What Irked You Today?

[Mark]

Years ago, I took my Dodge Dakota pickup in for new tires.  This was my '88 which I had until 2004, so this was way over twenty years ago.  Two wheel drive, V6/stick.  Nobody asked me if it was a stick, and it didn't occur to me to tell them.  Guy goes out to the truck to pull it in, gets in, sees three pedals and walks back in.  The girl working the counter was the only one working there that day who could drive a manual.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Googli's brainwashed little AI constantly spouting off dogma like this: 

• The myth of meritocracy. The emphasis on hard work as the primary driver of good luck can sometimes ignore the immense impact of systemic factors, inherent privilege, or inherited wealth. Focusing too much on individual effort can obscure the external forces that create and block opportunities for different people.

Edited Thursday at 05:37 PM by Ace-Garageguy

[NYLIBUD]

Having trick or treaters knocking at my door at 8 AM.Ru kidding me?And again my neighborhood is all of a sudden crawling with with the little tykes.🙄🧙🏻🎃Happy and safe Halloween to everybody.

Edited Friday at 05:23 PM by NYLIBUD

[Ace-Garageguy]

Only thing irking me today is me...

[mk11]

On 10/30/2025 at 11:31 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Googli's brainwashed little AI constantly spouting off dogma like this: 

• The myth of meritocracy. The emphasis on hard work as the primary driver of good luck can sometimes ignore the immense impact of systemic factors, inherent privilege, or inherited wealth. Focusing too much on individual effort can obscure the external forces that create and block opportunities for different people.

... and now we're both irked    🤪

[Tim W. SoCal]

8 minutes ago, mk11 said:

The emphasis on hard work as the primary driver of good luck

How is meritocracy related to luck? This displays more Automated Idiocy, as far as I'm concerned...

[Ace-Garageguy]

25 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

How is meritocracy related to luck? 

I ran this through Googli's AI   "Good luck is 95% being in the right place at the right time, by working hard to get there."

And that PC excuse-making gibberish is what it vomited up.

[Russell C]

On 10/30/2025 at 2:22 AM, johnyrotten said:

...hopefully you figure out the emissions issue, those are great, fun cars to drive. 

Yes, they are! Perhaps one of those giant Detroit luxo-barges from the late 1970s would be a more soft pillow ride for the wide open expanses of travel across the American southwest, but I'm thinking if something like a U-Hauler's stray couch falls off their flatbed trailer suddenly onto the freeway, a sudden steering input in a barge would do little more than cause the barge to lean slightly sideways into the couch as you hit it, as opposed to my stiff suspension / quick ratio dinky car jinking right around it like it was an F1 chicane. If I had more money to afford another set of tires, I'd have way too much fun autocrossing this thing! But the guys in the paddock would be saying, "we really need to get a donation drive going for you, so you can put a new coat of paint on it...." 🤣

[Engine 51]

Rolling the clocks back……

[A modeler named mike]

56 minutes ago, Engine 51 said:

Rolling the clocks back……

Ditto.. it's the dumbest thing. Time to stop the nonsense!

[stitchdup]

4 minutes ago, A modeler named mike said:

Ditto.. it's the dumbest thing. Time to stop the nonsense!

yeah, why should farmers get lighter mornings, i mean what have they done to deserve light? (sarcsm implied and intended)

[Rob Hall]

Just now, stitchdup said:

yeah, why should farmers get lighter mornings, i mean what have they done to deserve light? (sarcsm implied and intended)

I don’t like getting up in the dark, so daylight at 7am is preferred, but I don’t like it getting dark so early.  5pm after work and it’s dark in the winter.

[A modeler named mike]

8 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

yeah, why should farmers get lighter mornings, i mean what have they done to deserve light? (sarcsm implied and intended)

Straight from Mr. Google and his AI bubby; effectiveness of daylight saving time (DST) is heavily debated, with research showing that it provides minimal or even negative energy savings, while potentially increasing health risks. 

It also goes on to talk about the how today's energy efficient products and lifestyles have the original energy saving benefits in question. 

I'm not a farmer but the few I know locally here don't depend on DST, they have to get up and do their job no matter what the clock says. 

No sarcsm needed.. just common sense to see it no longer viable. 

[stitchdup]

33 minutes ago, A modeler named mike said:

Straight from Mr. Google and his AI bubby; effectiveness of daylight saving time (DST) is heavily debated, with research showing that it provides minimal or even negative energy savings, while potentially increasing health risks. 

