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- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
I mean, you can always hook a trailer to a normal car or something like a Subaru Outback if you’re going off-road. That’s what people do here. Monday to Friday they commute in their normal, affordable, not extremely huge car and on Saturday the trailer comes out.
- Comment on Why walk, when you can ride? 2 weeks ago:
My motto while I was living in an urban area. I found that I could ride my bike right up to in front of my office window after cutting a little brush on the building corner and from that day on I’d do that, knock on the window and climb right into my office chair from my bike saddle if a coworker was already there. Most satisfying parking situation in my professional life so far.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
I was lazily scrolling through my Jellyfin library and thought “heh, Director’s Cut. Everything that guy does on the kitchen is a Director’s Cut.” So, while that’s certainly not a new thought, it was new to me.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
I tried it but the repetition of the word ruined it when I had it written out. I think it’s because it takes away the little “huh, oh, right” moment from the reader.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
Oh Jeez. But, here is some gluten free cake I made just to cater to your specific headspace and to prevent too much overthinking which has been known to cause cancer in individuals in the state of California:
I wonder how many individuals across all genders, ages, cultural backgrounds, and career stages who happen to occupy positions of creative oversight, organizational leadership, artistic guidance, funeral arrangement management, photographic composition supervision, musical ensemble coordination, or administrative stewardship refer to it as a “director’s cut” when ethically portioning the plant-based or traditionally-sourced protein centerpiece at their chosen family’s consensual gathering that may or may not coincide with various cultural harvest celebrations, regardless of whether they personally identify with the role of food distribution facilitator.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see anyone furiously angry.
Ugh, this is so tiring, but we are going to fight this one out. Fine then, substitute it by “bikeshedding”. It’s not the exact right meaning, I know, but it’s just the same energy as someone bringing a cake and that one person just NEEDS to point out that they can’t eat it because of gluten, and how dangerous gluten is and how ignorant it is to bake stuff using gluten and the bees for the honey, WHAT, THERE IS NO HONEY, THERE IS INDUSTRIAL SUGAR IN IT?
It’s all things we can talk about and maybe they are even valid and sorry, yes, next time I can use corn flour and see if that works, but I can’t lose the feeling that’s not what the purpose of that piping up was.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but you go ahead and construct a description of that scene where the word “director” and “cut” do not show up twice. The chuckle the reader hopefully has comes from completing the reverse construction they have to do. We can enhance their success rate by starting that reverse construction from a known common base, such as a well known cultural reference.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
He hates when I tell dad jokes, but he loves telling them.
Such is the inherent duality of the dad-joke.
Check out Mom’s Dad Jokes on Instagram to see what I mean.
Seems to require an account, but anyway, I get the idea. Well, whatever works in your headspace is good, I guess, right?
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I specifically engineered it to be easily digestable while eliciting at least 2 GPT* (groans per teenager) *if delivered over an avery dinner table.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
You are very welcome. Cherish the eye-rolling.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
Shared pain is half the pain, thank you all for putting in the effort.
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 3 weeks ago:
I think dad-jokes are by their nature unfortunately limited to the group I have described. Every other kind of person makes them, they’re just common bad jokes.
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- Comment on There is likely a picture of your house on the internet. 3 weeks ago:
There’s even a 3D model of my house. In fact, there’s a 3D model plus raw point clouds of my entire state, they published it as open data.
- Comment on There is likely a picture of your house on the internet. 3 weeks ago:
Looking around here houses have either been in the family for a long time, were built new or have been sold through word of mouth. Lots of those transfers never went through the hands of a real estate shark. I think the whole “building rows of same-ish houses and sell them online” is a rather American phenomenon.
- Comment on Hungary | In speech, Orbán hails Trump victory and declares Brussels his key adversary 2 months ago:
Pack up your country and leave then. Rejoin the Warsaw Pact for all I care.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 2 months ago:
Yes, but Nextcloud is being offered as a hosted service by various Providers.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 2 months ago:
Just get hosted Nextcloud somewhere and DAVx5.
- Comment on I would let a chip be installed in my brain if it would allow me to erase memories of the games I have played to play them again as the first time. 2 months ago:
You could be more efficient and implement the memory of having watched it.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
It’s just to make OP feel smart. A single driven axle with an open differential with one wheel on more slippery ground than the other would result in only one wheel transferring torque.
- Comment on Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It 2 months ago:
Treated myself to a used Q8 eTron, first nice car I’ve ever had. I must say, all the bells and whistles, adaptive cruise control that eases off the go pedal when a town comes up, night vision that warns if an animal has a vector crossing mine, hands off stop and go and all that works neatly.
Emergency braking together with night vision was hard on the brakes once before I even knew that a deer was even there. It crossed into the high beams fractions of a second later and every screen in the car and the HUD had a red triangle in it with a deer symbol while I was already hanging in the seat belt. Yeah, no shit, thanks engineers.
What I’m saying is: Apparently all that stuff can be made properly, manufacturers just choose not to.
- Comment on I never realized this 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s what people do here in Germany.
- Comment on I never realized this 3 months ago:
So, just do what a few couples in my circle of friends did and use her last name after marriage?
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 5 months ago:
I don’t think they like to be talked to that directly.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 months ago:
In my Audis at least, the child safety is disabled together with the locks opening within a few milliseconds of the airbag control unit sending a crash signal across the CAN. That message is sent immediately when the decision to open at least one airbag has been made and therefore will reach all components while the crash hasn’t even had time to finish, so all wires and stuff is most likely still in place
Apart from that, the doors have an emergency mechanical release that is “just pull a bit harder and further on the handle”. Which is what you’d do anyway.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 5 months ago:
People won’t even rise up for their own sake. gestures in every general direction