@Vondon302 said in Midnight Soul Searching:

@AkioOhtori As a Mopar warehouse guy I'd like to let you know that we got rid of all of our 4c parts most went in to a dumpster. If I remember correctly the lower a arms were 1000 bucks. Really nice tubular a arms though. Hurt to toss them.
Good luck

Were you allowed to take them? I understand not warehousing oddball parts for 50 years, but seems like an opportunity for a nice little ebay business.

@Highlander said in DOTS Kendrick Lamar Edition:

@Leon It's like a 1:2 scale of a 1940 chevrolet sedan.

+1

we need more cool cars that look like that

@ash78 said in Good Morning, Oppo:

So I recommended a POV drone

I've got a cheap one I got from Amazon Vine (and never got around to reviewing... oops) sitting on my desk right now. Should actually get a chance to play with it now that the weather is turning nice. Tried to fly it inside but it needs some calibration to keep stable enough to not crash into things, so decided I had to wait until I could fly it outdoors.

@Roadkilled Glad I'm not the only person who noticed that. It's a very confusing angle lol.

@BaconSandwich some sandpaper, and I used fusion 360.

@derp Potato, padildo. I'm out.

@ash78 In my lifetime we've only ever had dogs that were already housetrained, which we adopted because nobody else wanted them because we know a guy who inexplicably found a dog for us whenever the previous one died.

Adopting older dogs is really the way to go. Skip the hassle of puppy problems and training. Now you just have weird old dog problems to deal with! They always have their strange quirks. But older dogs tend to be more chill because they're... well, old and tired and possibly arthritic. But that just means you'll spend more time snuggling/petting them than playing. The catch is that if you adopt older dogs all the time, you will have to accept that you'll have fewer years with them, and the last year might be hard as their health winds down.

@pip-bip just installing a sovereign citizen license plate seems like a much easier way to tell the world you're an insane moron

@davesaddiction said in Excel autocomplete has lost its mind.:

@BicycleBuck

Ah... the world of big data.

Do you often set up attribute rules/constraints/ranges to ensure proper data entry? Or are you the only one ever touching your datasets? Even then, they can be helpful to catch any "fat-finger" mistakes, or just errors when moving really fast trying to get something done on a deadline.

I LOVE setting up data entry constraints (validation, filtering, menus, etc.) so that data entry is as clean, fast, and accurate as possible.

Unfortunately, I don't get to do that very often. The problems I run into are the direct result of how data is captured and recorded by other people. Census data is a great example. A census block GEOID (i.e. 220790121002013)has multiple components:

State: The first two characters are the state code (22) County: The next three characters are the county code (079) Census tract: The next six characters are the census tract code (012100) Block group: The next character is the census block group code (2) Block: The last three characters are the census block number (013)

Lots of codes with leading zeros that are often recorded as separate fields in the data I work with. Pull that into excel as a csv file and it automatically removes the leading zeros. So, we have to use filters and pre-define field types before importing the csv data.

One does not simply open a census csv data file in Excel and expect good results.

I have a long story about data another professor borrowing my GPS data collectors to capture the location of trees on campus. The short version: I offered to set up the data collectors and he passed. In the end, they (he and his students) collected 3,000 trees and had almost as many "unique" species - LOBLOLLY PINE, loblolly pine, Loblolly Pine, Loblolly pine, Pinus taeda, pinus taeda....

@Roadkilled said in China's newest counterfeit: pandas:

@dogisbadob

You have to admit, the zoo's attempt at pandas was better than the alligator exhibit.

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Pet owners are so preoccupied with whether they could...

@Man-With-A-Reliable-Jeep said in PSA: I'm Down with the Crown:

I'd get it in XLE trim with the glorious tweed upholstery with Supersonic Red exterior.

I'm sure King Charles would approve of this!

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@ash78 said in Movie Trailer Preference:

@Snakesm13 Write-in: I try to avoid all trailers and marketing materials in general, synopses, and even reviews....I typically use a combo of word-of-mouth and RT's two aggregation scores (plus IMBD) and then I can walk into a movie "blind" and just generally knowing if it's likely to be good.

It's so much more enjoyable.

Yes, same for me. I want to go in knowing nothing.

