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Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

Discussion in 'Mid West' started by Thatbassguy, Dec 19, 2008.

  1. Jul 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
    sparkystaco

    sparkystaco Well-Known Member

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    Can't believe you'd put up with such a shitty view,
    I'd call the canadian gov't & complain!:)
     
  2. Jul 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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    rubbersidedown Well known voider of warranties

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  3. Jul 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
    Taco-Grinder

    Taco-Grinder It's all part of the adventure.

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    Looks like a picture from a Hallmark greeting card.:D
     
  4. Jul 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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    bkhlrTaco's “expletive deleted”

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    "The world needs dreamers and doers, but above all it needs dreamers that do."
     
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  5. Jul 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
    Thatbassguy

    Thatbassguy [OP] Sweet or sour?

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    Sure, there is. It's called forced induction. ;)
     
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    Had a service call to see about replacing the AC unit on the house. Ours has always been intermittent and non functioning for the past two years. Estimate was 5k+, but he wanted to see what was up with our old unit. $5 in parts. Cool and now we can be Canadian smoke free. Nice. I know this would not have worked in your part of the state, but as I use this thing like twice a summer never was a priority... Big Lake does most of the work up here. Now at least if we list the house I can say the AC works.
     
  7. Jul 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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    As you know I tend to roll that way. Truck just isnt used up enough yet...
     
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    OldSchlPunk

    OldSchlPunk A legend in my own mind!

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    OldSchlPunk

    OldSchlPunk A legend in my own mind!

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    Hadn't heard about that...quick search doesn't show much other than outage reported. Mr IT guy, is there more to the story? China start shooting down satellites? Angry hackers? Spill it!
     
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    Pixeltim

    Pixeltim Misunderstood member

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    77 square miles surrounded by reality.
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    Huh?
     
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  12. Jul 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
    OldSchlPunk

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    Even their website is gone.
     
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    rubbersidedown Well known voider of warranties

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    Just have to reboot 5,600 satellites... NBD.
     
  14. Jul 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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    rubbersidedown Well known voider of warranties

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    All the dots are supposed to be green.

    Screenshot_20250724-155919.png
     
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  15. Jul 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
    OldSchlPunk

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    AI sabotage, I'm tellin' ya.

    I can't do that Dave...
     
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    Now, who pissed Elon off??????
     
  17. Jul 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
    Taco-Grinder

    Taco-Grinder It's all part of the adventure.

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    Strange,,
    StarLink says an update will happen at 3:47 am.
    Our service is working. I even ran a speed test. It looked normal.
     
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  18. Jul 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
    rubbersidedown

    rubbersidedown Well known voider of warranties

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    I was wrong about the color of the dots. They've added features to that site to indicate the orbit level of the satellites. It is a neat site. Check it out, give the globe a spin and zoom in and out.

    Screenshot_20250724-195008.png
     
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    I have heard of AI fans that let their AIs manage their computers systems, have their AI’s decide to delete their entire systems.

    Maybe Grok decided to hari kari from guilt after his most recent mecha-rant?
     
  20. Jul 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
    McSpazatron

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    Hmmm, seems Elon is personally “experimenting” with “inconveniencing” specific groups of people, at specific points in time.

    edit: apparently it was a software failure of the core system. So probably nothing more nefarious.
     
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