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`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Horace posted:

Unimaginable to the new car owners, but my car has big windows in the back so I don’t need a camera to avoid flattening my own child while backing up in the driveway

people ran over their children while backing all the time before the glass started shrinking, while it's certainly more important now, it was absolutely a problem before cameras and LCD screens got cheap

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`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Horace posted:

If they weren’t looking out of the window to avoid their child why would they look at an LCD screen?

it's possible to look and make a mistake, and having an ultra good view behind you may help prevent mistakes!

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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My current car has a backup camera and it is legit one of the best improvements for a car i've experienced. between reversing out of spots in a parking lot and being able to see approaching cars in the lane far before you can by trying to gawk around, or parallel parking in a tight spot without the risk of playing bumper cars, it's absolutely great.

Throw in emergency brake assist (helped save me a lot of grief when someone ran a stop sign in front of me last week), using the radar from the adaptive cruise control to apply brakes in an emergency, and the hybrid drive - hands down the best car i've ever owned and it's not even close. It's a 2017 model, but i drove a bunch of rentals last year and the only one i actively disliked was a 2021 Jeep Cherokee cause it was the only one that required you to use the touch screen for some basic audio or climate control tasks, and the visibility sucked. The rest all had physical buttons and were generally fine at worst.


Lobok posted:

I just hate the thick pillars. There's other visibility stuff that is annoying but it's the pillars I despise. The car I own and every other car I've rented and drove has me juking, bobbing, and weaving my head side to side like a boxer to look around the pillar.

yeah that's so if you roll the vehicle or are in an offset frontal collision at speed you are not crushed to death like people would be in older cars.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Lobok posted:

Reasons don't quell my rage

major boomer yells at clouds energy here

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Lobok posted:

I was raised by a couple so probably yeah, some Boomer ooze leaked down into the sewer of my mind.

same on all counts honestly

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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oh no

anyways

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1691812293934227489

I guess my first question is why is there a verified pro-Adolf Hitler account that encourages antisemitic harassment

Because Elon likes it

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Biplane posted:

You get four checkmarks arranged in a circle.

:twitter:

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1692584455607648632

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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i have 5 bluesky invite codes, pm me if anyone wants one. pretty sure i'll need an email address to send it as a heads up.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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wash bucket posted:

That hasn't been the case with the one's I've given out. Just give out the code and it works.

you are correct, guess i remembered my own invite wrong.

anyways, edit: all have been claimed, if i get more i can share!

`Nemesis has a new favorite as of 15:21 on Aug 25, 2023

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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The Saddest Rhino posted:



Also a quick note that currently there are no plans indicated that the forums will embed bluesky posts. Wrt threads, it's a hard "no"

bluesky isn't open to the public yet, so even if it could embed - only people with bluesky accounts would be able to see it. idk when they plan to open up to everyone, figure they're trying to make sure it won't die immediately

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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zedprime posted:

I expect there's many business development conversations happening now that Twitter is floundering but Bluesky was never meant to be open to the public. It's a beta testing instance of one technical framework for posting in a confederated manner like Mastodon that they could perfect the technical underpinnings then license to someone else to do the hard parts of scaling social media like moderation and legal enforcement.

Bluesky has said they are planning on opening to the public.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Warbird posted:

Alright, who here is running the Twitter account?

https://twitter.com/goons_txt/status/1701184802454397414

https://twitter.com/goons_txt/status/1701256021065310548

Was vilerat a mod? It was before my time so I’m not sure.

the person who runs that account is a permabanned freak who is still obsessed with the site, lots of those though so i can't remember their nickname

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Inceltown posted:

Yeah, you're getting Sleeveless / of Science!!!!! etc confused. I'm sure goons_txt is a horrible person too - we all are - but they're not the super pathetic one about their perma.

oh, well then.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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i posted this one earlier but no one claimed it

bsky-social-6olns-f3fsu

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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sex pest works well for someone like that idiot from polygon who was in a ton of women's DM's unsolicited but didn't rape anyone, not a good fit for anything physical imo

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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there's a whole bunch of bluesky codes available if you wanna get your skeet on


https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4041729&perpage=40&pagenumber=3&noseen=1

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Clerical Terrors posted:

Honestly though, eating food is one of the most disgusting and problematic things you can do. It's an industry that exploits labor at a massive scale, not to mention leaves a huge environmental impact. And all to engage in this highfalutin play act where we judge different molecules against each other and call it 'flavor', and prop up the disgusting cultures of colonizers and murderers by pretending they invented something new, when 90% of the time that's just bread or stew with slightly different ingredients. If any of you were as cool and progressive as me you'd performing photosynthesis instead.

glad someone is finally saying it, switch to Soylent

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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twitter changed crap overnight

anyways, have an insane commercial


https://twitter.com/baraGodzilla/status/1258682943716782080/

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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https://twitter.com/NSANiTYx/status/1737545371071713375?s=20

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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https://www.twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1738100744291754297?s=20

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Bluesky skeets are viewable without an account now!

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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DeWalt for a long time but as soon as Milwaukee cleaned up and got serious again, had to go with the home town faction.

and yes, Milwaukee is a TTI Brand (Hong Kong company), but they've reinvested in the city of Milwaukee with a major office development, and a friend of mine works there and loves his job.

edit: Ryobi is also a TTI brand, and is slated slightly under Milwaukee.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Air Skwirl posted:

This type of video should be illegal without the express consent of the Benihana chef. It's private property and being uploaded to a website that makes money off of it.

concerning.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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wash bucket posted:

Sounds like Bluesky no longer requires invites to sign up.

yup!

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000?s=20

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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prosecutors can and do overcharge people in an effort to force plea deals, it's a method of managing their in court caseload and pump performance numbers.

edit: also the cops do the investigation, and the DA works off that info. were certainly not going to pretend that cops are getting this poo poo right. garbage in garbage out. i don't know what she really did, i also have no interest in defending her, only pointing out that the criminal justice system is hosed up.

`Nemesis has a new favorite as of 23:04 on Feb 14, 2024

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Phosphine posted:

Man these leftover hangups are loving absurd. Leftovers are just food. If you have food, you can eat that instead of cooking new food!

Does this insanity apply to lunchboxes for work as well? Do they refuse to make and bring those because eating food you already have is "poor"?

i know someone who won't eat leftovers, she gets takeout or delivery every day at work. I won't judge on the takeout every day part, my office has a cafeteria and i just buy something there for lunch daily.

Not really sure of her reason for refusing to eat leftovers, but i know it's not because of worries about appearances. i think it's more like that it's "old" and unsafe? idk, people can have weird hangups.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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https://x.com/AoDespair/status/1775705856476106818?s=20

Elon turned on free blue checks for "influential" users yesterday

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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shocking

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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Negostrike posted:

Was it the drummer who took the photo

woulda guessed the bassist

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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edit re: tate

i was looking on his twitter a few hours after that was supposedly posted to try and verify it was real, and there was nothing there except his usual garbage, pretty sure it's fake.

I know, i'm also surprised people would just lie about things over the internet.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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zoux posted:

I quit reading the onion because they were putting everything in slides and other anti-consumer techniques to maximize ad revenue. Good luck to Ben and his people in reversing that, but I fear that G/O wasn't doing that for fun, they were doing that because they don't know how to make money off of the internet. I'm not sure anyone does.

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`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

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https://x.com/ConnorWX/status/1784065392563949680

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