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gschmidl posted:Not sure if you're being serious, but yes, of course. i was joking...
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’ll give up my car but never my garage I’m not giving up my car either. anti car people are dumb
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akadajet posted:I’m not giving up my car either. anti car people are dumb you're dumb
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I drove today for the first time in 3 weeks. i hate it. gj covid for curing me of my motor vehicle obsession.
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motorcycles still rule. cars are meh
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going for a proper drive is still fun driving to work or the store on slow, arrow-straight, rutted-up american streets loving suuuuucks
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Feb 7, 2022 02:51
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The_Franz posted:driving to work or the store on slow, arrow-straight, rutted-up american streets loving suuuuucks holy poo poo the potholes are out in force, there were some canyon sized ones i barely dodged today
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there's one particular onramp here that has disintegrated so badly during covid that i no longer feel safe taking it on my motorcycle at night, when i can't see the missing chunks. even in the day it's sketchy as hell because i can't merge over when required, but have to dodge around the holes. san francisco's roads are not the worst i've driven on, but by god are they ever shameful for a city with so much money and so little weather.
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Sagebrush posted:san francisco's roads are not the worst i've driven on, but by god are they ever shameful for a city with so much money and so little weather.
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Sagebrush posted:there's one particular onramp here that has disintegrated so badly during covid that i no longer feel safe taking it on my motorcycle at night, when i can't see the missing chunks. even in the day it's sketchy as hell because i can't merge over when required, but have to dodge around the holes. lol you've never driven anywhere where the weather actually changes huh
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Endless Mike posted:lol you've never driven anywhere where the weather actually changes huh
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mystes posted:That would be more of an airplane trip
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Endless Mike posted:lol you've never driven anywhere where the weather actually changes huh you need a better yospos.xls man
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Sagebrush posted:you need a better yospos.xls man
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Endless Mike posted:ONE WHOLE onramp is hosed! the worst! imagine driving somewhere that entire interstates crumble annually! i'm in this post and i don't like it.
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Sagebrush posted:you need a better yospos.xls man i only keep LAN.DC.xls, sorry. yospos is too much to keep up on
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Midjack posted:i'm in this post and i don't like it. don't worry, I'm sure youngkin will be sure to expand i-66 to 20 lanes you'll have plenty of options to avoid crumbling roads
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I drove to the office for the first time in ~18 months the other day to print some stuff out 40 minutes there and 40 minutes back. The whole time I was getting more and more furious that I had ever made commuting a regular part of my life. Never again.
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Sagebrush posted:Well, the software resellers seem to handle it just fine. yeah, while it wouldn't have been difficult to do, there's no incentive to early facebook as a platform to do so in a purely profit-driven sense i feel it also left the door open as a fallback to being the de facto alumni network portal, should they have wanted to stabilize their user population granted, as a creepo stalking platform they used to encourage you to post your class schedule. it's always been terrible for one reason or another FrozenVent posted:have “Facebook class of (year)” where people from your graduating class +/- 4 get to see your poo poo and everyone outside that sees some sort of LinkedIn heck, this is a decent idea, but they'd for sure mess it up with something like 'mentors' where people could bleed into other class ranges and creep from a leadership position
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yeaaaah when i think back to how personal it was, with your class schedule and what dorm you lived in and all that, it was really sketchy. i suppose it seemed fine because it was 2006 and it was just your classmates anyway, what could go wrong? but there's a reason it's illegal for an educational institution to reveal a student's schedule, by a national act similar to HIPAA. (FERPA) i've told the story before about our student whose family learned, from a helpful office worker, that she was taking a class in human sexuality, and a couple of uncles showed up a few days later and abducted her and took her back to her home country to be a proper woman according to their culture.
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lmao american "infrastructure"
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Sagebrush posted:he has a pilot's license, so i'd expect him to know at least a little bit about how this poo poo works probably bribed someone to pass him and he can't actually fly a plane at all. he got the license so he could hang with the cool kids and be like "yeah I got a pilot's license, hey epstein can I fly the plane next time you're off to little st james"
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Carthag Tuek posted:lmao american "infrastructure" Build Back Badly
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how the hell did low profile tires ever become a thing? seems like a good way to gently caress up some rims
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Nfcknblvbl posted:how the hell did low profile tires ever become a thing? seems like a good way to gently caress up some rims
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i'd be 100% fine with banning cars but keeping motorcycles. they're more fun and cars are the bigger problem anyway anyway our "garage" is just a shed since it has a small door. i want to tear it down and replace it with something else but in the meantime its a good project space and the more tropically inclined plants enjoy it. lol the geraniums just bloom year round now 
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Nfcknblvbl posted:how the hell did low profile tires ever become a thing? seems like a good way to gently caress up some rims do you even stance bro?
