Spraynard Kruger

u/SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world
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on My 98 Oldsmobile · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 28d

How else are you expected to ash your cigarette without causing a fire hazard? Crank the window down?? And exactly how am I supposed to accomplish that when I have my hands juggling 4 tasks already, genius?

My smoking hand is holding my cig and shifting gears, and my driving hand is steering the car and holding my beer upright without spilling. There's kids in the car, so I need to focus on the task of driving for their safety!

on My 98 Oldsmobile · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 28d

This is super convoluted to some people, but its the easiest way for my weird American brain to convert it on the fly:

  1. 2*°C=ans1
  2. ans1—(0.1*ans1)=ans2
  3. ans2—32=°F

The conversion most sources give you is:

(9/5)*°C—32=°F

But I find it easier to break it down into those 3 simple steps. If you're the kind of person who calculates 20% of X in two steps [20%*X=(0.1X)*2], you might also like my weird method of converting °C to °F.

on Sony · c/memes · 2 pts · 47d

I remember when I got a PSP in middle school, I thought everything was going to start using UMDs eventually since they were "universal".

Everything about the PSP looked so high tech because it could display graphics close to PS2 quality, played tiny disks, had a wide screen, and somehow fit 32 whole megabites on a little memory card.

I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen a US cop pull someone over while going over the speed limit. Most of the time they are sitting in their cars doing fuckall. Other than getting overpaid to scroll on their phones of course.

It still amazes me when I see a huge pedestrian-annihilation-class pickup truck fly past a cop doing 90 mph in a 60 mph zone and absolutely nothing happens. I think to myself, surely they are going to get pulled over. That's felony speeding.

Nope. That would require the cop to get off their ass and do something. The only time that happens in this country is when there's a constitutionally protected protest happening or when someone with dark skin is in the vicinity.

Happened to a friend of mine at his company. It seems the company wanted to justify their subscription costs.

I'm sure if you are corpo-brained (brain dead) enough it makes sense. AI = magic efficiency machine, therefore an employee that uses more tokens = more efficient worker. Of course, in practice most competent people affected by this policy at his company started burning tokens with wild goose chases when they needed to increase that metric.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/news · 2 pts · 110d

To be fair to them (even though I don't think they are engaging with me in good faith), I did take a plane to get there. Hard to bike across California, even on one of those e-bikes lol.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/news · 1 pts · 110d

I'm whining about someone swinging a bat at people on the sidewalk while the whole neighborhood is on fire. The fire is a worse problem, and we should take care of it before it burns down everything. But someone should really take that bat away from that guy or at least replace it with a wiffle ball bat before someone gets hurt.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/news · 3 pts · 110d

Don't get me wrong, I think the proposed legislation is taking the wrong approach and I think e-bikes are overall a good thing. I'm just saying that I see the reason why California wants to add some additional regulation to a motorized transport.

I have no problem with people riding regular bikes on sidewalks. Roads are scary as a cyclist surrounded by vehicles several times heavier than yours. People are riding e-bikes on the sidewalks everywhere I go. It makes walking scary on infrastructure made for walking. If you get hit by someone on a bike going 20 mph (~32 km/hr), someone is getting seriously hurt. This guy was actively endangering pedestrians.

Also, no matter how you look at it, e-bikes (individualized transport) are a worse thing for the environment than public transportation (communal transport), and certainly worse than walking (what I was doing in the walkway).

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/news · 1 pts · 110d

I'm not the commenter you're replying to, I'm just a stranger who likes to play devil's advocate.

Last summer I visited San Francisco, and there were a bunch of e-bikes around. One almost plowed into me in the walkway at Golden Gate Park. It looked like it was going faster than all cars on the road next to us at the time. The guy was not wearing a helmet, didn't honk any kind of a horn or ring a bell, and barely called out a warning. It was a near miss, right after he swerved around the people in front of me.

I was looking up at the trees in the park (as you do in parks), when I hear a slight scream from one of the pedestrians in front of me, followed by a frantic "LOOK OUT" from the guy on the bike. I quickly stepped off the walkway onto the gras, so no accident happened, but it was still scary.

I can see the reasoning behind this law. There's no reason that the motor on that bike should go that fast without requiring inspections and some kind of license. Certainly no reason to be driving it that fast in a walkway, but I think that's already illegal.