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Car critics to have street creds have to subscribe to the notions that any car that is a 'real' car has to have: 1. manual transmission 2. Rear wheel drive 3. a bit of understeer 4. big, sticky tires 5. as many hp as you can cram under the hood 6 0 to 60 in less than five seconds.

Dumping on CVT is obligatory or you are a car wimp by definition.

It seems that 99.9 percent cars, the ones that do well with 99.9 percent of actual driving conditions for most people, are dumped on because they don't do well in the .1 percent of conditions of the race track or obstacle course.

DooDahMan says

Here's why change blindness happens as well as the effect it can have on how you perceive and interact with the world around you.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-change-blindness-2795010?source=patrick.net

I would need to see an example demonstrated to me, not a claim that it happens. I'm doubtful of this.

One thing our brain recognizes is visual change because we are scavengers/hunters - mostly scavengers. I think this article is talking about more subtle change though and that's not visual.

I have seen psychology demolished in my time. Assisted touch was one I'm pretty closely connected with. I saw a psychologist swear it was true to dismissing it as an awful mistake. Psychology is filled with fraud.

DooDahMan says

richwicks says

Psychology is filled with fraud.

As are politics, business, religion and anything else that humans interact with.

Psychology is far more insidious than you think. It builds a model of human behavior to correct people to. The model is wrong and impossible to achieve, it's a religion.

The most useful psychology books I've read were on evolutionary psychology which explained how morality would have to evolve among any social species - not just man - but any social species.

The models built around current psychological models are impossible positions. No human is like the ideal model. It's like "what would Jesus do?" when Jesus probably never existed, and is just a legend. It's unobtainable. It's a religion - there is no possibility to attain the perfection.

richwicks says

That will be the actual result.

That is the desired result, as per the ruling class.

#FuckCalifornia
Ruining the rest of the country now.

I departed California when I no longer wanted to work. But, California can follow you.

Because I was self employed for a while and still derived some income from the little business that another guy ran, California taxed me for the money derived in California.
The money was not the problem, I was just pissed having to prepare a California 540 form.

I said fuck it and told my clients that I sold the business to the guy.

I have Florida residence, so I can renew my car registration by mail every 2 years.
I can renew my drivers license by mail once for 8 years.

I’m going to spend my time in Baja California Sur Mexico and can take my car down there.
Florida is okay in some places, but I feel very far from California, unlike in Baja which is a quick trip back to visit.

I save about $7,000/year in California taxes, until I begin to spend my investments, which would increase them.

I refuse to pay the rich pensions for goldbricks, cops, firemen, healthcare for illegals, and all the rest.
I can have a good time with the extra dough before I get too old to care about fun.

California is fine if you’re still working or a zillionaire. Now I’m going to be another tourist.

Edit: I established Florida residence and have a bank account here, but I will actually live in Baja California Sur Mexico by the fall.

Ah, this was the first year CA didn't get one penny in taxes from me.

Ceffer says

Car critics to have street creds have to subscribe to the notions that any car that is a 'real' car has to have: 1. manual transmission 2. Rear wheel drive 3. a bit of understeer 4. big, sticky tires 5. as many hp as you can cram under the hood 6 0 to 60 in less than five seconds.

Dumping on CVT is obligatory or you are a car wimp by definition.

It seems that 99.9 percent cars, the ones that do well with 99.9 percent of actual driving conditions for most people, are dumped on because they don't do well in the .1 percent of conditions of the race track or obstacle course.

Bit of understeer? This is literally 99.99% of the fleet currently on the road.

rocketjoe79 says

How about EV? ICE cars are dead.

LOL

RC2006 says

Ah, this was the first year CA didn't get one penny in taxes from me.

Good. Keep it up. I want to move from IL, but a transition would be a massive lifestyle change for 2-5 years. We'd make good money eventually, but with the age of our kids and situation it's just not worth it. We're locked in until they go off to college, trade school or start a business.

