Ace-Garageguy

"Read"? What's "read"? And this "book" thing you speak of???

I won't buy anything from Bezos if there's any other possible source, period.

Yes, this is happening for real...and may very well change the future of Thanksgiving.

Amen, brother.

How could anyone not love cats? Their facial expressions are priceless.

Nice work.

Looks great....and makes me want to get one.

Exactly. It's not at all unusual to see older ratchets, even high-end pieces like SnapOn, that have no release button on top. You just pull the socket off...or as Tim says, pry it off with a flat-blade screwdriver if it's particularly tight. And I have a few larger drives where one has to be careful to only use sockets with holes drilled in the retainer pin location, as the square-shouldered detent pin can not be depressed any other way than by using a small round rod.

Increasing amounts of "expert" advice served up by what seem to be entities as generally clueless as consumer-grade AI. They used to call this "the blind leading the blind", but since the advent of the interdwerbs, it's become SOP.

"Accurate" has unfortunately become a relative term like "beauty", often said to be in the eye of the beholder.

So...ummmmm...where are the consumer class-action lawsuits for billions in punitive damages?

Sticker shock has reached epic proportions.

Cows aren't usually very well versed on global geopolitics.

Great thread, and a good example of how much really useful information is "old".

Forum members are a mostly friendly, helpful bunch.

PM'd

Thanks for the heads-up...especially for JackModeling.

Very nice work, well thought out.

We've been lectured here before about being too stoopid to grasp the fine subtleties and complexity of "logistics".

Congrats. It's still a kinda shame when people just doing their jobs is news though...

Texas floodwaters rose over 30 feet in one hour, and the National Weather Service (which was fully staffed, contrary to many media reports) was sending out evacuation messages the whole time...but unfortunately, it happened in the middle of the night when most people were asleep.

Shoe "science" is never really "settled" no matter how many media personalities insist otherwise, a case in point being the vast improvements in our understanding of aerodynamics since the end of WW II, and that branch of science is still evolving.

In some prehistoric time periods, both atmospheric CO2 levels and heat were much higher than they are today, had nothing to do with humans burning fossil fuels (because humans didn't exist yet), and somehow the planet managed to survive.

Opinion on many things is largely shaped by mainstream and social media that often choose to ignore or misrepresent actual facts, or are too ignorant and dogma-driven to interpret them correctly.