It also goes on to talk about the how today's energy efficient products and lifestyles have the original energy saving benefits in question. 

I'm not a farmer but the few I know locally here don't depend on DST, they have to get up and do their job no matter what the clock says. 

No sarcsm needed.. just common sense to see it no longer viable. 

more common sense. is it really going to be safe when millions of farmers are counting sheep in the dark while driving 5 ton death machines?

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, A modeler named mike said:

...No sarcsm needed.. just common sense to see it no longer viable. 

Common sense is in short supply today, as is general knowledge. I could elaborate, but I'd be banned.

HOWEVER...time was originally structured as local "sun time", because it was in step with a human being's natural circadian rhythm.

Before standardized time, most towns and cities set their clocks based on local solar time, where "high noon" was when the sun was at its highest point in the sky. This system worked well when travel and communication were slow, so the slight differences between nearby towns didn't matter. 

BUT...as societies grew and spread and commercialized and industrialized, this "sun time" was later replaced by standardized time arranged in zones, especially for coordination of things like the train system, where "sun time" wasn't the same in every adjoining area BECAUSE THE SUN MOVES ACROSS THE SKY ALL DAY LONG.

"Sun time" is fairly close to the "standard time" in every time zone, but depending on how far east or west you are in each zone, it can be pretty far off.

"Daylight saving time" further disrupts clock-time's relationship to natural circadian rhythms.

The disruption of this natural rhythm by artificial light and modern schedules has been shown by repeatable and verifiable research to negatively impact health.

One such study, of many:   https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/09/daylight-saving-time.html#:~:text=An out-of-sync circadian,cycles closer to 24 hours.

And please note: farmers have been "up before the sun" since the dawn of civilization (pun intended).

Edited Sunday at 03:00 PM by Ace-Garageguy
punctiliousness

[Dave Ambrose]

Back when I was working 9 to 5, the transition to standard time was tough because I lost the daylight for an after work surf session. My morning tolerant colleagues would get up early and go before work. But, those who know me well and still admit it will tell you that I'm a terrible morning person. Now days I'm retired and it doesn't matter nearly as much.

[A modeler named mike]

47 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

more common sense. is it really going to be safe when millions of farmers are counting sheep in the dark while driving 5 ton death machines?

I believe those death machines have headlights nowadays.. they'll be just fine.. 

[Rob Hall]

When I first moved back to Ohio from AZ, I was working remotely for my Arizona client and had two clocks in my home office, one on EST and one on AZ time.  Still, whenever the time changed I'd have issues w/ being an hour too early or an hour too late for meetings. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Still no shortage of chimps in the car biz. Fixing their messes has kept me busy for 5 decades. How many times a client has told me "there's nothing wrong with it; it's been in 5 shops, they fixed everything, but it just won't run". So waddya expect ME to do? Call in a priest and have him drive out the demons? And then after I correct every single thing the other guys did WRONG, and the car starts and runs like new, the owner balks at the bill because "I told you there was nothing wrong with it; it just wouldn't run".

[John M.]

The monthly task of dusting and rotating my cars and trucks in and out of two display cases. Liker the last time, I dusted off a Johan 69 Rambler American and when I blew into into the interior to get the dust out, it hit me in the face. It's the only model that gives me that kind of problem. It's into storage for it for now. 

[Roger U]

4 hours ago, A modeler named mike said:

Ditto.. it's the dumbest thing. Time to stop the nonsense!

I agree, changing the clocks twice a year is really dumb. 

[rattle can man]

A major shipping company. They won't let me change delivery date for a package. And they won't deliver it either. They say only the shipper can do anything.

[Russell C]

NOT rolling the clocks back…… 

Got up at my usual time of 7am, according to my cheap AA battery-powered clock, did a whole bunch of assorted pre-breakfast stuff, then flipped on my livingroom TV to see what the weather was going to be like, and noticed my plug-in clock (with its ability to get a signal to always be at the exact right time) said it was only 7:25. For a few moments, I was amazed at how much I accomplished in such a short amount of time. . . . . . until it dawned on me the thing did the "fall back" automatically, which we don't do in this area of Arizona.

Edited yesterday at 03:34 AM by Russell C
typo

[89AKurt]

This irk of having a jerk neighbor, is going to be more than one day long.  What irks me is Double Standards, neighbor didn't report the other Shipping Container up my street that we drive past.  The last aerial image on the County G.I.S. does not show mine yet, so I look forward to asking the County to explain.

[TonyK]

Lots of things today. Just this, that and some more of this and that.