If it makes you feel any better, the weirdness and fucked-up-ness of North Bend and Snoqualmie has got nothing on the weirdness and fucked-up-ness of Aberdeen/Hoquiam.

Snoqualmie/North Bend? Or was that just the opening credits?

I’m equally happy with 13 or 14.

Breading? Ewww. Call em “crumbles.”

Motherfuckers can’t even stop buying cheap garbage from Amazon, but we’re gonna expect that they can sacrifice their personal livelihoods and risk starvation? Yeah right.

I already own three and a crossbow. How many guns am I supposed to own? And I own all of these guns and crossbow from before I started following the eightfold path, so I don’t think they’ll help me much.

Is the Spoonerism intentional?

Dude… I voted for Fetterman. I honestly don’t know how to change anything now that I’ve been aggressively bait and switched by a Republican dick. I’m a naive fool.

I don’t know how to fix it. How do I get my neighbors to come back to reality and to lean on love and compassion, rather than hate and retribution?

Trump will be remembered in the same category as the guy who greenlit the Holocaust?

I mean, Trump is a bad dude and a terrible president, but c’mon man, employ some perspective.

Harry Truman killed up to 246,000 people, mostly civilians. Trail of Tears claimed over 10,000 lives. All who choose war and violence are evil people.

Dude, Rocky is a great movie. And First Blood showed some range, too.

I love Demolition Man and Daylight for reasons other than range.

Right on. Thanks. I never expected to jump straight to vehicles, nor do I think one man is out there making the FOSS operating systems, so I guess I’m just wondering where I should start to be able to contribute to the effort in the near future.

Shutup, nerd.

Edit: Truth is, I thought of that and tried it. I cant remember why, but for some reason it was uncomfortable. Or maybe I wanted the flexibility to buckle easily when I felt it was warranted. Something like that.

My utv detects the seatbelt. If you don’t click in the seatbelt, it limits speed to like 10mph and limits the hp. Sometimes I’m tooling in the yard or getting it unstuck and I need full HP but also need to get in and out of the vehicle. Someone made a cute little bypass that took 5 minutes to install. Works like a charm. Now, when I’m driving on a road, I buckle up, but when I’m plowing the snowy driveway I don’t.

How do I learn to be a FOSS developer so I can start working on firmware/software replacements for vehicles?

Just a heads up: I have a 2026 GM. The infotainment doesn’t work right and the key fob often isn’t detected. Their solution is to blame my phone (even though it works with every other car and every other Bluetooth device; and a factory reset of my Pixel 9 only solved some of the infotainment problems and shouldn’t have had to happen at all anyway). My father-in-law also has a 2026 Chevy and there are infotainment problems for him. Different models.

Tldr: avoid the 2026 GM vehicles.

I disagree, but that’s just me apparently. It’s not that I particularly liked pennies, but I definitely don’t like companies rounding UP to the nearest nickel. And as for the pennies costing more to make than they’re worth – so what? Basically any government provided service or product costs taxpayer money. Also, change the penny to make it more cost effective?

Anyhow, what’s done is done, and we’re probably all poorer because of it. I’ve been poor – it sucks but life goes on.

Daly. Thrilla the Gorilla is a dunce.

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

So much unknown. Competition with other survivors with guns, knives, the ability to poison your well when you aren’t looking or burn your house down while you sleep…

Or, everyone rallies in the first few years and the few survivors that are around work together and share resources, at least long enough that everyone gets theirs.

Movies and video games are more entertaining when there’s over-the-top conflict, and I think that shapes our predictions. We have seen, however, that in times of crisis communities and people rally together for the greater good. Even strangers help strangers. That doesn’t usually last long, but it does happen. And I have no reason to believe that wouldn’t be true if a world-killing meteor struck the earth in China. On my side of the planet, I do believe there would be a honeymoon phase before mad Max times.

I’d be naive to assume that it would be without conflict for generations. I’m not saying that at all.

Even the happy cooperative commune is going to need centuries of relative peace in order to reboot the supply chain to the point of making new spark plugs compatible with the old engine blocks - or new engine blocks when the old ones are too worn to rebuild.

Yes. It would take a while to figure out how to reboot factories and supply chains (if that even is the goal after the extinction event – when there’s 10,000 left alive scattered throughout the world, why would we need factories and supply chains?). But also, there are more than enough spark plugs and engine blocks packed in oil at tractor supplies and John Deere service departments to make it happen for generations. Traveling may or may not be dangerous – neither you nor I know.

My other claim is that we’d learn to use horses/cows to pull the tractor implements before the tractors are kaput for good. I stand by that claim.

The biggest danger would be illness and injury.