@Fancy-Toyota-Family these were brought in by Phoenix Motorcars, who had planned on converting them to electric and rebadging them, like Coda was doing with Haifei Saibaos. A whole bunch of engineless SsangYong gliders were auctioned off when the venture failed

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTIthenA4nowS5 said in The Plane I’m On Has Now Been Sitting On The Tarmac For Over An Hour:

@Arch-Duke-Maxyenko said in The Plane I’m On Has Now Been Sitting On The Tarmac For Over An Hour:

@ClassicDatsunDebate we finally took off after 1.5 hours

Gross.

Yes, but that's what planes do. If it never took off, it would be a car.

@Art-of-The-Bodge thanks bud. Also I found out I am nearly as close to Wales as you are. I was hopeful someone would dig up more photos of your car. https://maps.app.goo.gl/RqQjTKdiszhcNmiv7

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@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera said in i want to ride this:

all I can think of the poor people who have to clean it afterwards.

I'm there with you.

@BaconSandwich — I'm sure they're working some control (possibly the throttle), but in both these and period pictures of those early race cars, the drivers look for all the world as though they're using a riding crop on a horse, just out of habit.

@facw said in I just saw an autonomous accident:

I do think level 4 and up cars should be remotely controllable so that if they get stuck for any reason, a human can take over and at least park them.

Ah yes, the Amazon "just walk out" approach. Classic.

@drVanTraveler said in The adulting commences, or, old age commeth, or, someone ran off with my youth and is kicking the shit out him with a classy shoe behind the Albertsons:

TSA drug dog

Those are bomb dogs, they don't care about drugs even a little bit.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi said in That feeling when you think you done messed up:

@BRZ4Science You still liking your new one? I’m starting to see 2022 GR86s show up on the used market at a reasonable discount to new, so I’m tempted…

It's great! There is a noticeable step up from the old one in both power/torque as well as interior fit and finish. I do a bunch of trackdays (I instruct at two local tracks with 6 different clubs, so most weekends I'm at the track), and after beating on the old car for 7+ years and over 200 trackdays it was getting ragged.

@RamblinRover

I remember an interview with Gary Larson from long ago. He said that he had a friend with a really twisted sense of humor. When that friend called him and said "Gary, I really liked you latest cartoon!", Larson knew that there were going to be a lot letters to the editor from readers.

@High_fidelity said in The highlights and lowlights of Teacher Appreciation Week:

What kind of example are you setting for the kids?

It's a sociobiology module for Science Across the Curriculum. "Excellent binocular vision? Brain that can track and anticipate four-dimensional movement? We're predators! {crunches steak taco} Highly articulated hands with opposable thumbs to devise and use weapons? Make that top predators!"

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTIthenA4nowS5 don't worry, squinty Jag is not real, squinty Jag can't hurt you

@ike808 said in Mon-Thu sucked:

@Manwich I suppose so

Now let's shit-talk Tolkien...

😛

@ttyymmnn said in This Date in Aviation History: May 8 - May 10 [New Destinations]:

May 8, 1927 – French WWI ace Charles Nungesser disappears while attempting a flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Rude of him to do that on my birthday.

May 8th is also VE Day, but that doesn't have much to do with planes I guess.

@Krusty-Walnut said in Of regerts...:

What car do you miss?

My 98 Paseo. 😢
First car I ever had bought over the summer of 06 by working at lowes. Couldn't make the time for work and school, plus parents couldn't afford another car on the insurance so had to sell it.

I wonder what happened to it, to this day I cant find a 2nd gen Paseo anywhere. Fun little car for a teen. Maybe its just nostalgia? There's always the GR86, just dont make any right turns 🙂

@davesaddiction Thanks!

@amoore100 Honda bringing this to the US would very well have me looking at them.

This is what a minivan should be, "mini", simple, and capable of carrying 7.

@CoolMinivan-Nobody said in Well, Hopefully These Will Sort It.:

@theturbomrt said in Well, Hopefully These Will Sort It.:

@CoolMinivan-Nobody said in Well, Hopefully These Will Sort It.:

these use fuel vapor on startup

I'm not familiar with this process. Can you elaborate?

From what I understand, it pulls stored vapor from the charcoal canister into the intake when starting to aid in startup and to burn said vapor out to keep the canister clear.

Neat!

@facw
Not saying it's a good idea. Just a bit....uhhh....dictatorial?

