Truly, dinosaurs with guns ! Glocks to stave off the extinction of the species ! What a wonderful idea, I would have never thought of that, somehow I must have heard about it somewhere before, surely !

Why Dodos never get a fair shake I’ll never know.

Don’t you have a Penguin sticker on yours ? It doesnt have to be a Windows logo.

Driving manual takes BOTH Theory and Practice.

1. Replay potential scenarios in your head and try to predict how you will react.

2. Re-examine your realtime reactions on the road.

3. Learn both rules of the road and real-life motorists reactions to rules.

4. Safety - Safety - Safety. If it feels unsafe, get off the road safely and wait it out.

Manual driving tips.

Use the emergency-parking-hand-brake for hill-assists.

Practice dual-brake-accelerator press/release.

Practice clutch-release-hold with no brake-accelerator ( fully depressed clutch, quarter-release, half-release, no-clutch … does the vehicle jump forward, at what point does it start creeping forward, what noise is the engine making, how does the gear-stick/shaft feel smooth or vibrating or extremely-stuck, etc etc )

Practice a reliable gear-stick-shift-shaft action. Turn your wrist outward and push horizontal, and up for 1st-gear. Neutral with a downward wrist and wiggle along the central neutral line. Turn wrist upward and firmly push straight forward for 3rd-gear, and tap gear-knob down and wiggle along central neutral line to confirm gear-stick is in the neutral, etc etc.

So by judging how traffic behaves and by establishing clear personal good gear/manual habits, you can improve your reactions.

Look forward of the vehicle for less than 10 meters ( 30 feet ) and drive below 60 kmph ( 40 mph ) if you can’t smoothly handle the manual transmission. Increase by 5 feet look distance as you get more comfortable over several months.

Don’t drive in traffic, park if you feel unsafe without causing problems.

Avoid steep shopping mall parking lots and narrow spaces until you are comfortable handling the manual vehicle.

Add wing mirrors and antenna at the edges of the vehicle corners to help visually identify the area around the vehicle.

Best of Luck and Have Fun once you are good at it. If after 2 years you aren’t getting any results, then manual may not be the best choice for you and you may need to give it up. Automatic transmissions are now making amazing progress and reliability.

No shame driving automatic transmission vehicles.

Is that Food Reviews- Running on Empty - Report of the Week guy?

Orville is a return to the ST:TNG formula that made Picard and Riker so famous and much loved.

I actually like Seth and Adriana as CiC and FO. They play off each other without seeming disingenuous.

I had an entire LIFETIME in ONE night. Dream was super realistic, but it was all anime waifus. From earliest childhood memory till old age and that final darkness basically that last moment woke me up with a start. I never imagined that an entire lifetime in one night dream.

I don’t think I ever had such an experience ever again. It was just one time. Never to happen again so far.

Sony Support SUX.

When you go to Samsung or Moto/Lenovo support, they would give you a loaner phone when yours was in for repairs. Repair centers accepted wherever they were located.

Sony would tell a 1500USD phone customer to F*CK OFF if they asked for a loaner phone during repairs. You have to go to the Sony Mobile repair center to get any kind of help. There are tons of dealers and TV / audio / other Sony repair and none of those have any kind words or help for customers.

Sony Support is DOGSHIT GARBAGE.

In ten years time,

1. Locally-sourced technology innovations.

2. 3D-Printers in every village. ( Prints shirts, shoes, pants, socks, replacement parts )

3. Plant-based Plastics ( seaweed and hemp/copra/palm )

4. Total breakdown of Petro-chemicals ( Saudi, Iran, Indonesia, OPEC, Russia ) no more Petro-Global-economy

5. CNG/LNG from Biomass and big farming takeover.

6. Solar/Wind/Tidal Electricity generation technology maturations.

7. Massive Trades-based Education and less PhD based international studies.

8. Rapid Rebuild from MAJOR Disasters ( flooding, fires, tsunami, earthquake, volcano, hurricane, tornado, Cat-6 storms , etc )

9. Any country heavily dependent on Import/Export with zero local production/productivity will go back to the StoneAge ( tough reality for small countries / city-states )

10. Massive World-Wars everywhere. Massive Militarization ZERO Democracies surviving including USofA.

BOING BOING Boeing Dream-to-the-Stars-ISS-Liner-ReLauncher-Rescue-Vessel 9000 !!!

East Europe has to draft now to train enough soldiers to fight a future war. Else Russia+Putin are either going to invade, or Putin will get purged and some nitwit is going to be in charge after the fallout over the ashes of what remains of Eastern Europe.

Watch as Putin expands into Georgia, parts of Poland, most of the Eastern-Bloc like Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, etc.

Problem of N.Korea and China attempting to invade and take over most of Southern+Eastern Russian / Siberian borders are highly likely if Putin/Russia fall into chaos.

When Drumpf gets in Nov2024 , watch as Putin escalates during Jan2025 in the middle of winter and tries again to pound Ukraine into snowdust. Watch the world Burn Baby Burn. It is scary, do what you have to survive and have the good times now. Cause the wind is blowin’ and the Times they are a changin’

search google smart cycle light autosense brake light.

Wonderful how we don’t have any polluting corporations anymore … wait … it has gotten worse …

Silly me for pointing out that sensationalism and performance-activism hasnt done anything worth a dime or nickel to reign in the perpetrators of the climate catastrophe.

If Greta or similar persons could get a climate science degree and perhaps a political or law education and work to take down the system from within, perhaps we could stand a chance.

Spray-painting Van Gogh or the Stone Henge isnt solving anything. Neither is sailing around on a yatch around the world helping.

I shudder to think that Greta is attributed to Conservation in the same breath as Steve Irwin!

Greta should be at home and in school and preparing to live her life as an adult. If she as an adult became a climate activist and held the Top-7 or Top-10 or Top-20 corporations accountable, sure that would be commendable.

Nothing gets done blaming others and while taking no action against the wrongdoers. yourself

Philosophy and Science have always had an impact and influence on each other.

Unpopular Opinion: Android is based on the Linux kernel. Almost most “Linux” Android users have never touched a terminal in their life. So the “Year of the Linux Desktop” has quietly happened and most people making redundant posts here on Lemmy :-D

somebody mentioned a dishwasher. Is the SO considered as an appliance ? :-D

I remember I watched it in French-dubbed first before I found the English version many years later online.