tipicaldik

the over and under-inflation wear isn't as much of an issue these days as it used to be. In the old days of bias-ply tires, that was definitely the case. You could have a low tire and hardly be able to tell, because the stiff sidewalls would hardly sag. Their flex point was down the middle of the tread. Radial tire construction puts the flex point in the sidewalls, which doesn't distort the tread as much, plus gives a much smoother ride...

it has to do with the angle between the point the tire pivots (steers) on and the point the wheel spins on. The steering point needs to be forward of the spinning point to help the car go straight down the road. Think of a shopping carts front wheels (they're called casters), and how they'll pivot around with the direction you're pushing the cart. That angle can be adjusted so the car tracks properly...

...that looks like a tater.

oh for real.. I've always wanted to ask them what they thought the underside looked like. I picture their simple minds imagining something like loose dirt clods falling off and maybe some roots and shit sticking out like I would have when I was a kid...

dill pickle slices and peanut butter are pretty darn good together. I've eaten it off and on my whole life. My mom liked it, so it got passed down to me. She would make it as a sandwich, where I prefer it on saltine crackers. It's surprising how the two flavors complement each other...

got lung cancer... only found it because it had eroded into rib #5 and felt like I had a flaming hatchet stuck in my back. This explains why pacing my den while streaming profanities seemed to help, at least a little anyway...

eww

Psychological warfare. Trump's an easy mark. We need more of it...

I do elearning multimedia and run in to AI schlock all the time and hate it. With the background and soft-focus I can see why you thought what you did. While AI would have done good with the dog's face etc, details like the leash clasp would have probably been just poorly defined shapes or complete nonsense. That's the stuff I key in on...

going to the grocery store and seeing an employee with a big dust-mop going up and down the aisles pushing along an ever-growing pile of cigarette butts because everyone would just drop 'em and step on 'em and keep on shopping...

oh he's go plenty of "campaign contributions" to go around...

I've been fighting lung cancer for the last 2 1/2 years, and when I was first diagnosed, the insurance company doctor rejected the SABR radiation that my radiation and medical oncologists were both recommending. To hear my rad doc describing the argument he had with them was unreal. I was already stressed out enough without having to deal with that bullshit too.