¡Martes por la tarde! ¿Enlaces? ¡Pues sí, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Dec 6, 2022 | Daily Links | 181 comments

In yet another tale from the Korean-built washing machine I refuse to let die….

I need to locate a Rotor Position Sensor for an appliance built in 2010. Initial calls to various supply stores in the area suggest I might as well pay half what they are charging and order it online if I have to wait until Thursday regardless of where I get it.

When I say I refuse to let it die, I mean it.  This is the second time in ten years I replaced this sensor and I had to hog tie it to the motor windings because the plastic mounts are too short.  What do you want me to do? Buy a $19 part on Amazon, or spend $1500 on a new washer /dryer combo?

Yes, my autism necessitates I buy both.

 

For the links!

Mexico has well regarded private hospitals that accept cash for staying at what can only be described as a cross between a hospital and Club Med, but always remember you get what you pay for.

I’m sure Mexico raising their minimum wage will harm absolutely nobody.  I’m sure of it because they will simply find work in the US and send it home regardless of the inflated local currency.

I could make a joke about Bitcoin not fixing it, but it looks more like the counterargument anarchists make in motion.  Namely, the claim anarchy is unable to solve societal ills is irrelevant given the present system cannot solve it either.

*Dons tinfoil hat*  Is it really bird flu, or another oil spill? *Doffs tinfoil hat*

Maybe Costa Rica can try what Lula is doing, which is just pander to them and hope they stop being a pain in the ass?

Elsewhere in Brazil…I’m beginning to wonder if the people insisting they’re the only ones working actually work.

 

Here’s a tune.  Kick Tuesday in the balls!

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181 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Brazilians throw out local media for covering false narratives about their protests.”

    We should do that here.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Mmmmm hydrogenated fats and yellow food dye

      • kinnath

        Second best gif in use at Glibs.

      • Chafed

        That’s how your brighten up someone’s day!

      • Bobarian LMD

        Springy!

      • DEG

        A while back I found the source video. Best ass contest somewhere in The Netherlands.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The best: Slav girls (I assume) for the win.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Best ass, and best supporting players (especially glasses girl).

      • Aloysious

        +1 jiggle physics.

  2. DEG

    It was about three hours after sunset on March 18, 2019, when a resident of Yeri, a remote Indigenous settlement near the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, heard the sound of gunfire from his neighbour’s home. When two policemen arrived at the crime scene a couple of hours later, they found a 59-year-old man lying in his bedroom with seven 9mm bullet wounds across his back.

    Isn’t it obvious? He killed himself.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Repeatedly.

    • Tres Cool

      He had dirt on the Clintons ?

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    Pelicans? What about Russian seals?
    Coincidence?

  4. Bobarian LMD

    That “washing machine part” looks an awful lot like a particle accelerator.

    Now you’re on another list.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Goddamnit

      • R.J.

        R.J.’s business rule regarding such things is the user must buy two and keep one packed on a shelf. Yes, for ten years even. I have rare oven bulbs packed away for the next over light failure…

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I have enough underoos to last until next weekend. Its not like its a firing pin.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        But why?

      • Tres Cool

        Those bulbs are nearly impossible to find around these parts.

    • rhywun

      Or a bomb.

      +1 clock boy

  5. Tundra

    *Crosses Costa Rica off the List*

    Jesus, what a mess.

    Today, Rojas’s followers argue that government inaction leaves them no option but to forcefully invade property inhabited by those they deem non-Indigenous. “I will stop at nothing to continue Rojas’s legacy,” says Felipe Figueroa, who took over to lead the land reclamation movement after his death.

    It worked fine in South Africa and Zimbabwe, didn’t it?

    • rhywun

      I can’t get past all the “spiritual” and “close to the land” flapdoodle.

      • Tundra

        Are you suggesting that indigenous people weren’t amazing stewards of the land?

        Impossible!

      • juris imprudent

        Capitalism invented slash and burn agriculture.

      • Tundra

        Nice.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It’s a nice place to visit, but the petty crime is off the charts. It seems that all the expats lived in gated communities. Not the way I’d want to live.

      • Tundra

        You just described pretty much every nice tropical place. I love Turks, but you definitely need security.

      • rhywun

        As some of us are fond of saying, “boring is nice”. I would not want to live that way. I’ll take the US or a nice, boring northern European country (if they can make it through the winter).

    • Hyperion

      Yeah, it’s almost beyond belief, like that has never happened before. Has the NYT ran hard with that one yet?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      But she started a conversation.

