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My car is shaped like an apple. It has no stereo or muffler.
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Google Search is utterly worthless and idk what's better (don't say bbg it's just bing. yandex has similar issues). it's always searching for some poo poo i never typed. Whether it's some computer poo poo like how something works on zsh it will return things about bash (with bash bolded as though it were my keyword), or bringing up accident statistics when I search "percent of motorcyclists who have multiple motorcycles," which I found the other week just fine. Nobody wants to make a search engine anymore.
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Nov 1, 2023 04:14
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Dip Viscous posted:My car is shaped like an apple. It has no stereo or muffler. Grunting intelligently while writing ROAD APPLES in my notepad
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Nov 1, 2023 04:21
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naem posted:does anyone make actual blue jeans anymore? I've just been thru a whole jeans Thing and it's been such a pain in my rear end. I had a pair of Lucky jeans I liked and so I bought a couple of the same model number in the same size and they were poo poo. They were big as hell and stretchier then sweat pants and the reason is apparently because I bought them from Nordstrom rack instead of the Lucky store. I just recently lost a little bit of weight and so I had to try to buy new pants again and this time I went to a Levi's store- I had the same issue with Costco Levi's in the past, stretchy as hell and fit like dog poo poo. The ones at the Levi's store were exactly the way they're supposed to be, they fit exactly right, there's no stretch and they're regular rear end jeans. Anyway the man at the Levi's store told me that you can only get the good jeans at a dedicated shop and anything you buy at a Costco or a Macy's or whatever is subpar by design. My guess is that Lucky works the same way.
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Nov 1, 2023 04:36
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Big chains lean on suppliers to lower prices and the easiest way to do that is to make a separate product that is shittier for the people who want cheap stuff.
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Nov 1, 2023 04:43
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Jeans sucking is just punishment for not buying sweatpants. What's that? Sweatpants also suck and now have jogger cuffs/cuts and are made stretchy instead of just being relaxed and 100% cotton? Oh well what are microplastics anyway?
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Nov 1, 2023 05:26
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bradzilla posted:The only recent car safety feature that's actually worth a poo poo is the rear camera and possibly blind spot monitor. All the other features are just annoying and never work when they're actually supposed to. They're there because cars have lost their outward visibility to swoopy fast rooflines to scrape 0.05 mpg when they could instead save 5+ mpg by making an actual car and not a fake SUV.
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Nov 1, 2023 05:28
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Am I crazy or did they just add another useless button to the Youtube side bar?
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Nov 1, 2023 05:32
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SO DEMANDING posted:Clothing quality in general has been on a downward trend for a while, but it has absolutely nosedived in the past 3 years or so. Lots of really lovely synthetic blends or full synthetic fabrics, and everything is so much thinner. It really stood out to me when I went to a Nordstrom Rack recently, it was piles of awful plasticy shirts and pants. Yes it's a clearance/discount store that isn't going to be top quality to begin with, yes synthetics are not always inherently bad, but this was just egregiously awful stuff. The difference in merchandise compared to only a few years ago was stark. I bought a.Big Dog hoodie this year and it's soft and thick and comfortable and wonderful
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Nov 1, 2023 05:58
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They've started skimping on the honey coating on my honey puff breakfast cereal. I ate it because of the honey. Fuckers.
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Nov 1, 2023 08:14
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This thread got shittier because I mentioned cars when I meant to say CAR BUYING and I’m really sorry please stop
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Nov 1, 2023 09:25
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Professor Shark posted:This thread got shittier because I mentioned cars when I meant to say CAR BUYING and I’m really sorry please stop Car buying has been terrible from the start and can't get any worse.
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Nov 1, 2023 10:30
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anonumos posted:Car buying has been terrible from the start and can't get any worse. Please. You can buy a car online now. It used to be this excruciating process dealing with this slimy car sales guy and you had no info other than his word.
