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Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Nitrousoxide posted:

GSG16 (another sticker near the bottom center is a German gun (German Sports Gun)
It looks like the Federal Eagle sticker on the left also says "German Sports Gun" though it's kind of hard to make out.
I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are just a fan of that particular gun because all the German iconography on their bumper appears to be related to that gun specifically.

that makes far more sense. i know nothing of guns.

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Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
sea raven press owns
https://www.searavenpress.com/the-martian-anomalies-a-photographic-search-for-intelligent-life-on-mars.htm
Along with 48 chapters of amazing and sometimes shocking Martian
images, the author also provides a comprehensive introduction that
includes excerpts from an explosive 1984 U.S. government ESP session
with a remote viewer, whose telepathic visit to Mars corroborates many
of the photos in this very book.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Truga posted:

sea raven press owns
https://www.searavenpress.com/the-martian-anomalies-a-photographic-search-for-intelligent-life-on-mars.htm
Along with 48 chapters of amazing and sometimes shocking Martian
images, the author also provides a comprehensive introduction that
includes excerpts from an explosive 1984 U.S. government ESP session
with a remote viewer, whose telepathic visit to Mars corroborates many
of the photos in this very book.

quote:

World famous Sea Raven Press
9 authors, 86 titles Made in the USA Family Owned Since 1995 Over 1 Million Online Friends, Followers, Likes & Reviews Worldwide Our Sister Webstore: https://www.thebestcivilwarbookever.com

I've never seen an accumulated stat of "Friends, Followers, Likes, and Reviews Worldwide" I wonder if i can get into their webring

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
How was I not aware that we sent psychics to Mars???

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

500excf type r posted:

How is a tire pressurized to 35 psi going to explode like a bomb lol

the tires on my suv are 50psi and are real big

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
i'm filling tires to the proper level after a cold snap to make sure all my neighbors get good mileage

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1729676570514616702

Mauser
Dec 16, 2003

How did I even get here, son?!

It's a real life onion video of escalating absurdity

The Maroon Hawk
May 10, 2008


:blastu:

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Mauser posted:

Combination of the worst driver you've ever seen and most likely to start a road rage incident over an imaginary slight.

Also what the hell is up with the "slavery started in the north, abolition in the south" sticker? I've never heard that particular white nationalist fantasy before

"abolition started in the south" is probably a reference to the georgia experiment. georgia was founded as a colony intended to be for debtors and reformed prisoners and it was thought that having slaves there would make plantation aristocracy like there was in south carolina, so in order to promote a society where everyone had a strong work ethic and no one had the wealth to not need to work, in 1735 slavery was banned in georgia by the english parliament.

but then they copied south carolina's slave laws in 1755.

idk what the slavery started in the north could possibly refer to.

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




I walked through a lane of standstill traffic stopped at a red light today and got honked at. I think she called me a cracker lol

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
The source of that stickered truck image says that on the roof they’re flying a tattered Confederate flag and a brand new Israeli flag.

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



NOW THEY WANT TO CONTROL HOW FAST YOU DRIVE

Nitrousoxide
May 30, 2011

do not buy a oneplus phone



Next they'll be trying say you can't drink and drive in a school zone as god intended.

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:

Truga posted:

sea raven press owns
https://www.searavenpress.com/the-martian-anomalies-a-photographic-search-for-intelligent-life-on-mars.htm
Along with 48 chapters of amazing and sometimes shocking Martian
images, the author also provides a comprehensive introduction that
includes excerpts from an explosive 1984 U.S. government ESP session
with a remote viewer, whose telepathic visit to Mars corroborates many
of the photos in this very book.

lot of neo-confederate books on there

would you believe Lincoln was even cooler than public schools taught you he was:

quote:

There are two Abraham Lincolns: Lincoln the political celebrity, whose image has been carefully crafted by Lincoln scholars, biographers, and mythographers, and the true Lincoln, whose actual words are almost completely unknown to the general public. Why are they not known? Because they have been concealed, ignored, or misconstrued by Lincoln apologists. In some cases they have even actually been destroyed. Lincoln’s business associates, family members, and personal friends, for example, intentionally burned many of his writings. What is it that Lincoln devotees are so afraid of, and why have they been so careful to bury all traces of the real man?

The reason is simple. Exposing the hidden but authentic Lincoln would not only uncover his felonious behavior and the illegalities of his war on the South, but also the reasons the big government Liberal packed his administration and armies with socialists and communists.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

abraham lincoln, never owned a car.

Nitrousoxide
May 30, 2011

do not buy a oneplus phone



Though he did ride in a carriage.

Electro-Boogie Jack
Nov 22, 2006
bagger mcguirk sent me.


fox is wasting their time, most drivers already believe this

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



The idea that idiot tyrranical bureaucrats can decide by Fiat where you're "allowed" to drive is perhaps the worst

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things
Motor noise is a loving plague.


