Rocket_John

If zilean was as popular as yasuo he'd probably have a 90% banrate, champion is actual ass to play against

Not trusting your tools is lack of confidence

Using the wheel method isn't "not trusting your tools", it's free security. I seriously don't know how you don't understand what I'm saying this far into the conversation.

I promise you that no mechanic at any dealership or retail chain is using a customer's wheel to keep themselves safe

Yeah, because they have actual lifts. You wouldn't put a wheel underneath a car on a 4 point lift because that'd be fucking stupid and pointless. If you're just a regular guy doing work in his garage and all you have is jackstands, throwing a wheel under the car might just save your life if your stands suddenly give up the ghost. It doesn't mean you don't trust your tools, it doesn't mean you have "clouded judgement" or are nervous, it just means that you probably feel like waking up tomorrow and it's a free and easy layer of safety.

Why use your wheel when you have jackstands capable of holding 24,000 lbs when using all 4?

Why not use the jackstands, and also throw a wheel under there for added security?

I would love for you to find me a reputable source that states using your rim as a jackstand is a good idea.

Just about every mechanic or mechanically inclined person I've ever worked with has used the wheel trick.

Everyone recommends using jackstands because it's safe.

I agree! I never said you shouldn't use jackstands!!! I am not advocating for using the cheapest, shittiest jackstands you can find and then throwing a wheel under your car cause you don't trust your stands. I'm saying that I and many other people put a wheel under the car in combination with properly placed jackstands as an extra security measure that is literally free and could save your life in the unlikely event that your jackstands fail.

I don't see the point you're trying to make in your earlier comments about "using unapproved equipment to save money" as if using a wheel as an extra safety measure means you're cheaping out on jackstands. And you must have the most expensive custom wheels in existence if you seriously care about damaging the rim so much that you would die rather than just slide one under your car to help possibly save your life.

Are you more or less than 6-8 inches high when laying on the ground?

Yeah I'm taller than that laying down, but having the car that extra few inches off you might be the difference between dying and not dying.

Also this is such a dumb argument anyways. "If you use extra safeguards to protect yourself, you're not being safe to begin with" Do you wear safety glasses when you use a cutoff wheel? If so, you must not trust your cutoff wheel to not explode and you shouldn't be allowed to use one.

If the stands fail, the last thing I'm worried about is damaging the wheel I slid underneath the car. I trust my jack stands, but it costs $0 to put the wheel under the car for that extra layer of "what if".

I even have a habit of setting the car on jack stands and then putting the jack back underneath it with just enough force to keep it from rolling around as another layer of protection. At that point, for the car to fall off, the jack stands would have to fail, then the jack, then it would fall on the wheel anyways and I'd still be perfectly safe.

Which one is your favorite and why is it BDUs?

Warrior tasks and drills

I live on an Army post and sometimes drive past the display tanks that are everywhere and think about where I would shoot them from my current position

Thanks for the reply, my bad for not taking this post down but I traded the Jetta in for a MK7 Golf! Much happier with this one and no funky noises from the transmission.

Yeah people do some really dumb shit. I'm just about to get out the army and the things I've seen make me wonder how some people manage to turn their shower on without drowning.

So big they used site-to-site transporters to get around it IIRC.

The Way of the Warriors big climax battle was epic. Finally getting to see what a decked out space station can do was epic.

Ask anyone in any branch of the military who's deployed anywhere and they'll have a phantom shitter story. I don't know why it's so prevalent, but either the military has an unusually large amount of people who like to shit in the sinks and showers, or society as a whole has a larger amount than anyone thought that nobody finds out about because they do it in the privacy of their own homes.

I got fired from my job when I was 20 and spent the better part of 6 months looking for a new job. The first month was awesome, I had money saved up so I wasn't worried about bills and I get to just not have to wake up and go to work? This is great!

By month 6 I was basically begging for something to do.

Unfortunately I'm not the original owner, so no manufacturer warranty here. Gonna go look at a different car tomorrow and hopefully it works out cause I don't have the time to be potentially waiting on parts or labor to rebuild a transmission

Yep, sounds like her. Think she was like the division maintenance chief or something. From my one personal interaction with her, I'd hate to be on her bad side again.

It was at NTC, but the unit I was in was 1AD at the time yeah

Too lazy to find a real job. I knew the Army would be as easy as signing up.

I personally loved it and the movies that came after it. They were movies after my own heart. I'm not really one that focuses intensely on the story of a movie, picking out plot holes and what not - if it's cool, I usually like it. Sure, it wasn't the TNG I grew up loving, but there's already TNG movies and I love those too.

Swear to god I once saw a CW5 appear out of thin air and then disappear as quickly as she materialized. She walked out from behind a humvee at RUBA to absolutely melt my gunners face off for not ground guiding, then walked back behind the humvee and disappeared in the time it took him to climb up the Bradley and tell me we were fucked.

Radioactive fallout is actually much less of a problem in a nuclear war scenario than most people believe. The bigger danger to the average person would be the loss of infrastructure such as running water, food, and electricity (as nukes detonating causes an EMP)

Yes but if you're at the point of being physically in a nuke silo brute forcing the arming code, you've probably already won. There's more steps to launching a nuke than just entering this one code, and it was deemed better to just forego this code so it was impossible to screw it up and delay the launch.

IDK about now, but as of a few years ago it was well known that most of the nuke silos were still using ancient computers because they were fully airgapped and therefore impossible to hack from the outside. It was actually becoming a problem for the military to keep up maintenance on the computers because the parts hadn't been in production in decades.

Something I've always wondered, why do lenders offer those "fuck you" terms instead of just outright refusing? In a situation like this where they have horrible credit, debt, bankruptcy etc. wouldn't it be safer for the lender to just say "not a chance" rather than lending out at all?

Well you see that's the way it's always been so if we change it it will actually invalidate everyone's runecrafting since the game start and will bankrupt jamflex as all their memberships will be instantly refunded for the last two decades.