AI February 2020 Chat Thread

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IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

"It's just a game."

I lol'd.

"You're going to freeze to death!"

As someone who put the windows and doors back on his TJ in preparation for 50 degree weather, I agree.

Also, basically-free Pennzoil after rebate: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/purchase-pennzoil-platinum-motor-oil-get-22-shell-giftcard-purchase-for-as-low-as-17-56/

# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 17:25

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 13:42

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Geoj posted:

I'm having a hard time seeing how that could possibly be any worse.

Nearly as evil (after all, willing to hitch his wagon to Trump) but with some semblance of actual political ability beyond sharpies?

# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 03:55

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

The closest I've heard to a complaint about them is that with the mild hybrid setup they have, the aftermarket has been slow to come up with skid plates and whatnot to protect the dangly bits. Since I'm pretty sure your use case doesn't involve rock crawling I'd say you're fine.

nonedit: Also I didn't know they already abandoned said mild hybrid.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2020 17:32

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

And yet some tires are measured in that sane way, where it's just diameter x width x rim diameter, all in inches. Instead most of us get tires with width in mm, height as a percentage, and rim diameter in inches. loving nonsense.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 05:08

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 22:00

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

A Small Car posted:

There's so much in that picture to love

Right? I didn't bother taking a lot of pics because my phone literally couldn't handle the red on the 250GTO, but for such a small collection they had amazing examples from pretty much across the board. For anyone in AZ, this is at the Phoenix Art Museum until the middle of next month.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 23:51

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

NSFW that porn dude aka stop it my penis can only get so erect

Sorry about your impending priaprism. My old man and I were discussing it on the drive back to his house - we're both pretty well convinced that "beak" on the nose of that Eagle was probably one of the last purely stylistic touches ever applied to a top-tier racecar. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of newer race cars that look good, but form increasingly followed function, and the nose on the Eagle was purely cosmetic (and loving perfect).

Mario's WDC Lotus 79

Second-largest car there, behind the gigantic Bentley.

Those wheels.

A surprising number of these cars had modern belts in them and have clearly been driven in anger in vintage racing. A few of the cars I'd seen in person before at the IMS museum and those only usually get driven at pace-car speeds anymore.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2020 01:57

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

NitroSpazzz posted:

I will say I was surprised when I went to get a car loan and it was automatically a 72 month loan instead of a 36 or even 48 month like it was last time. That is a drat long time to be making payments on a toy. Does explain why so many people selling used cars still have a lien on them.

Yeah. The lowest term I was even offered up front (not that I'd go below it) on my latest loan was 60 months.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2020 20:20

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

STR posted:

Meanwhile my own bank wouldn't give me a loan...

... because I missed one of the identity verification questions. One of them was a year of car I'd owned, options were 87, 88, 89, or none. I asked how far back it went, they said up to 5 years. So I said none. They said I failed. Couldn't say which question, but that was the only one that it could be.

I owned two 1988 Honda Accords... in the 1990s.

I got this question when doing the verification for my most recent loan - they asked about the NB Miata I sold over a decade ago.

The other ridiculous thing was that they included a sheet about how the address I provided was "significantly different" than the one in my credit report. I've seen my reports, I pull them every year, and the only addresses in them are all valid (parents, first apartment, second apartment), and the only one I've been at in the last decade is the one I provided. loving stupid poo poo, but it was faster than waiting for an emailed copy of a utility bill to snake its way through the intertubes.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2020 22:42

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

I lucked into my current job by means of a connection on these very forums.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 17:23

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

BuckyDoneGun posted:

Getting out of RHD totally too. gently caress you GM, first you take away our V8 sedans, the least you could have done is sell us some Corvettes or even some goddamn real SUV’s.

According to that article they're probably going to import some Tahoes and Suburbans. What other actual SUVs does GM make these days? Also apparently the C8 is showing up already set up for RHD instead of making the HSV team swap it over.

It's definitely a big move but not all that surprising. Seemed only a matter of time once they killed the real Commodore.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 05:23

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Literally leaving the entire Asian market so not just Holden. What the ever living gently caress are GM thinking??????

An admission that they've never had anything competitive for the Japanese?

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 05:25

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

And yet early this century GM had its mitts around Daewoo and invested in other Asian manufacturers with the size and wallet to expand even further.

