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Used to mean something else in the world of machinery and auto mechanics. Old school stuff. There is a screw that holds the distributor cap in place. A mechanic would loosen that screw and rotate the whole distributor cap very slightly, maybe 5° or so, the thing is round, so that’s a really small portion of a circle. So one could turn it clockwise or counterclockwise to advance or retard the timing.

If you met someone who you really enjoyed talking to, what would stop you from staying connected to that person after the 7 days were over? You would know their username, right?

Wow. Absolutely great work. Thank you

Knew a lady with a trained chinchilla. Bet she could train your UI.

Information tech people say we have introduced new measures and methods to guarantee compliance with our policies. And pirates answer challenge accepted

I am waiting for someone to make a Pez dispenser with his head on it. But it only dispenses huge API charges and senseless threats.

Slowly or quickly, it’s gonna crash. At this point you are just rearranging furniture on the Titanic

And how much does reddit pay?

Will Elon lose control of Elon? Seems like a far more predictable outcome.

Seems like pretty soon will be bots interacting with bots. All hail spez. Can’t imagine what the draw would be. I like it here.

I’m old, but the whole scene reminds me of Max Headroom.

Yes, Lord Vader…

If you get wheels or tires that need a different pressure you have a few options. I have used a sticker in the glove box, open the glove box and put a sticker on the inside of the part that opens. Those temporary name stickers from an office supply store work, just write the info on the sticker with a marker. I would not cover up the factory sticker because you may want to go back to the original setup or sell the car at some later date and keep the aftermarket wheels or sell them separately.

For me the big takeaway here is that as long as we choose to participate in a system that is ultimately driven by a profit motive we are going to be the means to that end. Kbin, lemmy, calckey, whatever other flavor of the fediverse you may be using, doesn’t have that feature. As the people who chose to be mods for free on Reddit demonstrated, people will dedicate alot to a thing that feels like a community or a movement. Not so much to a thing that feels like a commercial enterprise. So yeah, Spez is a self serving idjit. But maybe he did us a favor by motivating us to find something better.

Please, sir, may I have another?

So now we know who Huffman wants to be when he grows up. Muskrat. And that wraps up the show for today folks. Time to pull the plug on Reddit.

Seems to me that rich people, especially obnoxious rich people, don’t get to see very many people behaving as they naturally would. If you are not impressed by their money then you probably ignore and avoid. If you are then you are fake nice. I doubt that they get a very realistic take on what people in general really think.

Maybe they could build a bot to do it. It wouldn’t work but it might be funny to watch.

Does a CEO really understand how the products that his company makes operate at the nuts and bolts scale? To me this sounds like if the CEO of GM was discussing the merits and deficits of a limited slip differential. If they know anything about it they know what some engineers dumbed down enough for him to grasp it.

I am new to the fediverse concept. Is Squabbles part of the fediverse?