jmiller

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[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 154 points 6 months ago (4 children)

That is a real shame, I met my wife on OK Cupid. We liked it for all those features that are gone now. I've recommended it to several people over the years, guess I'll stop doing that.

As for being politically motivated, maybe? But my first guess would be that the changes were driven by immediate profitability factors. Because really, what is more important than quarterly and annual profit reports?

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If that is a scooter with a single front wheel in the middle, I bet they are in the habit of turning sharply on the spot when changng directions after being stationary.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

NighthawkInLight has lots of great stuff, but his subambient temperature paint videos are the best.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

I need a pan galactic gargle blaster.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

Harambe was just the first casualty. The root cause was the weasel in the Large Hadron Collider shortly before that event, which shifted us into the bad timeline.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

"Its maker shared that the safe load would be 265 lb. (120.2 kg), but the maximum you can go up to is 330 lb. (149.7 kg). Both figures include the weight of the bike."

Um. Call me crazy, but shouldn't the safe load be the maximum?

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

Eating a dictionary to improve your vocabulary would be equally effective to that theory, and for many of the same reasons. (As far as information transfer is concerned)

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, that leads to "thin, sort of...streched" not "puffy, sort of...inflated".

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

There is a vaccine for chickens and turkeys for the bird flu. But poultry barns only use it when there are already outbreaks in their area, they don't consider the cost worth it most of the time. And no one is giving it to wild birds.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It probably happened when the tensioner failed and the belt flew off.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

I was talking about efficiency and range, which typically falls pretty short of cars intended to be EVs. But there are also other changes like wheels being closer to the front ends of the vehicles and not needing the transmission hump in the floor, giving more passenger and cargo space.

All new cars are terrible for privacy, EV or not. Small shops doing conversions on older cars will absolutely be better in that regard. But as soon as you make it a mass market thing, the same incentives to invade the privacy of their consumers will end up with the same result. Better privacy and data protection laws are the only way to stop that, I think.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I don't think the hub of the fan was pulled over to make those grazes, I think it's more likely those happened when blades broke off or something went into the fan and was dragged over the transmission case.

As for running without, that fan is partly there for direct cooling, partly to keep grass clippings from collecting on top. Even in cooler temps, a blanket of clippings could make it get hotter than it should be.

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