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- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 17 hours ago:
Man I’m pretty sure there’s been at least one or two times where if I’d followed shut the fuck up Friday, I would’ve gotten a fine at least. Of course I do live in a different country (very important point I’d say. Cops here are fairly friendly when in a good mood and don’t really get to shoot people).
There was one time when I got stopped because I didn’t have inspection or insurance on my car as it had been sitting for a while. Got away with just having to renew insurance as I told them I was just going to my workshop to get the car fixed for inspection (slight lie, woops - think I was driving it to the family farm to store it there long-term as I had another car I was driving actively) and had forgotten to renew insurance since the car had been sitting with no insurance for a while. It’s legal to drive your car to/from inspection and to/from a workshop for repairs without active inspection here.
Then another time when on that exact same car, IIRC the speedo didn’t work properly (or maybe I was just in a mood to listen to the inline 5 purr) so I went what must’ve been about 65 km/h in a 50 zone at night and just told the cop that the speedo had just stopped working a few minutes ago. Car was about 25 years old at that point so entirely believable too. No fine or anything, got told to just go fix it and drive carefully in the meantime.
The common theme of course being that never have I been accused of doing anything that would get me prison time or something. It’s been fairly tiny traffic offenses that they already got on video anyway (police cars have dash cameras after all), those fines don’t cost a lot if you don’t go to the court to argue. And it’s not entirely impossible that I’ve been blessed with the gift of gab because while I’m nearly incapable of straight-up lying, I am very capable of bending the truth just right to make things sound better for me. For small, offenses, cops have discretion to let you go if you don’t piss them off and to give you a fine if you play hardball.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 1 day ago:
I can assure you, little of it is from the doors. My 2007 Audi A6 allroad is 4300 pounds empty according to its birth certificate and the doors on it don’t weigh much at all… Or rather they didn’t till I added noise absorption mats when I replaced the door locks. Yours is newer but a Golf would likely have less built in noise insulation in the doors than an A6 and it might even have aluminium doors since it’s newer. Mine are still steel, but the metal is pretty thin.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 1 day ago:
It’s mostly that the old American land yachts are no longer as big. Look at the fifth generation Lincoln Continental vs any after it. Or the 1960s Cadillac Eldorado, a 2.2 ton 2 door car
European and Asian cars have been trending up in size meanwhile but there have been instances where a new generation model is lighter than the old one due to the materials used.
- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 1 day ago:
Interestingly enough, you can get different premarinated meats to throw on your grill here with marinades like blueberry, cherry, etc. In addition to all the “normal” stuff like vinegar or yogurt based marinades.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 2 days ago:
well, go bench 225 and cut down to abs and get back to me.
That’s a bit of an ask, it would take several years of training hard to reach a 225 KG bench press.
- Comment on Saab or Your mom 3 days ago:
It does seem to me that the rear seats are folded down to make it look bigger
- Comment on Tracey fucked around and found out 3 days ago:
But that’s not what is being asked. What you’re talking about is a quarter of the remaining candy. What they’re asking is “the remaining quarter” implying what she has left is a quarter of what she originally had.
Meaning she must’ve had 48 before everyone started stealing her candy.
- Comment on he did live in a pineapple… 3 days ago:
You’re just licensed under the GNU General Public License, it’s not your fault you get passed around!
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 3 days ago:
GOG doesn’t give you ownership of the game the way physical media does though. Unless they’ve added a feature to sell your used games?
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 4 days ago:
Estonia
- Comment on Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Welll the game is nearly 17 years old
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Honestly, people should have to go back to school when the turn 70 for a year to get updated.
Maybe two months every decade? I’ll be honest, it’s pretty easy to be out of touch long before you’re 70.
Plenty of folks still think capitalism runs on “make a good product at a good price.”
It does!
Trouble is in the digital world we don’t have products anymore, we have services. And those run on “make it shit without a subscription”.
And “good product at a good price” only works without advertising if it’s SO good that it gets advertised by word of mouth.
