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[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Letterkenny. A couple of degens fucking a, possibly sick, ostrich - Allegedly - is a running joke.

You should watch it and it's spinoff, Shorsey.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Several companies have this now, but not in the US. For some reason the regulations don't allow it. Auto high beams can only go off and on, no zones. My car has the capability but it's software limited to comply with US laws. I guess it's cheaper to make them all the same and limit them than make different ones for the US market. There was supposed to be a change to the laws that allowed it in '22 but they fucked it up. If they ever fix the regulations it can be turned on with a software update.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

In addition to what others have said, it also affects camber in turns. Positive caster when turning gives the outside wheel negative camber and the inside wheel positive camber to keep a larger patch of contact when turning at high speed.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I loved Japan. I've visited Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Okinawa so far. I plan for more thorough trips once I'm retired and have the time.

One thing there that fucked up my normal vacation flow (this was also true in Korea), it's hard to get a drink before the evening. Our thing is walking around to see things while constantly stopping for drinks and sometimes food. Stopping at a cafe to have a bottle of wine al fresco while soaking up the local scenery and people watching while discussing the places we just visited is something we usually do 2-4 times a day before dinner. Little sidewalk cafes with alcohol aren't really a thing there. You have to go into a hotel or full restaurant and even then they look at you weird when you order alcohol that early and being inside isn't what we want. You might be able to find some convenience stores with a table or two outside, but drinking at a plastic table outside a 7-11 isn't really the vibe we're going for.

Despite what you may have heard about the drinking culture there, it's definitely considered more of a nighttime activity.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I almost never posted on Reddit. Partly because someone has usually already said something close to what I wanted to say. With the smaller community here I feel like I can make a unique contribution more often.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

I signed up for the digg relaunch with the hope it can kill Reddit off for good.

I wish lemmy could do it, and the fediverse will always be there for the people who are willing to put in the tiny extra effort. But I think it'll take something centralized and easy to understand for the average person who doesn't care about that stuff to really make a dent and start an exodus.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Here is a reddit post by a marshal riding in one of the trucks. It includes an update with a link to a response (on Twitter, sorry) from the owner and the marshal's response to it.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Even ignoring the tires interacting with the road, you have air molecules. I don't think that would be enough to destroy a continent, but it would be very destructive.

Here is a cool What If? from xkcd about throwing a baseball at 0.9c.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'll do what I can but I can't stop the zoomers from listening to Rogan any more than I could stop the boomers from listening to Limbaugh.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I guess I don't understand how lemmy works. I see them continuing to post. How, if they can't log into their instance?

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Years ago, before creditkarma, Fico scores and credit reports in my Amex app, and vantage scores and reports in my chase app, back when you had to go to annualcreditreport.com and wait for your shit in snail mail: I went to Fry's for a TV. They had some percentage off for applying for a store card. I was denied, which freaked me out because I thought my credit was really good so I assumed identity theft fucking my shit up. I paid with my normal card (still got the discount for applying), went to annualcreditreport, and waited; only to find out everything was fine.

I did some research and found out the industry considered me a "deadbeat." Not because I didn't pay, but because I did. I was the type of person that would get all these signup benefits and pay things off on time so I never got hit with all those retroactive usurious interest charges. I was rejected for having good credit.

The fact that it's legal to purposely extend credit to people who can't afford it to trap them in debt slavery is fucked up.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 months ago

Listen, of course I want a sandwich. I always want a sandwich. I just don't want to be the guy that tells you to make my totally-capable-of-making-my-own-damn-sandwich ass a sandwich, so I'm going to say "I'm alright", even if I'm starving because I've been gaming all day without eating.

If you want to make me a sandwich, just do it. If you put it in front of me it will be eaten. But I'm never going to tell you to do it.

(After a few years she figured it out and sandwiches just appear now.)

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