Notices by Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 (sir_osis_of_liver@beige.party)

@RickiTarr

Sure they do, right next to the iron skillet.

I can't be stopped by admonitions to the contrary.

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@NilaJones @ai6yr

Even had they known, their chances would not have improved that much. It's a fiddly thing to get to and operate. In a panic, all bets are off.

It absolutely should have been flagged by NHTSA prior to it being offered to the public.

I am not at all a fan of electric door latch mechanisms. Nor for brakes or steering.

They talk about the redundant steering gear and devices on the steer-by-wire system, "just like in an airplane".

They fail to mention that there is no redundant 48V power source. If the system dies, no steering, at all. The steering wheel just freewheels like an unplugged game controller.

@SnowshadowII @EllenJS

I don't think a lot of Americans realize just how much anxiety this talk of annexation has been causing.

Satire lands pretty flat when your country is in the crosshairs.

@the5thColumnist

"There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest inner mind to the outer limits."

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@bmacDonald94

I struggled with that book. It took me too attempts before I finished it.

I enjoyed the travel log sections, but his musings on quality were largely lost on me.

I've refurbished a number of 'barn bikes' in the past. Even after being completely rebuilt, they always needed something.

After a long while I relented and bought a new Yamaha FZ6. It never needed anything other than scheduled maintenance.

Just being able to put the key in and go, worry free, was so much more rewarding to me than tinkering with an unreliable old crock.

It could be that my engineering background tainted my outlook. 🙂

@TheBreadmonkey

I needed cabbage, 'cause I had none
I fought the slaw and the slaw won

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@davidwilkins @lionelb

That's what I've always heard too, Lancia Lambda in 1923.

The 1934 Chrysler Airflow was unbody.

Ford's first unibody was the massive 1958 Continental.

@HauntedOwlbear @TeflonTrout

Cis, neurotypical and sane, have installed Linux since joining Fedi however.

I'm just glad to be here, and appreciate all y'all.

@thepoliticalcat

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE COULD NOT KNOW THIS!

Its first semester economics stuff FFS.

@thepoliticalcat

All empires fall, either from without or from within. The end can come very suddenly.

Of all the possible outcomes, being bought out by the Russians and/or Chinese wasn't in my top ten.

The contagion has migrated north too. I have a bad feeling about our upcoming election.

We've got a mini-Trump and his acolytes who've usurped the old moderate conservative party, while whatever remains of the moderates just make excuses that they won't be that bad.

Dude replaces EV6 20" wheels with 18" wheels, saving 20lbs (9kgs) per wheel in weight and increasing efficiency by 11%.

Stupidly large wheels have been a bugbear for me for a while. I'll be glad when the trend dies off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC4ojtpZYZw

#cars #ev

#AMAaSitcomCharacter
#HashTagGames

Hey Red. Have you ever run out of duct tape? And follow up: is it duck tape or duct tape?

Has anyone asked the EU if Canada can join up? We'd sit in the back and not cause a commotion, promise.

The problem with the USA's self immolation is we're in the burn radius.

#Europe

@Natasha_Jay @NeonPurpleStar

US and Canada. GM is in the same boat as they recently dropped the Malibu and Camaro, leaving only the Corvette. Everything left is an SUV or truck.

Stellantis' NA brands are basically dying on the vine.

@Gargron

If you can't see the difference between a massive, industry dominating conglomerate with a history of devastating what it considers to be competitors, and an instance run as a hobby, then I can't help you.

Frankly, I can't believe anyone could be that naive.

@Gargron

If I wanted to be on Threads, I'd have a Threads account.

As far as I'm concerned they can fuck all the way off.

I moved to an instance that blocks Threads so I don't have to interact with them.

@nic

I wish to contribute the Turbo-Encabulator:

For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.

Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.

The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the “up” end of the grammeters.

The turbo-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag&t=1s

Checking in on US news

#biden #kamala

@Kathmandu @zakalwe @gemelliz @KimberlyN @Snowshadow

The "hero" CEO is one of the biggest myths sold to the general public.

They sell the fantasy that they're irreplaceable, while sitting at the top of a hierarchical pyramid.

Say that a company has an average "span of control" ratio of 1:5, so the CEO has 5 VPs reporting, and they each have 5 senior managers reporting to them and so on. That's 30 potential replacements, and we haven't even left the C-Suit, or accounted for the potential for outside applicants.

But CEOs and other senior management end up sitting on each others boards, hire the same exec hiring consultants and artificially boost their pay packets.

The whole point of the 80 and 90% top marginal tax rate wasn't to raise money for the government, it was to flatten the disparity between owners and workers.

It's no coincidence that worker wage stagnation, and C-Suit compensation inflation started in lock step with the elimination of those punitive top brackets.

@mekkaokereke
It's not a question of being smarter. It's a difference in history.

The US has a legacy transportation system that needs to be reformed.

China has only had widespread private car ownership relatively recently. Public transportation was more entrenched because of this.

Having said that, Chinese passenger rail, especially high speed rail has been losing money as operating costs remain high, and usage on many routes has been overestimated. It's only a matter of time before some of these lines end up dropped.