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Nov 1, 2023 10:32
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redshirt posted:Please. You can buy a car online now. It used to be this excruciating process dealing with this slimy car sales guy and you had no info other than his word. I haven't bought online so I imagined eventually you still had to wade through upsells and dealer fees regardless.
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Nov 1, 2023 12:14
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Dip Viscous posted:My parents got a new car for the first time in their lives in early 2020 and they hate all of those things because it feels like rather than being safer it encourages complacency. Driving it a few times, I feel the same. Also the touch screen that controls everything reliably breaks every time the temp dips below -30C. I have driven many new cars and the safety stuff is all garbage and detrimental and unsafe
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Nov 1, 2023 12:15
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Dip Viscous posted:My car is shaped like an apple. It has no stereo or muffler. Has busytown gotten worse? I feel like busytown is eternal and timeless
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Nov 1, 2023 12:15
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I suppose if maybe you have a stroke while driving the car may stop a bad collision
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Nov 1, 2023 12:15
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anonumos posted:I haven't bought online so I imagined eventually you still had to wade through upsells and dealer fees regardless. I've not done it, but I'd rather take that process where I don't have some dipshit hardselling me on stuff and he's deliberately making it difficult to focus and think and can say things I won't have evidence to be able to hold him accountable for later. Once you do have an option to do this online, the process is going to get worse in person as they get more desperate. I'm probably going to buy my next car through carmax unless anyone has experiences they want to share against that idea
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Nov 1, 2023 12:19
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mawarannahr posted:Google Search is utterly worthless and idk what's better (don't say bbg it's just bing. yandex has similar issues). it's always searching for some poo poo i never typed. Whether it's some computer poo poo like how something works on zsh it will return things about bash (with bash bolded as though it were my keyword), or bringing up accident statistics when I search "percent of motorcyclists who have multiple motorcycles," which I found the other week just fine. I’ve been trying out Kagi for a bit, seems fine.
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Nov 1, 2023 13:24
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mawarannahr posted:Google Search is utterly worthless and idk what's better (don't say bbg it's just bing. yandex has similar issues). it's always searching for some poo poo i never typed. Whether it's some computer poo poo like how something works on zsh it will return things about bash (with bash bolded as though it were my keyword), or bringing up accident statistics when I search "percent of motorcyclists who have multiple motorcycles," which I found the other week just fine.  I've been using kagi for the last month and it's like 2002 again (good) It's even got a search filter for recipes that aren't 1000000000000000 lines of text
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Nov 1, 2023 13:29
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Dip Viscous posted:My car is shaped like an apple. It has no stereo or muffler. gently caress yeah, Lowly Worm forever.
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Nov 1, 2023 13:37
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DrPossum posted:I've not done it, but I'd rather take that process where I don't have some dipshit hardselling me on stuff and he's deliberately making it difficult to focus and think and can say things I won't have evidence to be able to hold him accountable for later. Sure you could save $500 or even $2000 by aggressively haggling and playing dealers against each other but I just wanted to walk in and pay and go and I did.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:10
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euphronius posted:I have driven many new cars and the safety stuff is all garbage and detrimental and unsafe Yeah I'd rather be thrown clear
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Nov 1, 2023 14:20
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Armacham posted:Yeah I'd rather be thrown clear Physical safety harnesses and semi-autonomous electronic controls/aids are not comparable in any meaningful sense
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Nov 1, 2023 14:22
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When I get thrown clear from the car I roll myself into a little ball. When I see the ground below, I unfurl and gently land on my feet.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:26
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Armacham posted:Yeah I'd rather be thrown clear Ive tried to swerve out of the way of debris on the road and the car has fought me tooth an nail. Its stupid. If you put your blinker on tho you can go ham. I turn all that poo poo off instantly now.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:28
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Tarkus posted:When I get thrown clear from the car I roll myself into a little ball. When I see the ground below, I unfurl and gently land on my feet. Same, then I usually draw my katana and prepare to behead the other party.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:29
