[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

No longer playing it is sometimes a win.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Funny that, I just started a collection of entertainingly bad movies. We're at 100+ already. Highlights thus far include

Zardoz - Sci-fi Sean Connery in a future diaper.
Magic Magic - Horror movie Michael Cera.
Troll 2 - A Troll movie entirely bereft of trolls.
Showgirls - Stripper Nicholas Cage as played by Jesse from Saved by the Bell.
Critters 3 - Leonardo DiCaprio's film debut.
Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, AND Rappin' - no explanation needed.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

The movie with nary a troll in it.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Here's a static one, just for you!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

... as he faces Abdul El-Sayed, the far-left Democratic nominee...

P.S. It seems this GIF is large portion of my replies lately yet is perfectly appropriate each time.

I hope you're not an expect witness in maths.

I simply can't imagine how stupid someone must be to actually think this is a cogent response. I'm one of the stupidest people I know and even I can see it's complete idiocy.

Which country was this?

Sadly, it's only the horizontally compressed logo for Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For our German-challenged friends:

Elephant Racing
colloquialism for one lorry (semi truck) overtaking another.

Elephant racing is a colloquial term for a situation where one lorry (semi truck) overtakes another on a multi-lane road (usually a highway) with a small speed difference.

Quantitative Analysis

The overtaking process usually takes several minutes due to the small speed difference. This difference is often due to the legal allowance being the speed limit plus 6 km/h tolerance, but the speed in the overtaking lorry is instead set to 10 km/h above the limit. Even if the faster vehicle ends up closer than the prescribed 50 m following distance for trucks above 50 km/h, overtaking at speeds below 10 km/h isn't permitted. With a difference of 4 km/h, an elephant race takes at least half a minute if the passing lorry is already very close and returns to its lane immediately after.

Taking into account lane changing as well as the distance before the overtaking process, a typical overtaking manoeuvre will take 3 minutes and extend over 4 kilometers at a speed difference of 2 km/h. Sometimes these attempts fail and are aborted, especially when increased air resistance or gradient changes negate the excess speed.

The time saved is very small, even over a day. For a distance of 500 km at a constant speed of exactly 80 km/h, it takes 6 hours and 15 minutes. If the route is clear throughout and is driven at a constant speed of 82 km/h, it will still take 6 hours and 6 minutes, not even 10 minutes less. These 10 minutes of time savings contrast with the significantly higher time losses for the many affected car drivers on two-lane highways.

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This is the second time this has happened. I delete all my old posts and comments using PowerDeleteSuite. I view my profile - everything selected is gone. A few months later, it's all back. I repeat the process, verifying it's all gone. I log in today, months later, and it's back. Simply maddening.

Is there anything I can do to make it stick?

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