What Irked You Today?

[Ace-Garageguy]

I see a lot more people in the YT comments praising AI slop "documentaries" full of misrepresentations, inaccuracies, distortions, and outright lies (plus mismatched photos that have nothing to do with the narration) than I see people calling them out for being useless gibberish.

This is why a dumbed-down society that's lacking vast amounts of what used to be considered "general knowledge" or "common knowledge", and who have become complacent about accepting whatever garbage Google vomits up first, with rarely any fact-checking or critical-thinking skills applied, will be easily led to places they probably don't really want to go...if only they stopped to think about it.

Sometimes I just have to wonder if that's been the plan all along...

Edited 9 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy
punctiliousness

[FoMoCo66]

Scraping off my car after school and my ice scraper broke before I was done. Now I need to get a new one and I had to wait for my defrosters to finish the job.

[Ace-Garageguy]

11 minutes ago, FoMoCo66 said:

Scraping off my car after school and my ice scraper broke before I was done...

Extra special Chinese plastic that gets so brittle when it's cold...

I have some US-made scrapers that are decades old, heavy material correctly speced for the job, still going strong.

[FoMoCo66]

16 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Extra special Chinese plastic that gets so brittle when it's cold...

I have some US-made scrapers that are decades old, heavy material correctly speced for the job, still going strong.

The thing is that one has lasted my family for a long time. It was also some pretty heavy duty stuff, thats why it really frustrated me.

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

Recently I'm hearing primarily younger people, start sentences with "I'm not gonna lie". Well thanks for the warning, but shouldn't that be a given. I think it would be more helpful to let us know when you are going to lie. Or, should we just assume that you are lying if you don't preface you're statement with "I'm not gonna lie"?

[Ace-Garageguy]

59 minutes ago, FoMoCo66 said:

The thing is that one has lasted my family for a long time. It was also some pretty heavy duty stuff, thats why it really frustrated me.

Well, sorry to hear that then.

Plastic, even high-quality plastic CAN get brittle as it ages, as the 'plasticizers' leach out.

But it's pretty common for "offshore-made" plastic items to fail totally in a few months or less, sometimes even turning to powder, or getting sticky, or turning to goo... etc. etc. etc.

[mk11]

Scrapers have varied over the years... 8 tracks, cassettes, cd cases etc.    Oh yeah, and the ones with handles  

[mcs1056]

1 hour ago, Perspect Scale Modelworks said:

Recently I'm hearing primarily younger people, start sentences with "I'm not gonna lie". Well thanks for the warning, but shouldn't that be a given. I think it would be more helpful to let us know when you are going to lie. Or, should we just assume that you are lying if you don't preface you're statement with "I'm not gonna lie"?

Well. I'll be honest with ya...that one doesn't really bother me, to tell you the truth.

[Rodent]

44 minutes ago, mk11 said:

Scrapers have varied over the years... 8 tracks, cassettes, cd cases etc.    Oh yeah, and the ones with handles  

No expert here, I live in California and the two dailies are in the garage. I must admit to occasionally using a credit card in the rare event of needing an ice scraper.

[89AKurt]

What are scapers? 😜  Plastic, rubber, all junk now.

I love how my MacBook always dims down my screen now, just can't stay where I set it.  Waiting for the day when it dims down so much that I can't type in the password.