It’s on the internet forever, but whatever the regular user needs is lost behind poor content indexing and incompetent search functions

They slowly ditched better services for convenience. The account/login struggle is the barrier to entry that myspace/facebook/discord “solved”. A unique login for each forum, a different set of rules between each, some auto-deletion of supposedly inactive accounts, no photo hosting capability until death bed, yet another set of credentials for the latest photo host, and so on. Nothing was immediate because it took time to build the replacement communities and libraries. The problem is, it took years to realize how inaccessible the information became.

Eh, never mind. You’ve got it figured out. You are above the algorithm, above the predatory UI, above the ruthless drive by corporations to manifest addiction. Modern platforms are no smarter than 1980s Chess AI and phones are only as manipulative as a light switch. Your suggested media feeds are purely your own making. Carry on.

as a human woman, which represents a greater imminent threat?

No. This is NOT the takeaway. The bear is clearly the statistically-imminent threat (let’s say a brown bear to ensure it’s hostile and deadly). The point is that you know exactly what the bear will try to do: kill you. You don’t have to greet it, you don’t have to worry about it’s intentions, you don’t have to worry that your social interaction may push the bear over the edge, you don’t have to worry about hurting it’s feelings and risk making it a threat, you don’t have to worry about sending mixed signals, you don’t have to worry about your clothing choice, and you certainly, certainly don’t have to worry about it raping you without witnesses. It simply is a violent threat. You use bear spray and hope you can run far enough, fast enough. You don’t get to make that immediate reaction to a man, between compassion for the innocent, societal pressure to not ostracize men, and legal repercussions if you get it wrong.

You’ve never come across something and view it out of curiosity? The algorithms love when you branch out like that.

You’re being amazingly condescending to people being abused and guided by the algorithms, acting like you’re above it. You’re not. I actively fight these curated feeds with alternate private browsers and sometimes going as far as using a VPN just to see what something is about, yet it’s not foolproof and there’s a reason ti’s their ein the first place. It’s not just your viewing choices. It’s clear that you get put into various categorizations and the algorithms keep your feed fresh by suggesting content that other people who watched the videos you watched have also watched. You think your science-based category is safe, but it’s not. You’re 3 clicks away from conspiracy theories flooding your feed by way of “here’s how flat earthers explain gravity” because your chosen video, the bridge video, and the conspiracy videos are all using the same keywords. You’re not noticing all the “harmless” unrelated suggested content from the games you don’t play like Factorio, Stardew, Hollow Knight, No Man’s Sky, or Star field but it’s there, just as predatory, seeing where you’ll bite. The overlapping keywords and viewerships are there. It’s exactly the same situation.

This category association is how people get drawn into deep, dark corners. This is how segmented conspiracy groups converge. This is how the manosphere becomes an echo chamber. This is how self-harm and self-hate content puts someone in a hole by themselves. So many users aren’t even aware of how curated their feed is. They come to believe “everyone thinks this” because there’s 100 videos sitting there waiting for them to “freely” choose their next clip.

You’re acting morally superior without an actual understanding of what these platforms are designed to do. They do not give a fuck about your health or morals. All they want is your attention, your addiction, because time spent on their platform is participation taken away from 20 other major platforms.

The angle is wrong and the brake pedal sits a bit higher up/closer to you than the gas pedal. In practice, my left foot tends to continually tap the brake due to this while also tiring my left hip inductor muscle, though I’m sure this would be fixed with practice. If you see a car randomly tapping their brake lights without ever slowing down or holding them on while accelerating, chances are, their left foot is hovering on the brake a little too close. Holding the gas isn’t such a big deal because you’re already holding it all the time. Oscillating between 35-40% gas isn’t as noticeable as 0-5% brake, especially with flashing the lights.

From a safety standpoint, while youd be able to get a ~250ms advantage by having your left foot ready on the brake, you’re not going to leave it there. It’s probably going to rest on the foot rest like it always does because the floorboard is arranged like that to hold a neutral leg position. While this kills the speed advantage, it also loses another major advantage: positive placement of your feet. When you use your right foot for the gas, you know exactly where the brake pedal is in relation. When you float your right foot against your seat to flex your knee, you lose that positive location. If you have to panic brake, you now only have a pretty good idea where the brake pedal is. It works out 99.999% of the time. When it doesn’t, we get videos of “runaway” cars plowing through buildings. It’s usually someone mistakenly mashing the gas pedal because they lost their foot location references. So while you could train your left foot, it has to cover twice the distance - more room for error. It’s also pretty cramped in there with current designs, so when I’ve tried exsctly this, I had a tendency for my right foot on the gas to cause interference with the brake pedal being depressed.

