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This company I found is giving away these planet bracelets to spread awareness about climatechange, just cover shipping! grab one before theyre gone #Savetheplanet ✅ https://t.co/3Arhhwgz1J pic.twitter.com/zNLf5bluf3— Whack, with a silent 'H' (@WhackNicholson) June 8, 2022
Also, don't forget to to check out these awesome Yoga Mats which have different yoga positions printed over them. Get one while they're on SALE and FREE SHIPPING at https://t.co/3Arhhwgz1J pic.twitter.com/QWjs02CZ8x— Whack, with a silent 'H' (@WhackNicholson) June 8, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
I have a hunch Musk saw this show at a formative point in his youth and has spent his life trying to match its promise:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2QxOTk4NzctYmFmYS00M2ZiLTgzYmItM2YyOGM5ZGZlYTgxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzMzMjU5NDY@._V1_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98Kb55ZWLM
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/366993-stunts-amiga-screenshot-the-race-has-just-begun.png
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
You pay more for red.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
offered in support of? it may happen again.at least john delorean had big coke deals. because he was not a billionaire i spose. bring back scrappy coke dealers making stainless steel cars.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt924g5lZ7w
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
Ha the first two sentences are residual from prev non post
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
third one was def a con
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
Can you imagine hitting your head or your elbow on one of the sharp seams / corners?How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?edit: turns out that the USA is almost the only place that doesn't give a fuck about anyone except the driver.https://www.governing.com/now/can-american-cars-be-made-safer-for-pedestrians
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 June 2022 06:10 (one year ago) link
haha i know about that situation in the article with the flex posts, i live pretty close to there. according to my nearby nextdoor posters, flexposts cause accidents because cars will slow down (???) and they are ugly and you should just drive over them. any improvement for pedestrian safety makes people SO mad.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 9 June 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
driving makes people psychotic, the famous car is one of the worst things
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
Yeah more than 20 years ago idiots in Charlottesville, VA were complaining that traffic calming to slow traffic down will “cause accidents”.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 9 June 2022 13:26 (one year ago) link
driving makes people psychotic
this is a truth bomb. I'd add that driving only a few times a year makes you realize that the act of driving a car is fucking insane, just a lunatic idea that mega-distracted dummies like me are all tooling around in these heavy death machines while having feelings
― rob, Thursday, 9 June 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
Cars dehumanize the drivers in everyone's eyes. I had a premonition that you could get widespread support for any kind of mass extermination as long as the victims are behind the wheels of cars.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?
feel like Elon has not given so much as a passing thought to this
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
its not a real car its a shiny object for the media
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Thursday, June 9, 2022 11:04 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Elon: Pedestrians? more like pedo-strians
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
I don't blame anyone for being cynical about this after a decade of functional impunity for Tesla, but I'm telling you: NHTSA is coming for Autopilot/FSD. https://t.co/s94HgKUZsX— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) June 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
driving makes people psychoticmy last car had a broken horn, and I always asked for it not to be repaired when I got my rego servicing, as I’d found not even being able to honk made me incredibly calmer, more aware, and zen-like behind the wheel.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Drivers do emo-aggro things they would never do out on the sidewalk... the protective steel frame of the vehicle brings out the worst
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
my last car had a broken horn, and I always asked for it not to be repaired when I got my rego servicing, as I’d found not even being able to honk made me incredibly calmer, more aware, and zen-like behind the wheel.
There's a relatively well known bumper sticker that reads "HORN BROKEN - WATCH FOR FINGER".
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
i think i've used my horn about 10 times, total, in my life. i used it this morning, by chance. i was just driving down the middle lane, minding my own, when i noticed a line of cars in the turn lane, waiting behind someone snoozing at a red light. most people here are too polite to honk, but in the last few places i've lived people would have performing an improvised 4 to 5 car "honk symphony" in this situation. it would be enough to completely annihilate someone's day - "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!!?! IT'S GREEN!!! THERE'S A LINE BEHIND YOU, COME ON!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!! HYOOOONK!!". it was nice and quiet in the streets of st. louis. so as i passed by this non-situation, i gave the lightest lil' honda fit "toot toot", and was pleased to see in my rear-view mirror that the sleepy driver finally made the turn and the rest of the line was moving up, not just in this lane, but in life
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
^^Lyrics to Bruce Springbean - "Lil' Honda Toot-toot".
