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Doctor Jeep posted:are manual transmission cars that much better than automatic though? I live in europe where MT is practically the norm and I've always seen it as a hassle and automatics as better. although I don't drive so I have no personal experience with either. They're not better at all in any practical sense, it's just that the demand for them has been reduced down to people who enjoy driving them. So you basically have a group of people saying "I don't like driving an automatic" with almost zero new car options available. Part of the problem is that there's like 100% overlap between this market and people who want "sporty" cars, and manufacturers have been ditching manual transmissions from those models since they can get better performance from automatics or DCTs. That pushes even more of those buyers into the used market since manufacturers aren't letting them buy higher-end models with bigger engines with the transmissions that they want. This is also why you don't see the same kind of price inflation in economy cars, where manuals are still somewhat more common. They're usually harder to sell and go for a little bit less in those cases. edit- basically you can get almost any price you want when someone will fly in from six states away to buy your old piece of poo poo sight unseen Paradoxish has issued a correction as of 18:44 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Doctor Jeep posted:are manual transmission cars that much better than automatic though? I live in europe where MT is practically the norm and I've always seen it as a hassle and automatics as better. although I don't drive so I have no personal experience with either. they have some devoted fans and in general you don't see them in north america anymore, so the people who want them typically have to go out of their way to get them. manuals generally had a huge fuel economy advantage when the alternative was 3 speed + overdrive automatics, but with 5+ gear autos and cvt, that's not the case anymore. they are even falling out of favor on supercars as the sequential double clutch systems they use now can shift far faster than any human (shift speeds are measured in milliseconds) The_Franz has issued a correction as of 18:55 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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PawParole posted:Mormon Church bought a billon dollars worth of tesla . why does a church have 100 billon dollars?
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PawParole posted:https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/mormon-church-100-billion-fund-buys-tesla-stock-grows-stake-2021-3-1030251777 so they can build that big ship like in Leviathan Wakes
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The_Franz posted:they have some devoted fans and in general you don't see them in north america anymore, so the people who want them typically have to go out of their way to get them. manuals generally had a huge fuel economy advantage when the alternative was 3 speed + overdrive automatics, but with 5+ gear autos and cvt, that's not the case anymore. they are even falling out of favor on supercars as the sequential double clutch systems they use now can shift far faster than any human (shift speeds are measured in milliseconds) I assume with a supercar, driving it is part of the fun. Shifting speed doesn't seem all that relevant.
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oxsnard posted:ya so spot vol on SPY and the largest components of the index shot through the roof, causing... spot VIX to crater. It's rad, the disconnect is hilarious https://mobile.twitter.com/Gold_Mansack/status/1375849194875973633 He turned 16 million into 15 billion in a few years, and he lost it all in one day lol. PawParole has issued a correction as of 19:09 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Fame Douglas posted:I assume with a supercar, driving it is part of the fun. Shifting speed doesn't seem all that relevant. Shift speed is super important to the people who buy supercars and the people who sell them. Neither group is interested in driving fun, it is entirely about conspicuous consumption and boondoggles for their own sake. You can have far more fun in a rundown old piece of poo poo with a manual and rear wheel drive than any modern hypercar.
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PawParole posted:https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/mormon-church-100-billion-fund-buys-tesla-stock-grows-stake-2021-3-1030251777 mormon church has 100 billion dollars because every mormon is obligated to tithe 10% of their income
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Shear Modulus posted:mormon church has 100 billion dollars because every mormon is obligated to tithe 10% of their income Isn't the mormon church like 99% of the reason South Africa turned into a racist shithole
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quote:But first, back to canals. Our creator did a fine job with Planet Earth but if you were to nit-pick, she perhaps didn’t think enough about the needs of the shipping and oil industries.
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MorrisBae posted:Isn't the mormon church like 99% of the reason South Africa turned into a racist shithole there weren’t many Mormons in South Africa before 1972 (mostly because white South Africans weren’t white enough for the Mormon church)
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MorrisBae posted:Isn't the mormon church like 99% of the reason South Africa turned into a racist shithole i think you're thinking of the british and the dutch
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I know how I'm gonna pay my rent from now on. e: Oops, wrong thread. May as well post it here though: Falstaff posted:Saw this come across my feed. Manager quits after a disagreement with his boss, boss pays him his last paycheck in the least convenient way he can imagine.
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saw this in a local news article todayquote:The median sales price of single-family homes rose more than 10% percent in 88% of U.S. metro areas, pushing the monthly mortgage payment for a typical single-family home up to $1,040 in February, according to the National Association of Realtors. I'm really curious how they determine the bolded part, given a) mortgages can have different terms b) mortgages can have different down payments
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Elman posted:I know how I'm gonna pay my rent from now on. If it's an accepted form of payment in your lease, go hog wild. But I'll bet you're restricted to a check or electronic payment. You can definitely do that to pay a ticket, though. Legal tender, bitches.
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Elman posted:I know how I'm gonna pay my rent from now on. poor dude needs the money so bad he's scrubbing every penny off so he can deposit them  quote:Flaten said his new routine is now to sit in his garage at night and clean off the pennies with a solution of dish soap, vinegar, and water. Even with the solution, it's hard to get the pennies clean. 
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https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/2603.TW?p=2603.TW&.tsrc=fin-srch Slight dip over the past week but still around an all time high.
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PawParole posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/Gold_Mansack/status/1375849194875973633 Get him an account
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quote:FOX 5 did speak with the owner of the business over the phone. He said he paid Flaten in U.S. currency and did not want to be a part of the story. if he did this to me he'd absolutely be part of a news story and it would be a fuckload more shocking than pulling that pennies poo poo
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strong wind cant push a 5 million ton freighter up out of a dredged lane so far that it becomes scuttled over like 60% of its length probably i would imagine
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I bet they didn't renew thier dlc subscription and the nav went crazy
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Former DILF posted:I have to apologize for my absence, I have been gallivanting on twitter, but please, I want CSPAM to understand that I love it for what it is regardless of the disagreements I may have had with individuals on and off this forum That's a neat contraption! What lovely things creative and handy people come up with and build 
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the date has to be photoshopped in this right? no freaking way
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so if its not wind then the person steering the ship deffo did something like try to steer with his feet, right?
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Xaris posted:the date has to be photoshopped in this right? I google image searched and found two news articles. https://taiwanenglishnews.com/truck-carrying-evergreen-container-causes-traffic-jam-in-china-picture-goes-viral/
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Keep the thread title until it eventually gets free
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spacetoaster posted:I google image searched and found two news articles. hahahaha no way christ the simulation is breaking down
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Xaris posted:hahahaha no way It just happened, so I bet there will be news articles and FB posts flowing about this by tomorrow.
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MorrisBae posted:Isn't the mormon church like 99% of the reason South Africa turned into a racist shithole no
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Jon Irenicus posted:so if its not wind then the person steering the ship deffo did something like try to steer with his feet, right? or they lost the plant/steering
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they were trying to drift
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Shear Modulus posted:they were trying to drift Deja vu I've just been in this place before
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Raskolnikov38 posted:or they lost the plant/steering that’s what my money is still on, it happens a lot. eventually there will be flag reports that get published regarding what happened.
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Keep the thread title until it eventually gets free
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Elman posted:I know how I'm gonna pay my rent from now on. earned.
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i cant find the tweet that pointed it out but that incident in 1992 where 30,000 bath toys fell overboard was also thanks to the fine people at Evergreen
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Keep the thread title until it eventually gets free we'll be halfway through the greatest depression and the boat will still be stuck
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