  6. Ted S.

    Here’s a tune. Kick Tuesday in the balls!

    I didn’t think Tuesday Weld had balls to be kicked in.

  7. Raven Nation

    Question for Portugal’s coach: do you play Ronaldo in the q-f or leave him on the bench?

    • rhywun

      I don’t know but I hope Morocco does to them what they did to Spain.

      Even it means another entire afternoon full of honking and revving and hollering up and down the street.

    • Hyperion

      I just noticed a memo from one of my woke clients warning about the ‘dangers’ of the new Twitter and how one might stay ‘safe’ when posting there. Yes, their fave place to post non-sense is now ‘dangerous’ because it’s not letting leftists control everything.

  8. pistoffnick

    …$1500 on a new washer /dryer combo.

    *blinks*
    Good lord, that’s expensive. I’ve purchased cars for less than that.

      • The Other Kevin

        I got a Speed Queen top load for $1200 this year. Love it. Feels like a tank, and it has a 7 year warranty.

      • Hyperion

        I like the looks of the Samsung models. And I hear they have some extra and possibly exciting features, like being able to blow up. You have to have some really talented engineers to be able to make a washing machine blow up.

      • Bobarian LMD

        A really fast spin cycle would probably be pretty effective.

      • Tundra

        Good decision. Far and away the best on the market.

        I replaced a Bosch washer awhile back because the bearings were shot. And, being a Bosch in the 21st century, the bearings were part of the entire drum assembly, the part cost of which WAS ALMOST AS MUCH AS A NEW ONE!

        Fuck you, Bosch.

      • Hyperion

        The Eurotards are certainly going downhill in many ways, are they not?

      • The Other Kevin

        I replaced an LG model with extra large capacity and no agitator. The bearings went out, and the repair guy couldn’t remove the drum to fix it. When I bought the new one the people I talked to said those extra capacity washers are not designed to be overloaded, you should only fill them 1/3 of the way, which is the size of a regular washer. Loading that washer full is what messed up the bearings.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Then what’s the point?

      • Tundra

        Precisely.

      • Ted S.

        I would have thought you were a size queen, not a Speed Queen.

      • Bobarian LMD

        It’s the motion of the ocean not the size of the ship?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Sounds like SBF’s girlfriend was a Speed Queen.

      • rhywun

        *carry the one*

        It’ll pay for itself in about 14 years!

    • kinnath

      not any more

    • Hyperion

      Yeah, wife and I have been looking lately because of an impending move. And the avg price we are seeing for a nice combo is in the +- $1500 range.

    • Mojeaux

      I think ours was $800 or thereabouts, and it was Maytag direct from the factory with no bells or whistles. The only reason we didn’t get SpeedQueen was because it was twice the cost. I kinda wish we’d splurged.

    • UnCivilServant

      That just says their only purpose is to use it as a weapon against churches.

      • Drake

        Sorry – probably a shorter link out there.

    • Fourscore

      I’d rather have 1 round too many than to be 1 round short.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I wish you could take aside the idiot fed judge that refused a TRO and impart that sort of common sense to her. Part of her ruling was “mass shootings” use hi-capstandard capacity magazines but defensive gun use is usually less that 10 rounds fired so that’s all that’s needed. Never mind that the guy who stopped the recent mall shooting did so with a 12 round Hellcat or that cops’ handguns are well over 10 rounds, and how many rounds are actually fired has almost zero to do with magazine sizing.

    • Tonio

      But it looks like the federal case, while off to a disappointing start, is still going forward. I don’t look for much relief from the Ninth Circuit, but this looks like the type of thing that SCOTUS would overturn, or remand back down to a lower court for reconsideration (“we’re not telling you how you were wrong, but we’re telling you that you were wrong and we expect you to unfuck your shit and you’d better get it right”).

      • Gustave Lytton

        Process is the punishment. The proponents are counting on a) it will take years and a lot of money to overturn and b) something may stick out of it.

        Meanwhile, they’re not resting on their laurels. Next up is a ban on possession of many/most semi auto firearms.

        https://www.lifteveryvoiceoregon.com/status-of-ip18

  9. The Other Kevin

    “Private hospitals blamed for meningitis outbreak in Mexico, 22 dead”

    Yikes. My wife’s aunt and cousin went to Mexico for bariatric surgery last month. They’re ok thankfully. But the whole family thinks they’re nuts.

