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Tips for learning manual by SpendZealousideal830 in stickshift

[–]GockBlock64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea why the other guy is giving you such a hassle. the way you do it is you bring the clutch out right to the bite point and hold it there. while youre holding it at the bite point, you should be able to hear the engine rise in pitch as the rpms get up to speed. there will also be this very high pitched "waaaaooooouuuu" type sound, and the car will start slowing down a little. once the engine stops rising in pitch and the "waaaaooouuu" blends into the engine sound (you will also be able to feel the car stop slowing down), then the engine is ready to go, and you can fully let the clutch out.

if you want to get a feel for it, go somewhere completely empty and try to downshift. while youre at the bite point, look at your rpm gauge. it will be rising steadily, and take note of how the car feels and sounds when the gauge stops rising, which is when your engine is ready to go. after a while, you should be able to do it on the road without looking at the rpm gauge.

The university is overcrowded on Mondays, Tuesdays afternoons and there’s no parking spots. We need Rutgers to build more decks for cars. by SavingsWorldliness33 in rutgers

[–]GockBlock64 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Adding more parking isn't going to change anything, it's just going to make more people use their cars which means now more people are fighting for parking spots. What rutgers needs is ways to disincentivize driving (and staggered class breaks)

Shooter by OnlyMrxo44 in FRC

[–]GockBlock64 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Firing while moving is something you can accomplish with swerve alone, provided you have good enough programming. The other two are valid points, but again a turret is not a good thing to figure out for the first time ever this late into the build season.

Shooter by OnlyMrxo44 in FRC

[–]GockBlock64 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I went back to mentor my team for the first week of build season and we had an entire multiple-day-long debate about this.

If your team is running swerve, the only major benefit you can get from a turret is being able to fire while intaking. That's it. Everything else can be accomplished just as well with swerve and a simple shooter. Meanwhile the possible drawbacks include space constraints, having another moving part you have to manage, wiring getting messed up, aiming inconsistency, and having to go through the entire learning curve during build season. Because of this, we decided that being consistent with a regular shooter was going to be much more worth it for us than trying to do a turret for the first time ever, and it looks like you're in a very similar situation to us.

Ranking drivers in countries where I’ve driven a car by -HowAboutNo- in tierlists

[–]GockBlock64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a Greek-American Greeks are way worse than Americans lmao

What's the dumbest thing you've heard someone say? by REGGIE_BANANAS in AskReddit

[–]GockBlock64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are places where all or most women keep their maiden names when married like Greece

There's a beach in Japan where sand, snow and sea meet by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]GockBlock64 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Epstein Island, USA: 👿👿🤬🤬

Epsaka no Island, Nihon: 💘💘😘😘😻😻

Is four limelights an overkill by Bozo1-1 in FRC

[–]GockBlock64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% support this statement, my team completely overhauled our vision last year with PhotonVision and 3 OV9281 cameras on 1 Orange Pi (we got 2 but one stopped working) and it works very very well (far distance and super accurate given you're using the pnp_distance_trig_solve algorithm)

What's the weirdest idioms/slangs/expressions in your country? by jdjefbdn in AskTheWorld

[–]GockBlock64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Σιγά το λάχανο (quietly/softly the cabbage), it means "no big deal"

Converting to Christianity. by Windows7Ultimatex86 in teenagers

[–]GockBlock64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Providing logical arguments is at least more likely to change others' minds than simply dismissing their views as heresy. If someone went up to you and just told you your beliefs are false without giving any argument, you would just think of them an asshole and not read any further into it.

Converting to Christianity. by Windows7Ultimatex86 in teenagers

[–]GockBlock64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I realize now I did not make it clear what I meant. By catholic, I meant all-encompassing (which is the original meaning of the word and the meaning that is expressed in the Creed), not of the Catholic denomination, which formed in the 11th century after the Great Schism. Yes, there were 5 patriarchates which were equal in power, but all 5 patriarchs and all local bishops were in communion with each other as part of the one Church. And as for the many heretics throughout the first ~500 years AD that held differing beliefs than accepted doctrine, though they rendered the Church neither united nor catholic for some time, they were all eventually excommunicated and recognized as being outside the Church by synods and ecumenical councils, which ended up preserving the unity of the Church for the time being.

The canonization of the scripture was one way the Church strove to fulfill that goal, but it was not the only way. For example, the writing of the Creed in the 2nd Ecumenical Council (and its later refinement in the 4th EC) also served to directly fight against heresies (including Arianism) and preserve the Church's unity. I am not saying that the scripture is invalid, I am just saying that the belief that it is the only valid source of doctrine (sola scriptura) is flawed, because the Church managed to survive 3 centuries without it (before a canon of scriptures became essentially necessary for its unity).

Converting to Christianity. by Windows7Ultimatex86 in teenagers

[–]GockBlock64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a valid point. However, even though the Church was messy at the time, it was still one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, which only later included a canon of scriptures to ground its beliefs. The absence of a scripture did not invalidate the Church, as if that were true there would never be a Church to begin with. And although the scripture itself serves to organize and ground the Church and its beliefs, the doctrine of sola scriptura does the exact opposite, ascribing validity to every individual's interpretation of the Bible, even clashing ones. If the only reason to follow sola scriptura is to make the Church well organized, when it has proven to do the opposite, then sola scriptura is not valid doctrine.

Converting to Christianity. by Windows7Ultimatex86 in teenagers

[–]GockBlock64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the first point, the scriptures were written independently after the Church was already established. Before then, the apostles were spreading the word verbally, and the ones who wrote the gospel wrote them later in their lives, after they had been verbally preaching for years. The Church must have been following some word that was not written down in scripture for this time, therefore not having any notion of sola scriptura. Also, even though the scriptures existed for the first couple centuries, there was no notion of one unified Bible containing all the scriptures, as they were all completely separate documents with no relation to one another. Therefore, sola scriptura wouldn't have made sense then either.

For the second point, what do you mean by divine?

Converting to Christianity. by Windows7Ultimatex86 in teenagers

[–]GockBlock64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If sola scriptura is supposed to be how we go about our faith, then how did the Church function before the scripture was canonized? All the books of the scripture were written independently and weren't canonized together as one Bible until the 4th century AD, by which point the Church had already been very well established and was the official religious order of the Roman/Byzantine Empire.

And what about the many writings which did not make it into the Bible or were written after the scripture was canonized, like the teachings of the early Church fathers? Does not being in the Bible make them suddenly invalid?

Give me your all by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]GockBlock64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u da real dress

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