The update I never wanted.

I really doubt we’re the only sentient life but we’ll never meet any is my bet. The observable universe is mind bogglingly huge. The unobservable is so much bigger. So many stars, so many planets.

How about this one?

Or this one?

I’m glad I was good about cleaning up my Inbox and archive folders regularly.

Not so glad it was spread across two Microsoft and 1 Google account for decades when I went to deGoogle (deAmerican really) and moved to a custom domain name email address.

8 hours manually changing addresses on accounts across the WWW.

Fucking gross. I did a year at the deli, hated cutting head cheese. Even the name is disgusting. Only old people bought it.

Taste? Probably expired milk. I didn’t sniff check as a kid. A mistake you only make once.

Most disturbing to me even though it tasted okay? I had one of those cardboard cartons of Apple juice* lined internally with plastic/aluminium so you couldn’t see inside. Well within best by date. I poured a glass, chugged it. Hot summer day. Decided, eh, a little more why not. A giant gloopy growth plopped out into my glass. I retched.

Mother of Vinegar I assumed? Not sure.

Yeah I don’t like him but Diplomacy with the Mad King bordering our middle power land needs to be considered too.

1994 extended cab, but still a 2 door. Standard bed, Silverado trim. It’s the last year of the 1950’s iron block before the Vortec and interior update. Maybe it’s just this specific year, I was looking them up to possibly sell mine but I didn’t see anything beyond $10k at the time. Mostly $7000 range. Edit: maybe it’s different in Alberta than USA idk.

It’s true, the remainder are mostly in enthusiast hands now or very run down. They were not built to last. 90’s too.

My strategy was to buy from someone at a car show (I’m not an enthusiast, I actually use it) and I got lucky after walking a bunch of them in 2016 with an all original 1994 Chevy K1500 5.7L 118,000 km odometer in mint condition even had the original windshield with no cracks and assembly line cling wrap in the door wells. Strange boomer fellow, he even opened the doors with a cloth. $8000 Canadian I paid, they’re worthless even in such amazing condition to this day.

Big downside: Very few mechanics are still working who are willing to troubleshoot anything to do with anything attached to the ODB1 embedded computers. Nobody around me held onto the scanning tools. Many outright refused to work on mine recently when I had a rough cold start issue. It was the MAP sensor but the two mechanics who did try failed to find the problem. Ended up having to figure it out myself. Now I own a hacky OBD1 to USB cable from eBay and learned ProTuner scanner software lol.

Next downside: Entropy and dry rot. The interior plastics for example… I can’t easily replace the awful rear speakers because I’ve been told the plastic clips are extremely brittle from age and absolutely will shatter no matter how carefully I try to take them off. I’d have to commit to breaking them and then doing some 3D printed surgery to fix the panels back up.

lol, they’re $66,000 in Canada.

Can’t really remember anything recent. Years ago I borrowed my dad’s old bike from the 1980’s since mine was in the shop. The handle bars must’ve had a hairline crack, because they suddenly sheared off and I crashed hard into the asphalt bike path. Scraped up pretty bad including my wenis :(

I had just enough time to comically stare at my detached handle bars and have a brief moment of realisation before the front wheel did a 90’ turn.

So he basically started dating you out of the blue without telling you and it’s working? Well it’s admittedly super funny to read but potentially a bit weird, especially buying you so much stuff. Regardless of how you handle it, yeah they like you.

I recommend reading up on human history beyond what your government decided to teach and not teach you.

6 is terrible. Maybe best Capcom forgets it exists.

I don’t stream music, I buy albums on Bandcamp pretty much exclusively for lack of better options. Then I play them to death, and buy another handful. Some piracy. Some vinyl purchases.

I haven’t come across any AI slop in my favourite genres top of the month lists on Bandcamp yet.

I fix comments even if edited comments are looked upon less favourably. I refuse to use autocorrect so I suffer the consequences of that choice while using a touchscreen keyboard. I just felt one day I might be damaging my literacy skills relying on autocorrect.

Unfortunately that’s combined with a weed habit so I also have a bad habit of editing in stuff I didn’t think about* (see it just happened again) until 3 minutes later. You can probably track when I’m high with strings of edited comments all in a row 😅

I put $200 into a 50/50 raffle every quarter for a local donor run radio station. Haven’t won yet :p

I had a friend like that, the world is most certainly duller ever since I lost them. Sorry for your loss, OP.

You can just barely make out that there’s actually metal mesh over the spokes if you zoom into the pixel vomit.

He got her pregnant too.