the 24 hour test drive was handy when you needed a truck to move.

It does seem like one of those things that might creep up on you. Personally, I never use the radio in my cars for the most part. Usually I just drive around and depending on what car I’m in, I like to hear the wastegate opening, the turbochargers sucking, or the secondaries opening on the carbs, etc. Not loud sounds…

Yeah! Like... I can get a ticket for looking at my phone, but many cars are built now so I have to look at a screen and not the road to do pretty much everything? My last couple Tesla test drives, I really wanted physical buttons for stuff, and I wanted carplay. I don’t care what Tesla does with their infotainment,…

Some people want character in their cars, and the sound can be a big part of the character. My 500 abarth sounded like an angry tiny midget maserati, my Fiesta ST sounds like a hairdryer (not loud but a distinctive sucking sound lol), my Grand national sounded like the millennium falcon when the hyperdrive failed…

Some stuff doesn’t bug you much right up front. I think most everyone has been there at one time or another, you think “It’s not that bad, I’ll get used to it” but over time the annoyance becomes hatred.

Doing everything with emojis reminds me so much of handmaid’s tale :|

I... think it’s highly unlikely a group would do this effectively in LA, and not wind up being shot at. This is not a good idea.

I see people wearing ~$20-$30 full wireless earbuds and I can’t help but remember those videos of cheap chinese vape batteries exploding in peoples mouths... and now thats in their *ears* :|

Disney’s great at beating things to death. They overdid Marvel stuff until I didn’t give a crap anymore, now they’re pretty close to making me give up on Star Wars too :(

I wish the news would just call this stuff “The idiot parade” or something, calling it a freedom fuckaround or whatever makes them feel like they’re accomplishing something more than annoying people. Do the news report - “The idiot parade has made it to main street, and is continuing to honk their horns out of a…

It gets more into things like orbital mechanics and so on than most do, which can make it harder to follow for people expecting typical YA garbage. Compared to the crap that keeps getting popular now, its pretty hard science.

the trick is to read it backwards

Part of the issue is the air conditioning though, they’re constantly in and out so the AC duty cycle is higher, same with the heat. AC and heating aren’t really friendly to EV range, especially when you have that sort of duty cycle.

I thought the methodology for defeating a convoy was pretty well established.

Pre marriage - a 12 pack of toilet paper lasts almost a month.

lol - have had to carefully police labs with hundreds of powerful nvidia gpu based workstations to make sure nobody sets up crypto mining during off hours. Yes, every single workstation has a couple of 24gb quadros or 3090's in it for rendering, that doesn’t make it ok to mine crypto with company resources :|

If you ever get a chance, read the book seveneves. It’s... very science heavy - it’s along the lines of what you said, but I would go into it without reading a synopsis, a big part of what’s great about the book is not knowing what the future holds. The synopses give it away.

this movie looks *so* stupid that I really want to watch it.