I prefer to use orders of magnitude to avoid this probkem

“there’s technically nothing in the rules that says a dog can’t vote”

the ?si=xxxxxxx is a tracking id btw that they use to map social networks and link sharing.

link without tracking: https://youtu.be/q3_kDiQb7lE

they really are downvoting people pointing out his gross shit and defense of pedos

Good info. Sounds like OP should take it in for that smog test, considering that’s also a prereq for getting state assistance to repair or retire the car

did they tell you what the code was exactly? I’m struggling to figure out what code would be thrown for a minor head gasket leak on a 2003 vehicle… Misfire code would have to be a pretty bad leak, and low coolant idk, seems like a 2003 wouldn’t even have a sensor for that, I know cars I’ve owned didn’t. It’s possible they’re bullshitting you, or that they’re telling the truth but the code is unrelated.

Whatever it is, I would bet you could get the code to go away long enough to pass smog, though I’m not very familiar with CA rules. It would eventually get worse though. I would get them to give you the exact trouble codes it threw, or take it someplace else that will read them for free/cheap. Not knowing what those are really changes my answer

As far as doing it yourself: it’s a big job but with enough time and tools and patience and shit you probably could. The thing that will drive up the cost/PITA factor even more though, is that if you’re doing the head gasket you really should take the head to a machine shop to get milled perfectly flat again, to give it the best possible chance of lasting as long as possible. The last time I did this, I ended up having shot valves in the head that had to be replaced as well (also a suzuki coincidentally), but yours probably aren’t that bad.

If you were in the rust belt I’d be telling you to consider throwing in the towel on the car, but in CA its more likely to be worth fixing, as it won’t rust out from under you in the next 2-5 years lol.

But I would HEAVILY encourage you to check for yourself what the codes are, get some second opinions, and look for signs of head gasket leaks (coolant in the cylinder will cause it the exhaust to have white smoke, coolant in the oil will make it lighter and more opaque like a milkshake, and probably leave a residue on the oil cap).

Either way I don’t think there’s much sense in throwing it away until/unless you have to.

Oh, and in addition to the retirement program another commenter mentioned, there is also a program where the state will pay up to $1200 towards an emissions related repair. Its a bureaucratic process and unclear if your repair would qualify but it seems like it would if it caused you to fail smog. I think you’d have to take it for the smog test and have it fail before you could apply for that. link: https://www.bar.ca.gov/consumer/consumer-assistance-program/index#otheroptions

yeah they freaked at the mod who removed one of their shitty comments, opening message called the mod a piece of shit.

emojis are actually built into base lemmy for the past year or two (contributed by a dev affiliated with hexbear, but still), but they don’t federate seamlessly and most instances don’t use them much, or at all, so app support also seems to be lacking last I saw.

If you’re using lemmy.ml on the web not thru an app, you can still try out the emoji picker/autocomplete, it just only has standard unicode emojis. Try typing :a into the comment box or clicking on the little smiley face in the bar above the box!

excellent comment. Anti-tankie leftists would be wise to listen to what is being said by scholars of socialism and history from outside the western liberal/libleft bubble, because many of the things they get angry at us for are simply non-controversial to almost anyone in the world who isn’t in that bubble. Even if they don’t agree with us on everything, everyone who fights for a better world should be broadly on the same side. (and that isn’t the side of Israel, NATO, etc.)

ohhhh I think I misread/interpreted due to the inbox ordering in the screenshots being top=newest. I thought it was an ongoing convo before that. now I see the removed comment that triggered the first message.

edit: changed my mind

Side note: is DM harassment, like, defined? Or is it a “know it when you see it” basis primarily? obviously it’s always gonna be case by case to some extent, but the posted screenshots just seem like an ongoing 2 way conversation that got heated. Not my first thought when I hear “DM harassment” personally, though I can see how it might fit

good catch, fixed

apolitical people I guess don’t think that way. They aren’t in the news therefore they don’t exist. I should have said as much (or brought up PSL) but I was just holding my tongue trying not to hurt feelings in the process of conveying “yikes, I would not vote for rfk”. It was a family gathering of sorts so I didn’t want to get too spicy and I genuinely do like this person, didn’t realize they were quite that into woo about chemicals (also said aluminum is bad for you and some other stuff that I was like “is it though?”)

someone told me last night that they are tempted to vote for RFK because they can’t stomach voting for biden and feel RFK is good on things like being against pesticides in food, etc. They were like “I don’t like that he’s anti-vax buuuut”

I was like you can excuse being anti-vax? We already have one lingering deadly pandemic and it won’t be the last. And that one went/continues to go real badly, even with institutions that were not, at least on paper, anti-vax, and were, at the start at least, trying to prevent harm with their limited powers and resources.

Its not like it’s going to matter regardless, why vote for someone so deeply flawed?

Mister Kochansky

There are zoomers who weren’t even born yet when a lot of those were posted, esp since that’s an archive, and his reddit account goes back to at least 2011 (though I bet he had one before that considering the username). There are high schoolers who were born after this man started playing starcraft.

no don’t you remember that’s against the (totally enforceable) contract you sign when you buy the thing

I still look stuff up there once in a while but I have an auto redirect to libreddit/redlib so I never have to get spied on or advertised to by reddit directly. I used to have an account mainly for hobby stuff and r/acidmarxism but even the hobby stuff was full of insufferable redditors in the comments.

Drunk enough to have that weird kinda clarity.

weirdly I always have this after drinking semi-heavily. After waking up but before the headache has fully set in.

Good luck surviving the monster overhang. I’m glad you didn’t die

I want to like low tech mag but I find myself frequently going “oh come the fuck onnnn”

See also: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/11/what-if-we-replace-guns-and-bullets-with-bows-and-arrows/