Used to live in an earthquake zone right in front of the ocean, so tsunamis were always a risk.

So I kept a bug off bag with water, clothes, blanket, cereal bars, lights and a battery pack ready to go by my bike.

I did use it once and skipped all over the traffic going to the shelter. Fortunately the water didn’t rise enough to be a threat, but I thanks to the peace of mind the bag brought, I didn’t even stress during the evacuation

As a non American who has never been to the US, but grew up well within its sphere of cultural influence.

I thought that about half of the population was black, maybe 40% minimum. I was surprised to learn that it was just above 10% in reality.

I watched Event Horizon when I was 10 not knowing it was an horror movie and I had recurring nightmares for weeks

I absolutely agree with you. My former flatmate didn’t like to use the dishwasher because according to her, it wouldn’t clean the dishes properly. Yet she would load the dishwasher by stacking the plates horizontally… as you would store them in a cupboard

I am from Texas Oblast and I am voting for Trump

FWIW, It was working before it stopped working

I just cannot comprehend how anyone can look at post brexit UK and think “yes, I want the same for my country”

Indeed, my grandfather had a Jeep Willys and he never registered and only drove it on his farm. When he passed away, my dad inherited and looked into making it road legal (ie. registering it) and it was way too expensive to do, so he just kept it in his property and drives it around a back road which is technically private property, we checked with the local PD and it’s allowed

please don’t tell me I been using them wrong

A pancake is a cake you make in a pan.

It broke my mind when I learned that one

I’ve seen some anime releases where they had separate mka files for different languages and a little script to attach whatever dub you want into it. It is technically possible already, but super rare

He didn’t live long enough for the world to realised his bad he was. Imagine if Musk died before he bought Twitter, people would remember him differently

well, if you ever dealt with DPD then you’ll know the bot is not wrong

I love Minisforum, I own 2 of them and I’m looking to buy a 3rd one. But damn their website is atrocious

I’ll offer a mixed review for carhartt…while they used to be strictly workwear, they’ve started putting up retail spaces in designer clothing areas.

Carhartt and Carhartt Work in Progress are two different brands, the former is the good workwear one, the later is the designer fashionable stuff. Stick to their non WIP stuff

Xbox underground is great story too.

I had a friend working at Microsoft in the Xbox division during that time who recommended me that podcast.

It seemed like for every 5 of their releases, I would find one interesting.

You can tell the difference between the episodes researched by them and their research team. I still listen to them from time to time, their recent series on the Survival on the Andes is harrowing, one of their best episodes in recent times.

word of warning, two hours will fly by

her podcast (which is just the audio of her videos) keeps getting pushed to my Spotify feed. I don’t even use Spotify for podcasts nor I even listened to her at all on said platform. She must be spending a pretty penny in that algorithm push

Their Red exclusive show was such a disappointment, I stopped following them after that