Captain Aggravated

I’ve had women actually gasp when told I used to shop at Wal-Mart at 2AM so I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not.

I was about to say “I know! That’s the beauty of it!” but didn’t they integrate Copilot into Notepad?

use Vim.

How FUCKING hard is it to use like, notepad?

I could start with an empty tank, fill it in 5 minutes or less, drive to empty, fill it again in 5 minutes or less, and still spend less than half the time refueling as an EV. And I can much more accurately predict the range of said vehicle because ambient temperature especially cold doesn’t significantly effect range.

But by the almighty power of not listening, that can’t matter. So manufacturers can continue to not listen to customers, customers will continue to not buy their products, and dick all gets accomplished.

It’s a dumb take on the face of it; splash n dash trips are extremely common, that’s why they put points of sale on the pump stands. It’s common enough for people to want to pay at the pump rather than ever walk into the store. Extremely common weekly errand.

Now, with an EV, likely charged at home every night thus starting most trips with a full battery, that should sharply reduce routine visits to gas stations. That leaves refueling on longer journeys. Which varies.

Me personally traveling alone, I’ll still do quick splash n dash stops on medium length journeys, say 200 miles or so? At interstate speeds that’s about 3 hours of traveling, I’ll use the restroom before setting out and one 5 minute fuel stop will do the distance.

Now, if there is a planned stop, say on a 400 mile trip, I’m gonna stop, bathroom, grab a snack and a drink, and fuel the car. That’s maybe a 15-20 minute stop to use the bathroom, grab a gatorade and a bag of funyuns from the convenience store, pay the clerk, walk back outside, then stand there at the pump while the car fills.

I will grant you, you can plug in your EV and have it charging while you’re in the store, but none are going to charge in 15 minutes. So you’re going to end up just standing there, or sitting there, while it finishes charging. With nothing at all to do. Even simulating the same behavior as with a gas car, stand there next to the charging cable staring at the price going up for ~5 minutes, the car’s not going to have taken on enough power.

I have refueled my car at night at unattended gas stations. Sitting there for a couple hours while a car charges enough to reach the next station sounds real fun.

Meanwhile we’ve got entire hardware stores full of sledge hammers.

House cats average 10 to 12 pounds, they’re on the small side of the feline family, so while they are predators, they’re also prey. So they’ve got basically the same startle response as a squirrel: Explode. Leap into the air limbs akimbo and scramble around until you land then figure it out from there. Aeons of natural selection has apparently selected that as the most successful strategy for small surprised quadrupeds.

Her show, Movie Macabre, was fun. It’s a format you don’t get on TV anymore; anthology series like that. It’s practically impossible to do on Youtube and it doesn’t really work in a streaming format and linear television is full of nothing but the 24 hour bullshit cycle and advertisements for the shit my dad keeps asking me if he should buy.

Remember when things could be good AND have pretty tits on them? Pinball machines, P-51Ds, coeds…

Never forget what made sites like Reddit popular in the first place.

you mean r/jailbait?

You know what. God dammit. He’s closer than a lot of people said to be lost to the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle doesn’t really exist, so it’s boundaries are kind of fluid. When depicted on a map, it’s usually drawn from the speck on the map that is Bermuda 400 miles East of North Carolina, down to somewhere on the North Coast of Puerto Rico, then over to…somewhere on the Florida Foreskin, often Ft. Lauderdale or Miami.

Though I have seen the Bermuda Triangle drawn…however the fuck the author wants to. I’ve seen it drawn as a triangle centered on Bermuda with vertexes in Galveston, Natal and Cork, which is basically the entire mid-Atlantic.

The Carroll A. Deering, a 5 masted American schooner launched in 1919, was found run aground without her crew near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921. She was last seen with a crew on board as she passed the Cape Lookout light ship and actually spoke via bullhorn. So the entire mystery took place in Carolinian waters, ~400 miles from the nearest edge of the (typical) Triangle.

Meanwhile, if you use the typical Ft. Lauderdale - San Juan - St. George vertexes, Daytona Beach is about 220 miles outside the triangle. But if you’re willing to put the corner of the triangle at the Hooters on International Speedway Boulevard, you could legitimately say Dale Earnhardt died inside the Bermuda Triangle.

I want to take a bath now.

You’re not the first.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JpQk_G8p5Ps

Well here’s Dave Plummer, the retired Microsoft developer telling the story first hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHu9OmLd8Y

It is my understanding that Microsoft BOB’s code was present in every copy of Windows XP.

I’m badly remembering this, something about the product key encryption needed a sizeable chunk of arbitrary data to function, and they had BOB laying around.

“very durable drinking glass”

What are the top three? English, English and Chinese?

eu-de-toilette, literally translates to toilet water.

It’s terrible that she couldn’t get the help she needed.

Yeah, funny thing about that: per the Wikipedia article on the case, there were no fewer than three attempts at inpatient care for her, one discharged her, one she refused and the third she checked herself out of.

I have a better question: at least some of those “driverless” cars are at least some of the time remote controlled by people in Southeast Asia or Pacifica. Do they have valid US driving licenses?

A slim majority, about 300 out of 535, figuring the date of creation of email at 1971.

For additional context, you know that infamous clip of Katie Couric being utterly baffled about how an email address works before asking her producer “Could you explain what ‘internet’ is?” That aired on January 24, 1994. Which, I can understand, the world wide web was switched on in August of 1991, not 3 years prior, so there wasn’t a lot of demand for internet connectivity among the masses yet. It was about the time for TV personalities to learn about email live on air.

That was 32 years ago, when email was already 23 years old.