― willem, Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
lol, fucked up your artist name
― willem, Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
Springbean I can deal with. It's when people call me Springsteen that really irritates me!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
it’s really satisfying to do the rapid staccato “beep beep beep beep beep beep”, not as much a fan of the standard honk or (the worst) leaning on the horn in a hot rage
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
lol Karl that is a very accurate description of driving in Chicago. I swear you could get honked at there if you weren't already moving when the light turned green if they didn't just try to pass you instead
― rob, Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
it's basically like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2vejhdm8lo
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
I barely register horns as a sign of danger anymore, since drivers seem to use them primarily to express annoyance.
― blatherskite, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
i get irrationally embarrassed any time horns are involved even when theyre necessary. i've taken to flashing my brights whenever someone ahead of me is sleeping on a red light. which almost certainly does nothing, partic in the daytime
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
you just gotta give em a lil toot toot nbd
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
i fuckin hate cars and traffic and as i've aged i'm constantly freaked out about how unnatural it is for humans to be hurtling through space in these death machines at speeds (and i'm talking as low as 30 mph here) that we just shouldnt be doing. now that i'm essentially a daily microdoser (abuser) of delta 8 mommy weed my patience behind the wheel has increased, but my phear of being murdered by another driver--whether via impact or a road rage incident involving a freeedom tool--has as well. luckily thanks to the nature of my work, proximity to our meager public transit and my bike i've cut my time in a car down to levels i would have never thought possible.
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
i want to revise my earlier post. i said "i noticed a line of cars in the turn lane, waiting behind someone snoozing at a red light." it was hopefully clear from the context of the rest of my traffic report (in the Elon Musk thread), but this car that i lightly honked at was snoozing at a _green light_. it wasn't just that they could make a right on a red and that they weren't doing it -- this light was green.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
also p embarrassed by how aggro I was behind the wheel in my 20s-early 30s. which tbf compared to Atl traffic ca 2022 was fairly negligible. even so it’s kind of amazing there aren’t more murders by car every day
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
crazy thing about cars is their immediate danger and warping of human psychology isnt even the worst part about them compared to the societal and environmental impacts of pollution global warming suburbanization alienation increased policing and so forth
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
lol yes same. I typed red but meant green
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
cars and drivers are like warped human minds wrapped in a mysterious passenger cabin inside a beautiful, best in class exterior
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
i always say that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
someone needs to make a magazine for these cars and their driver, asking them both where are they going
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
this is like low-tier friedman now, where you just yell at passing cars and ask their drivers where they are going
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
where are you going oh to work ok haha yeah me too man my job is having opinions
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
in a flat world, we all have opinions, it's just that some of them are worth more than others. i spoke with one local driver to find out why:
"where are you going?!?""whaaat? i had my window up!""where is your car going?" i asked"no, i don't have any money!" he said as his window smoothly closed.
call them Distributed Opinion Dollars!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
that's joe biden's economy for you
― rob, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, June 9, 2022 2:37 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Omg, this is bringing back memories of my dad writing joke letters into Car and Driver magazine in the early 80s, which apparently was a common thing for the readership then. My Dad signed one as “Ralph Nader” and my recollection is it claimed he bought his suits at Kmart and liked their chili dogs. It got printed in the magazine and Nader threatened the magazine with libel so they had to print a retraction that it was not in fact Ralph Nader.
― sleep, that's where I'm the cousin of death (PBKR), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
It was too late though, the Kmart suit + chili dog rumor had already spread far beyond the Car and Driver readership
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
He was a dad and so were his jokes.
― sleep, that's where I'm the cousin of death (PBKR), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
PBKR that is amazing
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Important Correction: It was corn dogs, not chili dogs.
― sleep, that's where I'm the cousin of death (PBKR), Thursday, 9 June 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
Lol yeah that's hilarious.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 9 June 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link