I don’t hate the “art.” The AI can’t do much about it.

What I strongly dislike is people who manage to draft literally 40 words or less and think they “created” something.

You didn’t. You a mathematical model to do something for you. You therw 175 tokens into a whirlpool and got am 87% what you wanted image out. If you even had an idea of what you wanted before hand.

Aerosolized lead likely would smell like something, which is ultimately what we’re taking about. A machine shop has a distinct smell because there’s aerosolized steel in the air.

Can’t smell something that was so pervasive in the environment that an estimated 660 metric tons are frozen into Antarctic ice. Humans only smell changes in things, our brains are wired to grow to ignore a pervasive smell.

Yeah, that stale cigarette smell permanently baked into things like hotels or cars or houses is the smell that immediately brings me right back to the late 80s/early 90s. But fondly to some degree.

Metal and stale.

And absolutely yes with the coal.

Bourbon back then wasn’t as refined. Basically gasoline. /s

Before the 1990s, it was cigarettes all the way down.

1980s - cigarettes and hair spray.

70s - cigarettes and alternating body odor and heavy cologne/perfume.

60s - cigarettes and canned food.

50s - cigarettes and gasoline.

40s - cigarettes and either gunpowder or a machine shop.

30s - cigarettes and dust.

20s - cigarettes and bootleg whiskey

10s - cigarettes and bloody mud

1900-1909 - cigarettes and horse shit in the street.

A friend is smoking a brisket this weekend 🤤

Doing a dual boot for Windows and Linux Mint is shockingly easy. Mint will do the work for you from the install USB. I think I did that about a year ago, and haven’t been back over to Windows in months. 9/10, would recommended.

At this point, troubleshooting, when/if needed, can start with ChatGPT for very basic stuff, then the Linux Mint forum if you happen to come upon a real head scratcher. That’s most likely to come from your computer having some obscure or super new component that doesn’t have quite the right drivers yet. Which isn’t a common experience anyway.

Uhhhh- Blamo! Boring conversation anyway. Luke, we’re gonna have company!

Uh, uh, negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak… very dangerous.

Uh, everything is under control. Situation normal.

Only of they bring back the song, too.

That whole movie was some of Lea Thompson’s finest work.

Adding to “find an activity to socialize around,” things like martial arts or casual sports leagues are great for this because they have a way out mixing up a group with fairly diverse backgrounds. You could also do something lime Toastmasters for public speaking practice, which helps you express yourself better. None of this had to be an immediate life long commitment, jump around and test out group until you find one that fits your interests.

Op, what’s unsaid here is that there’s planning and enough required knowledge that is a barrier to entry for most people.

Planning: the engine will only get hot enough to do this after a drive of 30-45+ minutes, plus cook time. So for each person, each trip, it means specific planning of what to make, and when you can make it.

Knowledge: engines vary in design, and people vary in their comfort in how much they trust themselves to do things in their engine bay without risking damage. Taking some wire, making a secure spot to hold something wrapped in foil, and it not being in the way of anything AND if it slips or comes lose won’t get caught in a belt is something I feel fine doing, but I do a lot of janky redneck stuff all the time.

Most people barely know how to change their oil, and since the 90s, more and more cars are complex such that they seem designed to be repaired and maintained by someone else not the owner. This makes the simple act of opening the hood intimidating for most people. One survey I found online puts comfort in doing basic cat maintenance at 20% of people. Extrapolate from there an increasingly small group that is comfortable doing weird stuff, ok doing risky weird stuff to their car, and who don’t want to stop at a real restaurant to eat on a road trip (where my spouse will prefer to pee, not the side of the road), and you get a small enough number of people that is not surprising this isn’t common.

That’s literally how your car’s heater works. But it didn’t get that hot because the radiator dissipates most of the heat.

What you really want is to replace the water in the radiator with fry oil, and have a little basket for deep frying things in there glove box.

YOU get it. These people are depraved, lack ethics and morals, and feel owed their every whim and desire. It can easily get into a realm of stuff that’s horrific and permissive of the worst sociopathic impulses.

Small scale: The lack of constant mean pranks. You can’t tell me that shitbag kids aren’t polyjuicing everyone into dogs and donkeys 20 times a day, and thats the PG version. Ain’t no way dudes aren’t making their dicks 30 feet long for fun.

Large Scale: Wizarding culture is tremendously trite, shallow, and terrible. They are the worst of humanity with super powers, all because of …genetics? It’s still super privledge eugenics at the end of the day, and Voldemort is just making daylight decisions about everything that the non-DeathEaters blithly comply with every single day.

Try using Chameleon extension to spoof the headers to look like vanilla FF on Windows.

They’re gladly letting it all burn because they lazily expect it to mean easy wins in 2026. Then they’ll manage to barely take the House and maaaaybe Senate, and literally do nothing with it.