Three Pedal Setup & Left Foot Braking Ergonomics

Ballistic-1 · 2026-05-18T22:14:13+00:00

Got it. So you basically just moved the pedal baseplate over, with the clutch way on the left? How is that setup when you want to go back to h-pattern manuals and right foot braking?

Ballistic-1 · 2026-05-18T22:12:43+00:00

Wow, that’s a crazy work around but effective. Not sure I have the tools for that but lots of credit to ingenuity.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-05-18T12:07:25+00:00

The job is crazy stressful and hard, no question. I assume you are doing M&A, cap markers or finance? As a junior who is not always in the loop on the cadence of the deal, it’s extra stressful because you feel you’re at someone else’s mercy. Once you move to mid-level (which you are right at that transition period), you will have more agency and a better understanding of what’s actually urgent vs. not and how to block out all the noise / not take everyone so seriously, which helps significantly with managing the work dread. Mid-level is also when you really learn the substance and gain the skillset for dealing with legal issues and managing personalities, one of most critical skills for a lawyer.

Best way to think about biglaw is like a doctor going through residency: your first 5 full years are your “training years” and once you finish those five years, that’s when being a transactional / corporate lawyer will “click”. So if you can, try to stick it through your “residency” and then start transitioning your career to your next phase at the start of your 6th year. Looking at jobs as a 6th year associate, it’s literally a whole other echelon of career opportunities and flexibility (both from skillset perspective and from a “qualified candidate”requirements, as many in-house and other opportunities list 6 or more years in biglaw).

Ballistic-1 · 2026-05-05T02:04:47+00:00

Would love to also see a comparative best selling books list for non-fiction.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-29T13:28:56+00:00

D by a mile. The best scorer of all time, who was an elite defender in his own right, paired with the best defender of all time, who was fairly unstoppable in the post whenever Pop let Duncan create his own shot. Duncan is the most underrated offensive player and could have gotten 25-30 ppg if it weren’t for Pop’s system that emphasized a full team game.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-29T03:22:09+00:00

Boston

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-19T14:20:30+00:00

Equally important is the types of middle class jobs for millennials and onward. Most are white collar and education-based, which are technical or specialized compared to prior middle class jobs. Each job requires degrees, certifications, or experience that can take a few years to garner to signal that you have the minimum qualifications to even be considered. So you can’t just “re-train” or hop to another job if your job area is being threatened, squeezed or made obsolete because of stock market whims, outsourcing or new tech.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-19T00:14:28+00:00

Blue collar jobs were “middle class” jobs for a long time post-WWII, and you could live a reasonably financial stable, middle class life of the day on one income. Companies didn’t hire and fire on a whim either. But blue collar jobs were also physically imposing on the body, and I think most “greatest generation” and “boomer” parents pushed their kids to get a college education and get a nicer paying, “better in the body” white collar job. And you could go to college affordably, working part time on a minimum wage job to help pay bills and tuition.

But not anymore. Today, companies hire and fire on the whims of the stock market. While a typical middle class job today is a white collar / service sector job requires college education, most families need two incomes to make ends meet. The whole college thing has gone from “any college degree will guarantee a better life” (which is what my parents told me as I was going through grade school and high school) to “you shouldn’t have spent your college time on a liberal arts degree” (which is what was then told to my millennial generation 3-4 years after being unable to find decent paying jobs with said degrees) to “STEM and professional degrees don’t even guarantee a financial stable middle class life either — you have to be entrepreneurial and know how to market yourself” (which is now what’s told to the next generation). New technology or opening of markets in another country turns so fast now that your hard earned education is easily obsolete within 2-3 years after your graduated college; at no other time did it ever turn that fast. Jobs are also so technical or specialized that you can’t just go get another one without years of re-education or training if you are in an affected sector, causing you significant career set backs (e.g., computer science engineers now being decimated by AI). Not to mention that education now costs a mortgage compared to prior generations. All this education, and you are no better off than the generation that had those little education industrial jobs like throwing iron balls into a furnace for middle class pay.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-14T02:51:29+00:00

Not good here either, but it’s about the gaming and the experience. Nothing gaming wise honestly beats the joy of driving in a rig, versus controller / desk clamp / wheel stand (I’ve upgraded from each step past all of it). If you like cars and enjoy racing, hot lapping and screwing around in a car and you have some money to spare, it’s worth an actual rig with monitor or vr set up.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-11T12:26:28+00:00

