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- OBBTKN5
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Verdict with Fiat: expensive repair (timing belt kit, water pump, cylinder head and valves...) 1.5k.
Thinking about it rationally, the belt broke because it was due for replacement, and from stretching it, it wore out. So, in the end, it will be an additional €600 repair on top of what I should have done a couple of months ago.
Following Shellie's post, I've been keeping a close eye on my finances for years, I try to avoid debt, and a new car is a huge expense these days. It's going to have to last another 5 years. It's already 25, but it serves its purpose perfectly.
We live in a small town and we need that second car, that's all.
I'm going to start going to church on Sundays and pray for it ;) lol.
- Anyway, signed for a new project I was not expecting, extra work, but it's going to pay this bill ¯\_(ツ)_/¯OBBTKN
- multipla lives!renderedred
- i think in most cars if the timing belt goes - you are looking at thousands.. sometimes a write-off - small silver lining that you still have working car :)dee-dubs
- Cars are a terrible investment. Mine is a 73 beetle held together with rubber bands. I smell like petrol all the time. But, really, who am i trying to impress??shellie
- Ride that car til the wherls fall off. Just think, if you bought a new one now, or just fixed the one you have now, both will be considered old in 5 years!shellie
- 1.5k is peanuts - Some people pay that monthly for a new truck(!). Budget that same amount each year for repairs each year and you’ll still be far ahead.monNom
- lol last sentence. Is that the price for parts or a quote? This is something you can fix yourself for cheap, maybe.garbage
- Does it have an interference engine? That's the big yes/no on doing a timing belt yourself. I imagine it does if there's head and valve damage.garbage
- Old cars never die.Longcopylover
- Nairn4
Idle Thoughts
What if we were simply gifted intelligence and a voice to sing and bring joy to nature herself?
We've weaved a bit from this.
- Then we need have rotten fruit thrown at us, booed off stage, and never booked again.Continuity
- Eh, we'd just start living off rotten fruit and boos and become more terrible, then lesser terrible people would pay more for the show.garbage
- likely the definition of a shaman per se .. icaro = magic song.... weaved so far from this that the planet is so fucked we probably get all grilled..neverscared
- Isn't this the premise to The Little Mermaid?palimpsest
- Little merMAN!!!ideaist
- sounds like something you'd consider when on mushrooms. Still, seems a more meaningful existence than creating forms for a investment company like i'm doing rnIanbolton
- https://i.haasie.com…Squiddy
- +1 SquiddyContinuity
- Ianbolton5
making beats
Sorry for the repost but i felt the last one was lazy. New playful ambient tune out now!! Have several new things to release, which I'll obviously go on about some more when i do.
Thaaaanks
- Continuity7
- holy fuck. Now that's a foreskin.Ianbolton
- Scarabin posted this a few times back in the day.Continuity
- NSFW thanksrobthelad
- The year ’s at the spring,
...
The snail ’s on the thorn;
God ’s in His heaven—
All ’s right with the world!palimpsest - Lolz; THIS image woke me up AND perhaps NOT in a great way...ideaist
- *.bmpNairn
- QBN Foreskinutopian
- DuneGabriel
- ^ lol!Continuity
- set?garbage
- ^ffflol, oh my.Nairn
- LOL front page foreskinAkagiyama
- Is that a plod scarf? Must be chilly out.Nairn
- Nairn3
Signs your getting old?
The most melancholic thing about ageing is, I think, seeing people much younger than you growing old too.
I've just seen a video taken by someone I knew over fifteen years ago - a beautifully-talented musician who sings in English and French - and .. well, now she's fifteen years older. She felt like she was practically a kid when I knew her, and now she's approaching her forties and is ...well, not that far removed from this old git here with the earned creases and lines described by time.
A stark reminder of my own ageing that I wasn't expecting when I randomly clicked on her facebook storything to see what she's up to.
