing, tools, models, parts, whatever. Can you say P A T H E T I C boys and girls? "Introducing this fourth-generation 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 that is finished in Vintage Burgundy with a Wimbledon White roof. This vintage automobile is a true testament to the golden era of American automobiles. With its sleek and timeless design, this American classic is sure to turn heads wherever it goes. Equipped with a manual transmission, V8 engine, 4-barrel carburetor, dual exhaust outlets, "Ford" lettering across the hood, hood pins, rear fender skirts, chrome bumpers, bench seats, manual-crank windows, vent windows, dual-side rearview mirrors, Kenwood radio, and "Fairlane 500" fender badges. The warranty number reveals that this example rolled off the assembly line in San Jose California, further enhancing its historical significance. Additionally, the previous owner has added unique decorations such as decals and other designs, giving this American classic a touch of personal flair and individuality. Do not miss the opportunity to own this unique Fairlane 500 that is well-priced as well as mechanically sound. For $10,750"

"Please and thank you" don't get around much anymore.