So it’s like 20-30% true.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yeah that’s the worst bit tbf
If you’re not going to make better UIs and you’re going to keep the old ones around anyway… Why not just… add new items to the old ones?
Instead, you have like 3 or 4 different generations of control panel and they do different things so you go to the correct one based on what you need to do…
I’m just happy to not own any Windows machines anymore, not even dual boot. I actually liked 7. Like really liked it. 10 felt like a downgrade (I suspect because the UI was uglier and it had an extra layer of control panel added in either 8 or 10 that was more dumbed down so you’d usually want to go to the old one, which gets you thinking “why exactly did we need a new Windows version”). 11 is shit even on a brand new machine, even if it looks pretty-ish. It’s slow, the reduced context menu is annoying… Yeah I could change a lot of things via registry keys and whatnot, but KDE Plasma just gives me a single system settings application that configures almost everything I’d want to configure on my machine, the rest is application specific stuff for which I’m fine just editing the conf files
- Comment on Bargain 4 days ago:
Not to defend the fuckface who should rot in prison wearing whatever color jumpsuits they have in the UK, but in general I’d say having the courage to dress feminine without feeling like your masculinity or sexuality is threatened is actually a pretty masculine trait (if you consider that masculine is supposed to also mean confident)
Though in his case I’m assuming he just thought that’s what people in Miami are supposed to look like from movies or something
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 4 days ago:
Different strokes for different folks. I actually liked Oppenheimer and have watched it once or twice at home after seeing the Barbenheimer double feature in the cinema. At the same time, I could see how you might find it boring. I just really like slow burn movies and shows
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 4 days ago:
- Comment on Vroooooom! 6 days ago:
Pretty sure you can just walk into a dealer and order a new one. It’ll just be a basic Ferrari. The limited production run models are the ones reserved for repeat customers.
It’s also to make their customers feel special
The entire ownership experience is ass though. New, you’re stuck going to the dealer for repairs. Old, good luck finding parts
- Comment on Vroooooom! 6 days ago:
The Corvette? Didn’t it have like horse chariot suspension 3 generations ago? Scary indeed when a car is fast but not built to take corners at any speed.
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 6 days ago:
Voyager share button first downloads the video and then opens the share menu. This video takes a long time to download
- Comment on Anon's jobs 6 days ago:
There are cities in the US where that’s about middle class, I’m assuming that’s where they’re from
- Comment on My bad babe 6 days ago:
Takes a lot of dedication to reach a million nuts
- Comment on Old but gud 6 days ago:
I have ADHD and it comes with decision paralysis
Which is why all my t-shirts are black and all my socks the same.
The only decision to make is shorts vs jeans. That decision gets made twice a year, in April and October pretty much
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 6 days ago:
Ah I didn’t know about 2 phase systems. In my corner of Europe you’re on either 3 phases or 1 phase. 1 phase gets you 240V, 3 phases gets you 380V + ability to have different consumers on different phases to distribute the load if your house’s wired for that.
I’ve got a few outlets in my house that take this type of plug:
Built in the 80s so grandpa got soviet plugs lol
- Comment on Hot leaf juice 1 week ago:
I found it for sale here but international shipping is pretty expensive and it’s located in, I’m assuming, the US. And I’m not.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 1 week ago:
Same in Europe. 240V and 380V.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 1 week ago:
The thing is… Europe also uses split phase. You get three phase power coming in at 380V in most houses on the, 415 in the UK. The 240V is what you get on a single phase.
- Comment on At this rate, it will never end 1 week ago:
Said to be 10% a year of its new price every year on average. In 10 years you’ll have bought it twice.
- Comment on That's a shit beer! 1 week ago:
When I was still a childless bachelor, the bartenders usually had that exact mug in hand by the time I stepped in
I should get one for home tbh
I usually got the regular pour though.
- Comment on That's a shit beer! 1 week ago:
They (Urquell) also teach this when you visit them as a bartender (idk if they still do it, but if your pub sold enough Urquell they’d invite you for a tour). They very much have an incentive to make it kegs last less, but they don’t.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 1 week ago:
I think you spelled psychiatrists wrong there