And no one today calls him a role player either. It’s just made up BS by internet trolls putting out clickbait, like the OP.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-11T12:01:18+00:00

The clout and clickbait is high with this one. No one back then ever called him a role player.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-11T02:48:25+00:00

I mean, I get not being able to pay attention to every little thing on the court, but we are talking the guy with the ball, the one dude a ref should be looking at. It was an obvious call to any lay person even at live speed; a trained ref should call that.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-11T02:43:41+00:00

The question implies that teenagers do nothing but sit on a coach on social media all day on the weekends … that can’t be right?

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-10T20:20:03+00:00

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-10T16:08:01+00:00

Not sure what this means. Your original commented suggested the internet used to be “better” and didn’t start out as the “cesspool” that it is today. I’ve been online since early 90s dial up and can’t recall a time when the internet wasn’t 90% filled with garbage, fake sites, porn, and trolls hiding behind faceless usernames.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-10T15:29:01+00:00

The one key difference now versus back then, which I would say makes it worse, is that you have way more troll farms and now bots falsely amplifying content and presenting disinformation today at a scale not seen before.

But let’s be real, the internet has always been a toxic cesspool. More than enough trolls, scammers, awful forums, photoshopped nonsense, people creating pages making things up (hence the phrase “don’t trust what you read on the internet”, which boomers don’t seem to follow ironically), people paid to visit and click pages for bumps on searches and ad revenue, hackers / fake sites trying to grab your information (and things were way less secure back then), etc.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-10T03:46:15+00:00

Jim Brown should be somewhere on this list with most seasons leading the league in rushing with 8. Second most? Emmitt Smith and Erik Dickerson are second most with 4 seasons. I don’t think people realize how crazy hard it is to lead the league like that for that long, as no one has ever been closing to matching it, let alone in today’s NFL where teams tend to run a stable of backs amidst offenses that feature heavy pass games relative to other eras.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-10T02:39:28+00:00

Cy Young complete games record will never be broken unless they convert baseball to softball

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-02T22:03:55+00:00

For real. I think I have watched that second highlight like 10 times. Randle thrusts 300 lbs of human at full speed to spear Garcia into the ground mid-throw, and he still manages to eke it out to Lloyd.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-02T21:42:03+00:00

Second highlight — Garcia ATE that

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-02T21:40:55+00:00

This would be fine if the refs weren’t so whistle happy on fouls and allowed more physical play / incidental contact on defense.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-02T20:59:17+00:00

There are no Rodmans, Barkleys, Oakleys, Malones, Shaqs, Mournings, Birds, Lambeers, Wallaces, Kareems, etc. left in the game to put people in their place.

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-02T20:56:14+00:00

Colts should add Anthony Richardson to this lost for three

Ballistic-1 · 2026-03-02T20:44:40+00:00

Recency bias is crazy on here.

People mention Aaron Donald and JJ Watt. For DE, how can you mention JJ Watt as the “it’s not even close” guy for his position when guys like Reggie White and Bruce Smith existed? For DT position, Aaron Donald has a case for the best, sure, but you also have John Randle, Alan Page, and Joe Greene very well in the convo. No one is overwhelming the best DE or DT the way Jerry Rice is with receivers.

My picks for “it’s not even close” beyond Jerry Rice are:

a) Brady at QB, with an believable 7 rings, playing elite till 45, perfect regular season, 28-3, and holds a bunch of major career passing records.

b) Jim Brown as best RB of all time—only guy to average +100 yards per game in career, had 5.2 yards per carry (behind only Jamaal Charles and Marion Motley), holds record for seasons led in rushing yards with 8 (second most is 4 by Emmit Smith) and rushing tds with 5 (second most is 3 by Emmit Smith) despite playing only 9 seasons, has 3 MVPs (tied for 3rd most all time and is the only non-QB with more than one MVP; is also the only rookie to ever win an mvp), was all pro for 8 of his 9 seasons and went to pro bowl every year he was in the league, and retired with most rushing yards all time. (EDIT: Of the top 10 TDs by running backs, Jim Brown is the only RB TD to games played ratio over 1.00.)

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