- Yeah, I hate this. I have younger siblings and the other day was like damn my little sister looks old.cannonball1978
- uncomfortably existentially paralysed while locking eyes with someone who looks exactly like one of your good friends 25 years ago is getting old tookingsteven
- was with my family last night at a 'pre-wedding' party for my wife's cousin...who was our ring bearer almost 30 years ago lol...exador1
- kingsteven6
"foreskin"
The Thin Red Foreskin
- sab7
Artificial Intelligence
34 years later and still amazing... chuck it on and have a listen.
- Continuity4
"foreskin"
Howl's Moving Foreskin
- PonyBoy5
blog
I've been whining and crying like a little bitch about winter, begging for spring / summer... It's 'sort of' here (everything is blooming but it's still in the 40's / 50's F). On top of that I just ripped a deer tick out of my belly... little fucker left his sticker in there... my wife has already got the prescription for doxycycline on it's way. :/
- My wife JUST got "ticked" on the weekend; lolz.
What a time to be alive, eh!?ideaist - You miss the Phoenix hellish sun, isn't it?OBBTKN
- Usually if you get it out fast enough you won't have to worry about anything. Did the pink ring already start to form? M or Female tick?canoe
- I'm somewhat ignorant about ticks other than I know by it's size it was a deer tick—small pink ring has formed but it's not too bad—and yes I miss Phoenix. <3PonyBoy
- As a former denizen of the dirty south, I'll just put some tick facts into the void:garbage
- Do not rip them off in a panic. They've already got you, and you need to use precision tweezers. They'll be there when you get home.garbage
- There's an old school method of lighting a match, blowing it out and putting it on the tick. Never, ever do that.garbage
- The tick will release out of pain, but it will also vomit inside you or whatever dog you're trying to help.garbage
- And um.. stay Lyme Ponyboy.garbage
- Dealt with a tick bite/lyme about 11 years ago. Caught it JUST in time, but those tiny little shits can cause BIG damage.stoplying
- My wife JUST got "ticked" on the weekend; lolz.
- PhanLo10
- :)))palimpsest
- LolYakuZoku
- flol @ paliContinuity
- Straight to HULUutopian
- Franc Jamesorobthelad
- Could have called this Pinapple Express 2 and made more $$HAYZ1LLLA
- honestly this trailer is fucking refreshing to me haha. not a single bass drop. THANK GOD THATS OVERmantrakid
- exador12
What are you listening to?
ok, I'll admit I'm insanely obsessed with this one...
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it's like a weird toxic mix of english boarding schools, fight club, bullying and christ knows what else... might be the best music video I've seen in years... the choreography at the end is so next level i don't have words to describe it...
- and although the music isn't what i normally listen to (i'm more a Pink Floyd guy) i can't get this song out of my head...exador1
- Christ that is AWFULGardener
- < The video is great, particularly the last 3rd. The choreography is incredibly effective.Morning_star
- suxneverscared
- Bro I came her to post this just for the choreography, then was like "eh it probably won't sail here." I'm in agreement though.garbage
- cool story broneverscared
- i dont get the hypemilfhunter
- this months Angine de PoitrineGardener
- @garbage lol, thanks dude :) yeah, i should have known it wouldn't fly here lol...exador1
- and that's cool too... I'm 54, and my taste in music usually leans more to things like 'PF, Sabbath, Rush, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros etc..exador1
- but for whatever reason, I thought the direction, choreography, music etc of this vid was just amazing... the director is Romain Gavras...exador1
- same guy that directed 'bad girls' for MIA..which i also was mildly obsessed with when it came out :)exador1
- I thought we didn't yuk people's yums in this thread, but hey. I actually quite like this - I've had it on a few times in the bg, sans video and it works for meNairn
- I think the video greatly enhances the song. The song by itself is good, but paired with the visuals makes it much better. OH MY GOSH vibes from Jamie XXstoplying
- Aye, stoplying!
