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CommieGIR posted:Old school Quattro laughs at your snow jammed tires. The issue with Washington is they spend all of their capital on the passes (rightfully so). Fun part of that is its basically Funland if you've got 4WD/AWD for 3 or 4 days after the snowstorm. Also how I know if you have an Impreza, 4" on the road is your limit mate.
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Yup. Thats basically where I want my house to llok like.
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Vasudus posted:oh my god qanon stuff is somehow bleeding into my youtube recommendations now Remember how people would gently caress up chat bots with racism/homophobia? It’s like that but with entire social platforms. Turning things over to an algorithm isn’t a neutral choice. You’re giving your platform over to the loudest, screechiest voices because they generate the most clicks/views/engagements.
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i just watch late night talk show clips and path of exile streamers on my youtube account  graham norton why
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBZM9aUMsjEM76RFMofBZmDBuqNPnCdt [video type="youtube"]/playlist?list=PLbBZM9aUMsjEM76RFMofBZmDBuqNPnCdt[/video] A wonderful dude thrifts while looking for weird games and tech from the 90's and early 00's.
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Vasudus posted:path of exile streamers Found the problem (assuming PoE is a video game). Algorithm probably sees a lot of overlap between any gamer videos and weird right wing internet bullshit
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That's what I thought, except I only follow a very select number of them that it's unlikely. I'm probably going to have to purge my entire YouTube history.
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I think it's generous to call something an "algorithm" when it's just directing gamers to right-wing propaganda.
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBZM9aUMsjEM76RFMofBZmDBuqNPnCdt LGR's stuff is the loving best. Dude is cool as hell in an awesome nerd way, and he gets plenty of stuff that I never even heard of, like crazy 3d space ball controllers and poo poo.
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LGR is one of the most genuine guys on YouTube; he's fantastic
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LGR does awesome reviews, third'ing.
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Starting over from the beginning on the Expanse. Such a good loving show.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Starting over from the beginning on the Expanse. Such a good loving show. I was planning on doing this too. It is so good.
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DoktorLoken posted:If you live in a truly rural area or somewhere with significant hills or mountains I guess. This is a dangerous mindset that is unfortunately common knowledge, and - even worse - it's perpetuated in the industry for market reasons. Which is even more mind-blowing considering the wide climate-range in the US, with a whole lot of states seeing a seasonal climate where M+S tires are dangerously insufficient in average conditions. quote:People do just fine with all-season tires in the Great Lakes region where we get heavy snow but have generally flat land. That's also not statistically accurate, but the perception is based on the underestimation of snow tire performance vs. an overestimation of M+S tire performance. It's basically a tire Kruger-Dunning effect. People are fine with the status quo, because the rate of accidents over the winter is "about average for the season", so no eyebrows are raised and the question "how much lower could that accident rate have been with 3PMSF-rated tires or snow tires" is never asked by regulatory agencies / consumer advocacy groups / media / etc. The answer to that question is "a whole lot lower", but the question never comes up in the first place, because status quo. psydude posted:They also get better traction in cold temperatures vs summer or all seasons. It's this, albeit massively understated. All-season M+S tires are getting better and better, in part because developers have started tightening their standards for winter performance trials, and 3PMSF-rated all-season tires are becoming increasingly more common, but no all-season tire can hold a candle to a proper winter tire, and - this is the important part - this applies to situations where there's no snow at all too. Tread pattern is the most visible part of the tire you would assume makes a difference, but it's the tread compound that does the majority of the performance work in sub-45-degree conditions. Pliability massively decreases while rigidity simultaneously increases in all-season tires in these conditions, and while a more aggressive tread pattern will increase handling, traction, and braking performance in these conditions when there's snow involved, the tires suffer massive performance hits in ALL other situations without snow. On a sunny, bone-dry 40-degree-day, a winter tire is the difference between being able to stop just short of the guy ahead of you in an emergency-brake situation, and rear-ending them with an all-season tire, and this gets overlooked because the perceived conditions don't make the average motorist ask the question if they could have made that stop with different tires. While the question "how much snow does your region get?" should absolutely play a role in in the decision whether to get winter tires vs. all-season tires, the much more important question should be "how cold is it on average?", but unfortunately, that's not the case.
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Excellent post. Don't cheap out on tires, they're the only part that connects you to the road.
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I'm done with chinese imported tires altogether. I went back to what came on the kia in the first place, a set of Kumho. They're a massive improvement over the "arizonian" brand tires I used to buy. Those cheap tires took plugs well though, usually at least two a tire before I'd consider replacing them. Kinda miss the good ol days when I could buy a chinese tire for my ranger for $18, pay another $10 to mount and balance it. They were much more prone to spontaneous failure, but I could always afford to carry a full size spare or two all the time.
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"All season" tires are no season tires. 
