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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Surely cars are also contraptions

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Only manual count i guess.

Edit: also i guess that person didn't do much manual labour work.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

holy crap we can have Unicode in usernames how am I only seeing this now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Only display name can have unicode though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That’s a display name?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Only if it looks like the Hanna-Barbera show about racing cars, you know the one

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

I can accept that compromise

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you got a Model T or something old. Modern cars are filled with gizmos and gadgets. Even engines are regulated by like 3 computers. It's the gadgetization of life.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

go karts are the outer limit of what can be a contraption imo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The key phrase is gives the experience of riding a contraption.