@flatisflat oh poop, beaten to the punch again

@Cars The H/K system is hard to find, the B&W system is like finding a unicorn. I might just take the advice of everyone above and try to upgrade the sound system myself. Anything else I should know? Problems to look out for? I was thinking of going the CPO route even if it costs a little more. What’s your overall experience? Sorry for all the questions but I trust the opinion of an oppo over anything I read online.

@fintail excuse me, the company is simply named after its founder, William Lynk, and his six other co-founders who are too cumbersome to list

@Sam-Blockhan I believe the Stude is a 63 (a friend of mine is a big fan of these, I've learned more than I ever planned). The 323 was a 1986 MY debut. 944 driver might be high skill and a thinker, I like it.

The Tiffany is quite a catch too.

@BaconSandwich — I was gonna say, that outfit reads almost as "uniform for some amorphously nostalgia-forward fast-food chain" today, but she probably thought herself very fashionable at the time.

Most (though not all) people these days would see the Mustang II as a relatively unloved generation, but at the time, many many people thought it easier to push in a gas line than the middle-class-living-room-on-wheels LTDs in the background... and, honestly, the Mustang was ready for a reset. In the previous couple of years, model bloat and feature creep had taken it far from its clean, simple, light-on-its feet origins, and it showed in the sales figures.

@Peter_Black place the Honda result in the Triumph thought bubble.

Also, based on my sample size of 1 Honda, their conclusion is incorrect, or (more likely) I’m doing it wrong.

@Chariotoflove @derp

We both agreed that the crumb, bite, and texture of the ones from Joy Macarons (at $3 each) were better than the ones at La Patisserie ($2.50 each).

Perhaps the most bougie sentence ever written on OPPO. 😁

@BaconSandwich That's freaking neat!

@valeria622

@ThisIsGoodOPPO !!

@RallyWrench Cool!

@Noodles

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@Mordax — I would be shocked, shocked, if the thief had stolen a number of cars before and upon release is going to steal more. Some people don't seem know how to not f. up, some prefer a criminal lifestyle even if they could be doing better on the bottom line by playing it straight... and some judges' favorite song is

@pip-bip Taken by my friend! instagram.com/oldmotors

He owns the Škoda: https://opposite-lock.com/topic/83215/shoreline-cars-and-coffee-2-september-2023

@Turbineguy-Nom-de-Zoom said in new Land Cruiser sighting:

Parking at SeaTac is treacherous I'm told

I literally believe this to be true

@Roadkilled a great choice! Me and my dad rocked out to this one! There’s video of it, but i was half inebriated so it’s probably crap

@pip-bip

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https://www.swva.co.uk/classic-car/honda-civic-pick-up-1993/

@Cé-hé-sin Interesting. I wasn't aware they used the "Integrated Motor Assist" wording on anything other than the Insight.

@ibRAD I laughed way too hard at this..

My dad was in retrospect a Piech guy.

He lived on a steep hill with Iowa winters. So he bought a 1990 Audi 100 5 Cyl but FWD. Then he bought a 1988 Audi 80 AWD for my mom. Then my dad bought a 2002 A6 AWD V6 to replace his his Audi 100. He also had/has a Mercedes 300 turbo diesel.

All of those cars were owned without major issues. But I am no fan of Piech. I think Piech demanded the impossible and would accept designs that worked well for a while but rarely for 100,000+ miles.

Now Piech would blame the customer for this and their not maintaining the cars as prescribed. I suppose he thought the cars were too good for them that complained. But my favorite shop has a never ending parade of less than 10 year old VAG group products undergoing engine and drivetrain transplants that might suggest that their cars are less than brilliant for the average owner.

@davesaddiction yup 🙂

@amoore100

Why do Swedish warships have barcodes on them?

So they can

Scandinavian

@CaptDale-is-secretly-British I can check it out sometime this weekend, but I'm not familiar with the workings of these. My inspection would probably be something like "yeah, looks like all the bits are there and it's not spewing oil everywhere."

@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo
A Møøse once bit my sister...

@functionoverfashion Those are Lucas bullet connectors, pretty universal on British cars from somewhere in the fifties on into the 70s. If something electrical doesn't work on your old British car you check the bullet connectors by pulling the bullet head contact of the wire in and out a few times to scrape off any rust/oxidation.

Using new ones takes all the sport out of it 😉

@liam meh.

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