JIS is more common on Japanese machines, ie Japanese cars and motorcycles. When I was a bike mechanic you used JIS for Shimano derailleur adjustment screws. Even tho a Phillips “fit” it would destroy the screw.

I actually can’t tell them apart from sight truth be told, but I’m also not wrenching anymore (not to mention the cycling industry largely moved on to hex and torx)

No mention of JIS which is yet another “fuck Phillips” argument

I travel through Boring Oregon (just outside of Portland) who’s sister city is Dull, so I guess that’s me

These… weren’t Brian’s books

Messiah is good

Children is decent but spotty

God Emperor is essentially a fever dream. I was like WTF while reading it but I love how off the rails it went.

The last couple are kind of meandering and forgettable.

The immediate prequels (house books) are a fun read and plotted well, but his kid isn’t as good of a writer as poppa Herbert

The legends books are garbage

The last 2 books that tie up the original series (hunters and sandworms) are not good and are infuriating in that elements from the legends books are reintroduced as deus ex machina bullshit. I saw the twist coming halfway through the last book.

I never read any of the other gap filler books that have been written in that universe. It got tiresome

Everything up until God Emperor is worthwhile with the prequels being a fun appetizer. Read the synopses of the others if you need to know what happens

I’ve been on Instagram since it came out and still lurk despite it daring me to quit every time I open it

It’s slightly less popular for cars because they started charging for those listings

I stick all sorts of things in holes in bathrooms. Keeps things interesting

I recently saw a post where they have slots in bathrooms that clean your phone if you insert it

I got pulled over a couple of months ago and the cop told me to put it in park. I wiggled the stick back and forth to show it was in neutral and they thought I was fucking with them and kept saying to put it in park. Idiots

I’m a vinyl guy and how you enjoy music doesn’t affect me, BUT: there’s something wrong with your setup. It’s not level if it’s that sensitive

I never got on board with CDs because no one knew how to master them for the first few years. Everything sounded quiet, tinny and harsh in the wrong way, so I went back to LPs. Eventually they figured out how to optimize music to that format but then the loudness wars came along and made everything sound like shit again. There was a brief period in the 90s when CDs sounded fantastic.

If you try to make records too loud the needle will physically jump out of the groove so they have to be relatively normalized (unless you try to fit too much music on one side in which case the record gets super quiet)

CDs are in decline and vinyl is prohibitively expensive and the lead times to get a record pressed are insane because your record will be stuck behind the millionth Urban Outfitters special edition of Rumors… so cassettes have made a weird comeback in underground scenes. Worst fucking format

I have a cabled electric mower. I have to whip the cord all over like Indiana Jones when I change directions. I’d take gas over it in a heartbeat

Or at the very least make taxes paid proportionally more for each home you own past 1

Ahh, yes. The “Stalin did nothing wrong” posts are possessing of nuance worthy of discussion and aren’t trashy troll takes at all

Came here to say sugar. It’s a motherfucker

American here with backyard chickens: I don’t refrigerate my eggs

Trump

Some dingus made using that word a lot less desirable

He wanted to bomb shithole countries and kill terrorists’families but was too inept to know how to actually get it through congress. Painting him like a dove of peace is a weird way to interpret how shit played out

Someone

A hero. The words you meant to use are “A hero”