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mediaphage posted:i'd be 100% fine with banning cars but keeping motorcycles. they're more fun and cars are the bigger problem anyway ooh la la mister fancy heated garage. i've got all my plants crammed into my bedroom in front of the bay window, with a couple grow lights over them so they don't melt over the winter.
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infernal machines posted:ooh la la mister fancy heated garage. i've got all my plants crammed into my bedroom in front of the bay window, with a couple grow lights over them so they don't melt over the winter. lol you got me, we have this super high-tech heating system to keep the plants from dying:  i scored a great deal on some leds so now we can run the radiator and the light at the same time! (before it was just a 1kw MH bulb which took care of heating and lighting while it was on)
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Nfcknblvbl posted:how the hell did low profile tires ever become a thing? seems like a good way to gently caress up some rims High performance race cars started having bigger and bigger disc brakes, which necessitated bigger and bigger wheels to fit them inside. People are copying that. Also, car designers like to draw concepts with exaggerated features because they think it looks cool, including enormous Hot Wheels wheels and tiny little tank slit windows. This is partly just a styling fad, but because all the car designers on the planet come from two specific design schools, all their stuff looks the same and trends rapidly become universal across the industry. There is something to be said for tires with a narrower sidewall being stiffer in turns, but the rubber-band ones you see these days have gone far past the point of mechanical utility. All you're doing when you get the 21 inch wheels instead of the 17s is making your ride suck more and your tire bill go up.
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i'm struggling to find any definitive proof that shorter side walls improve performance, all i can see is the opposite
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Raymond Loewy Studebaker concept sketch from 1961: Average Art Center grad concept car sketch from the mid-2010s: 
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Sagebrush posted:Raymond Lowey Studebaker concept sketch from 1961: I'm the Coca-Cola
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Sagebrush posted:Raymond Lowey Studebaker concept sketch from 1961: coca cola
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gently caress i wanted to be the coca-cola 
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Nfcknblvbl posted:how the hell did low profile tires ever become a thing? seems like a good way to gently caress up some rims it also lets tire manufacturers charge more money for less material. tire prices seems to increase with wheel sizes, even if the overall tire width and diameter remains the same
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Nfcknblvbl posted:i'm struggling to find any definitive proof that shorter side walls improve performance, all i can see is the opposite Shorter sidewalls don't flex as much in turns, and to a point, that gives you better turning performance on a racetrack. As with most things there is a sweet spot, and beyond that point the performance will actually start regressing. Car suspension systems are designed with the flexibility and shock absorption of the pneumatic tire as part of the equation. If you reduce your tire to a rubber band, you lose all that shock absorption, and in addition to the ride becoming poo poo, the tire will bounce around over small bumps in the road rather than deforming and tracking them. This effect is more pronounced if your road is at all unsmooth, like every road that is not a racetrack. And, of course, all of these factors literally only matter if you are driving the car at the edge of its performance. Thinner sidewalls don't increase your stopping power or road holding power in an emergency situation, so they don't add safety. If you can fit smaller wheels over your brakes, you might as well do it and put on some 60 or 70 profile tires and enjoy the quieter, more comfortable ride.
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don't forget increased unsprung mass from bigger rims. my car with 18" wheels is 1/10th of a second quicker than the one with the 20" 'upgrade' rims
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The_Franz posted:it also lets tire manufacturers charge more money for less material. tire prices seems to increase with wheel sizes, even if the overall tire width and diameter remains the same Eh that's only partially a scam. It is actually harder to make low profile tires, because you have to design them to remain essentially rectangular in profile when inflated with air, which takes more complicated engineering. You also need fancier molds to make them because they have to be stiff to stay rectangular, which means they can't flex as much in general, which makes them harder to pull out of the molds. Everything is connected E: and just on the safety note, let's not forget the basic economics of the situation. The most important tire safety factor is that you replace it before it gets dried out and cracked and worn down. My little old car with brand new 15/70 Yokohamas that I can replace regularly because they're so cheap will absolutely stop better than a Model S Plaid with 22/25 Pirellis that are completely bald and cracked because the owner didn't anticipate it would cost $9,000 a set to replace them. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Nfcknblvbl posted:how the hell did low profile tires ever become a thing? seems like a good way to gently caress up some rims my tire rims are all hosed up thanks to this trend
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