We will get out at some point, but it will probably be 10-15 years from now. We make a shit ton of money though where we live. Doesn't make life 100% happy, but it helps for sure. Not stressing about bills or finances is true freedom. So I can deal with the cold dark winters. We like travel so Chicago is centrally located to get to some cool places in 3-4 hours via plane or car in 6-8 hours (or closer). So it's not all bad.

Good news, and I haven't checked the polling, but there's a decent chance I might personally know the next governor of the state. It would be a huuuuuuuge boon to the wife's business. JB Prickzker is likely out. He's a black Republican. He's got the right message. First time I might donate to a campaign. Honestly, the guy has POTUS potential in my opinion. Not now but in the future. I avoid doxxing myself, so I won't say his name, but I have a feeling you'll all hear it at some point. I'm actually super excited for the state if he can pull it off for once. Rauner was GOPe. This guy is more populist and not that it should matter.... black.

Sorry for the rant. I'm actually positive for once on IL. We'll see. Inflation has covered up a lot of the wounds of the past.

Ceffer says

It seems that 99.9 percent cars, the ones that do well with 99.9 percent of actual driving conditions for most people, are dumped on because

... most people have no interest in driving at all and no desire to get better at it. They would rather play with their phones.

IT'S THE RUBBLE WORLD FOR THE MILLENIUMS TO COME!!!!!!

This is the beginning of the beginning. And it probably won't be the End of the Dollar (dun dun dunnnn). There will be weaker dollar alternatives.

It all depends on how badly the Hapless Millie Meanies running the White House think they can reduce or eliminate Midterm losses by stimulating with the printing press.

After this $1.5T "stimulus", next on the agenda is a nearly $6T Budget.

Since we only have a fraction of that money in tax, the lion's share of that $6T, just like all of the $1.5 Stimulus, will be printed.

Remember, all inflation has a monetary policy origin. Always, everywhere, all the time, without exception.

https://www.newstarget.com/2022-03-29-putin-declares-end-to-western-currencies-world-moving-towards-real-reserves.html?source=patrick.net

RWSGFY says

Bit of understeer? This is literally 99.99% of the fleet currently on the road.

I think he meant oversteer. He also forgot to mention mid-engined! You gotta have a mid-engine, if for no other reason than it looks cool when you open the trunk and frunk in the Costco parking lot. (In Great Britain, the front one is called the "froot"?)

Anyway, perfect description of my car. Thanks! (2x power would be good, though.)

I'm not washing my car, which is not allowed during the perpetual drought. I'm watering my grass (allowed) and the car just happened to get in the way!

I'm a 100% manual transmission guy. But, having tried Porsche's Doppelkupplung (marketing: PDK) can tell you that, on the racetrack, that double-clutch setup is absolutely better than the manual. As for a fun, legal driving experience on public roads, the PDK is 2nd best behind the manual, but well ahead of any other systems.

Karl Benz was trying the dual-clutch concepts in their 1930s race cars, but with a human trying to manage the dual transmission and dual clutch situation by hand (and foot), the complexity never overcame the benefits.

Porsche's PDK uses a "wet" clutch system and has been shown (as far as I know) to be quite reliable in the real world. It's completely different than the VW/Audi system. The very vocal 0.1% of Porsche owners who drive their cars very hard on racetracks sometimes report catastrophic failures, but those people are also reporting all sorts of problems with all sorts of other systems. And... they probably bought the Porsche because it is less problem-prone on the race track than other sports cars.

That said, the PDK is very expensive (just like any other part of the car), hard to work on (just like any other part of the car), and requires some regular maintenance from a skilled person (just like any other part of the car).

zzyzzx says

richwicks says

That will be the actual result.

That is the desired result, as per the ruling class.

It will lead to revolution at worst, or famine within the United States at best.

Our asshole leaders are trying to move too fast and too far in too little time. I fully expect as a soviet style collapse within this country within 10 years. I don't think the people in control are really in that much control. I think they overestimate their power.

SunnyvaleCA says

I'm not washing my car, which is not allowed during the perpetual drought. I'm watering my grass (allowed) and the car just happened to get in the way!

I approve of this grey water reuse. I would do the whole washing machine and shower discharge onto the lawn if I lived in an area where water was scarce.