  10. Rat on a train

    Virginia jail deaths soared in 2021

    Deaths had been running between 40 and 44 in recent years, but last year 71 inmates died

    Suicides more than doubled, to 23, while deaths from natural causes rose by more than 40% from the recent average, to 37. There was one homicide, nine overdoses or accidents and seven deaths from undermined [undetermined?] causes.

    How many had connections to Hillary?

    • Hyperion

      Seeing as the most populous area of VA is swamp overflow…

    • Hyperion

      That’s a lot of poison food. Sort of ironic that students are the ones who put the Ayatollah in power to begin with. Unintended consequences?

      • tarran

        The ayatollahs at least had moral authority. The west was represented by the regime and its secret police the Savak (IIRC the name correctly).

        Of course, the SAVAK was dissolved in name, but many of its management and workers continued working in the same buildings, committing the same tortures, committing the same murders, continuing to terrorize the population, with the only difference being that they were serving new masters.

      • Hyperion

        So, I guess we are both sort of saying to not leave these matters in the hand of students?

        I can’t even recall now if the US regime changed the Shah into power or if we were for once innocent of that sort of shit.

      • R.J.

        Certainly don’t centralize where you consume food prior to a massive government protest. That’s an opportunity no decent saboteur could pass up. 1,200 people having Montezuma’s revenge in a public square?

      • Hyperion

        Students. Brain not fully formed, gullible, no life experience, and knowing that you already know everything. Recipe for things like this.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        On behalf of the Brits and BP.

        The more I learn about the history of the Brits and their foreign shenanigans, the less I care for them.

      • Raven Nation

        “On behalf of the Brits and BP.” Agree

        “The more I learn about the history of the Brits and their foreign shenanigans, the less I care for them.”

        It is my fervent hope that more Americans come to share the visceral hatred of the Poms that is intrinsic to being Australian.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Hell, their antics with NordStream are enough to hate their guts.

      • Hyperion

        Should have just assumed. We can’t help it, can we?

  11. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    RV guy didn’t finish up at my neighbor’s house today, so I didna get any rock-hard epoxy on my ladder. Dangit.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Why would you want that?

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s got to be euphemisms all the way up.

      • Hyperion

        Or it could have been RV gal and something got as hard as epoxy while up on the ladder? I had to try to make some sense out of it.

      • Hyperion

        Oh, shit, it’s KK. Y’all gotta stop changing your posting names.

        Maybe the RV guy… ah fuck it, I still can’t get it.

    • SDF-7

      Even for here — that’s a wacky euphemism… hope your ladder gets epoxied well in the future, KK.

      • R.J.

        Stiff and sturdy! Ready to climb!

    • Tonio

      Phrasing?

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      1) Last week I got a knock on my door. It was a very attractive man looking for my neighbor
      2) After pointing him to my neighbor’s rig, I strolled over to see about this handsome dude, as I could hear them talking outside
      3) Turns out guy is an RV repair guy and I need my ladder repaired
      4) RV guy says he’ll come back this week with some epoxy and he’ll “hold it til it’s rock hard”
      5) KK just about faints
      6) RV guy is back today, but couldn’t figure out the issue with my neighbor’s furnace, so did not stop by with his rock-hardness

      • Hyperion

        4. You have to go over and say ‘hey, I can help, I can hold it!’.

      • Tres Cool

        Cialis makes epoxy now?
        Sign me up.

      • MikeS

        7) KK thinks more seriously about grabbing the sledgehammer

      • R.J.

        He’ll keep in the freezer for a week!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      So nobody can climb your rungs?

  12. Brochettaward

    I’m using my Third Eye to traverse the Firstiverse faster than jazz can travel through Mike’s rectum. Best believe.

    • Mojeaux

      I read that as “jizz.”

      • R.J.

        Haha! I was going to say he made a typo.

      • Sean

        #metoo

      • MikeS

        Hey now.

    • Aloysious

      ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ

    • MikeS

      I don’t care for jazz.

      • KSuellington

        Evidently jazz is going to have its way with you whether or not you like it MikeS.

      • MikeS

        I love the Blues if that helps.

      • Mojeaux

        Don’t even need to click.

      • MikeS

        I had successfully forced that shit song out of my head for the last 30 years. You suck.

  13. Hyperion

    The media will get right on that

    Move on, citizen, nothing to see here, experts have spoken. Bat market it was. Fauci don’t remember nuthin. Proof, bat market.

    • Hyperion

      “A Wuhan virus hunter famously said it was “nature punishing the uncivilized habits and customs of humans.”

      Huh. Maybe it is just me. But that sounds more like something a woke American activist would say.

