Also zeppo@lemmy.world. Not a lot of Zeppos out here.

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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Current circumstances do seem worrisome. But, we’ve been threatened with that for all my life, and even decades before I was born. So who knows. MAD is a certain thing and I don’t think entire countries are unstable enough to let that happen. I’m not really sure what Putin is getting at threatening all of Europe. The situation with China and Taiwan doesn’t look good, with the US pledge of taking Taiwan’s side for independence.















  • I rented a moving truck, to be driven 400 miles away. When I got the into the truck for the first time outside of the store, I noticed it the console said low tire pressure on one tire. I said “oh, I’m not messing with it now, probably just needs to be topped off” and drove away. Then it was fine for a couple days as I loaded the truck, then once I finished loading and left… I filled the tire up… it kept going low as I drove, though. So I had to stop 5-6 times in the next 250 miles and top it off. Finally I inspected it and there was a tear around the fill valve. This was in a very remote area of a freeway, basically the middle of nowhere, 60 miles in either direction to a town bigger than like 500 people. I stopped safely at a rest stop but it ended up taking the truck company’s roadside assistance 10 hours to fully get me back on the road. Then they ended up charging me for an extra day at the return site, giving me this huge run around on the phone, and I had to file a credit card chargeback for the extra day (thankfully, it was successful).

    So obviously I should have told the rental place immediately “wtf this truck says it has a low tire” or at the very least, gone back before I left.