Patrick says

https://www.newstarget.com/2022-03-29-putin-declares-end-to-western-currencies-world-moving-towards-real-reserves.html?source=patrick.net

Putin so smart! His foresight is amazing. He also failed to anticipate couple of minor things like freezing of his assets (mentioned in the article) and Ukie military capacity to resist his invasion (not mentioned in the article), but who's counting. It's like with globull worming: if some prediction by an "expert" fails to materialize - brush it off an move on to the next, which will come true FOR SURE THIS TIME!

mell says

Still only driving MT today. I will buy used MT cars as long as I can find them. AT always had a gay feeling.. not that there's anything wrong with it ;)

It is gay feeling to be honest. I've always loved MT. It's muscle memory now, but with three pre-teen boys I have enough distractions in the car when they're fucking around in the back. Eating on the road, handing food or other stuff around as the driver. I've got a clean driving record, don't text and drive and I don't want to lose that. So any type of AT is fine by me. I might do the mid-life thing and buy a sports car at some point as a 3rd car.

I really can't stand driving anymore. I'm 38 and rough estimate I'm probably close to 1M miles. I've been in cars waaaaay too long. Got most of my permit hours driving to FL panhandle for Spring Break that year. I drove there and back non-stop. About 30 hours and 2k miles round trip. Done that trip as a driver almost another 15 times alone. I almost killed everyone the last time I tried to drive straight through without stopping. That was the last time. Planes work better. Although pre-kids the road head was nice ;)

What, no greater fools?

I still predict Bitcoin will hit fiat 100,000. Probably around midterms when some political actors need to get paid.

Morons trading with leverage. Pigs get slaughtered.

The test asked me if I loved the Rothschilds. If I said yes, it printed a hundred dollars for me. If I said no, it plunged a vaccine into my arm.

London. Vladimir Putin's deadline has come and gone and Russian natural gas is still flowing to Europe.

The Russian president delivered an ultimatum Thursday to "unfriendly" nations to pay for their energy in rubles starting April 1 or risk being cut off from vital supplies.

Fucking guy can't even deliver April's Fool joke on a proper date.

Washington state to ban most gas-powered vehicles by 2030 with new law

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/04/01/washington-state-to-ban-most-gas-powered-vehicles-by-2030-with-new-law-1220235/?source=patrick.net

Ceffer says

If I said no, it plunged a vaccine into my arm.

That wasn't a vaccine, and that's not your arm.

WookieMan says

mell says

Still only driving MT today. I will buy used MT cars as long as I can find them. AT always had a gay feeling.. not that there's anything wrong with it ;)

It is gay feeling to be honest. I've always loved MT. It's muscle memory now, but with three pre-teen boys I have enough distractions in the car when they're fucking around in the back. Eating on the road, handing food or other stuff around as the driver. I've got a clean driving record, don't text and drive and I don't want to lose that. So any type of AT is fine by me. I might do the mid-life thing and buy a sports car at some point as a 3rd car.

I really can't stand driving anymore. I'm 38 and rough estimate I'm probably close to 1M miles. I've been in cars waaaaay too long. Got most of my permit hours driving to FL panhandle for Spring Break that year. I drove there and back non-stop. About 30 hours and 2k miles ro...

I think any sane person views driving the same way as you do. I absolutely hate driving, mostly for the fact that most other "drivers" on the road are clueless when it comes to situational awareness. I suspect that adaptive cruise control and adaptive braking are an attempt to correct the worst problems that most "drivers" have, namely: accelerating and braking.

Everything from the left lane speed enforcers, to vehicles passing that slow down while passing, to drivers that slow down as they are approaching a green light drives me up the wall.

Our technological society has gotten too complex for the majority of the population to function within. People are being mostly screwed over wrt finances or legal issues which are too complex for them to grasp.

These points are just one more aspect proving that we do not live in a just society. A just society means a place for everyone. We have not done this - shame on us.

When the president of the US has repeatedly stated in public that he is going to put you out of business in the long-term, you concentrate on the short term. i.e.: shareholder profits

Not to mention that oil companies got their asses completely kicked in 2020 when oil prices crashed to negative territory. The oil industry lost half a trillion dollars at that time and they’re only now recovering. Reinvestment is going to take some time. Especially with Biden’s cronies denying loans for development. Getting capital for that has been a real problem lately.

