TSLA: When this baby hits 88 you're going to see some serious shit

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H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Combat Theory posted:

# ¿ Nov 7, 2018 20:32

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 08:44

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Agile Vector posted:

has anyone seen the model x in the wild? i saw one and had to do a double take, that thing is a profoundly ugly homer car bubbled version of their sedan and why would anyone buy it

why

there are at least two at our daycare and i recently got yelled at by a dad who hopped out of the passenger side of one because i allowed my door to rest on the side of their ridiculous car while strapping in the babby

before i could use any profanity the mom came back and gave him a buncha poo poo because they had parked way way too close, i got the sense that they didn't really bother parking correctly in general with that thing thanks to those doors

Sagebrush posted:

i see a dozen of them every day

they are very clearly just a model s that was Scale1D'd in the z direction to 150%. they are not pretty cars.

then again their competitors are poo poo like the bmw x5 and the lexus gx460 which are just as bloated and ungainly

porsche cayenne

# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 17:55

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Teal posted:

https://twitter.com/Starscream/status/1060441309016662017

# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 18:56

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

President Beep posted:

-matrix
-confederate flag
-hacker guy???

don't forget GameSpy

# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 19:15

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

countdown till the botox makes him look even crazier

# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 21:40

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

FMguru posted:

prius mpreg inflation fanfic made real

there's joke here about a chevy sonic but i can't figure it out

# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 21:56

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

i'm dying

https://twitter.com/jennakchandler/status/1060674278645891072

https://twitter.com/jennakchandler/status/1060675222125203456

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 00:55

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

i just can't believe no one had thought of building more roads before

ol musky's done it again

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 01:24

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

FAUXTON posted:

How stupid do you have to be to not realize the most effective way to combat congestion is to minimize the amount of merging because american drivers are children who will try and kill other people over 10 linear feet of road space.

the most effective way is to reduce the number of cars on the road op

and i imagine that the guy running a car company is paid not to understand this

# ¿ Nov 12, 2018 16:11

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

gently caress SNEEP posted:

what if everything are roads

# ¿ Nov 12, 2018 20:09

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

this was what we were immediately struck by after taking a ride in one of the googcars: they drive like grandmas

# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 01:49

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Rex-Goliath posted:

totally understand that i�m in the minority here but i�d be completely willing to ride in a grandma car if i knew that it was safe and actually worked

wellllll it also slammed you around kind of a bit like a teenager still learning how to ease into turns and braking

this was a couple summers ago so idk if they've smoothed that aspect down any

but yeah worst of both worlds

also the person hoverhanding the wheel had to take over a bunch, including twice when it tried to turn left into oncoming traffic across divided roadways

# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 02:16

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 22:14

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

they also sell their pollution tax credits they get for all this EV making to other automakers so they can churn out even more co2 spewing cars

so you know maybe they wouldn't be doing that if it wasn't all just greenwashing

# ¿ Nov 19, 2018 17:56

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redleader posted:

car fishmech

carmech

# ¿ Nov 19, 2018 23:49

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

fishmech posted:

Cool sounds exactly like what it cost and took to get a driver's license in my state when I was a kid, except the textbook was shorter.

Also manual cars should be illegal so who cares

ours had higher classroom and supervised driving time requirements than sweden as well: 30 and 8 hours, respectively

and this was louisiana in the 90s when they were just getting around to raising the eligible age from 14 to 15

# ¿ Nov 20, 2018 22:00

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Lightbulb Out posted:

driving a manual transmission makes you more attentive to the road and your vehicle.

this isn't borne out by anything and is just as arguable that it forces multitasking which is detrimental to the awareness of surroundings

however one of the things i've heard that they're looking into is that driving a stick reduces incidences of distracted driving, which does sound promising

makes sense to me that it's harder to text and drive when you need a hand on the shifter even if it's all muscle memory you're barely paying attention to

# ¿ Nov 20, 2018 22:07

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

*shifts into 4th using back of phone while fast forwarding podcast* yeah manual transmissions make you a better driver

# ¿ Nov 20, 2018 22:14

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

i learned to drive in a miata and as a lanky 6'2" tennis dork teen who had to either stretch over or compress under the windshield boundary perfectly at eye level you'd hafta be a goddamn idiot to buy a miata as a tall person

autocorrect tried to make that "y'all person" and in the south that works... well, not as well; women like them and guys call you gay slurs and try to pick up the front end to impress the women

# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 06:58

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

the problem is that the past 30+ years of urban design have been centered around personal cars as the primary mode of transportation

enforcement issues aside (legit adequate enforcement is an enormous task) the issue is that people are essentially forced to drive thanks to lovely design and heavily underfunded public transit, and judges understand this - whether you're tolkien about joe everyman getting to their job or the your grandma getting to the grocery store, taking away someone's license to drive is an enormous burden thanks to decades of neglecting other transportation modes

up until last year (thanks to opiates) car crashes were the #1 killer of humans aged 0-35. you can't hope to address that without first providing actual alternatives to driving that are more than a 2+ hour bus ride each way or a once a week suburban shuttle for the elderly, and improving driver education and enforcement only gets you so far

# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 18:15

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

nah they regularly put people arrested for DUIs in the paper

you'll see all kindsa people who were able to retain the ability to drive thanks to hardship licenses that only let you drive to work and the store and stuff while racking up multiple offenses

# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 18:23

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

fishmech posted:

No. You're talking about non-urban lack of design in hellscapes with no people in them 40-50 years ago.

