What is the foam padding on the crossbar for? Is it seriously meant to cushion between the legs if you slip off of the seat?

My car is over 20 years old and cost well below the average used car price in North America. I’m not rich, just a car enthusiast.

But I keep an open mind. What other things can I do to help the environment?

least their use case is part of their employment, and not part of their entirely optional entertainment.

And if they’re driving to an entertainment event, like say a concert, a vacation, or a park, is that any better than me going for a drive for the sake of going for a pleasure cruise of equal distance? Keep in mind that my sports car is no gas guzzler. It gets the same fuel economy as an average, mid-sized sedan, and better than an average SUV or truck which dominate our roads.

I’m happy to spend my carbon budget on an occasional Sunday cruise with the top down on a sunny afternoon, rather than overseas holidays, excessive consumption, etc. I don’t commute by car, I ride my bike as much as possible, and I advocate for improved public transit infrastructure in my community, which all have a far greater impact than my ~460 kg/year of CO2 from my joyrides.

Isn’t the more significant problem that the 98% of motorists who don’t give a rat’s ass about the driving experience, are effectively forced to drive when they could be taking alternative transport, if the infrastructure supported it?

Please, for the love of God, quadruple the carbon tax and invest it all in public transit, so that cars are treated like the luxury they should be.

Au contraire, my Fuck Cars fellow. A sports car’s agile handling and peppy acceleration are enjoyable even at street legal speeds. They are of course most enjoyable when driven nearer to the limits at a track, but most stock “sports cars” require some modifications to be reliably driven under such intense conditions.

I’ll have what he’s having.

Robot Dreams
Parasite
Poor Things
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Asteroid City
Last Stop in Yuma County

Just some of my favourites from recent years.

$100/pop on eBay. At the time, Hotmail inboxes had a storage limit of 2 MB.

The imaged is cropped, but cropping doesn’t remove the context of the image, and it isn’t worth the risk of making women feel less welcome in tech, which is a big problem already.

If I may, why is it so important to you that the image continues to be used over other images, against the wishes of Lena and IEEE?

If you think this is about an exposed shoulder, you missed the point.

I refuse to pay for pirated content out of principal. It’s bad enough that I’m infringing copyright (and boy do I!) but commercialized piracy rubs me the wrong way. I even prefer Bittorrent over Usenet and FOSS media software over commercial software. Yarr!

Some artists in the punk scene are putting out cassettes.

At work they just call me: “Put those pens back and get outta here; you were fired weeks ago!”

Great song and free as in freedom.

I remember when reddit ads were off to the side and unobtrusive, and often had games or jokes in that space to encourage you to allow reddit past your ad blocker.

Times have changed…

My 3080 Ti could definitely burninate some villagers if harnessed correctly.

Runs a bit hot though.

I prefer “super-availability”.

Login to view started before Musk took over, FYI. I distinctly remember avoiding Twitter to spite them in those days.

FYI, a browser plugin called Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) exposed the vote breakdown on Reddit as well, although like all scores on reddit, it was fuzzed to confound cheaters.