GM bought one of the worst automakers in the world and thought they could compete with the rest of the world, while doing nothing to actually improve the product or build quality

BuckyDoneGun posted:

Getting out of RHD seems dumb, when with modern design and manufacturing techniques, every other manufacturer does it happily, on both high and low volume cars, including.....Holden, for a while at least.

I mean, GM never figured out how to go the other direction either. Every time they rebadged a Holden for the US was a flop.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Holden DID try to sell Suburbans here. It was one completely huge and hilarious failure.

I don't see how they'd ever be competitive except for people who specifically want the longest three row SUV possible. I'd wager a Land Cruiser ends up far more competitively priced there verses here and that seems like a much more compelling sale.

Beach Bum posted:

One of my newspaper carriers had a RHD Cherokee. I didn't know until I went to orient him on the route, ended up completely redoing the delivery routing and sequencing to suit him (since nearly all our other carriers use standard LHD for delivery).

I would legit expect that the existence of the DJ5 is still the biggest reason RHD Jeeps continue to exist, along with needing relatively few bespoke parts thanks to the solid front axle.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 14:35

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Tremek posted:

Everything is expensive down under, what is this competitive pricing you speak of

You think shipping either fully complete or partially built GM trucks from the US, then having a small team convert them from LHD to RHD, is going to make the GM options any cheaper than that in all but the lowest trims?

BuckyDoneGun posted:

Yeah but that was gently caress all to do with the engineering and everything to do with GM loving up the marketing, on top of them being expensive due to Australian wages and conditions vs domestic production. See also: Colorado/Ranger pricing vs full size pickups.

GTO: Expensive, looked like a Cavalier, couldn't fit rear tires worth a drat, parts availability sucked even when they were still shipping them here
G8: Even more expensive, polarizing styling (that's an improvement, at least), Pontiac's death throes
SS: Even more expensive, even though a Camaro cost nearly as much when optioned to the same level, proof that the enthusiasts who insist that GM needs to keep making B-bodies only actually have used B-body budgets

Also I'm in no position to debate the merits of midsize truck pricing since I went ahead and bought one. Lightly used, at least, because there was no way in hell I wanted to spend >$40k on a new Duramax.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 16:56

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Darchangel posted:

I really love the way you describe that. �Low information�, lol.

The Venn diagram intersection of "Jeep Owners" and "People with more than half a brain" is pretty much near-zero overlap, unfortunately.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 19:05

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Krakkles posted:

If you didn't own a jeep I'd disagree

_{that works on several levels}

I'm pretty sure kastein is that dot.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 19:10

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Beach Bum posted:

I have never understood this poo poo. I am sick. I know I'm sick. I know I'll loving get over it. Don't make me go spend money on top of the shift money I'm already losing just to have my PCP go "Yup, you need fluids, food, and rest. Here's your $125 scribble on a glorified post-it note with a letterhead."

The last stint I did with retail I put a stop to that poo poo for the rest of my stay with one incident. The second day I was out sick with a stomach bug of some kind, I was on the phone with my manager and she was adamant I bring a doctor's note when I came back. "Actually, you know what, I'll come in tomorrow." "Okay great!"

I drove in to work, arrived about ten minutes early, and scarfed a drive-through breakfast burrito. I then punched in, staggered over to the manager, and asked to speak to her in her office. I didn't even get a chance to sit down before I puked in her office trashcan. I looked her dead in the eye, said "Well, I'm here, but I clearly can't work. Do me a favor and clock me out?"

We didn't have any more fuckin' problems after that.

That is a fuckin pro move right there. :golfclap:

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

I've only seen policies that say you need a note if you're like, out for 3 consecutive days or something

I've seen one day at lots of places, and that's not accounting for managers who get lovely in spite of what corporate policy says.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 22:07

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

shy boy from chess club posted:

I had the most amazing weekend and something happened that I think helped me get over a stage of grief I literally didnt think was possible even last week. Im so happy and I even ended up having a crush on someone and I dont think my heart will be broken forever anymore

Most wholesome post of 2020 right here.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 20:55

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Bape Culture posted:

Please can anyone tel me how to get my build thread live again?

There is a little lock icon and it won�t let me psot

THANKS RADIUM

# ¿ Feb 27, 2020 18:24

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

STR posted:

The idea is to pull it BEFORE it's cured, but dry to the touch.

I think he means the long-dry paint he put the tape on top of came off stuck to the adhesive, as in it never bonded properly to whatever was below it.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2020 18:42