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Since when is The Rona a right wing buzzword? My super lefty echo chamber has been using that since the beginning.
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It wasn't as popular as the other nicknames the right came up with (Wu Flu, China Virus, etc) but it's one of the ways they tried to use language to diminish the idea of the threat.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:56
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I don't think of "the Rona" as a partisan buzzword, but someone that goes in and tweets about how it "triggers the left" is probably a douche. I am a dumbass American, so I'm only vaguely aware of UK politics tho.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:57
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Jul 14, 2021 18:10
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Well cross another one off the watch list. I'm getting pretty tired of the majority of car culture and want less and less to be a part of it. Thankfully AI is still good, and island in a sea of chudery. The new fad of putting huge backfires into a tune seems to be the latest in being an rear end in a top hat for no reason up there with fart pipes and rolling coal.
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Jul 14, 2021 18:13
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MetaJew posted:God dammit. Now I regret giving them money for a mug and t-shirt. we regret to inform you that the duck is racist
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Jul 14, 2021 18:22
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shy boy from chess club posted:Well cross another one off the watch list. I'm getting pretty tired of the majority of car culture and want less and less to be a part of it. Thankfully AI is still good, and island in a sea of chudery. 100%
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Jul 14, 2021 18:31
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shy boy from chess club posted:The new fad of putting huge backfires into a tune seems to be the latest in being an rear end in a top hat for no reason up there with fart pipes and rolling coal.
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shy boy from chess club posted:Well cross another one off the watch list. I'm getting pretty tired of the majority of car culture and want less and less to be a part of it. Thankfully AI is still good, and island in a sea of chudery. For real. The Houston240sx forums, along with Zilvia, I think, were fairly good forums. But after I sold the 240 and bought my MS3 I've been very disappointed with that car community. The Mazdaspeedforums were garbage and had an annual pay wall, and the Facebook group is full of chuds that like "crackle tunes" and sharing photos of their seven different guns posed on their seat and dash. I guess this is what comes with cars becoming cheaper and more accessible to people with disposable income, but man are they not fun to interact with.
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MetaJew posted:I guess this is what comes with cars becoming cheaper and more accessible to people with disposable income, but man are they not fun to interact with. The social media poo poo isn't easily publicly indexed or curated as heavily as things were in the forum golden age so we're eventually going to look back on this time period as some kind of dark age with respect to missing content. Anyway, this is just my own terrible opinion.
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Scratch Monkey posted:It wasn't as popular as the other nicknames the right came up with (Wu Flu, China Virus, etc) but it's one of the ways they tried to use language to diminish the idea of the threat. We called it the Rona/Roni (and Corona-chan) on these very forums, you could argue that giving it a cute nickname has the effect of minimizing the threat, but it's definitely not a right-wing name that the guy should made a big deal of.
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Jul 14, 2021 19:09
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MetaJew posted:God dammit. Now I regret giving them money for a mug and t-shirt. Could be worse, you could be one of those morons giving them cash every month via patreon. Those are the actual mugs.
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Uthor posted:Hope they get better, but also he's been vocal against lock downs and masks. lol I wonder how better off he feels now!
