SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm familiar with both of those words. Ok also familiar with the idea of a lever-arm, and this one is too long for my sense of safety.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 13 points 3 days ago

If it's stupid but it works, it's still stupid, and you're lucky.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

My loyalty is for sale.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

RFK Junior is 71 years old. That's not your shining example of "eventually gong to get himself killed."

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yea, that's part of why I don't know for sure if they make cars the way the guy at the top of this thread is describing.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago

Can't speak to "required." But I know it used to be done.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I think what he wants is the front turn signal to wrap around the front, so I can see the left signal from the right quarter.

I'm not aware that this is not the case, but I don't know that I would have noticed if it was not.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

almost certainly.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I dislike the article’s focus on prices as the main consequence here. Screwworms are fucking horrifying, and they can affect humans, too.

I imagine they remember the far off year of 2021, where the threat of drowning in you own lungs was not considered sufficient reason for a great many people to give a shit.

Expensive burgers may be the lever needed to get people to pay attention.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Such things have to be wire guided, or autonomous. Subs have really good wire deployment systems, so it's not something out of the question, but water blocks radio signals quite effectively.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, that's like claiming that he lied repeatedly and vociferously that jumping in the pool will not lead to getting wet. There is no way to believe that lie aside from deep, deep ignorance.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember and author, possibly Pratchette, decrying the phrase "I don't believe my eyes." Believe them or not, they are how you perceive the world, and you cannot act much in contrary to what they tell you.

Ditto your ears, your senses of touch, smell, taste. Realistically, you can choose which of your senses to prioritize, but you cannot reject their input entirely.

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