HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 2 days ago:
There’s just enough disagreement and “infighting” to make people think their guy is the good guy and the other is the bad guy.
When you look at the overall picture, however, things start standing out.
There was much complaining and gnashing of teeth by most Democrats, and even a few Republicans, when the Bush era Patriot Act was pushed through. One particular Democratic politician even ran on the promise of eliminating it.
Guess what? It wasn’t eliminated.
Same thing with war and attacking other nations on their own sovereign soil.
It’s still happening, and it never stops, no matter which party is in control of the US government.
“But the other side does it more than we do!”
HOW ABOUT NEITHER SIDE DOES IT! HOW ABOUT WE MIND OUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!
- Comment on Crikey 2 days ago:
WTF, dude, get out of my pocket!
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 6 days ago:
Aluminum is the original name for the element. It was changed to be more in line with the others in its group.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 week ago:
- Comment on I'd never do this obviously 1 week ago:
Nice. Now if y’all can only figure out how to get the boot back from us. Geaux tigers. 🤣
- Comment on What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮 1 week ago:
First step: Get permission from my wife to date.
- Comment on I'd never do this obviously 1 week ago:
They finish that rework of the 40 interchange yet? I haven’t been through there in about a year or so.
When I was driving trucks, I’d come up 530 to LR, then head west to FS, it was a pretty regular run for me.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 1 week ago:
You can get wifi pretty cheap. A $40 router will get you wifi. You’ll also need an internet connection, however…
- Comment on I'd never do this obviously 1 week ago:
Til little Rock is the judge of nowhere…
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 1 week ago:
I’ll just wait until the fitgirl sale…
- Comment on The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology 1 week ago:
takes picture of screen from another device yep, so secure.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 1 week ago:
There’s a theory that we already are. That our entire universe is a singularity.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 1 week ago:
Mm, spaghetti…
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 weeks ago:
Because when they do, they start charging more for them. cough Kia/Hyundai
- Comment on We really did 2 weeks ago:
I drove 1500 miles with directions to the town center, and a phone number written on a paper plate. I then used a pay phone to call her and tell her “Surprise, I drove to your town, wheres your apartment?”
She bet me I wouldn’t.
I won that bet. Victory party lasted the entire weekend, then I drove home. 😂
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 2 weeks ago:
20 years ago:
"We need to stop using paper bags! They’re cutting down all the trees!” (a renewable resource)
"We should use plastic bags instead! They’re recyclable!” (so is paper, and it’s far more economically viable, but plastic is made from petroleum)
So now we use plastic bags made of a much heavier material, so we can reuse them, or cloth bags for a similar reason.
Cloth bags are made from cotton, like paper is made from trees.
- Comment on Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games 3 weeks ago:
But that would require me installing epic games.
Nope.
- Comment on Yes 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Held back no longer 3 weeks ago:
Sooo: 2-Low?
Because, technically speaking, an 18 speed is just an 8 speed with power dividers.
1L, 1H, 2L, 2H, 3L, 3H, etc up to 8L, and 8H.
So where it gets interesting is low and reverse. Observe:
The gear shift only has 6 positions: R 1, 3 on top, and L, 2, 4 on the bottom. Then you flip the range selector to High and then the gear shift becomes: R-High, 5 7 and Low-High, 6, 8.
But there’s also a power divider on the shift, usually thumb activated that further divides those gears.
Which means Reverse can be split again… But so can reverse High. So you wind up with Reverse, Reverse High, then reverse High low and Reverse high high
And Low becomes even funnier: Because you can split low into low and low low, and low high into low high low…
But what’s even more interesting is that generally, gear ratio of Low high and 4 are very close, almost identical.
- Comment on Held back no longer 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know anyone who starts in 1st even with a full load. Maybe some very heavy haul guys.
In a bobtail, I would routinely take off in 4th or even 5th, in a 10 speed.
Another thing to consider is the amount of torque available.
I have on occasion went through every gear without ever needing to accelerate. Did you know that in a semi trucks, bobtailing, in top gear, that idling the engine will still have you doing about 40 to 45mph.
And due to all the torque, it won’t really be lugging the engine either to idle in gear while rolling on flat ground.
- Comment on Day 323 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 3 weeks ago:
stares in Determined Exterminator
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 3 weeks ago:
Aww. they’re always so cute when they’re young! 🤣