There’s definitely times in racing where left foot braking is used at times when you need gas and/or brake in rapid, planned succession/concurrence. Yes, there’s times for gas and brake together. Most cars are 2 wheel drive, all cars are 4 wheel brake. This means you can alter the balance of the car by applying both pedals. I’ve driven 40mph go karts with left foot brakes. Even though I lay competitive lap times, I don’t think the left brake is a significant contributor. It’s just a compact design choice rather than a performance point. The pedal heights are equal though, unlike normal cars. But that’s not to say it’s a bad design, just that normal cars aren’t designed that way, so the benefits are lost, or even become a hindrance. Perhaps the pedal box design is a carryover from when the standard transmission was standard

I don’t see how the pedals are any different than the wheel/shifter. You learn whatever it is. The gas and brake pedals definitely require precise control for a smooth ride. I’m right-footed (kick with my right) and right handed (throw with my right). My left foot handles the clutch just fine and my left hand does nearly all of the steering, regardless of transmission, in a left-wheel right-drive country. Shifting takes some accuracy and finesse, but only a handful of times per drive. Steering requires it all the time. I’ve also trained my left foot to drive a right-footed auto as well in case of emergency. The angle is wrong, but the competence is learned.

I had to look it up as apparently I’ve only seen the most polite of the TV versions, being “I hate everybody”

Rail. Buzzword marketing is for the leasing agencies. Everyone else wants test results. The playing field for sales is greatly leveled when everyone has to be certified to industry standards, are selling only approved designs, and are largely playing within a mutually-assured-destruction set of requirements defined by competitors working together. Defects are reported to the regulating body. It’s almost beautiful.

On the other hand, demonstrably good improvements are slow to be implemented.

For me, yes, cards are still used. I work in transportation. Half the certified companies are small hands-on repair shops, so there’s probably a beige office with a real rollodex. Most traveling auditors are semi-retirees so cards are the default, but certainly not required. Most presenters at conferences are from the biggest ~5 companies, fighting each other for market space, so they like handing out cards with a big company logo and their latest job title. I hand them out because this is the first job that provided them to me, so it’s been exciting. Plus, people seem to actually like my company. And, with a box of 500, I’m likely to change job titles before I deplete them at this rate.

My industry is not trying to be on the bleeding edge or marketing and buzzwords. Product goes through years of tiered in-service testing before market release. It’s all about results, not techy contact scans

Better, it hits harder every year.

I just wanna fuckin sleep

Bath Salts by Highly Suspect

Alright, I’m mistaken on the supplies. And yes, I remember the heat shield was there, hence the ship was still there, but I remember something about it being hot. Wasn’t there still something supernatural about how he moved? And how he seemed to take control of the other person?

But is he generic? He’s survived without enough supplies and in intense heat. I also loved Sunshine up until then, as I wasn’t a fan of the supernatural ending. But same with Event Horizon. And Pandorum… Maybe it’s my mistake for falling for it 3, no, 4 times. I forgot The Black Hole (1979) is Event Horizon

The unofficial Warhammer origin movie of the unofficial trilogy, followed by Sunshine (2007) and Pandorum (2009)

Edit: optional 4th: The Black Hole (1979). Disney’s original take on the space opera is actually just a worse version of Event Horizon

Do you happen to be frequently. On the edge of sleep deprivation? Either by continually running short on total hours and/or by ignoring the first wave of sleepiness? In my experience, such habits bring upon The Horrors. I’ve recently been honing in on those as random bouts of artistic endeavor. If I’m gonna dream it up, I may as well put it to paper

Anyway, my suggestion is The Jaunt by Stephen King. I think it’s only about 20 pages, part of a collection of other short stories. I have yet to read it myself

I don’t know when this reference gained traction, but watching this movie now is like finding those sunglasses. Suddenly, the memes are everywhere. “They Live!” (1987 I think). Just watched it last year fir the first time

That’s my favorite music video

I just watched Blade for the first time. The computer model of the ascension chamber felt a lot like the visualization of the Gibson mainframe operated by that magician/skateboarder duo

Not since the great skrillex carrington event that caused dubstep to diverge into two poles. The classic slower, 4-layer-max UK dubstep (wub wub) was forever polarized from the faster, ADHD-style, 30-layer, youtube-sample-ridden, Optimus Prime-sounding dubstep (varoo errrg gu gu errrg eeee paaaaaause didli didli skkrrrrrr). There’s at least two songs on loop now.

Agreed. It’s 1/100 with old panels at 1/300 with modern high performance panels, being up to 300w/m.

Edit: solar radiation is only 1.3kw/m2