kersploosh

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

I got you, friend.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

a physical button on the floor under the gas pedal

I had an E30 BMW with one of those. Push the button and the automatic transmission would immediately downshift, and the engine would spin up in a hurry. Spaz mode was fun.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

New Zealand doesn't exist!

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 days ago

Power and fuel economy are not the only two variables. Emissions are the biggest thing that comes to mind: your new high-performance remap might put your car outside of the emissions limits for your market.

Some aggressive remaps can also adversely affect how the car drives in normal use. Think rough idle, or jerky acceleration. The vast majority of drivers do not want that.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Assuming I'm still in good health, I want to go on some long bicycle tours. Like weeks or months long. Maybe start with the GAP/C&O Canal as a warm-up. Then La Route Verte. After hitting a few other sections of the US and Canada I would move across the pond to the UK, Ireland, and western Europe.

If I can find a riding partner who is open to dirt then I would really love to do the GDMBR. There are lots of shorter trails that would be fun warm-up trips, too. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet anyone IRL who is crazy enough to do multi-day off-road trips with me.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

It's a known bug in Sync with Lemmy 0.19.5:
https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/539

lemmy.world is still on Lemmy 0.19.3.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Consider lunch at Piroshky Piroshky while you're over there.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I'm into it. Let's go right down the whole Cascade range.

  • Baker: Kulshan
  • Glacier Peak: Dahkobed
  • Rainier: Tahoma
  • St. Helens: Lawetlat'la
  • Adams: Klickitat
  • Hood: Wy'east
  • Jefferson: Seekseekqua
  • Three Sisters: Klah Klahne
  • Shasta: Úytaahkoo
  • Lassen Peak: Kohm Yah-mah-nee
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would have been happy either embracing a native name or removing the Confederate's name. That this is an opportunity to do both at once is extra sweet.

 

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted on Wednesday in favor of a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to officially change the name Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, according to a news release from the park. The Cherokee name for the mountain translates to “mulberry place.”

 

Best of luck to Mozilla. Their line on the chart may end soon if they lose funding from Google.

Source: https://eylenburg.github.io/browser_engines.htm

 
 
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hillary lost because she didn't do enough to incentivize people to vote for her.

Hilary got more than enough votes. She received 2.9M more votes than Trump. Her problem was that her support was much too concentrated in a small number of states. The Electoral College math punishes candidates in that situation.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Minot. Curtis LeMay would have had wet dreams over it.

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We're supposed to be done with the heat waves by now, ma'am.

 

Stolen from Reddit.

The big drop in the 1970's was supposedly due to a change in the program to de-emphasize outdoor activities. The step down in 2019 was the LDS church cutting ties and starting their own program.

If you consider this as a proportion of the population it's an even bigger drop. In 1970 there were about 4.8M scouts in a population of 205M, so about 2.3% of all Americans were in Boy Scouts. Now it's 1M scouts in a population of 341M, so only 0.3% of Americans are in Boy Scouts.

 
 
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