The sun, wearing sunglasses, sticking its tongue out at you.

These idiots don’t even know the first thing about military leadership. This is an insult to everyone in uniform who had to work hard to reach this point and they’re going to make a mockery of it.

In just hoping that ICE is dumb enough to try to arrest and deport one of the Marines in front of their co-workers just like they do with civilians.

Also Microsoft products have become enshitified beyond recognition.

Or even “the bored shithead sets fire to things”

And of course his towers are made to look like they are made out of gold. Other rich people must find him cringe.

Holy crap if they started doing that in my area I’d switch to an EV within a month.

Point said nozzle towards offending ad dispensing machine, squeeze trigger for a few moments, light a match, tell yourself that it was all worth it while recovering in a jail hospital.

I’ve been driving for over 20 years, still enjoy driving manual. But some people never enjoy driving and see it as a chore, I guess you must be one of them.

And “emergency” is just when you need acceleration now. Like for when you overtake someone or are merging on the highway.

Also I know America bashing is popular on this website but you just came across as prejudiced and ignorant. And FYI I’m not even American.

To be fair it is more complicated than that. You have to feel the car start to move, hear the revs react, adjust the rate at which you release the clutch and how much gas you give accordingly and for some vehicles/situations you even need to pause the release of the clutch for a moment to let the vehicle start to gain speed. It’s all something you eventually get used to and can do without thinking but there is a significant frustrating hump to get over in the learning curve.

I feel like those who say they don’t understand why people like driving manual are people who never got over that hump. Because once you get over it, it is a lot of fun. And even if you still prefer to drive automatic after that because of your personal preferences, you still get why some do like it.

Well then you are misunderstanding what I’m talking about because you’re trying to tell me that a behavior that I have noticed to be common on dozens of automatic vehicles that I have driven over two decades doesn’t exist.

There is a difference between engine noise and actual acceleration.

Manual: floor it, instant pull. If I want to downshift I will.

Automatic: floor it, hesitation, downshift, revs go higher but nothing happens because it isn’t sure if it wants to downshift again, hesitation, downshifts, revs go crazy and outside of power band or just at the top end of it, shitty pull, upshifts almost right after. Finally some pull after wasting three seconds.

I’ve driven countless various automatic vehicles. They all do that to varying degrees of disappointment.

They will do anything but stop destroying lives and killing people to maximize their profits.

• Manuals are more engaging. Getting a smooth shift or a perfect rev match on a downshift is very satisfying. Shifting gears when your have a car with a smooth, very mechanically connected shifter feels even more satisfying.
• If you ever have to gun it in an emergency with a manual the acceleration is instant. In an automatic you have to wait a few seconds for the transmission to figure out what gear it wants to be in before anything actually happens.
• Generally, in an automatic, the connection between the engine and the wheels doesn’t feel very mechanical. It feels like they are connected by a rubber band.
• In a manual you feel much more like the car is an extension of you.
• Going back to driving an automatic usually feels like you’re being handed a children’s toy. The whole experience feels hollow and neutered like it’s missing something substantial.

I guess there can be some elitist mindset to being able to do something that fewer and fewer people can do. But thinking that this is the main reason why people love driving stick is downright ignorant.

The only thing that was propping their stock up was the investors acknowledging that Elon’s proximity to the White House would allow him to pull strings to get preferential treatment for his companies. You know, blatant corruption. Now it’s going to he the opposite.

That entirely revolved around Trump’s statement that came with it: “Putin respects me”.

Putin doesn’t respect Trump and never did. He only sees him as a useful idiot. Most of us already knew this a long time ago but somehow Trump and his supporters keep themselves in denial about it despite the overwhelming evidence.

They just blatantly ignore your preferences because they know there will be no consequences.

The one thing that generally works well in Canada at least is that they must provide a way to unsubscribe at the bottom of the email. The complaint process is relatively simple and the fines for violations are steep.

Specifically make sure that the “subscribe to newsletter and offers” is NOT checked.

Get a marketing email from them within 24 hours anyway.

It’s some sketchy pre-cracked Jack Sparrow edition I torrented to run exclusively offline in a VM and will never let it connect to the internet because I don’t trust it. I’m not too worried about getting security updates for it.

I exclusively use it to run Autodesk Inventor for making 3D printable objects. Once the STL is created I just drag and drop it out of the VM into my Linux machine. It’s the only communication with the outside world it will ever have.