I did.

I had a 2012 mazda 5, everything completely mechanically sound. Immobilizer failure killed the ECU and 3 different electronics specialist, and 2 dealers couldn't get it working.

I bought a 1963 Ranchero (170ci inline six). You'd be amazed how cheap and widely available pretty much ALL the parts for old Fords are too.

It also cost me less than half of a new Corolla.

I just finished reading the first book. Shit is excellent. Show is quite good too, just ignore some of the character changing.

And in who's interest is it for people to continue perpetuating that voting for third parties is pointless?

The fact is the "least bad" option for any political office in the US is pretty much always someone not affiliated with Democrats or Republicans. Because despite the ideals they say they stand for, neither in the last hundred years have acted in good faith or in the interest of their constituents. They accrue power to further their own agendas.

Its time people seperate liberal from Democrat and conservative from republican. They are not and never will be synonymous. The organizations are the main problems not the ideals.

Right now we have a situation where people no longer vote with their ideals. They vote as part of a strategy. "if enough people vote for x, then y won't win, even though I actually agree with z". Both sides and anyone who votes that way are only feeding the beast.

First past the post has its own issues, but to be clear, it doesn't necessarily preclude a third party being seriously considered. If you honestly want to know I consider myself pretty libertarian in most aspects but I'm all for an ammendment allowing for a ranked choice system. Problem again with the current two parties is like term limits, neither side will vote for anything that could restrict their power.

The only way to fix this is to vote out BOTH party's candidates in favor of younger folks, liberal, moderate and conservative who understand that congressional representation is not meant to be a career path, but more a service to your peers akin to the military. You have to start voting the in at local and state levels and work up.

While I'm ranting, can we talk about the presidents ACTUAL responsibilities are. Appointments, federal orgs (illegal anyways but let's gloss over the abuse of the interstate commerce clause) and PR. Anyone who votes for a candidate ON EITHER SIDE that promises legislative action has a fundamental misunderstanding of our government. I'm so sick of all the presidential drama. The shitty judicial and organizational appointments still have to be vetted and approved by enough of the legislative body on both shitty sides. Other than that, all this shit amounts to reality TV. We need to bring back honey boo boo and American idol so people can get their stupid out on those votings.

OK rant over. If anyone genuinely wants to have a conversation with a 28yo moderate libertarian, I'm pretty baked so AMA. I much like many moderate libertarians (not the ones in the news. Do you think media owned by the two party's will ever display a third as rational?) am open to a dialogue and willing to consider and compromise. I grew up with a lawyer for a mom, so I'll be the first to admit I like playing devils advocate if only to explore all possibilities. Used to drive her nuts.

Fun fact. John Denver was writing about West-Virginia as in the western part of Virginia.

Less fun fact, explaining this to people is one of the reasons I will die on the hill that Cardinal directions shouldn't be part of a proper noun like a state name. Looking at you too Dakotas....

it was starting to get a little cramped in there, so I molted why not?

Something something mitochondria

It's actually Odo

Hey man, it's called being a wine enthusiast.

Or Feb 29th

Vessel... Wessel...wesley...!... Shutup Wesley!

https://youtu.be/lZtjAKLeDmk

We live inside a dream. But who is the dreamer?

I bet he bleaches his wormhole.

... Water...

Delays in network infrastructure. While most signals going between large nodes/hubs will be fiber optic, there's quite a few old school copper connections between you and the time server that will slow things down. My ping to my closest node, with all my fiber and cat5e connections is still 20ms.

You're probably better off using a cellphone time than a desktop computer to a website, since the cell network accounts for the difference in time dilation between us and the satellites (Einsteinien relativity amitright?) supposedly well enough for network infrastructure to work.

You're also getting to "is the processor in the watch fast enough" territory. That's a bit beyond me though.

Unless time.whateverthefuck is running their own cesium clocks, which I doubt. The gshock should be more accurate when synced. 60khz radio waves sent by NIST travel at the speed of light. That is standard em radio propagation. Your computer meanwhile theoretically does, it runs through God knows many nodes, bounced around until it finally gets back to you. I guess they could try to establish your location and correct, but eh....

Now let's talk about why your watch can't transmit. Well it could, but you'd need to carry around a giant antenna and a few kilowatts worth of rms power generation to even be heard over normal background noise at any reasonable distance. The wwvb towers in Denver host an antenna that is electrically one quarter wavelength (1250meters) but obviously not actually that long because that's 10x the towers. They use a series of coils and stretch horizontally to make up for the rest. They power this antenna 24/7 at 70kw. Part of the reason it's in Denver is central location to the country for best average timekeeping. Height above ground also rules when it comes to radio waves.

Im not going to go into the code that's actually transmitted because even as a HAM operator I don't know it all myself, but just know that it uses a system of 1s and 0s by pulsing the carrier wave to tell ever clock that's listening "it will be 2:35pm in... 3...2...1...NOW". Feel free to watch this much less baked youtuber explain.

The reason your watch will always be off by the speed of light at best is the radio station doesn't know where every single person is and can't send out 300,000 signals to tell each one what their specific time is.

Let's gloss over the fact that by the time the light gets from the screen to your eyes, it's TECHNICALLY wrong anyways....

If your interested check out NIST and WWVB website. Thats actually one of the things that got me interested in radio. side note I always wear a radio controlled casio. Sometimes a g. Mostly a field style lcw m100.

Torque is a measurement of rotational force. Brooms would technically have thrust. If I remember my high school physics, a Broom would need at least 980 Newtons of thrust to liftoff your average sized witch.

Part of me wishes the transporter malfunctioned and created two tuvixes.

As far as covers go, it's new it's creative, and would still sound good if you'd never heard the dire straits. I dig it man.

Fun fact: Mark Knopfler, the lead guitarist from the Dire Straits is also a pretty incredible classic country musician. He's put out at least a couple albums playing with Chet Atkins, on account of their similar fingerpicking styles.