Until they burn out, yeah.
We’ve got some in the bathroom that are still chugging along, but we replace everything with led as they fail
Edit: in the house.
Car lights aren’t led because the ones available for my car suck.
I have flashlights that aren’t led, but only some old and cheap ones that never get used.
Ha! Yet another squirrel collaborator plotting with the corvids!
We know what you guys are up to!
Of all time, a single book that’s not part of a series, I still gotta go with Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), or Cat’s Cradle (Vonnegut)
Calvin was always a comic about ADHD
You don’t. Best case, you trick your way into access for a day or so and end up banned again. Seriously, people keep trying to do it and keep failing because they have the resources to fingerprint you even if you jump though a hundred hoops.
Doesn’t matter what you said or why, you’re done
Well, it’s a multi prong issue; there isn’t a single cause, and not everyone shares the same combination of causes.
First is the obvious. Age related eye and coordination issues. As we age, some things don’t keep it up like other traits can. And, worse, age related experience only counters it if the person applies said experience.
Second, you run into issues with the plumbing, as someone said in other comments. The prostate is a hell of an organ. But when it gets swollen, the stream gets sputtery. You also run into user error where you have to hold the thing different than when you’re younger because the elasticity and thickness of skin changes. It’s easier to accidentally apply pressure to the urethra. The typical two or three finger grip can apply more pressure than is good when the skin isn’t as resilient.
Third, the ol’ give-shitter runs down. Spoons, baby. You run out of them. The effort of paying attention just isn’t as bearable, depending on what else is melting your spoons down. Which applies to cleaning up after yourself as well. Which also means that remembering to behave better when you aren’t at home where you’re the person inconvenienced can be a problem.
Now, the answer to all of those is to sit the fuck down, but the folks now into their seventies and eighties had a much less free concept of masculinity. In other words, they were fed the unhealthy concept that doing things the way women do them is inherently unmasculine. That isn’t true for everyone, but actual boomers, and the generation before them have more resistance to sitting down just because they’re men. Boomers less so than their parents, as the actual baby boomers includes the very same people that fought to change such concepts.
You also have plain assholes, but that isn’t a generation thing; there’s assholes that will spray piss everywhere on purpose of all ages, so it isn’t really a factor for this question.
Legit, I had patients back in the day that would resist sitting down to put on pants because they felt it made them lesser. Not less masculine, just less independent. They’d resist canes and walkers for the same reason, accelerating their reliance on mobility aids. That aspect of seat pissing is also a factor, but like just being an asshole, it isn’t purely a generational thing. Plenty of young guys fight against anything other than standing to pee because being able to do so becomes a symbol of physical capability. If you have to sit to pee, you’re fucked is the idea, no matter how false.
I had to lay down the law with my own dad a couple of years ago. Got tired of needing to use the toilet and sitting in piss, or walking in it, or seeing it drip. In his case, he didn’t even realize he was missing, but he still didn’t like the idea. He also got cataract surgery after that and it improved his aim back to an acceptable level when he does stand while peeing.
For real though my fellow men; sit to fucking pee. Splashing toilet water isn’t a good thing, and that’s going to happen no matter what else you do.
It’s a company. As such, it wants to make money. As such, it hires people to make that happen. Those people tend to think in certain pathways. When that happens, any company eventually falls into the same anti-user behaviors
Too small, too prone to “spoilage”, and waaaayyyy harder to calculate existing stockpiles. It just wouldn’t be practical.
Mind you, that’s ignoring any of the should factor, and I am absolutely unwilling to engage in that debate
Edit: also, it’s too easy to improvise ammunition for simple firearms. You can’t really shove just anything into an autoloader and expect it to feed, but anyone with a machine shop could crank out something that would work, and the supplies just aren’t trackable the way something like ammonium nitrate is
I’ll take the hitla.
Not because of political bullshit, but because damn near any other maker is going to be a better choice. Telsa is run like shit, has tons of reliability problems, and I don’t see anything else being worse.
That being said, if more information about the hitla brand’s reliability and quality were available, it might change the answer.
For fucking real, at this point in my life, idgaf about anything in a car but it being there, ready to go, when I have a fucking appointment. That means minimum fucking bullshit with sourcing parts, minimum bullshit with being able to put them in myself, and hopefully that they’re also affordable parts. It could be named Hitler, and made by the mustache fascist himself and I would not fucking care as long as I could go a fucking year without something fucking up.
My car was like that for the first fifteen years or so. Basic maintenance unless I did something stupid, and I’m spoiled on that. Even now, with it being almost twenty years on the road, having had three tree limbs fall on it, having had two cars run into it (front and back, plus one from the side, but that was barely a bump), and my dad driving it like an idiot, it’s still relatively reliable. Shit, the only reason I’m thinking of replacing it is needing something I can get a wheelchair in and out of easily. It’s a two door hatchback, and the hatch is high enough that lifting a chair into it just ain’t happening regularly.
So yeah, gimme a Hitler if it gets anywhere close to that level of reliability.
Pfft, you can keep her. She’s grumpy and worn out. Ima go steal OP’s mom.
Ummmmm. My brain did a thing. That title doesn’t actually ask how to orgasm, does it?
Usually through sexual activity, be it solo or with friends and family
Never.
I’m old. I’m disabled. So I fucking sit down to pee like a civilized being.
Then I shake, wiggle, or otherwise assist things to drip out. Then clear the pipe from the bottom up and repeat. Then I’ll blot things to be sure.
Pay off the house, catch up on repairs, then sit on it because it’ll fuck my insurance and be gone paying for medical stuff in maybe ten years
Never happens for me, across a laptop and three PCs
Likely either mint or popos
They tend to be the most liked by newcomers. Enough so that they don’t miss windows, or want to try something else a week later.
Hey, maybe they have a specific wall up which they are driven!
You know, I actually prefer that it be variable, but only when it serves a purpose.
Like, if Im quoting someone “I might want to indicate that they completed a sentence.”, but also continue beyond it.
The recommendations for the Ricoh are solid, I’ve seen pics taken on one, and have snapped a few for the person that owns it. Simple to use, plenty good quality, and not too big to make it practical to carry all the time.
That last one is the real kicker. There’s a saying that gets beat to death in photography of any level: the best camera is the one you have with you. It’s why phone cameras have made so many more pics than is even sane. We carry them almost everywhere, and they’re quick to deploy.
Mind you, any pocket friendly camera from maybe the last ten years or so is going be at least usable. The Ricoh is just one of the more reliable ones and doesn’t sacrifice much in the way of the hardware. You can tell a difference between that and a full size slr with a decent lens, but you can also tell the difference between it and a phone cam.
Edit: I will also say that used is necessary for most people, they ain’t cheap.