It was common to have a headlight levelling dial for a period, I’d say from the 2000s up to mid-late 2010s. Prior to that most cars only had mechanical adjustments, post that most cars have auto levelling headlights - over a certain brightness this is legally required.

You might find a setting for headlight levelling buried in some car settings still but I don’t recall a physical dial for this in cars I’ve driven from the last 5 years or more.

Note that this might be a country specific thing, particularly re. requirements for auto levelling (this is true in Australia at least).

I do like finding signs warning of a particularly specific problem, always makes one wonder who it was who caused the sign to be installed and how they feel about it. You’ll often find that even generic signs like “Don’t let items burn in the toaster” had a root cause in a specific incident (or string thereof).

I can second both of these suggestions - the acetone/ATF mix is effective and my Milwaukee 3/4" impact has undone some worse looking stuff than that even without penetrating fluid (it’s also snapped the heads right off some similar diameter bolts when they refused to budge, which did at least allow me to continue so I counted that as a success).

I highly doubt the video is AI, these mugs have been around for years.

Firefox added web serial support recently (a couple of version points back) so you should now be able to avoid chromium for that use case too.

The better solution is getting a sparkie to install a male socket (with protective cover) for power inlet if you’re anticipating needing a genset on any regular basis. While they’re at it get them to also install an isolating switch so you can easily avoid backfeeding power into the grid while keeping the house powered.

Men doing something negative is readily called toxic masculinity. Men doing something positive however can’t be non-toxic masculinity because women do something similar but different…

Is it really that hard for you to admit that masculinity can be associated with positive things?

I never had a bike stolen even during the few years I was using one as my main form of wheeled transit. It helped though that I never had an expensive bike, always locked it up when I left it (average cable lock), and had somewhere secure to leave it at night.

Sounds relatable. Last time I moved I even had several people offer in advance to help but I ended up doing almost everything by myself because I just wanted to be able to do things at my own pace and make sure I was happy with where everything went.

I’d recommend having a furniture dolly and an upright trolley rather than relying on an office chair though, proper tools make the job much easier.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

Perhaps this is why I particularly didn’t find the locomotive physics that strange

The reason why you didn’t think it strange is because you don’t know how one works, because there’s multiple things which don’t make sense otherwise.

The drive wheels are not the ones at the back but the ones with the connecting rods and piston rods (the pistons provide the drive force). The rods are placed in a way which would prevent the wheels turning if connected in those positions and would typically be placed on the largest wheels of the locomotive (i.e. that big wheel should be the drive wheel if it’s going to be there).

The smoke should be coming from the very front of the locomotive as the output from the firebox needs to run through the boiler (most of the front of the machine) in order to generate the steam needed to actually drive the locomotive. Having it come from the back makes no sense unless the whole boiler arrangement is also reversed and it isn’t.

Technically it’s just that you must show up to a polling location and get your name ticked off, if you really can’t handle voting nobody will know if you drop in blank slips.

If you don’t show up and haven’t done a postal vote you get a letter later on asking whether you had a valid reason to not vote, if you don’t have one then pay the fine.