And riding motorcycles around these other cars feels like riding a motorcycle. If Smart can make a NA compliant car, there must be some kind of way to make a near-Kei car compliant.

Out of curiosity, I looked if Smart met Kei regulations with the ForTwo. The officiall Kei variant, the Smart K, only had 2 modifications and 1 restriction. The track width was narrowed and the fenders were slimmed in order to make it 1.5"(30mm) narrower and the only engine available was the 600cc.

And while Americans like to make assumptions about North American markets because they’re generally cross-compatible, they vary greatly. Mexico is full of compacts and ute chassis-mates such as Chevy Aveo/Montana, Fiata Strada/Ram 700, and VW Gol/Saveiro. Remember, the original VW Beetle (“Vocho”) was produced in Mexico until the 90s.

It’s typically this and not the particular tech in the headlight. And when it’s not “plug n play” (pnp) bulbs, it’s bad aim because every factory aims them with an empty tank and owners are clueless headlights can be aimed. That A8 had pretty good lights for the time. Sure, the lights do tend to be more intense when you’re in the beam on a hill, curve, etc), and the bluer color isn’t great for human night vision, but that’s a tradeoff for the increased speeds we travel at now.

The further development of matrix LED lights by the Germans is a great development, really only feasible with LEDs. They turn off individual segments to give a near-high beam experience but specifically without blinding other drivers.

But blaming it all on LEDs is like blaming gas engines for loud exhaust. There’s supposed to be a system in place that makes it tolerable for everyone around.

I wasn’t aware! I saw Dogma many years ago along with half of Clerks 1 and half of Jay and Silent Bob. However, I watched through the entire Askewniverse over the last 3 years. Dogma is my favorite. George Carlin as a priest? Fuck yeah. Alan Rickman with Ken doll crotch? Why not! I thought it was the most clever of the bunch

Somehow I forgot Little Nicky was a Sandler movie given that I don’t really like him. Now you’ve got me wondering if it holds up because it was supposed to be more vulgar in the first place. I probably conflate it with Dogma, too.

A decent guy giving to the right people. Ask them if the US government gave enough monetary relief to the Carolininas after their hurricane last year. At some point later, ask if the government gave enough to New Orleans. They’ll flip from saying the mountain folk deserve more but New Orleans is at its own fault for not repairing the levys.

Or don’t ask. You’ll get a dumb answer at best, a racist answer at worst. Either way, it’s not going to be productive unless your goal is to hate them more.

Nah my bad for refusing to Google this shit for actual details

Then I misinterpreted something from your comment saying Trump’s promise to increase water pressure (disregarding the impossibility) wouldn’t increase flow. Maybe you’re specifically talking about shower heads, but somewhere else trump talked about flushing toilets over and over. It all blends together in the insanity. Did he mention shower heads being too efficient, but in worse words?

I agree, we’re generally in agreement then. I did specify stream vs shower setting though, and a kinda large jet outlet at that. Maybe more like a Full setting, in my experience, but I certainly am not including all the settings. Mist, vertical, center, etc are too restrictive. I’ve filled a couple dozen car wash buckets on various settings and shower/jet/full flow comparably then, but somehow always slower than my bladder can handle.

I started reading your comment and was going to add something about how I always see a deep misunderstanding of Bernoulli’s principle and… Well you have the same misunderstanding.

Increasing pressure, with no other changes, absolutely changes flow rate. Bernoulli’s principle that effectively states as flow increases, pressure decreases (and vice versa) when the source is not changed. If the pressure at the source is increased and the flow rate is the same, then the entire system has more energy. Since the bottleneck is more likely to be the miles of pipes and hundreds of bends, flow rate can’t really be inherently increased but pressure can. I, in no way, am endorsing this EO or the insanity surrounding it.

