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I absolutely love Tasting History, and I've been looking forward to see him make true garum after he did quick garum a long time ago.

World of Warcraft destroyed that poem for me "Remember, remember, the 5th of December, The patch day treason and plot. I see no reason, for MS and Cleavin', Since Tseric wants us to spec Prot." - Vortigen

Came to work and did the pre startup check on the tractor. Noticed the wheel nuts on the front right side were all loose, and there was a decent amount of oil coming from the area. Turns out the wheel hub and rims are borked, and there is lubricant all over the brakes. On a more positive note, my ABS warning light has not stayed on after prestart checkup.

Spent most of the day in the garage and changed my front wheel hubs to try and fix my ABS-light problem. The brakepads on the right wheel were riding the disc, so I was prepared to change pads and discs. I didn't end up changing the discs because besides some rust they were fine, and it really hurt to change the pads, because even though I've driven some 100 000km on them, they were barely worn. I also installed a Malpassi progressive 1:1.7 fuel pressure regulator so I can up my turbo pressure some more.

AI making AI? How perverse.

WoW Classic+ does sound cool, much more interesting than their new stuff. I really don't get why they'd release Catassic though, it's the point the game started it's decent into ****tiness.

They're still programmed by humans

We use similar connectors for a select few of our trailers, and the eastern european ones that show up, but generally our own trailers use duomatic connectors and VBG-power connectors (VBG = Vänersborg) Generally we don't have handles on the gladhands, but just the headpart, which is terribly inconvenient. Duomatic connectors also have the perk of (usually) not breaking if you forget to disconnect the hose. One might think that professional drivers wouldn't forget something like that, but the number of torn off ABS-connectors we have each day is embarrassing... If you have the option of mounting duomatic connectors on your trailer I'd take it, they're bloody lovely in comparison Pull down the handle, mate the hose part and release the handle, no effort required and only one connector to deal with I typically don't eat at work for that very reason, it feels like I hit a stone wall after eating.

I feel you, I have to deal with this all day. Every start of the day I have to untangle the unholy mess of 4 airhoses, one abs-cable and one power cable for the lights.

Bought some nice candy from lakrits.se that got delivered to me today, svenskjävlar are delicious as always, but I was quite dissapointed in the hot svenskjävlar, liquorice and salmiak cream surrounded by salmiakliquorice, salmiak, caramellized white chocolate, strawberries and carolina reaper. It didn't mix really well, but I'm going to have to try them again when I have less coffee taste in my mouth. They were really hot though

I get such a massive headache from just imagining inspecting 110 trucktyres at once...

Naw, I think that was atleast 4, maybe 5 fps

Why the facepalm?

Katharine Kerr Daggerspell, and Elizabeth Moon Sheepfarmers Daughter

Not gonna lie, my tongue did feel a bit felty

Had a craving for kiwifruit. Ate a kilogram of kiwi. Still have a craving for kiwi. ._.

I like them alot, but I read them first time when I was a teen so I'm very biased towards them. The Deverry series especially.

@Bartimaeus@Sarex Did either of you two read either the Deverry or Paksenarrion series?

I don't remember her writing alot, but she supposedly had alot of input on the characters primarily female. She was his editor though.

That's pretty much beat for beat from the Firestorm adventure from what I recall. Granted, it's been 15 years or so since I read it, but I don't think I misremember that much. Edit; I would probably put less stock in what Alt says to be honest, she wasn't present in the flesh in that attack,

There are so many things that they do different that are outright stupid though, that drives me nuts, which is the biggest problem for me. Sure I jested about how they came to Tar Valon from the wrong direction and stuff, but that was mostly because I was making fun of myself. Sceneries and such things I really liked, I honestly loved the skyscraper mountains and details like that. And then they made Perrin the most unlikeable character in the cast with that wife of his. It's not so much that they've changed some things as that the changes they did make made absolutely no sense to me and felt pointless. The episode 8(Iirc, trolloc army stuff), the fu? You can't burn out in a circle... Also, Egwene has no talent in healing. Why change that, isn't it enough with all the amazing other things she does? And while I can take changes/merging characters and such things, I simply can't stand them changing laws of the universe. It's not so much several turns of the wheel different then, but you break the world that was built. As a gamemaster it grinds my gears when a storyteller does things like that. Hacks.

I heard from my friend that the second season was alot better than the first, but considering how fuuuuuuuuucking bad the first one was, that is such a low bar that I can't decide if it'd be worth the price of electricity to verify it.

Watching spy x family, it's consistently hilarious so far

Well, Alecta that handles my employers pension fund invested in Silicon Valley Bank, so they lost 600 million dollars. Soooo that money is gone. Unless I misremember things they ditched Swedish Handelsbanken and some other bank for SVB just a couple of months prior. Edit; I misremembered, 600 million is just what they lost from SVB investments, they also lost an additional 1.4 billion on other bank investments that they made. They have mange over 100 billion dollars though, so it's "marginal" according to them.

You don't get to determine how much of your wage gets offset for the pension fund, that's regulated via collective agreements and the government. What you can do is fiddle around with the specific funds that your money is placed into, high risk, low risks, specific stocks and things like that. You can save privately for pension aswell, but that is your net wage one is talking about. If it wasn't for the fact that the union is ****blocking me and my coworkers we could get a 1000$ raise (The wage of a yard jockey working in the harbour is about 1000$ higher than what I earn) and the fact that the ****ing government privatized my employer (Leading to not having access to much better pension funds) I could have afforded to spend 15% out of my pocket to save for pension. There is a guaranteed pension that you get based of the tax one which is, today, about 1000$ per month. Which honestly isn't survivable, it definetly won't be survivable considering the sociopolitical and environmental ****storm that is going to hit even way before I'm able to access my pension money. Around the 2050's, this will likely be a true newsreel