No intrusion bars? Those have a good bit of weight to them due to the strength requirements.

Dust from the Sahara blows across over to the Amazon, enough of the stuff makes it across to be a factor when it comes to nutrient supply for the rainforest.

You just remember where you put the thing, the concept of where it is still remains even if you can’t visualise it. Similarly I can still remember routes and recognise people even though I can’t really visualise either.

Mostly nothing, but I did have issues once where a package changed but couldn’t be installed due to failing verification as the keyring wasn’t updated. That killed the desktop environment on boot but dropping into the console and updating the keyring specifically before trying the full update again fixed things.

Best suggestion I have is to buy yourself a decent screwdriver or driver bits, then when it starts getting worn and slipping easily throw the bit/driver away and use a new one. You can get away with using a worn Phillips driver for a long time past it’s prime but you’re just making life hard for yourself by doing this.

Also make sure you’re using the correct size and type of bit, I’ve seen plenty of people struggling with Phillips heads because they’re doing something like using a ph1 bit on a ph2 screw or using a pozidrive bit on a Phillips head.

Book sword seems an easy pick assuming the scaling of the power ups is remotely similar - if you’re an educated adult you should already have a decent power level, its strength isn’t going to vary wildly on you (lies would be particularly bad for this), you can have a strong sword without living in pain, and if you need extra power you can just smash through a bunch of childrens books in a few hours.

In terms of the curse sword smells from the future seems the pick. Changing every third word would cause a lot of communication annoyances and seeing only through other people’s eyes would make you blind a significant amount of the time.

I actually quite like the idea of an underground house - it’d be easier to get a nice stable temperature year round and would be much easier to design for bushfire resilience (steel sheets over skylights/doorway, steel mesh over ventilation and you’re pretty set). I could do with my own personal hobbit hole.

I would however want it to be in a position where it does not require pumped drainage. That restricts you to places on a decent slope so you can use gravity to keep things dry and cozy rather than rely on pumps that could break down. Not having a view in the vast majority of locations would also be a downside, but to be fair being able to see a good bit of distance is sadly not something you get in most normal houses anyway.

Got to commit to being gay instead so you can have the extra speed for the overtakes.

If you’re rich enough to have a house where you can charge at home, sure. If you’re in an apartment you’re probably out of luck there.

The Buzz is a van, it’s meant to be big so you can put stuff in it. It’s actually too small for my liking as it’s too low to fit my dirt bike in without a struggle and too short for a 1200x2400 sheet of ply/metal/whatever (my Transporter fits both of these nicely though).

That’s actually going to be useful for me, I’ve needed to flash/change settings on a few nrf based devices for meshcore use over the last few months and was mildly irritated that installing Chrome was the easiest way to get this done.

I had one of these earlier tonight which was asking which of the pictured animals came from eggs. Only after clicking on the various birds and submitting (success) did I notice there was also a crocodile. I then really wanted to be able to redo it with the crocodile included and see if it knew crocodiles also come from eggs.

I remember one time when I was a kid and had read something mentioning spark gap transmitters. I of course found a bit of wire (tie wire because that’s what came to hand, not anything insulated) and a radio and was playing around with a 9v battery making little sparks by shorting it with the wire and hearing the radio crackle in response. What I then thought was that if the little battery was making a noticeable effect then a bigger battery would obviously be better.

I got one of the drill batteries and shorted that out with my bit of wire to make a better spark and proceeded to discover that resistive heating is a thing and thin tie wire connected even briefly to a high discharge battery will get very hot very quickly. I ended up with a nice blister line across my fingers and a scar for a few years showing the position I’d been holding the wire…

Nowhere in the movie is that even hinted at.

The opening scene tells the viewer the decline in intelligence in the future is due to the less educated/intelligent reproducing more, that’s getting rather close to eugenics.

I don’t think this was intended as more than just a handwave argument as an explanation for the plot necessary premise of people being stupid in the future (i.e. it’s not something to get offended over) but it is mentioned nonetheless.

Freight Train by Alan Jackson (different to the other songs titled Freight Train that I’ve seen linked so far)

It’s particularly ironic as OP was the one making a song and dance about wanting all comics from bigoted artists banned the other day.

It’s basically a first gen Suzuki Vitara if you want a model you’d find in Australia. It was the upmarket model from the Sierra (aka Jimny) of that era which was also a nice little 4wd albeit with a few stability issues.

It’s a scene from In Bruges

Won’t be much, the usual price near me for plain old iron/steel is around $100 (AUD) per tonne. With small amounts like this the main benefits are the fuzzy feeling of recycling rather than creating landfill along with avoiding the cost of paying to dispose of a heavy pile of stuff.

i was searching for the name of that “snap ring” while you replied

Circlip is the word you’re after