froh42 @ froh42 @lemmy.world

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Oh man, from time to time I miss my W124. It was a 300CE coupe in that violet-ish color (Bornit), that people either love or hate.

Where's the problem? If the door opens blows out en route the astronauts will probably still reentry.

Now I am completely unsure whether to call this a dad joke.

https://youtu.be/0XOKvFyNquM?si=3vnkLur3A79V3J9q

Sorry for making fun about your typo, but the thought of a cussion - a cushion that cusses like a sailor every time you sit on it - is too funny.

It's probably also a matter of perspective and where in the world you live.

I feel specifically the last 25 years have been specifically bad with the outbreak of quite a number of wars. Starting with two gulf wars, balkan war, several wars around the russian influence sphere, a lot going on in africa, wars nearly forgotten by the media like Yemen, and ultimately Israel/Gaza....

It 's a shit show, globally right now.

The footrest is still there in a manual car. The brake pedal is smaller, the clutch in between.

When you brake you hit the clutch with the left foot and brake with the right one on the brake pedal. Unintentionally smashing the wider brake pedal can happen if you switch from a smaller car to one with a very wide brake pedal. (Mercedes have quite wide brake pedals, for example)

It also happened a few times to me over my. life until I got used to put my left foot very close to the seat when driving automatic, so I don't subconsciously use it. (Just "away" from where I'd have it in a manual car)

It typically happens if you need to do emergency braking anyways and just all the reflexes kick in. In normal situations it never happened to me.

By the way, random selection is one of the few methods to guarantee a fair and representatative sample.

In case of a library I'd want at least part of the catalog represent media of the times is was created, because science also uses that.

One reason archaelogy in Pompei is valuable is that everyrhing - including pornograhic graffiti and slander was preserved, giving us a different perspective into those times than books by medieval historians.

Of course, I'd also want - in another part of the catalog - books/media by manually selected scientists, artists, historians.

As gas stations have enough room for more expensive "ultimate" versions of fuel, I don't think that's the reason. You can frequently get two kinds of Diesel and three kinds of Gas at the pump.

O. t. o. h..maybe the whole "premium fuel" hype resulted from stations having additional tanks after leaded fuel was phased out.

Tbh, I have no idea. The whole of Europe was late to this. The first catalytic conveter cars were sold in 1973 in the US and 1985 in Germany.

Switzerland made them obligatory in 1986, Germany made them obligatory only in 1993 - because that was an EU-wide regulation.

The only thing I can imagine is the big political influence car makers have in Germany, but that's just "what sounds reasonable to me", no proof.

Fuck, Germany introduced unleaded fuel only in 1984 and still offered leaded fuel for a long time.

It was required because of the introduction of catalytic converters, which would get damaged by lead in the fuel.

When I was at Bundeswehr I was in hospital for some time and got some thorough diagnosis. They asked me if I worked with lead in the past (no), so I seem to have at least some lead levels in my body.

(Can't think of a I AM NOT CRAZY pun right now)

Exactly this thought made made me understand "god is irrelevant" a long time ago and I became an agnosticist.

I really can not understand people who are only "good" because they fear an ultimate judgment, and not be good just because they want to out of their own volition.

In case there are gods, I'll be judged for who I am, anyways. It doesn't matter if I play "good child". If there are no gods, I'm still happier if I'm not an asshole.

He's in General Error's unit.

Oh, fuck ist it Boeing coffee?

I used expect a lifetime ago to reliably talk to a bunch of very strange ISDN modems.

https://www.tcl.tk/man/expect5.31/expect.1.html

I think something like expect also exists for more modern languages, but tcl is still easy enough to learn (just a little unusual, everything is a string)

Don't you know how to use the three seashells?

5 year old me after it bounces back from my finger I accidentally put there- agaaaain! agaaain!

And the stupidest of all car owners is not smarter than a 5y old kid.

Do we also have something like r/dontputyourdickinthat on lemmy?

As a guy one thing I notice - there's a difference in how good I dry my parts after showering. Things feel cleaner during the day if I manage to get all the moisture away but before hiding my best parts in underwear shortly after showering.

I have wondered many times (and here is the place people can answer) - am I the only one who uses the hairdryer on his balls after drying his hair? (When I do, I always have this "thank god nobody sees this" feeling)