Triumph

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Spend less time worrying about a hat and get a proper helmet with a chin bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This motherfucker coming correct with subscripts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you also forget about Dre?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro tip:

  If the holes in the door frame are wallowed out, jam some pieces of toothpick in there first, then put the hinge on and screw it in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd count it. It's been a long while since I really changed jobs, but that was absolutely a thing for me. Part of the way I have survived is by working a nap in somewhere every day. I used to go to my car at lunch and listen to NPR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you've started this job recently, that sounds completely normal, at least to my neurodivergent ears.

  You're learning how to ride a bike, except it doesn't require so much physical practice as mental practice. You're putting in a lot of mental effort all day every day, and it's exhausting. For me, this period at a new job can last three to six months, sometimes more. Eventually, you get the hang of it, and you don't have to put in nearly as much mental effort to do your job well. Then you can get back to your other life shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should quit social media for good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm sure you're right for a lot of people. Considering the audience here, who I expect to be more capable of doing more complex things on the basis of "they're here", I hope my advice is more productive than it would be to, say, the local rural Facebook moms group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should quit social media for good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a bit of a self-sustaining cycle. Media depends on engagement, social media even more so. Hate engagement is capable of increasing engagement, and it's easier to create content that elicits hate engagement. Throw Internet Rando participation on top of that.

  No, you should not quit social media. The beauty of it is that content that traditional media would never take a chance on which you would like to consume actually exists. What you should do is be mindful of what kind of content you choose to consume, and recognizing when content has an undesirable agenda beneath its surface. Content is not normally created for no purpose. Always ask "Why was this created? How does the creator intend for me to react to this? Is that an appropriate reaction?"

  Just letting the content pour into your brain without consciously filtering it is a bad idea, and that's got nothing to do with social vs traditional media at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are generally spokes at around the 9/3 positions, but it's not terrible to also put your hands there usually. Still, my 2015 car has the steering stalks where they're easier to operate at 10/2, and some extra tactile features on the wheel at 10/2, so clearly the auto industry hasn't caught up yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The cost of doing that for physical mail - in dollars, effort, time, and logistics - would be prohibitively high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I shall not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turtle Wax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you keep your car turtle so shiny?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Steering stalks on my 2015 car are at 10/2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just buy a racing wheel with hand position marks on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re going there, let me tell you about tillers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything is an ingredient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife is the NT in a house full of NDs, so she has some inkling of what it's like to be us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah ... There was a weird in between time where there were still some small vehicles without p/s, but they were still using similar steering boxes or racks, and the same smaller steering wheel. I'm pretty sure that rack and pinion steering is more difficult without power assist, too, or because a different enough gearing would change the packaging, need too much room, increase design/production/manufacture costs too much - they just went fuck it and removed p/s without changing anything else because "good enough".

  I don't remember whether the S10 had rack and pinion or pitman arm style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But you don't make soup with a beverage, you make it with a broth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *Gazpacho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To throw this into greater array: now that the milk has been poured into the cereal, it's clearly broth; what was the milk before it was poured into the cereal?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how much milk was added. Lots of milk? Definitely soup. Just a little milk? Sauce. Somewhere in the middle? Stew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I elucidated in another comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In a modern car, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's more for mad offroading, because the weight of the vehicle over terrain can lever the front wheels quickly enough to spin the wheel. Not impossible, but far less likely on pavement, even in any crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ain't nothing stopping me from eating my burrito.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I can see that, too. Definitely more than one additional injury risk that is easily mitigated by changing hand position habits. Totally makes sense that they changed the way driving is taught.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aha, hand over hand, now I get to wax poetic about that.

  Hand over hand steering was useful up until maybe the mid 1960s. Later, too, but after about 1967, power steering was becoming more the norm. Cars were far more likely to not have power steering. Instead, they employed lower range steering gear boxes and giant trash can lid steering wheels. In order to make a regular old 90 degree turn, you'd have to crank the wheel over way more than you do on a modern car, and the car was heavier, had steel wheels (more mass to move).

  They continue to teach it today, because if your car loses power and/or shuts off (ICE cars especially, not impossible with EVs) or the power steering otherwise fails while you're moving, you're really going to want to know how to hand over hand steer. It's much more difficult to steer a car with power steering that's dead/broken than a car that just doesn't have power steering at all. Why they still demand it for drivers' tests on every turn, I don't know. You should be able to demonstrate that you can do it, but hand over hand steering on essentially every car today is more clumsy, as long as everything is working properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to say that whoever wrote this is old, like me.

  The switch from 10/2 to 9/3 is because of airbags. If you’re doing it the old way, you’re more likely to have the airbag catch your hand and whack you right in the face with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There's always a solution. Even if it's "empty set".