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shy boy from chess club posted:Well cross another one off the watch list. I'm getting pretty tired of the majority of car culture and want less and less to be a part of it. Thankfully AI is still good, and island in a sea of chudery. I hate being part of the tuning/enthusiast industry really. It inevitably means having to nod along and pretend you agree that the environment is stupid and the government is evil for trying to protect it at the expense of Your Freedom. I was hoping there was some truth to the idea that we could bridge over to a post-ICE age when classic musclecars and supercars could exist free of restrictions because there would be so few of them as to not have any appreciable effect on anything; but it looks like the coal-rolling mentality is going to dig in its heels and not go away quietly, so either it'll be a blanket ban on everything or they'll just win and we'll be driving mandatory F-150s forever.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Could be worse, you could be one of those morons giving them cash every month via patreon. Those are the actual mugs. I don't follow social media so I had no idea what stupid poo poo they said, but when I saw how much time and money they spent painting the mini... Data Graham posted:I hate being part of the tuning/enthusiast industry really. It inevitably means having to nod along and pretend you agree that the environment is stupid and the government is evil for trying to protect it at the expense of Your Freedom.  , and a total inability to consider EVs as a viable transportation, even 15 years out.I just don't get it. I'm probably more of a car nerd than 90% of the posters there, but I'd be happy if we got 25% of drivers onto bikes, 25% into public transport, and 90% of the remaining cars into EVs. If I could buy the last ICE in 2035, it would easily last the rest of my driving career if I wanted. But I'm not even sure I would; none of the latest premium models which are bigger, heavier, uglier and slightly faster excite me in the slightest really. No Cayman GT4 would be a bit of a shame, but 99% of the garbage on the roads can be easily replaced with Leafs. I was considering writing an op-ed for them but then realized it would be a huge waste of time and would probably get me banned for life 
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mobby_6kl posted:If I could buy the last ICE in 2035, it would easily last the rest of my driving career if I wanted. But I'm not even sure I would; none of the latest premium models which are bigger, heavier, uglier and slightly faster excite me in the slightest really. I would buy a new car if there was anything on the market that I liked, but every new car these days is a stupid ugly CUV and it doesn't look like it's getting better. give me an electric station wagon ffs
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Sagebrush posted:I would buy a new car if there was anything on the market that I liked, but every new car these days is a stupid ugly CUV and it doesn't look like it's getting better.  This might make it to production
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Jul 14, 2021 21:28
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drat it's been a long time since my faith in VW left me I wonder if now, in the age of the Electric Lotus Hypercar, it is time
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Yeah the mouth breathers come out of the woodwork about "saving auto racing." And how "The EPA WANTS TO BAN OUR CARS! WRITE TO YOUR SENATOR" is so loving stupid. The EPA doesn't want a bunch of assholes driving without catalytic converters. Surprise! I'm pretty sure NASCAR and Formula 1 all run some type of cat, right? The only auto racing I've been to where it was obvious the cars were catless was the X Games rally cross back in 2007. BlackMK4 posted:I figured it was more a byproduct of driving social media engagement. People with completely different backgrounds are being heavily mixed now, rather than just those that are nerdy enough to search out a specific car model forum, register, post, etc. It's not easily searched. If you ask a question you get told to Google or search for it-- or get flooded with basically minion memes. It's the worst.
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Single Make/Model forums were poo poo because: Echo chamber on how great your car is and how everyone else car is bad. Targeted by fly by night parts suppliers who sell crap to idiots while the owners of the forum run interference for them in return for free stuff. Cults of personality around the owner and mods of the forum. Those are the ones that come to mind when recalling trying to use any of them. Of course this is not any better or worse now but forums have been placed with discord’s and subreddits.
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All of the offroad racers I know are very much of that type, and none of them run anything like a cat.
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MetaJew posted:It's not easily searched. If you ask a question you get told to Google or search for it-- or get flooded with basically minion memes. It's the worst. BigPaddy posted:Single Make/Model forums were poo poo because: Haha, yeah, these are all super, super legit points. Problem is you can't just Google or look at the stickied threads to figure out your super common issue. Looking at old forums is also a sea of dead links / dead photobucket / etc.
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I still occasionally read model-specific forums but only for like...part numbers and poo poo. What's a good replacement for this unobtainable thing that isn't labeled on the fiche, what's the thread on this one weird bolt, etc. Any more general questions, that's why AI and CA are here 
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Sagebrush posted:I still occasionally read model-specific forums but only for like...part numbers and poo poo. What's a good replacement for this unobtainable thing that isn't labeled on the fiche, what's the thread on this one weird bolt, etc. My favorite thing is when someone asks a basic question, and the only responses are "use the search, idiot" and the only results in the search are other people being told "use the search, idiot"
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BlackMK4 posted:The messed up part is that search is broken by design to drive engagement. I get how we got here, but drat, we need to fix this, because it is so much harder to find good info now.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm not so sure this is "terrible" Or maybe I'm terrible for laughing? Should have warmed up the juice.
