Debate: Do you sand down to bare metal on every rust repair or just treat the surface?

I was fixing a spot on a 2012 Ford F-150 in my shop over in Springfield last month. Did my usual grind and fill routine, but six weeks later the rust is already showing through around the edges. Now I'm wondering if I should have taken it all the way down to clean metal even though it would have taken twice as long. What's your cutoff point for going all the way down vs. just treating what you see?

Hot take: I was watching dubs wrong for 10 years

I used to always watch anime with dubs because I could multitask while watching. Fold laundry, scroll my phone, whatever. Then last week I put on Attack on Titan season 4 part 2 and realized I had no clue what was happening. The dub voices felt flat and the lip sync was off. I rewound and switched to subs out of frustration. Suddenly I caught all these little dialogue nuances I missed before. The Japanese voice actors actually put way more emotion into their lines. Now I feel like I wasted hundreds of hours half-watching shows. Has anyone else had that moment where sub vs dub just clicked for them?

Overheard a neighbor saying her electric bill spiked after she installed a smart thermostat wrong

I was at the hardware store on Elm Street and heard a woman tell the clerk she put her smart thermostat on the wall behind a bookshelf. She said her bill went up $80 in one month because the sensor kept reading the wrong temperature. Made me double check my own setup to make sure the air can move around it. Has anyone else seen a big jump from something like that?

Overheard a kid at Micro Center say 'why would you fix a computer when you can just buy a new one'

He was probably 19 and I wanted to sit him down and explain how learning to swap a PSU in a Dell from 2012 taught me more about troubleshooting than any YouTube video ever could, has anyone else noticed that whole generation just treats PCs like disposable phones?

Finally gave in and tried a wet aged ribeye after doubting it forever

I've been a dry age guy for 10 years, but my supplier tossed in a wet aged ribeye last month and said just try it. Cooked it medium rare and the tenderness was honestly shocking, felt like butter. Has anyone else had a wet age change their mind?

Got my secret santa a 'scented candle that smells like bacon'

I had to choose between a generic gift card or this novelty bacon candle for my office secret santa last month, figured the candle would be funny and memorable. It smelled like burnt ham mixed with old grease and by lunchtime everyone in accounting complained about the smell. Anybody else regret picking a gag gift over something safe like a gift card?

Found a weird trick for getting old paint lids off without denting them

Honestly I was struggling with a 5 year old can of trim paint last weekend and about to smash the lid with a screwdriver. Then I remembered this tip from a painter in Portland who said to run a putty knife around the rim and tap the lid edge with a hammer. Worked perfectly on the first try and the lid didn't even bend. Has anyone else got a go-to method for stubborn paint cans?

Rolled 200 yards of carpet wrong way last month and learned a painful lesson

Fixed a leaky toilet with a random washer from my junk drawer - big mistake

I used a rubber washer I found in a pile of old bike parts to replace the flapper seal on my toilet in Phoenix. Three days later it dissolved and flooded my bathroom floor at 2am. Anyone else ever grab a part that looked right and instantly regret it?

The dig site near my hometown looks completely different now than it did in 2010

I went back to visit the old Cahokia mounds excavation outside Collinsville last month. Back when I helped there as a volunteer in 2010, it was all manual trenching and paper grids. Now they've got ground penetrating radar and drone mapping, found a whole new plaza area I never even knew existed. The old lead archaeologist told me they're rewriting the population estimates because of it. Has anyone else gone back to a site and seen how much the tools have changed things?