I’ve carried that with me for years. I always try to buy long-lasting quality items for this very reason.

Not to mention that, due to inflation, those ten dollar boots themselves will cost 20 to 30 dollars before long.

Yeah I put 30k+ miles on the car just doing instructing, then I often also drive when I go on holiday, putting at least a good 500-600 miles on the car if I go away on the weekend (which is often).

I’ve had dedicated works vehicles which I’ve put fewer miles on the clock 😂

That last point sticks with me.

I always used to get the cheapest, shittest tyres just because cost, but since I became a driving instructor a few years back I got into the mentality of thinking “I need decent tyres because I don’t want my learners to lose control of the car”

Normally I’d buy tyres once every 6-8 months after squeezing out every morsel of life from them, but my current Bridgestone tyres have been on for nearly a year now - doing driving instructor mileage on top of my usual - and they’re not showing any signs of needing replacing yet.

The fact is I’m actually saving money doing it this way, because whilst the tyres are more expensive, I’m replacing them much less often.

I’m going to try out Pirelli next because it sounds like they’ve started lining the inside of some of their tyres with that puncture repair stuff and padding them out with foam to significantly reduce road noise.

Supreme court just made a ruling on the definition of a “woman”, and my crystal ball says we’re following America down the rabbit hole.

If we get Farridge as a PM, I’m going full nuclear on this shit.

You’re forgetting trump promised to make it so that you’d never “have to” vote again!

Well you could say it’s a treaty of organisations all located by the North Atlantic… TONA? I dunno, it could never work!

The first thing seen at the top of WhatsApp now is an AI query bar. Who the fuck needs anything related to AI on WhatsApp?

Summer time. Every time. I’d rather it not be pitch black at 4pm where I am. I’d rather take the extra bit of darkness in the morning.

I also love it being 9pm in June and still having near full daylight ❤️

I hate to say it but I feel like Yuki will tank just like Lawson. That car is a complete dog for anyone but Max and it’s been shown to be that way for years.

It’s going to be a turbulent year.

Fuck that noise. When Hitler comes knocking, you shoot first.

This is absolutely the play right here ☝️ I’d also have my phone ready to record or live stream my little triumph of wasting their time, money and effort just to hear me tell them they’re fucking arseholes 😂

My completely uneducated guess would say that this is the language of a country who know a few things about a Molotov Cocktail!

The closest word in my mental vocabulary which comes close to “Suomessa” is Suomi which is Finnish for Finland

Tiedämme? They tied a dam?

Muutamia has to do with a mutiny!

Asioita, I have no clue.

Then they reference the infamous Flaming Sambucca!

So Finland once staged a mutiny with fiery alcohol and a dam!

Maybe bean (I forget how to tag people in Lemmy posts) can tell me how close I was.

I don’t need to use a filter, but I do keep a jug of filtered water in the fridge for the summer when I want a nice pre-chilled drink. I, too, use Brita.

I wonder if it does anything for microplastics?

Well he certainly got at least one of those fraudsters!

Now I don’t know enough about electronics to know how wrong this is, but I do know enough about electronics to know that this absolutely sounds wrong.

The problem comes when someone takes an answer like this, knowing far less than I do, and they try and hook up their fridge to a car battery.

And this is why I hate LLMs. Being confidently wrong is scary enough when it’s just people, nevermind technology.

It does make me chuckle, though, that Skynet could have been totally innocent in their destruction of the human race, they just confidently came to the wrong conclusion and had the tools to carry it out.

Like a toddler whose inner thoughts are telling him to throw a cat out of the window. He doesn’t know he’s going to kill it, he just knows that’s what his brain is telling him to do.