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Y'all landowners that can keep two sets of tires go nuts, I'll be happy over here with my All-Seasons thaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks. I don't care about the market descriptions of the tires, I know the practical limitations of the tires I have via practice. I also know via practice they work better than summer tires in the snow, and I know that they have lower rolling resistance than snow tires. Its not about one being superior to the other, I'm just not swapping out tires twice a year and am looking for a happy medium.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Y'all landowners that can keep two sets of tires go nuts, I'll be happy over here with my All-Seasons thaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks. If you don't have a garage to keep a separate set of tires, that's fine, and I don't know where you live, so you might be perfectly fine with all-season tires, but if you live somewhere where you probably should have winter tires, you're buying convenience for something you do twice per year at the cost of safety for an entire season, with pretty much zero financial benefit considering wear and viable life of the tires. You're fine to do whatever you like, but my argument isn't about what you should do, it's about there being a dangerous half-truth about the discussion that is unfortunately common knowledge in the US.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:If you don't have a garage to keep a separate set of tires, that's fine, and I don't know where you live, so you might be perfectly fine with all-season tires, but if you live somewhere where you probably should have winter tires, you're buying convenience for something you do twice per year at the cost of safety for an entire season, with pretty much zero financial benefit considering wear and viable life of the tires. Oh by all means, I live in the mid-atlantic and can get away with such things and was definitely just speaking for myself. You're right though. Common knowledge in the US is pretty stupid in general.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Oh by all means, I live in the mid-atlantic and can get away with such things and was definitely just speaking for myself. You're right though. Common knowledge in the US is pretty stupid in general. Not sure where you live in the Mid-Atlantic, but where I live in MD gets pretty damned cold at certain points of the winter. I'll concede that having a house definitely makes storing a spare set of wheels way easier, though.
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If you live in the DC region just forget about snow tires, the roads are going to be clogged with cars anyway. Stock up on food and call in remotely.
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psydude posted:Not sure where you live in the Mid-Atlantic, but where I live in MD gets pretty damned cold at certain points of the winter. I'll concede that having a house definitely makes storing a spare set of wheels way easier, though. The only time I lived in Maryland was for AIT in 2003. We had three feet of snow my first night there. Haven't seen three feet total in my three winters in the Springs.
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psydude posted:Not sure where you live in the Mid-Atlantic, but where I live in MD gets pretty damned cold at certain points of the winter. I'll concede that having a house definitely makes storing a spare set of wheels way easier, though. I live in Harrisburg, it snows like 5 times a year and everything closes anyways. With all-seasons and a Subaru I don't even have to flinch if its less than 4" and the plows haven't been out.
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I live in Colorado and shamefully don't have snow tires on my truck, which is a rear wheel drive POS. Previously Id use my Passat for driving up / into the mountains during snow season but it was sadly retired last year so now I have to hitch rides like a little bitch. Good tires can't make up for bad driving though. I've seen plenty of big wrecks on I-70 featuring late model luxury SUVs with snow tires where the dipshit driver managed to flip their car because they lost control for whatever reason. You can manage around here on the highways without snow tires for the most part, but you do have to drive like a granny and be cognizant of stopping on icy inclines because you might not get going again. In summation of I had money I would definitely buy a more suitable vehicle and tires for the region, bit I don't.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I'm done with chinese imported tires altogether. I went back to what came on the kia in the first place, a set of Kumho. They're a massive improvement over the "arizonian" brand tires I used to buy. Those cheap tires took plugs well though, usually at least two a tire before I'd consider replacing them. Tires are THE MOST IMPORTANT safety feature on your car. How great your brakes are doesn't matter if your tires are poo poo.
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Godholio posted:Tires are THE MOST IMPORTANT safety feature on your car. How great your brakes are doesn't matter if your tires are poo poo. this
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before i was finally free of that mechanical death trap, i made the run from connecticut to virginia in the wet snow in a 2003 mazda 6 that had bald tires, bad brakes, and a hosed up suspension that was hard mode enabled and of course i was the one that had to drive so i was having a panic attack for six hours straight just because i was driving the car in the first place
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Winter of 2014 we got a good bit of snow. During one such snow storm, I had to go pick up a buddy whose car was stranded along US-15 near Thurmont in my summer tires. That, plus another where I got caught on 70 a sleet storm, were enough to convince me to spend the money.
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During the Snowmageddon deep freeze that stranded everyone on I-285 and I-75/85, I drove home from downtown Atlanta over the backroads in an 1986 Audi 4000 CS Quattro Turbo on All-Weathers and the diff locks engaged, took me longer than normal but I got home. This was a 40 mile trip. This was the same deep freeze where the fire department was rescuing people out of their cars on the highway. Its not that I blame them, the roads were icy and slick as hell, took a lot of downshifting and left foot braking/drifting to make it home. 
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I was caught on the mountains outside Santa Fe by a snowstorm at 10pm and could no longer see the lines in the road while semis were blowing by me at full speed. I took the next offramp and had a super chill night eating at a nice hotel restaurant and staying there even though I was 20 miles from home. I ain't gonna be that sucker in the ditch waiting for the fire department to pull them out.
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There's a reason why I keep a bunch of chemical hand/foot warmers, a sleeping bag, and big blanket in my car. I don't plan on getting stuck anywhere, but if I do I'm not going to be miserable.
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I really need to do a better job of having emergency food and water on hand in my apartment. I'm spoiled by living where I am, the chances of all the many places I can get food being simultaneously closed is pretty low. The only time it happened was during a freak snowstorm we had in 2015 that poo poo 36" of snow on us in a day. I didn't even lose power.
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Amos is hella enlisted
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holocaust bloopers posted:Amos is hella enlisted Amos is the patron saint of the Lance corporal mafia.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Amos is hella enlisted He's not that guy 
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Patio closets will typically fit a set of 15" wheels with tires.
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Tomorrow/this week at work is gonna be loving wild. VP sent out a damage control email @ 5 on a Sunday. lol. I'm all nerves and poo poo, but I'm kinda excited to go to work tomorrow cause I think it's gonna be  worthy.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Tomorrow/this week at work is gonna be loving wild. VP sent out a damage control email @ 5 on a Sunday. lol. Don't leave us hanging.
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