[–] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

disables lane assist presumably by people who changes without signals

No. By people who adapt their lane position to the situation, like cooperatively riding shoulder lines to not be mirror to mirror with a truck in the middle of a desert. By people driving vehicles that can't consistently pick a lane position. By people who have experienced the camera wrongly identifying a tight dashed line as a solid line and reacted aggressively. By people who have tried to fight lane assist politely, had the vehicle fail to allow it, exerted extra pressure on the wheel than should have been exerted at highway speeds, then had the system suddenly detect the input and relinquish control, jerking the whole car into the line or further. By people who've driven a system that picked a lane position based on the lines, came up to an exit lane cutout, had the vehicle glide into the new larger "center" and point off the road, then had the vehicle realize it lost the lines and relinquish control as you suddenly got pointed at the crash barrier, all in under a second (aka the Tesla method, disengage prior to crash, deny responsibility).

I have an older car (not a tesla, either) that has a system that stays disabled when I turn it off and isn't even a persistent lane assist, but more of an emergency drift correction system. I set it to vibrate the wheel without actually steering.

And I use my turn signals religiously.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I wonder if it's a reverse bear-gun-spray situation. Bear spray is more effective than guns against bears because people avoid shooting bears out of empathy. Could police be more likely to go straight to non-lethal pain with gloves?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    To a stronger degree, yes, sometimes what I want is an interactive story - a normal game on easy mode. I no longer take joy in increasing difficulty, for the most part, because my backlog is too big and I want diversity, not mastery. But that's not the actual point. What I was really thinking of was more when glitches wipe your progress, when other players wipe your progress, or whatever else is beyond expected (or accepted) risk. Players get upset, replies tend to act like they're ridiculous for being upset in a game.

    My specific complaint is within an MMO where I choose to play either solo or in a non-PvP server, but constantly see people being toxic about few players playing in open. There's a discovery aspect involved (Elite dangerous, exploration gets my player name tagged to it for everyone) but if I die before turning in the data, my tag is lost. I may crash on my own fault, but I don't want to be ganked by station campers and don't want to have the game glitch me into a wall and blow me up.

    While I've seen much less of this, it extends to be toxic to players choosing easy mode.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I've been to 6 concerts this year. You don't have to be part of the insane rail crowd. I've done a mix: one stadium, one arena, 2 midsize places, 2 downright small places. I don't do GA when it's in the big places, I take a seat. But, everywhere else, I've never smelled a floor shit. People aren't ridiculous at my shows, but maybe that's just the crowd being different. I usually have no interest in the current mainstream headliners, so maybe that's why I'm missing out. But, at each, I get to be the boring crossed arm guy swaying on the back rail. I usually slide up for a song or two for the view before sinking back.

    But still, they can be expensive. I have a limit. I've caught a couple deals buying resale the same day as the show. I get it if that's the ultimate deciding factor. But if you enjoy the music and the artist performs well live, I'd recommend at least trying a show before assuming everyone shits on the floor.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The local schools exist, so why would anyone really think to check if a school is locally applicable? It's a type of problem I see often, in general: you wouldn't have known what precise things to research until you're faced with the actual problem. Sometimes kind and scarred souls will blast their warnings across the relevant initial source of information, but most people just move on.

    But, that being said, that's not a terrible amount of money for, presumably, a ton of relevant knowledge to any homeowner or home owning friends. I'd love some electrical knowledge and confidence, spent all my point son automotive. But I'm glad you found more passion in a different path, too.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    I think it's more like "bring back whatever I watched on film between 1955-1990 as that's the last time the world felt familiar". Steam catapults from Top Gun, TriStar jet because triples are best, PanAm airlines because the stewardesses had miniskirts and cleavage. Fuck it, someone call Howard Hughes while we're at it

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    It's certainly a topic of interest to me, but I'd like to avoid the "spaceship pyramid" levels of conspiracy and the meatless text-to-speech summaries that will inevitably appear in my suggested feed(s). I thought I'd find it by now, given my feed has plenty of planes. I know it's a distraction, but I may as well be entertained while I continue waiting for the yanks to release the real files we're asking for.

     

    I'm afraid AI has surpassed me, as I still can't draw hands. Seriously though, I miss doodling all through school. I don't know where that free creativity has gone, but I'm working to bring it back. Some early jobs left me in a dark rut, but I've settled into a decent job, a career even, and feel a certain mental calm and freedom trickling in.

    I was aiming for something resembling a pose often struck by St Michael in depictions of him defeating demons. I don't have a goal for the actual identity of the figure, nor what they're doing. Ultimately, I want it to be triumphing over something. The end goal is to explore ideas for a tattoo. It already worked beautifully once, where I took a crude drawing to an artist with a style I liked, then watched them bring it to life with more talent and their own flair. I picked the elements, laid the composure, and outsourced the details to an amazing artist. What better meaning to a tattoo than "I basically made this"? With any luck, lightning will strike twice... Or more.

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