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A Tale of Two Shitties... [1]

I've always done my own seasonal tire changes on my vehicle and my partner's as well. When I first started many years ago, I bought a cheapie 2-ton trolley #jack from Princess Auto - USAnians can substitute "Harbor Freight" and the story will be essentially the same.

But I replaced my vehicle a year and a half ago. The new one rides a little higher off the ground, and has the massive #wheels and #tires that have become the de facto standard, and my old jack didn't lift high enough to change the wheels on the new vehicle. Being the better part of 20 years newer, the new vehicle is also a lot heavier.

So I bought a larger 3-ton trolley jack, with a higher lift height. It's even a real name brand, #Torin. [2]

So anyways... I went to take the snow tires off on the weekend, and the new jack had #leaked, and won't lift properly. So it's sprung an o-ring or other #seal, after only using it 3 times (I think). The 20-year-old Princess Auto special is still fine. They sit next to each other in the garage, so it's not storage conditions.

Winner: Princess Auto.

Then, while changing tires, one lug #nut was #seized. Got out a decent sized breaker bar, and a 1/2" to 3/8" socket drive adapter from Princess Auto - their "pro" "Pro Point" line, yet - put my back into it, and #sheared the damn adapter off.

#Craptastic!

[1] Couldn't resist, sorry. [3]
[2] I didn't say it was a great name brand.
[3] Not sorry.

#PrincessAuto#Canada#cheap
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Robot Diver

If you have low water access or just generally consider yourself a crummy gardener, consider sedums. Especially native ones. You can literally propagate them by breaking off a small chunk of your original plant and sticking it in the ground. You can neglect them pretty extensively and they will just keep doing their thing. They mat out and squelch your weeds, giving anything else you plant a better chance as well.

#gardening#tipsFromAGardenDesigner#droughtTolerant
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Rory Robinson

Just finished Dofamine VR on #Steam #VR /w #MetaQuest. I'd call it quite #mid. 1.7 hours total playtime, including using the barely implemented "seated" mode and having to turn it on and off to pick things up. The puzzles were fine, story was eh, visuals were fine but monotone. Achievements still have the seemingly default "NEW_ACHIEVEMENT_DESC_1_0". Only real plus is the miniscule price while it is discounted. #cheap #gaming store.steampowered.com/app/300

store.steampowered.comDofamine VR on SteamDofamine VR is a first-person puzzle game in the science fiction genre. Players will navigate a maze of puzzles tied to the investigation of a catastrophic event at a scientific facility where experiments with the "God Particle," the Higgs boson, were conducted
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Spaceflight 🚀

#BlueOrigin 🐢 : "we're going to try to make the expendable upper stage so #cheap 💵 to manufacture that a reusable stage can never compete with it. And we're going to try to make the #reusable ♻️ stage so operable that an expendable stage can never compete with it."

Now is the time when the real movement, the kind of golden age of #space 🌌, is going to happen. The next big step is in situ resource ⚒️ development arstechnica.com/features/2025/

Ars Technica · After the success of New Glenn, Blue Origin to focus on launching frequentlyBy Eric Berger
#NewGlenn#ISRU#SpaceAge
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Bruce MacDonald

SURPRISE! Not really.

Remember to scout out those pre-fair discount tickets. And note that the best value for older people is to go on Senior Days and to buy your ticket at the gate.

All in all, the state fair is still a pretty good deal for your entertainment dollar.

Minnesota State Fair tickets and parking to increase as part of plans for $20M in improvements
startribune.com/minnesota-stat

www.startribune.com · Minnesota State Fair tickets and parking to increase as part of plans for $20M in improvementsFair leaders plan a significant upgrade to one historic building for the first time in its 75-year history.
#MinnesotaStateFair#cheap
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@tknarr @lauren

To me, the whole "H1-B is for when you simply cannot find a qualified citizen/green-card candidate" problem could be solved with what seems to me to be a missing requirement.

If you "can't find" a matching candidate, clearly you've already tried recruiting with generous compensation etc. So if you're forced to go outside the national labour pool, it should obviously be that anyone you hire on an H1-B is right at the top of your compensation, right?

i.e. hire an H1-B engineer, they had better be the highest-paid (or tied for highest) engineer in the company.

If you enforce that, the cheap-labour abuse just goes away...

But of course, every complex problem has a simple, easy to understand wrong answer, so maybe I'm missing something.

#scam#abuse#visa
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rhtunstall

John Rustad gloats over his bolstered success having gained seats with stolen #BCUnited votes.

The only thing that’s changed in BC is the strategic conglomeration of hard right wing power through the forced capitulation/inheritance vote of the BC Liberals/United.

Imagine celebrating this shift of power after taking out an entire party just to garner more votes!

What’s truly shifted in BC is that now these questionably funded, cutthroat BC cons think they can get away with anything.

After threatening our democracy through secretive meetings and hidden agendas, BC Cons have shown us that even overtly stealing votes to win is now deemed acceptable in Canadian politics.

Their useful idiot base will vote for them no matter how underhanded, corrupt, conspiracy and culture war driven they are. Much easier to win when you have no votes to lose.

It’s a new game here in #BCpoli, with no holds barred politics devoid of ethics.

#bcconservatives#cheap#corrupt
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