Just because it’s a big company doesn’t mean it isn’t a scam. Just look at how big some MLMs get.

American here and still, WTF‽

If they don’t have a job then how are they going to have money?

How does someone have a vibrant diverse social life with no money?

Part of the whole multipurpose craze is also just that few people can afford to own multiple vehicles anymore. My dad owns a little hatchback for a daily driver and a fuckoff big pickup for when hauling needs to be done but he can only do that because he knows enough about vehicles to buy and fix cheap old piles of crap and keep them going. The average person doesn’t know how to do that so they need to buy newer vehicles and those vehicles are heniously expensive now so buying one daily driver is enough of a struggle let alone buying a seperate work vehicle. If they need to both take the kids to soccer practice and haul things then I can see how someone might think a suburbitank is a good idea.

But like you said, there are also a lot of people who own these massive trucks but don’t need them. If the paint on the truck is unblemished or there isn’t a spot of dirt on it then that driver can go fuck themselves because clearly the only utility that vehicle is serving is as an ego prosthetic. Real working vehicles get beat up. Seeing a clean spotless truck is like seeing a mechanic without a spot of dirt on them; they both clearly aren’t working.

You can still find the old mazda b-series pickups or ford rangers (they’re the same truck) around ocasionally. They’re the perfect size for an all in one vehicle. You get the utility of a truck without having to own multiple vehicles or daily drive a land barge. Sure, you won’t be hauling farm equipment with one but they’re the perfect size for moving furniture, hauling materials for light to moderate construction work, or trailering a normal sized fishing boat. Hell, if you don’t care about the truck you can do even more than that. I once hauled an entire pallet of landscaping blocks in the bed of my 90s B2200. Probably around a ton of blocks. Sure it bottomed out the suspension but I used back roads, took the drive home slow, and got home without any issue. You could get all that utility in basically the same wheelbase as a modern car.

How dare they indoctrinate my children with this heterosexual filth!

Ball Peen and Dead Blow are my EDC hammers but I also usually keep a good ol claw hammer near by just in case.

That’s how it’s supposed to work in the US too. Maybe it depends on the state but in MN at least it’s illegal to fail to pull over for emergency vehicles. If you see any emergency vehicle on the road running with lights on then you are supposed to stop and pull off to the side so that they can have the whole road.

The video in the OP looks nuts to me too. I’ve never seen people fail to pull over for an emergency vehicle in my area.

If that’s your fetish, I guess.

Isn’t this what Jesus did?

Kid rock makes music for people who smoke newports through a hole in their neck.

You still can. My dad bought a 2010 F150 for $400 a couple years ago. Sure it used to be a salt truck and therefore had more rust than metal left on its body. Sure it had 4 bald flat tires on it. Sure you have to disconnect the battery every time you park it or it dies. Sure the CD player ocasionally makes grinding noises and starts smelling like smoke every once in a while until you whack the dash hard enough to make it stop. Sure it has no shocks left whatsoever and it feels like you’re driving a trampoline. But who cares about minor things like all that?

Overthinking has to be my favorite hobby.

Mine is a ball python. They seem to prefer basking under the heat lamp after eating. Also they haven’t ever pooped in their water dish that I can remember, but I have had them horf up a partially digested rat in there before. That incident was made even more pleasant by the fact that I had their heat lamp positioned over the water dish at the time (to try and keep humidity up) and it happened while I was sleeping so I didn’t catch it for several hours. So I awoke to my entire house being filled with the miasma of a partially digested rat which had been stewing under a heat lamp for several hours. The smell was indescribable and beyond the imagination of any sane individual.

Unfortunately I don’t think the $20 I have in the bank right now will cover the cost of the test rig.

Oh yeah, basically the easiest way to do it would to pump water out of each basin, through a heat exchanger, and then back into the basin. That way you could have your whole temp control aparatus located outside of the terrarium. Plus that would also easily enable automatic water level management to keep the water levels identical. For your heat exchanger you could just use a CPU water block and a peltier device. You regulate the power going to the peltier device by monitoring a temp sensor in your water return pipe and just pulsing the peltier device on and off at different rates to control the heating or cooling rate. Plus with the peltier device you can just reverse the polarity to switch from heating to cooling to enable the shuffling of the basins. All of this would be controlled and charted in a csv file by a raspberry pi. Additionally you could connect a simple motion sensor so the pi could flag the times the snake was using one of the basins to make it easier to read the data.

Rather than monitoring ambient temp or humidity you would probably be better off just keeping them tightly controlled and constant via other systems. That would further reduce variables for the initial test.

Snake tax. Here’s the little turd the one time they decided to get stuck in my couch. They were perfectly fine but I had to partially dismantle my couch to get them out.

That’s an interesting point. I grew up with well water in MN where our ground water temp is about 43F (6C) so I am used to practically ice cold water just being on tap. It makes sense that what you like is going to vary based on what you’re used to.