      • Hyperion

        This should be the biggest story of all of our lifetimes. But instead, it’s been completely buried. If they can do that, manipulate a virus in the lab and that virus then goes on to kill millions, not to mention the more millions it didn’t kill indirectly by shutting down the world economy, and cover that all up, we are truly fucked. Because that one was a dud, the next one won’t be.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Added to my list. The one review on Amazon gave it 2 stars because “It’s nothing that hasn’t already been reported.” The same strategy that’s being used to downplay the Twitter stuff. Yes, it’s been reported by some. Most people here probably know about it. But the media have done a good job of shielding most people from it.

  14. CPRM

    Freedom Toons continues to steal my schtick.

    @christianfreedom-seeker934
    2 hours ago
    Using Biden’s actual voice in clips is brilliant. 👏

    I agree, I am brilliant

    • Tundra

      You are.

      Why don’t you contact those guys and get a guest slot?

      • CPRM

        I’ve twatted at him, but never got any replies. He actually didn’t start doing the ‘use Brandon’s’ voice thing until after I had twatted an episode at him. I need Alex Jones on the case! How deep does this conspiracy go!?

      • Tundra

        Should we bombard the fucker with Hat and Hair?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Connect the dots, man!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Now I have another reason to not like Seamus.

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!!!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Did anybody think they were going to relent?

      The entire edifice of DC is corrupt, they will not risk having an outsider ever again. They intend to burn it all down before that happens.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If the trial’s in DC, and I assume it will be, he’ll be convicted and then oh brother.

      • juris imprudent

        They intend to burn it all down before that happens.

        As long as they lock themselves inside, I’m not going to argue.

    • creech

      Does the Democrat Party really want Trump out of the way before the 2024 primaries? You would think not, but remember that while Nixon was out of the way by 1976, the stink still lingered on the GOP and its boy scout nominee, Gerald Ford.

      • Hyperion

        It was her turn.

    • CPRM

      The Walls Are Closing In!1!11!1

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They might actually be now.

      • rhywun

        They’ve got him now.

      • Hyperion

        Wagons circling.

  15. Semi-Spartan Dad

    When I say I refuse to let it die, I mean it. This is the second time in ten years I replaced this sensor and I had to hog tie it to the motor windings because the plastic mounts are too short.

    My 2.5 year old Maytag dishwasher stopped three weeks ago. It has an apparently useless extended warranty through the credit card and am waiting for that process to play out. Card requires a repairman with the repair cost on company letterhead (no self diagnosis allowed) not to exceed total original price paid. I had trouble understanding this on the phone with them…. “the fucking thing doesn’t work and a service call plus parts plus installation will be more expensive than a new one”. Didn’t matter. Found a repair guy who marked the dishwasher unrepairable because no OEM parts are being made anymore for it.

    Meanwhile I ordered a new dishwasher before the 1st repair guy even came because I knew how that would go. New dishwasher arrived a week after ordering and I installed it. Piece of shit wouldn’t drain. Manual said call Whirlpool. Whirlpool said we’ll send our own repair guy in a week. Repair guy said the pump doesn’t work and he’ll hopefully be back in 3 weeks with a new pump to install. May take up to 2 months to get the part. All covered under warranty, but this is a bit much for a brand new dishwasher. I thought about just returning it and buying a new one… but supply issues and none are in stock after the Black Friday sales.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Laundry-

    I just got back from the laundrymat. Toss everything into a giant machine, pump almost five bucks’ worth of quarters in, and… go wander around in Big Lots. I can’t believe the price tags on their furniture. I’d probably swallow my tongue if I went to a real furniture store.

    When I finally get my goddam septic system done, I’ll probably go shopping for the dumbest yard sale washing machine I can find. Maybe one of those over/under combo deals.

  17. The Hyperbole

    I’m not certain which one of you is to blame but I keep getting Journey songs in my You-Tube feed and I know it’s because I clicked on one of you jerk’s stupid music link.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hey, Wheel in the Sky is passably good.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Just accept your fate with open arms.

      • Hyperion

        You guys are all wrong. Not only was Journey a pretty good band in their days, but Stone in Love is actually their best tune.

      • DrOtto

        You are correct sir.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Is that like the Steve Perry Band?

      • Hyperion

        No, dude, that is the guitar player for Aerosmith.

      • Count Potato

        It’s the black guy from American Idol.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The Hyberbole
      Surfin’ on the lonely web
      Posting on Glibertarians anytime

    • KSuellington

      Don’t stop believing it was one of us.