I was also thinking the likes of King Krule.Nairn - @stoppy then it probably shouldn't shock you that Roman Gravras directed both of those videos.garbage
- Love it. Song and video. Been on a Yung Lean deep dive ever since. Fuck am I old and out of touch.bogue
- sheeesh, some people here need to lighten up. this is some excellent work all aroundscruffics
- its like a half copy of stress from justice, with some bully - bullies walking around doing havoc, i dig his former work , although his movies come of halfneverscared
- baked too, surkin has produced better tracks in his career either than this one,neverscared
- @never lol I legit watched Stress after this and felt like a child again.garbage
- And then manwolf, which doesn't get enough love: https://www.youtube.…garbage
- autoflavour9
"foreskin"
Schindlers Foreskin
- too soon?autoflavour
- nah, that snip has sailedMrT
- i see what you did thereautoflavour
- Thank goodness, that’s all I haveMrT
- Cut it out, you two.Continuity
- slappy2
Artificial Intelligence
Being that these tools change so rapidly, it would be useful if people could share what they are using and how they are building it into their work processes.
We are using Claude cowork to setup projects for each client and drop in all their brand guides, positioning, tone of voice docs and generate a brand-kit.md file for Claude to reference when doing research or writing copy.
Weavy (Figma Weave now?) to do node based image generations with LLM nodes to take the brief and write the iteration instructions etc. Mainly for brand mockups etc so you you pump out 10 placements at a time.
We also use Nano Banana Pro (via Krea.ai) to extend photoshoots, where we create the main suite of images and then use the banana to roll out additional views as required.
Its easy to waste a lot if time playing with new tools, but if they don't make your work better or faster than they end up being more of a hinderance.
- GPT image 2.0 just buried Nano Banana.
It's going too fast, impossible to keep up with these tools.ApeRobot - the fuck is an .md file? how does a brand kit in Claud help with client work? I’m not being snarky. I run an in house production studio and I’m curiousmonospaced
- How do you use it for brand mockups exactly?monospaced
- in my case, i feed all the brand guidelines and all my design files into Figma Make, then, when i get a new project, I'm able to whip up a fairly decentexador1
- prototype that uses all our brand colours, fonts, components etc ... which helps when presenting to some of the stake holders here.exador1
- @mono an .md file is just a text file with some standardised formatting so help create a hierarchy for LLMs to better understand the structure.slappy
- We use it to apply logos, colours, layouts to common mockups like hats, t-shirts, bus shelters, rock posters, laptops, phones, hoarding what ever.slappy
- The node based approach means the logo doesn't get changed by the image generator, colours remain consistent. https://weave.figma.…slappy
- .md is Markdown, an HTML shorthand created by John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame. Widely-used in tech circles, easy-to-learn if you're web-savvy.evilpeacock
- I’m so left behindmonospaced
- mono: Dive Club podcastuan
- GPT image 2.0 just buried Nano Banana.
- _niko5
RIP of the day
John Garrett old-school goalie.
I loved these old mask designs, so much more graphic vs todays's airbrushed bullshit.
- Ah the sweet memories. Those face masks, the weight of those pads, Cooper gear...stoplying
- They had more mask real estate to paint before wire cages.BK
- sick mask designmilfhunter
- I also like the challah break leg guards.CyBrainX
- Ianbolton3
making beats
Finally uploaded a new track
https://soundcloud.com/ianpaulbo…- Fun!skinny_puppy
- It’s fun creating them. Maybe I need to promote it more. Keep trying to work out how I’d play any of it live too.Ianbolton
- palimpsest2
Romania calling
Pour one out for the homie!
- Oh hell no, I'm not clicking that!Continuity
- Trust me!palimpsest
- Oh, no, no.
More "A iu ca iu a iu ca iu"?
Nope!Continuity - This is more on the funky shoegaze tip.
Trust. Me.palimpsest - And pour one out for the homie.palimpsest
- https://giphy.com/gi…YakuZoku
- Rodian G.A. is thee GOATkingsteven