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mobby_6kl posted:I don't follow social media so I had no idea what stupid poo poo they said, but when I saw how much time and money they spent painting the mini... I mean when you're being paid a clear £9k a month to just post some videos why not treat your rally car to a paintob that'll be completely ruined by the first rock chip?
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Sagebrush posted:I would buy a new car if there was anything on the market that I liked, but every new car these days is a stupid ugly CUV and it doesn't look like it's getting better. Yeah I don't think there's going to be any sudden banning of ICE performance car sales, new ICE cars will probably just keep getting worse and more loaded down with gadgets and unreliable crap to the point where the 'car enthusiast' doesn't really have any new-car options anyway. Seems pretty clear that the constantly declining rate of profit is pushing mass-market vehicle manufacturers into cost savings measures that will inevitably suck all of the interest out of new cars regardless of any legislation. Things like aformentioned infotainment systems and unreliable gizmos, having to build 20 different types of car on a single platform to justify the development, having to fit the same powertrain components into a dozen different models of car again to justify development costs, it all points towards new cars getting more and more similar to each other and less of what somebody who enjoys driving might like.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm not so sure this is "terrible" Or maybe I'm terrible for laughing? It's hilarious.
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Powershift posted:My favorite thing is when someone asks a basic question, and the only responses are "use the search, idiot" and the only results in the search are other people being told "use the search, idiot" BlackMK4 posted:The messed up part is that search is broken by design to drive engagement. Ahahahhaha Honda tech is the worst and any other Honda forum makes it look good by comparison. Add in "I searched but all the links and photos are dead please help" being the last post in a 20 page post chain that's 15 years old and I wound up going down a wrong brakes rabbit hole. Also don't forget people posting dead wrong stuff as gospel because they read it somewhere else from someone who read it somewhere else forever.
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I kept thinking he should also knock some snow off the bumper and around the footprints but ehhh Ruins the poetry
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KoRMaK posted:just actually piss on the car at this point if you are going to make it seem so convincing This way you don't risk a public indecency beef and/or get on the sex offender registry if you're within 50 miles of a school.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm not so sure this is "terrible" Or maybe I'm terrible for laughing? It's wrong thread, it's a hilarious no-damage prank on a BMW owner.
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MetaJew posted:Yeah the mouth breathers come out of the woodwork about "saving auto racing." And how "The EPA WANTS TO BAN OUR CARS! WRITE TO YOUR SENATOR" is so loving stupid. NASCAR generally doesn't use catalytic converters or mufflers for most of their series with the exception of the one of the truck ones I think. Nor does F1.
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The car I parked next to today had a genius life hack: Take advantage of the un-used rear deck space behind the back seats by using it as a warming shelf for your chicken nuggets:
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I would judge them but my daughter just turned one so I should probably see how the next few years go firstshy boy from chess club posted:The new fad of putting huge backfires into a tune seems to be the latest in being an rear end in a top hat for no reason up there with fart pipes and rolling coal. I was wondering about that, my wife doesn't care about cars at all and even she commented that we've been "hearings cars that sound like they're about to break" a lot more. I wasn't sure how much of it is going from being away from home 10.5+ hrs a day to working from home though, but there a few cars near me with that tune, an obnoxious exhaust, and a driver who seems to have been learning how to drive a manual for over a year and it's really annoying. Is that something your average smog station can even check? Seems like it would be very vehicle dependent but I don't know. It also doesn't seem to be hard to get around, I'm pretty sure most people in California know someone who knows someone who will pass you for extra money. My retired buddy who drives a RAV4 Prime even has a hookup, I can't imagine it's hard for someone involved in the tuning scene. MomJeans420 fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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