DooDahMan says

central banks worldwide are kicking around the idea of a crypto currency

They have not given up the idea of a Vax Passport. If we ever concede that the government has the right to inject us with an experimental biologic agent, or any drug, freedom is over. At that point crypto-currency will be universal; if your vaccine (social credit score) isn't current you won't be allowed to eat. You'll own nothing and you BETTER be happy.

My wife calls me a "catastrophizer" but I do believe that we are currently in a battle for freedom.

Pfizer (TM) is the real catastropfizer.

Onvacation says

I do believe that we are currently in a battle for freedom.

I believe that you are correct and that the battle is being fought primarily in the real of truth/reality vs lies/fantasy.

The powers that be are both telling lies, and spreading propaganda claiming that the truth is not the truth. If we have a literal Supreme Court nominee who claims she doesn’t know what a woman is, we are living in a society that not only tolerates but actively rewards lies. We are doomed.

dude our own government is trying to kill us. all this tranny shit, all the vax mandates… they want us dead. governments just bail their rich friends out, but fuck us all the time. my ass we live in Democracy, more like bankocracy

Fortwaynemobile says

dude our own government is trying to kill us. all this tranny shit, all the vax mandates… they want us dead. governments just bail their rich friends out, but fuck us all the time. my ass we live in Democracy, more like bankocracy

Exactly! It’s never been a more dangerous time to be an American citizen than the past year. Government tried to vax us all to death and reduce the fertility of not only our wives but our children. They succeeded mainly by virtue of the majority of the Left being idiots. And also Americans refusing to hang together and resultantly hanging separately, losing jobs by the hundreds of thousands. It’s been a time of extreme peril, disguised as a time of medical safety. Those who submitted to the jab will live to regret it, those who aren’t already in the grave.

According to the 'Sunol-Grade-Ometer', we could already be in recession. Sunol Grade is the route taken by all the East Bay and Central Valley commuters into Silicon Valley. It dried up a bit during work at home Covid fraud season, but got steadily congested again. Now, it is passable with minimal or no delays, even during many rush hour times when previously it started to jam up around 3:30PM to as late as 7:30 PM. I don't think that many people are working at home again.

My wife noticed fewer people in grocery store, and people are buying fewer items. I used to be able to tell the recession downturns 6 weeks ahead just by talking to my clients when I had the business.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/imf-warns-sanctions-against-russia-threaten-weaken-dominance-dollar?source=patrick.net

Nah, the world was better in Britain's day.

Tough Victorian ideology.
Mild and Firm Patriarchy.
Freedom of Thought never achieved since - seriously, the 19th was a paradise of Free Thought and so much decentralized and dispersed media, before "Manufactured Consent"
Dynamite and Opiates for free purchase without restriction.
Gun ownership in Britain itself.
Famines steadily disappeared in India and Africa; massive infrastructure improvements from railroads to sewers. Though maybe the Brits shouldn't have invested so much.
Women's Voting advocates imprisoned and force fed when they broke the law.
Everybody going out for a stroll after dinner and sharing news while smoking a cheroot.

Returning to the 19th in many ways would be a blessing.

WW1 was the beginning of the suicide of the West, we must put back the clock. Forward to the Past! Smash the HRE/4thReich/EU.

I am sick of Turd World bullshit narratives from Franz Fannon and "Anti-Racist" bullshit.

If I could recapture the spirit of any time, it would be the Victorian era. With modifications, of course.

Putin is 50% on Ukraine ease, but 50% right on "The Sanctions will getcha!" being another Neolibcon Fail.

Update: Russian Gas is still powering German, Austrian, Netherland, and other countries in Europe today. As it did yesterday, the day before, a week ago, etc.

It's a bit like the Romans in Life of Brian.

"What have the Romans ever done for us?"
"The aqueduct. And let's face it, who else could keep order in a place like this?"

But they should still give Northern Ireland back to the Irish.