And as old as 2010 for me

Maybe it’s the emojiis. It’s hard to tell if they’re sarcastic or the author genuinely thinks ❤️📈🏆

The slow, painful death of technological privacy - brought not by war, not by scarcity, but by convenience of another app that saves you 3 clicks per transaction paired with the forced usage of certain functions within an existing environment

I didn’t know they were illegal to use as a human. I use them often to tack on a related sentence fragment when a technical description is getting too long for the common smartphone user - at least, what I perceive to be too long

Look under any RWD IRS passenger vehicle and you’ll find nearly every single example uses CV axles, not u-joints. U-joints have famously irregular speed variation as the angles change in steady rotation, so the constant velocity joint is far more common for the half axles

How do you figure dual front motors would alleviate any of what you said a front diff would need? Dual front motors will still be rigidly mounted to the chassis, requiring flexible couplings. The rear is also independent, requiring the same flexible couplings whether it’s a diff or motors. CV axles all around. Non-steer wheels still have vertical travel from the suspension.

AI instructions unclear, brass instruments coming right up

Ska intensifies

While I knew your answer, I just went through a similar thing with a Costco jacket. It’s a winter jacket with a false fleece liner. As in, there’s a 2" strip inside the jacket, just behind the main zipper, that just zips up. While it can offer an extra inch of belly room after too much hibachi, the main benefit seems to be that it starts about 3" higher than the exterior zipper. It’s pretty good for driving in that mode.

And riding motorcycles around these other cars feels like riding a motorcycle. If Smart can make a NA compliant car, there must be some kind of way to make a near-Kei car compliant.

Out of curiosity, I looked if Smart met Kei regulations with the ForTwo. The officiall Kei variant, the Smart K, only had 2 modifications and 1 restriction. The track width was narrowed and the fenders were slimmed in order to make it 1.5"(30mm) narrower and the only engine available was the 600cc.

And while Americans like to make assumptions about North American markets because they’re generally cross-compatible, they vary greatly. Mexico is full of compacts and ute chassis-mates such as Chevy Aveo/Montana, Fiata Strada/Ram 700, and VW Gol/Saveiro. Remember, the original VW Beetle (“Vocho”) was produced in Mexico until the 90s.

A decent guy giving to the right people. Ask them if the US government gave enough monetary relief to the Carolininas after their hurricane last year. At some point later, ask if the government gave enough to New Orleans. They’ll flip from saying the mountain folk deserve more but New Orleans is at its own fault for not repairing the levys.

Or don’t ask. You’ll get a dumb answer at best, a racist answer at worst. Either way, it’s not going to be productive unless your goal is to hate them more.

Same as complaining about modern movies being unoriginal sequels without original IP. It’s a revelation that the commenter isn’t actually diving into anything and is only exposed to advertisements and popular media. Yeah, sequels and existing IP are money grabs. It’s amusing to then see the tangential complaint that the annual award ceremonies are trash because they didn’t pick some excellent original movie. OK, but look at what does win. More than half are original/first-time adaptations and Avengers are nowhere on there. But these commenters, just like the mechanisms that lead to something being popular (but not inherently great), are asking for popular recommendations on better media!

Agreed, get out of the dump. If you only listen to pop radio or streaming trending, it’s only going to be pop and pop-adjacent. If you only hear about movies from ads and trending topics, it’s only going to be the equivalent of pop. Browse by genre, but new releases, by awards, whatever. But all of them take effort to find, consume thoroughly, and appreciate - exactly why their numbers flounder next to pop in the first place.

Plus, I’d add, basically every band you forgot about prior to 2010 made a new album in 2020/2021.

You ever play Assassin’s Creed?

That take would be more digest able if I wasn’t stuck on the same planet as those people.

Thank you for catching that. Even reading through again, I couldn’t find it while skimming. With the mention of X2 and RSS, I assumed that paragraph would just be more technical description outside my knowledge. Instead, what I did hone in on was

“No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense.”

Leading me to be pessimistic.

I get it. I’d bet the other commenters don’t have kids. There’s hypothetical jokes about kids, then there’s jokes to someone about their actual kid. Commenting on a post VS replying to this person who has a kid.

I grew up with a very paranoid father. Somehow this guy has a stack of rough city survival stories but I couldn’t leave the suburban block. I don’t know the best way to raise a kid, but a watch and more freedom to roam sounds nice.

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Will this further fuck up the inaccurate nature of AI results? While I’m rooting against shitty AI usage, the general population is still trusting it and making results worse will, most likely, make people believe even more wrong stuff.

2025 Model 3: 186"L x 73"W x 57"H
2025 Audi A4 Sedan: 188"L x 73"W x 56"H
2025 Chevy Malibu: 194"L x 73"W x 57"H
2004 Ford Taurus: 198"L x 73"W x 56"H
2025 Mercedes CLA: 185"L x 73"W x 55"H
2025 Nissan Leaf: 176"L x 71"W x 61"H
2025 Audi A3 Sedan: 177"L x 72"W x 56"H

What do you mean the Model 3 is huge? It’s small by American standards and standard by European executive compacts. Compared to what, a Leaf? If the Leaf had a sedan counterpart, it’d be the same size as the 3. Vice versa if the 3 had a hatch version, as a hatch is often about 9" shorter than a sedan of the same model. Of all the things against Tesla, I can’t say I’ve heard anyone call the 3 big. If you’re not in North America, I’m not familiar with the compacts and hatches, but that’s why I threw in the Germans I know