The proper application of the principle is at the outlet with a steady source. It’s best explained with a multi-setting garden hose. This is because the variable restrictor is exactly at the outlet. You can choose the stream setting which is high velocity but low flow rate - a single stream shoots across the street. You can choose the shower setting which is low velocity but high flow rate - a wide stream that only travels a few feet away. However, if you try to fill a bucket, you’ll likely find they fill at nearly the same rate, allowing for minor differences in nozzle drag and assuming the stream doesn’t cause too much drag (like a 1/8" outlet rather than a pin hole). Why? Because the system energy is the same, say 40psi with ample water supply for a garden hose where the faucet and preceeding piping is the restrictor rather than the outlet. At any point prior to the outlet, the pressure is the same and any setting would fill a very tall column to the same point at which pressure from the column equals pressure form the hose. So yes, realistically, bumping up the pressure would result in greater flow at the outlet, just as enlarging pipes, smoothing bends, and swapping high flow valves.

But this is fucking batshit because the pressure has not been reduced and it’s not like we just have pumps we can tune to any pressure. The primary source is simply the height of water towers - the water towers that have been here for decades already. The most logical explanation I can give is the slow market change to high efficiency devices. But I’m gonna stick to the thought that the believers are retconning their memories. I mean, the fucking Simpsons have a scene where Bart fluctuates the shower temperature with just the sink faucet. Season 12, episode 12, Tennis the Menace, aired 2001.

Your expat acquaintance couldn’t fix the situation because he wasn’t addressing the choke points. So many possibilities. Shitting routing in the house, shitty rerouting after a renovation, mineral deposits inside older pipes, longer routing in modern houses that are bigger with more bathrooms, false memories of the “before times” invented by Trump’s rambling, insufficient infrastructure as neighborhoods expand, or poor delivery system maintenance. Friendly reminder that there is a non-zero number of people buying into this while using household wells.

Everyone’s gonna get abused out there. May as well do it at home where you know the kids are at least safe

Same as complaining about modern movies being unoriginal sequels without original IP. It’s a revelation that the commenter isn’t actually diving into anything and is only exposed to advertisements and popular media. Yeah, sequels and existing IP are money grabs. It’s amusing to then see the tangential complaint that the annual award ceremonies are trash because they didn’t pick some excellent original movie. OK, but look at what does win. More than half are original/first-time adaptations and Avengers are nowhere on there. But these commenters, just like the mechanisms that lead to something being popular (but not inherently great), are asking for popular recommendations on better media!

Agreed, get out of the dump. If you only listen to pop radio or streaming trending, it’s only going to be pop and pop-adjacent. If you only hear about movies from ads and trending topics, it’s only going to be the equivalent of pop. Browse by genre, but new releases, by awards, whatever. But all of them take effort to find, consume thoroughly, and appreciate - exactly why their numbers flounder next to pop in the first place.

Plus, I’d add, basically every band you forgot about prior to 2010 made a new album in 2020/2021.

It’s not their whole channel, it’s about the talk/opinion shows presented on their channel. They defend Cucker’s show and Oreilly’s show as entertainment, knowing full well their base can’t tell fact from conjecture, history from projection, or plan from opinion.

While pushing all-feelings no-facts reduction of vaccinations

*and your fan base doesn’t have tangible investments

You ever play Assassin’s Creed?

Boston T Party

That take would be more digest able if I wasn’t stuck on the same planet as those people.

Thank you for catching that. Even reading through again, I couldn’t find it while skimming. With the mention of X2 and RSS, I assumed that paragraph would just be more technical description outside my knowledge. Instead, what I did hone in on was

“No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense.”

Leading me to be pessimistic.

I get it. I’d bet the other commenters don’t have kids. There’s hypothetical jokes about kids, then there’s jokes to someone about their actual kid. Commenting on a post VS replying to this person who has a kid.

I grew up with a very paranoid father. Somehow this guy has a stack of rough city survival stories but I couldn’t leave the suburban block. I don’t know the best way to raise a kid, but a watch and more freedom to roam sounds nice.

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