To isolate what the worst effects of roads are for sure, ecologists made a fake road in the middle of a very deep forest to record how if effected the critters. Shits bad.


Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet" by Ben Goldfarb posted:



"The Phantom Road was so realistic it fooled even people. “We get hikers and mountain bikers and hunters through there all the time, and at least three times we ran into folks who were like, okay, I thought the highway was south of here, not east,” Carlisle told me. The birds were equally disoriented. On days when Carlisle played her recordings, bird counts plummeted. Some species, like cedar waxwings and yellow warblers, avoided the Phantom Road altogether. And the Phantom Road didn’t merely drive off birds: it drained those who stayed. When Carlisle captured warblers and examined their tiny bodies, she found they were skinnier after they’d been near the Phantom Road. Songbirds survive by listening ceaselessly for the whir of falcons, the rustle of martens, and the alarm calls of their neighbors: “the chipmunk next door that sees the goshawk before you do,” as Carlisle put it. When road noise drowns out sonic cues, birds must look for predators rather than listen for them. This “foraging-vigilance tradeoff” gradually depletes them: every moment you’re scanning for hawks is one you’re not gobbling beetles. Alertness saves your life, until it starves you. The Phantom Road was a road-ecology landmark.

For the first time, researchers had shown that noise alone could impinge on animals’ lives. What made the experiment so compelling, though, wasn’t merely its ingenious design: it was where the Phantom Road’s noise came from. The traffic that played through Carlisle’s speakers hadn’t been recorded on an interstate highway or an urban boulevard. Instead, it was from Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park’s fifty-mile byway."


BUUNNI
Jun 23, 2023

by Pragmatica

FirstnameLastname posted:

the problem is that people just reinflate the tire and carry on. not realizing it's been compromised, then it blows out randomly at some point later on because the damage from getting sliced into by the rim & crumpled up on itself while deflated is inside of the tire body and between its layers

tires have a bunch of layers of different materials all laminated together and too much deformation of the side just ruins the structure permanently, then it gives out like the billionaire submarine

Sounds like driving is really dangerous and people shouldn’t have to do it so much.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
“Noise isn’t pollution”, I continue to insist, as I shrink and turn into a Democrat.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

The Top G
Jul 19, 2023

by Fluffdaddy

mawarannahr posted:

this doesn't sound like a big issue (I searched the internet for "should you re-inflate a flat tire.")

It’s not. If you come out to your car and find your tire is flat, you can reinflate it and safely drive it to a repair shop to get it fixed.

Source: the insurance carrier for the tire shop I worked at

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

unless that three minute drive is full throttle 60 mph highway driving door to door, it could easily be accomplished on foot

Samuel Glompers
Nov 26, 2020

And the hard plastic seats can't help either

Nitrousoxide
May 30, 2011

do not buy a oneplus phone



lobster shirt posted:

unless that three minute drive is full throttle 60 mph highway driving door to door, it could easily be accomplished on foot

I walk to my doctor/dentist when I go and the drive would be longer than 3 minutes lol.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Samuel Glompers posted:

And the hard plastic seats can't help either

hard plastic seats are better than mystery wet fabric seats

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Nitrousoxide posted:

I walk to my doctor/dentist when I go and the drive would be longer than 3 minutes lol.

not everyone can be fuckin FloJo over here

Samuel Glompers
Nov 26, 2020

Grassy Knowles posted:

hard plastic seats are better than mystery wet fabric seats

True, but worse than vinyl seats imo

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

Nitrousoxide posted:

I walk to my doctor/dentist when I go and the drive would be longer than 3 minutes lol.

i ride my bike, for my appointments with these health professionals

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

car thread needs its own ik, like every subway train needs an attendant

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

Lager beer is proof that god loves us
Pillbug

Making the bus bad enough to not be useful definitely sounds like a feature to me.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

ArmedZombie posted:

car thread needs its own ik, like every subway train needs an attendant

we can't even get them to keep a speed limit in place

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Grassy Knowles posted:

we can't even get them to keep a speed limit in place

turn it back on!!!

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

Grassy Knowles posted:

we can't even get them to keep a speed limit in place


Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

turn it back on!!!

done and done

Mauser
Dec 16, 2003

How did I even get here, son?!

Nitrousoxide posted:

I walk to my doctor/dentist when I go and the drive would be longer than 3 minutes lol.

absolute max distance would be like a 60mph drive for 3 minutes so 3 miles. A healthy person could walk 3 miles in about an hour, which would be a bit long to do twice a day. I would guess it's probably more like 1 mile to 1.5. I used to walk 1.5 miles each way to and from work for several years and it was extremely pleasant aside from all the loving cars not respecting pedestrian crossings :argh:

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

lobster shirt posted:

done and done

thank you i feel safer already

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
Posting on cruise control, ahhh

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Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Posting on cruise control, ahhh

with your feet?

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