Another fun fact: occasionally, that’s a legitimate technique. I have an old manual Toyota 4Runner 4x4 that actually has a “clutch start cancel” button you can use if, say, you stall in a tricky rock-crawling situation. You can crank the starter to crawl forward without risk of rolling backwards, like might happen if you actually started the engine and tried to use the clutch.
It’s a nice thought, but somehow it never works.
I was afraid of that (which is why I phrased it less definitively than I could have). Good to know!
Especially !cats.
“Oregon Trail” generation
Hey. Shut up.
The '90s were a decade ago, and always will be!
Somehow, you ended up with a ő instead of an ö.
This is Lemmy. All the communities are for posting about corporate dishonesty!
IIRC, the fun conspiracists moved to r/high_strangeness or something like that.
I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt.
Something to do with hard-coded mounts in /etc/fstab vs. dynamically-mounted removable media (USB drives etc.), I think.
Trump doesn’t care if he legitimately gets the most votes in any particular state. All he cares about is having MAGA election officials refuse to sign off on the counts in order to cause enough chaos and distrust that the MAGA SCOTUS steps in and either hands him the presidency directly or declares enough results invalid that the decision gets punted to a “one state, one vote” poll in the House (which would be absolutely dominated by red states in that situation).
Okay, then the DOJ grasping at any flimsy excuse to avoid indicting the traitorous right-wing influencers themselves is… something.
That better?
No, it’s worse than that. That’s the DOJ’s excuse for refusing to indict the traitorous influencers themselves and only going after their Russian handlers.
causing hour after hour of weight wherever the poor voters are directed to.
*wait
Also, it doesn’t even end there: my state has even criminalized giving water to those people waiting hours and hours in line, in order to try to dehydrate them into not voting.
why the hell do we care so much about air travel?
Because highjacked planes are capable of attacking the ruling class (e.g. the Pentagon and the Capitol Building), not just the little people.
We should have a two-tier court system: one for actual people who have rights, and one for corporate non-people who don’t.
The problem with this isn’t that it’s two-tier, it’s that the tiers are straight out of Bizarro-world and absolutely ass-backwards.
The Internet Archive needs to flee the US before the copyright cartel can destroy it completely and usher in an Internet dark age.
…and then to something even more dumb once we beat that.
E.g. “please drink verification can.”
The key is to understand what the controls do instead of memorizing a procedure.
When you start the car, you probably don’t want it to instantly lurch forward. So, you need to decouple the engine from the wheels, which you can do either by putting the transmission in neutral or by pushing in the clutch (or both). Once it’s running, either you can let the clutch out in gear to start moving, or let it out in neutral if you want to remain stopped for a while.
It’s not so much that one procedure is “correct;” it’s that you decide what you want the car to do and manipulate the controls to make that happen. It’s only not correct if it does something you didn’t intend.