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Oh yes, it’s absolutely dependent on the car’s abilities. But honestly there’s nothing wrong with using the handbrake if you need to in a bad situation. I’d say it’s a sign of a good driver to know the option is there and to use all of them together to get going safely.

I had to use the handbrake once on a 73 Beetle to prevent disaster. I was coming to a stop sign near home, pressed the brake, and it went to the floor. The sensor on the brake cylinder had shorted out and melted a hole, and the brake fluid went right out. Terrible design. But my awareness of what was left made me go straight to the handbrake and slowly come to a stop just in time, then I limped back home and figured out what had happened. So it’s not there just for a parking backup.

It’s a quick motion, but the essence is that while moving from the brake to the gas, you’re also starting to apply the clutch to grab even at the still idle speed of the engine. It’s not several steps but a fluid motion, and as weird as it sounds, it’s something you pick up by feeling what the car needs to maintain the right engine speed while also not engaging the clutch too much and causing lugging or a stall. It’s why most new manual drives start in a empty level place like a parking lot and practice just going from stop to moving slowly, over and over. I also told both my boys the first time they got behind the wheel the same thing my dad did - you WILL stall out the first time. And they did. :D But they both have and love driving stick now, and hate if they have to drive someone’s automatic.

He doesn’t understand the second ‘S’ in USPS. Stable genius.

The sound usually used with a bald eagle in patriotic scenes isn’t even its cry.

Any blackmail tape doesn’t explain everyone else also following in step.

This guy? No, his lobes are far too inferior to be even an average Ferengi.

And uneducated. They do not like awareness of reality.

It matters, but you’re right. The system is broken to allow him to do what he wishes with no consequences legally. The ones in power who could do anything, if there’s anything left, are complacent for whatever their reasons. The public can’t do anything legally, and many voted for this anyway. So what’s left? Rhetorical, we know what’s left, it’s happened in history before. Is there enough to drive people to some form of action?

“All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

It’s still true, and I don’t think we’re at a point where people feel like they’re in a corner yet. At least not most people, and not the ones who can still act - which are probably limited since so many are in a place where doing anything much will destroy their lives. But again to the quote, we’re been there before, and people finally make that choice.

My response when managers at my work use the word “productivity” is, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

I need to look up the word “treason” again. This seems to match up.

Democratic ties.

I mean, yeah, helping people is not something Republicans would do.

What bugs me about it is believing such assistance is going on is implying the person being helped isn’t good enough to do things on their own. Jesus is pretty sadistic if he helps Timmy hit that pop fly, only to zoom over and help Bobby in the outfield catch it.

Only big enough to kill a city. Sorry.

I posted in the other thread - Elite Dangerous, but the version with all the options the players have asked for for a decade. Sandbox play where I can fly wherever, do some exploring and trading, maybe a bit of combat (because players don’t die as long as they have an account balance).

We wouldn’t be able to post about it later.

I think so. Our automotive-prone minds see it pointing this way and see a car, but that’s probably the back.

Not only that, it’s not even a proper truck. They could have come up with a standard truck design and used tech and EV to create a new niche that was usable. But no one can tell Elon no, so his 5-year-old self’s vision had to be made because it’s different. Sometimes different doesn’t mean better.

Ford’s reasoning was that it was cheaper to pay out for the injuries and deaths than to change the car. Cybertruck has a much better plot armor, a fanbase that refuses to believe it’s crap.

More detailed and accurate reply is preferred, but length isn’t a quantifier for that. If anything that’s the problem with most LLMs, they tend to ramble a bit more than they need to, and it’s hard (at least with just prompting) to rein that in to narrow the answer to just the answer.

Nope, just experience. Nor did I claim he didn’t have a hand in helping them occur.