After almost getting hit twice by a driven Tesla while walking in a lot, the guy parked it in a handicap spot with no placard and speed walked into the store. Upon exit from a different door, the driver had it drive itself to him. I’m miffed i missed my chance to fuck with it because I didn’t know what was going on. I was waiting, debating calling police for the placard issue (given there were multiple open spaces nearby). I decided to not get involved and drove in front of the tesla to exit. Weird, I noted, seeing the drl bar and left blinker on. Turns out, it was waiting it’s turn to leave autonomously.

Fuck that guy. DoorDash vibe. 150ft walk.

Planetary ports in Elite are just ~1km wide circles with some similar buildings, unfortunately. No sprawling metropolis settings. I love the game, but it’s still markedly empty. Planets with billions of humans are atmospheric earth-likes, which you can’t land on. Can’t approach any closer than high orbit

But the audio design is excellent

Fining out Joe Pesci plays Joe Pesci in real life because he was originally a tough guy, not the usual NY Juliard alumni, made his movies pretty annoying for me. Highlight: him hosting SNL and threatening to smack Sinead O’Connor for her anti-pope statement made that obvious

Sucks that it’s too late to stop quoting My Cousin Vinny

Waiting (2005) was him as himself as a waiter

Guesses: reminding you you have something in your cart. Showing you some bullshit product. Preventing competitors from gaining ad space helping cement brand significance as THE brand. Reminding you to shop for something.

Coke doesn’t run ads to sell you on the idea. They run ads to make you think you’re thirsty and that you could go for a coke. Amazon just needs you on their site.

Half my internet (vehicle enthusiasts) hates EVs because they’re part of the liberal agenda. Half my internet (political progressives) hates Tesla because it represents the fascist agenda. And then the other 99% of my country’s citizens don’t give enough shits about the topics to post online about it. My liberal area is full of brand new Teslas.

You’re seeing people complain. You’re not acknowledging all the other internet traffic you’re seeing talking about anything besides Ai. And here, there’s a higher anti-ai sentiment than other parts of the internet. Consider that a huge part of it has to do with the bullshit marketing terminology applied to chatbots and other pre-existing machine-learning suites that suddenly have a fresh coat of conversationalism that presents itself as authoritative.

No longer produced, not removed from existing content. Very few games have cheat codes now. Only thing I can think of is Lego games via code, and even those cheats are available through progress in the game.

No doubt, there’s a huge population decline. I didn’t mean to detract from that. However, the primary splatometer for drivers is the windshield, not the license plate. The test put the splatometer on the license plate, which is a very reasonable place when employing the public as volunteer testers. So yes, older vehicles’ license plates may catch slightly more bugs, but there’s still a major difference in windscreen shape and upper aerodynamics.

If you look at, say, 2018+ vehicles, I’d say basically every reasonable passenger vehicle will have a subtle lower air splitter, a sharp protrusion at the lower edge of the bumper. This is meant to slice the air relatively cleanly to prevent bumper-level air from going under the car, instead going around and over. However, around 2018, upper splitters began appearing at the top of the bumper as well, in the form of sharp hood rims or grille features. The intent is to prevent air from going over, hitting the windscreen, and adding to the volume over the roof and upper wake, instead sending it to the sides where it finds a car’s length of smooth side paneling. The 2018 Accord and 2016 Civic comes to mind, both a redesign that slanted the chrome grille bar above the logo forward. I’m not saying that every vehicle in the 2019 study was a 2018+ Accord and 2016+ Civic, just an example of ever-changing aerodynamic practices. One (or two) splitters will make the air more forceful on the bumper while greatly smoothing the total vehicle’s airflow. Dial it back to 90s Fords, and the lower bumper was often rounded under the car in their bubble era. That works for airplane design, but is a negative feature on a grounded vehicle.

Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to get a true splatometer measurement. You’d need, say, a license plate on stilts, vaulted 5ft in front of the vehicle to be outside the vehicle’s aerodynamic influence. I suppose a net would also work and we don’t actually need splats to count.

But sold to who?

Cars are more aerodynamic, compounding the reduction in splatters caused by reduced populations. I can tell you my motorcycle helmet, little windscreen, and blunt nose catche a ton more bugs than my cars, which aren’t even all that swoopy by modern standards. A splatted beetle or moth take up a critical amount of viewing space on a helmet, very noticeable

Interesting. Funny how I’ve come around from me and a friend being Clarkson and Hammond to both ending up more like May

I’m guessing that was post-Clarkson TG?

VW is not really in the business of selling $6,000 used cars. “EVs are better (for people buying new cars)” says exec of company that sells new cars

Absolutely, here’s a recipe for bistek

Gone Pro sounds like maybe they leveled up from amateur. A lack of them in the future would be NoPro

East Indian cuisine gets fairly close to Chinese food. Most of the dishes in western countries are going to be north Indian, which I think really means northwest. Punjabi and Gujarati regions. They’re the wealthier states with a greater number of emigrants. South Indian is a different style as well, but I’m not familiar with it.

Experiencing East India damn near instantly made me wonder what my country’s tourists/expats look like in comparison to the actual country’s makeup. Just a bit of a surprise that for having a poor international reputation, I feel like it’s a more progressive portion of the country that goes abroad. And we’re still bad? Either my country is even worse than the world thinks, or my people are way too entitled abroad, knowingly or not.

Some northeastern rep/candidate on the democratic side has a totenkopf skull tattoo on his chest. That’s your keyword because I can’t remember the rest

Does it have a practical use? If yes, I agree with your reservations. If no, then someone is going to buy it to either look at or sell to someone else to look at. May as well buy it direct and preserve it respectfully. But I understand and I do appreciate the group-benefit mentality

3D printing. Part of the issue is my main filament-based project needs to be ABS so I don’t have much interest in a starter printer. I also have enough finicky devices that I really don’t want to figure out another. So I landed on the prusa mk3 when that was still the current model and havent committed the money to it. It’s not like I’m starved for solutions given that I can make widgets from wood or aluminum. I even ramped up my steel fab capability with a nice welder that cost half a prusa. So buying a printer has been on a perpetual backburner.

Plus I know solidworks well and the work flows in every other cad infuriates me.

I often make the same argument against myself for limited resources but ultimately, if the resource is affordable, then it probably isn’t rare on the scale that hobbyists would affect it. But then there’s helium, which is somehow not anywhere near abundant enough for the low price they charge to fill a balloon. While hobbyists still wouldn’t affect the supply that much, I don’t like supporting balloons anymore. Weird hill to die on for 95% of people or greater.