Lead pipes are fine. Step 1: Install. Step 2: ignore one generation of aggressive residents. Step 3: never touch the pipes again

I’d bet a dollar it saves one traffic light and I’d bet a second dollar she lives within a quarter mile of the south end of the road. Opened for the relief of the most minor of conveniences.

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 mean it’s my general experience, not a hard rule. Just because the TikTok algorithm actively promotes content with high interaction without any requirement for accuracy doesn’t mean there’s no educational information on the platform.

Alternatives:

• condensed clips are crossposted to tiktok
• self censorship to the strictest level to minimize risk of demonetization
• self censorship to avoid a mature rating, so viewers don’t have to log in to watch
• self censorship to the strictest degree based on all popular platforms’ requirements because that is “the internet”

People have always doe weird censorship things as both users and admin. Forums used to **** everything. Then things were free. The big companies started facing public pressure for beings the hosts of content and locked down again.

I didn’t know about the cough reflex. I’ll have to check if it’s both sides. Can you taste iodine? It’s present in hot pink food dye, making things like pink peeps taste worse than yellow or blue for me

That degree of censorship usually implies the content is dual posted to TikTok in my experience

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)

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

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.

Ma’am, I’m going to have to ask you to please stop doing wheels in the locomotive and return it to a 4-4-2 configurarion

Definitely agreed on good chargers, but, regrettably, standards keep changing, so here’s my anecdotal experience/advice. I’ve had multiple issues - my pixel 3a charges faster than my Pixel 7 (comparable battery life) and my 7 doesn’t rapid charge on my ~2020 bricks. I have great cables, too (finally) and after swapping bricks/phones/cables, the problem stays with the brick/7 combos. Same for my SO’s S21 Ultra or whatever. So, after years of practice of reading wattage specs, I’m now stuck reading the bullshit product descriptions saying iphone 17/s24 compatible or whatever is contemporary to my devices. I charge slowly nightly, so the ability for proper fast charge is important for the random needs otherwise.

If you’re using a type-c device, you need a C brick and C-C cable. But, what I’ve recently discovered with my latest pair of excellent bricks, is that “dumb” type-C devices may lack the negotiation ability to get C-C power. I must use A-C in that case to charge my flashlights. Probably why they all come with shitty A-C cables. I already carry A-micro for my older devices anyway

This felt life changing at first. I don’t really know why. Maybe it was just the bulkier plug head that makes it feel more durable and the straight head style is more agreeable with today’s device/pocket arrangements.

However, it means I can’t charge and listen to my phone at the same time. This is more of a flaw of the phone design than headphone design and only really comes up during 2h+ phone calls. I suppose my laptop is also older, which is why it only has one C port. I can get a splitter, though it’s harder to find dual-c than c+3.5mm. I can’t plug it into non-C devices, since there are still 3.5mm jacks out there such as on planes and older phones (I carry my older phone as a dedicated movie/music device on said planes/travels). I carry Bluetooth headphones as well, but the latency is unbearable for movies. Probably a headphone issue more than a sole BT issue.

In summary of all my gripes, just review your devices for intended use. I still carry them when I travel and still use them for longer calls. It beats charge anxiety in most situations.