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Armacham posted:Yeah I'd rather be thrown clear Why don’t electric cars come with ejector seats, this is bullshit
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Nov 1, 2023 14:29
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You have to turn it all off if you drive through a construction zone anyway so just get it out of the way.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:30
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euphronius posted:You have to turn it all off if you drive through a construction zone anyway so just get it out of the way. Never had this issue with my rav 4. Sorry your car sucks lol
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Nov 1, 2023 14:43
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Tarkus posted:When I get thrown clear from the car I roll myself into a little ball. When I see the ground below, I unfurl and gently land on my feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37L0aIuZKio
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Nov 1, 2023 14:45
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MrQwerty posted:Physical safety harnesses and semi-autonomous electronic controls/aids are not comparable in any meaningful sense Agreed, people that refuse to wear their seatbelt make emotional arguments that fly in the face of data before choosing to endanger themselves, whereas people that refuse to use modern driver assist features make emotional arguments that fly in the face of data before choosing to endanger themselves and everyone else on the road with them.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:51
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:It's not totally online, but if you have a Costco membership I used their auto buying program, they give you a price and the dealer has to stick with it no matter what or they get blackballed from Costco and penalized. I have had to tell multiple car dealers that I’m leaving if they keep wasting my time with anything but questions from my bank or the DMV. I said I’d buy it go do my loving paperwork. They exist in some other world.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:57
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Internet Old One posted:I have had to tell multiple car dealers that I’m leaving if they keep wasting my time with anything but questions from my bank or the DMV. I said I’d buy it go do my loving paperwork. I bought a car for cash after watching the price drop on some random website, cargurus.com then I went in and said hello I’d like to buy this car for this price please and they said ok then they made me sit around for an hour and a half for no reason whatsoever until three different guys came to say “ok I’ll go get the sales manager” who was a weird a-hole to me again for no reason they made zero extra dollars making me sit and no one else was in the dealership “may I hand you money for a car now?” ok sign here boom done
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Nov 1, 2023 15:16
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DrPossum posted:
If you have to pay for a real search engine that is just further proof of the advance of enshittification and the retreat of the consumer society upmarket. Poorer people are ceasing to be consumers and being turned into surplus population.
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Nov 1, 2023 15:17
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Cerekk posted:Sorry about your old lovely car, try not to kill anyone while you operate it without the benefit of sensors that can see beyond the limits of human perception and control systems that can react a million timea faster than a person. "Sensors" don't exist. Cameras, LIDAR and other systems do and are also limited in specific ways and mot a replacement for actually paying attention.
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Nov 1, 2023 15:21
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Armacham posted:Never had this issue with my rav 4. Sorry your car sucks lol I have a rav4 and it loves to scream at me and slam on the brakes if there's a steel construction plate or some paint splashed in the lane. Actual obstructions like a mattress? Not so much. The lane drift warning is beyond obnoxious and has never done anything remotely helpful ever Blind spot indicators and adaptive cruise are nice though
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Nov 1, 2023 15:26
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I have a rav4 and it loves to scream at me and slam on the brakes if there's a steel construction plate or some paint splashed in the lane. This is definitely a skill issue, never had this happen once
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Nov 1, 2023 15:28
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Cerekk posted:Agreed, people that refuse to wear their seatbelt make emotional arguments that fly in the face of data before choosing to endanger themselves, whereas people that refuse to use modern driver assist features make emotional arguments that fly in the face of data before choosing to endanger themselves and everyone else on the road with them. Do they actually make people statistically safer or are you just assuming they do? Current data shows "self driving" systems like in teslas are significantly more dangerous than human drivers. No idea on the effects of the other driver assistance options are.
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Improbable Lobster posted:"Sensors" don't exist. Cameras, LIDAR and other systems do and are also limited in specific ways and mot a replacement for actually paying attention. I ask my F150 if the schoolbus in front of me has any signs of life on board. It says nothing so I accelerate hard.
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