foofy

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get a scraper/brush and keep it in your car.

Use it before you start driving. Don't just clear a "porthole" to see out of. Clear the snow off the roof too. If you don't it'll fly off and hit the guy behind you or it'll slide down over your windshield.

If you don't have your scraper, a credit card will work in a pinch for the windshield.

Don't pour hot water over your windshield to melt ice. At best it just doesn't work, at worst you'll crack the windshield

If you're new to driving on icy/snowy roads, get a sense for how/when your car will break traction. Find an empty parking lot, accelerate a bit and then brake increasingly harder until you start to slide. This will give you a feel for the conditions under which you'll lose traction to brake. This is also a good way to learn how to recover from a slide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

smh Apple playing 5th dimensional chess again making stupid design decisions to get the all important lemmy advertising for free.

Tim apple is truly a genius

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They were talking about warehouse workers, not corporate employees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No rank and file US-based employees at Amazon are getting years of severance. They don't do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

He uses a handful of different styles

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is the criticism that they told drivers about how the Idaho stop worked? If the Idaho stop was going to be more widely adopted, it's a reasonable assumption that there would be a public education campaign so people knew what to expect.

Either way though, it's a study meant to test a hypothesis and the outcome suggested that Idaho's approach may be a good one.

If you're wanting an admission that the study's results may not hold up under further testing, sure. Admitted. But the study as a first step is pretty reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Kirkland anything (nearly anyway)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Firefox can do without Google being the default fine. What they can't do without is all the money that Google pays them to make Google be the default.

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

??

Doesn't everyone pick their ideals to care about?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You know, I don't disagree with your ultimate point. But if you look through this comment chain you should recognize that the way you chose to make it is:

  1. Needlessly antagonistic, and (therefore)
  2. Not very effective

If you wanted to convince anyone or provoke interesting discussion I think you failed.

In the future, you should just make your argument/statement instead of asking "clever" bad faith questions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Reread A Fire Upon the Deep just a week or two ago.

Amazing SF writer.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

He may have PTSD and he may have had 1,000 hours of firearms training, but if you empty your magazine the way he did, under the circumstances he did, you're incompetent to be a police officer. Period.

And even he apparently recognizes that since he resigned (though whether he'll just go get hired the next town over is probably a decent bet).

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