  18. UnCivilServant

    I need technical help.

    For some reason, my computer is reporting more than twice the space used than the sum total of all the contents of the drive, and nothing else indicates what is using that space. Now shadow copy (1gb) not restore points, nothing.

    Here’s what I’m seeing. I want that Terabyte back (or explained)

    Ideas?

    • R.J.

      You just discovered the FBI’s secret shadowing program. Put your pants on, there will be a knock on your door shortly.

      • Hyperion

        lol

    • CPRM

      Could it just be the OS not reading unallocated space correctly? Did you run the disk cleanup? Maybe that could make it recalculate?

      • UnCivilServant

        I did run disk cleanup, no change.

      • Mojeaux

        Husband weighs in:

        1. What version of Windows?

        2. A known issue is hidden restore points. Disk cleanup doesn’t delete restore points.

      • UnCivilServant

        I check for restore points. None.

      • CPRM

        Perhaps it is the second one that is giving false numbers, I just checked my main drive that same way and there were a few times where the count froze for a bit before it was complete. How many times did you check that?

      • UnCivilServant

        I checked a couple of smaller sets and the numbers added up to the 750gb usage

    • rhywun

      Is the total usage including hidden files? Do you have a TB of RAM and a hibernation file somehow??

      • Ownbestenemy

        This and what is your page file set at?

      • UnCivilServant

        pagefile.sys is <10gb
        hiberfil.sys <27gb

        Hidden files are included on the second value.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s a new one. In the old days I would spin up Norton and inspect it.

      I’m abandoning Windows partly for these types of things causing problems.

    • juris imprudent

      Could it have something to do with the allocation unit you used? I seem to recall something about how blocks are wasted when files don’t fill out the block.

      • UnCivilServant

        The size on disk line includes the unused remainder of those blocks.

    • Hyperion

      Looks to me like you have 150G left on a 2 TB drive?

    • Hyperion

      “I want that Terabyte back (or explained)”

      No one needs that much pr0n!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Use TreeSize file also…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Software. Free download that give a much more detailed view of disk usage

      • Hyperion

        I use it on some of my dev servers at work. It at least will quickly show you the biggest files that are hogging up all the space.

      • UnCivilServant

        TreeSize agrees with the “the disk is full” assessment.

        The Steam folder is being deceptive in how it registers size.

        Gotta do manual cleanup.

      • Hyperion

        But that image is showing 150G free. Are you getting out of disk space errors?

      • Hyperion

        The Treesize thing should show you folders first and then you can find the biggest ones and then drill down to see the files, where it will again show you the biggest ones. At least that is the way I used it. Steam is always the thing that hogs up space on my home puter first. You can’t pay that much attention to the size in Steam, you have to look at the files on disk. 1.5TB is a lot. Although my E drive which is where I store games for both Steam and Xbox GamePass PC games, only has 35G of 1T, lol. Time to clean that up, again.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m not getting errors outside of reporting issues.

        If I get the size of the steam folder it reports 303 gb, but if I get the contents of the folder, it reports 750 (as it should). Before I cleaned it up, the values were 470 and 1300.

      • rhywun

        I use WizTree but yeah.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, if you don’t really know where the stuff went, an app like that is indispensable.

    • db

      If you can boot up with an Ubuntu linux CD or USB, you can use the Gnome Disk Usage Analyzer to try to find out what’s going on.

  19. db

    Namely, the claim anarchy is unable to solve societal ills is irrelevant given the present system cannot solve it either.

    Oddly, this retort had not occurred to me before.

    I feel enlightened and embarrassed.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      😁

    • Count Potato

      The problem with anarchy is there is no good way to enforce it.

      • Hyperion

        Sure there is, you have to be the meanest SOB in the village. Not necessarily good for everyone else in the village.

  20. hayeksplosives

    I went to an “all-hands” meeting hosted by our new company president.

    I have never laughed so hard at an all-hands nor actually been inspired like that in—well, forever. I really like this guy. I hope he keeps it up!

    He’s not very PC (coming from defense, like me) so I have a slight worry that some Karens might complain. But I am really enthusiastic about going to work again.

  21. Hyperion

    I have to give Musk a lot of credit, the dude has ballz of steel. Of course it’s easier when you have the money to protect youself, but still, he doesn’t have to do any of this, he is set for life. This Twitter Files thing is going to start a war and the left are lining up and gearing up against him. We need more Musks.

  22. Hyperion