Which also happens to be where a bunch of olds are shipped off to

"urban" is not urban core/cbd in this usage and includes anywhere that's not explicitly rural. and yeah no people lived there 40 years ago, meaning that the last 30+ years of design there were extremely poorly thought out

it's all bad tho and the isolation and quality of life plunges that nondriving olds are now experiencing are entirely self-inflicted

# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 19:09

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Shame Boy posted:

im glad desalination plants run on coins and not, like, electricity

he's telling on himself that he doesn't know what his water bill even looks like because in orange county desal water is 5 times as expensive as groundwater

ofc you wouldn't know that if you only read the wikipedia entry (source behind a research login lol) which is clearly what he did

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 18:34

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

CommieGIR posted:

There's more to it than that: Desalinization is also raising the salinity of ocean water world wide. Not good.

not really, but it can locally elevate salinity in more confined bodies of water

but that's not really comparable to the changing oceanic conditions caused by climate change, which can include increasing and decreasing salinity

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 19:27

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

CommieGIR posted:

The problem is increasingly large amounts of seawater is being sourced for drinking water, and while desalinization is not large enough right now to be an issue, with inland fresh water being steadily depleted, its going to mean more desalinization in the future, with catastrophically exponential amounts of fresh water being sourced from the sea.

Its going to have an impact.

http://pacinst.org/publication/desal-marine-impacts/

lol your own source describes the impacts as acutely local

i don't think you get how much water is in all of the oceans on the planet

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 19:55

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

CommieGIR posted:

"These impacts, however, are not well understood. More research is needed, especially to understand the long-term impacts. "

yes, long term to local ecologies. this is still v bad. the paper itself defines the mixing zone in meters, maybe try skimming it

the more immediate danger is increasing acidity coupled with reductions in salinity thanks to climate change

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 20:01

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

it tastes better from the back of the toilet tank

lil lifehack for ya there

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 20:16

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Shaggar posted:

for some reason that water is warm. is this normal?

is your commode "sweaty"

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 20:22

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

maybe they can call it "sea world"

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 23:24

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

infernal machines posted:

well, i meant in general. there's hundreds of tweets a day about how they're saving the planet with their wallets

ah yes but you see it's somewhat more efficient per mile to drive once the car is already built and *triples yearly vehicle-miles traveled*

...and the AutoPilot is just so much safer *buys even sprawlier exurban house increasing commute further*

# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 08:52

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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

goddamn i love me some gritty

https://twitter.com/hildesaw/status/1055206751581233153

i can't believe a brand would betray our shared class consciousness

https://twitter.com/banditelli/status/1055570848172531712

# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 21:07

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

he is a mascot of picket-crossers

scabs are also picket-crossers

# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 22:12

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

leftist cosplay has gotten decently popular lately

# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 01:37

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

officially he lives in the stadium and eats trash or something

literally all of the agitprop surrounding it is third party stuff by people who think they're doing a socialism via boosting a brand

it's really weird tbh

# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 01:43

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Endless Mike posted:

lol he's getting roid boobies

and HGH head

# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 19:27

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

graph posted:

what was fragmasters version

bob fillmaff or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbVJAzAV5uk

# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 19:28

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Roosevelt posted:

he had his children custom bred because he loving loves science

he definitely doesn't require a laboratory to impregnate a woman or anything ha ha

# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 20:58

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Combat Theory posted:

actually the glass isnt supposed to shatter. The design case for most of our [insert german car manufacturer you can guess by now] frameless windows for loss of power operation is that the operation might degrade (more force required, weird feel, etc) but the window can not be damaged if its correctly aligned and in its closed position. multiple of these misuse cases might prematurely wear out the door seal though.

wait you mean you can open the door with a dead battery

sounds fancy

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 22:19

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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

you guys get asphalt, must be nice

we get pea gravel and chipseal, 2 of the biggest cons sold to transportation departments as "methods of road repair"

chipseal pisses me off so much

how bout we just paint the road black and call it new

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

tbh farmers should be taxed to destitution for the amount of damage their equipment does to the roads

truck shipping accounts for ~90% of the damage to roads and bridges in the US

if you ever see a weight limit sign on a bridge you're goin over that actually means the bridge is hosed up

# ¿ Dec 5, 2018 19:15

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 08:44

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

iospace posted:

The Midwest is absolutely horrible for this because the ground will eventually shift due to freeze/thaw cycles, and that's not even getting into the water in the pavement.

The real problem is that it's an endless cycle of this:

Government: Our roads suck, we need to repave them
Citizens: I agree, let's fix them
Gov: In order to do that, we need to raise taxes to pay for it.
Citizens: OVER MY DEAD BODY

Repeat next year

also it's extremely easy to cut funding for transportation infrastructure because a) it's the #1 most expensive thing local governments spend money on and b) it won't be apparent for 8-10 years

and yeah potholes come from subgrade problems which are usually caused or exacerbated by water. water murders roads

# ¿ Dec 5, 2018 19:19

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