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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 51m

A pox upon the interior designers at Subaru who - rather than using a simple access panel to access rear taillight assemblies - mandated that one remove almost the entirety of the trunk interior to remove the monolithic rigid felt side panels blocking access to said taillight assemblies

E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 10h

There's a furtiveness to the placement - splitting the difference between prominence and presumably odds of being spotted applying the sticker. Generally facing traffic on through streets, but not on major streets nor signaled intersections.

E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 11h

Given the 1999 date on that "article" I was surprised to find it still kicking myself

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 12h

It's Landover Baptist "Personal Testimony Improvement Center" only it's for the overwhelming bulk of their lives.

Personal Testimony Improvement Center

www.landoverbaptist.org

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 12h

So so many American Christians are all ate up with the likes of of prosperity gospel and other interpretations that are self-evidently orthogonal to the Bible they claim as literal truth

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 14h

A local Democratic door knocker walked up to me while I was working outside and we had a brief chat (far from random as they knew I'd voted in the Democratic primary). Far more than the GOP has done here in my red county - although they sure love to stuff my mailbox with campaign mail.

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 14h

2 more. I may be out of targets at this point.

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 18h

Knowing Dad, ours was the cheapest base model - surely equipped with the LQ5 as it was a circa 1983 purchase.

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 19h

Family had a 5spd Cimarron. Critical parts kept falling off. Dad made some bad assumptions about that Cadillac badge...

Think this bit says a lot:
"It [CTS] was the first Cadillac offered with a manual transmission since the 1988 Cimarron."

Cadillac CTS - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 20h

Suspect the response will be a border wall *way* north of TX, NM, AZ, CA

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 20h

A variant of the "air-dropping progressives in cowboy hats into red-leaning purple districts" strategy that's failed repeatedly over many cycles

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 20h

Meanwhile I put a stake sprinkler out perhaps 20 times a year and the grass does OK while my neighbors run theirs 3-5 times a week all year long.

E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 20h

[sigh]
*put out signs

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 20h

Sprinkler systems are depressingly the norm in DFW. Watering restrictions are disregarded to the point that burgs will occasionally put put signs ala WATERING RESTRICTIONS IN EFFECT - WE MEAN IT. But how else will the pavement stay such a vivid shade of gray without irrigation runoff?

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 20h

Funny how the origin story narrative is already crumbling

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 20h

Much to my surprise, a staffer just called me to follow up on the message I left at the end of the town hall - it was a reasonably pleasant and professional exchange.

E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 2d

ATTN: Texas TX-26 people. Representative Brandon Gill will hold a conference call town hall this evening. The last events were poorly-publicized and packed with ringers throwing the slowest softball pitches.

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 22h

Got stuck behind the slowest BMW the other day:
• Driving 20MPH under the limit
• 0-30 time of 25 seconds

OFC they also refused to use turn signals.

After missing 2 lights I treated them like a rolling chicane. I hope they sh_t themselves.

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 1d

Post-fact reality + surrender of agency asserting itself. Conservatives have like disliked green energy because contrarianism: their ideological adversaries were into it. More recently, MAGA is told to hare it so they do rather than be ostracized by the cult.

E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, there's no need to prefix the epithet with Paxton

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 1d

Cornyn is being driven right by Paxton's primary campaign

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 1d

Suspect they'll learn the hard way that replicating a video game HUD in real life is really fkn hard

E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 1d

"according to police AI"

Funny that reads like "automating systemic bias"

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 1d

> limits the system so it can only be activated on roads it was designed for

I recall GM does repeated LIDAR mapping of highway corridors - storing the point cloud data on the car itself - for this purpose, so small surprise it's excellent compared to FSD

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 1d

The slop must go on

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E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing those Salt Life stickers in DFW - some 400 miles from the Gulf - always amuses

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