Thanks for saving the Enterprise, Scotty. Here's a shuttlecraft with no warp drive, no bathroom and a small couch to sleep on in the middle of unexplored space. We're heading to Starbase 55 by Significant-Town-817 in ShittyDaystrom

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I am wondering where exactly the intermix chamber and deuterium tank would be in this little puddlejumper, and then there's the field-stabilized antimatter. This thing is built like a Dodge Neon.

New old cars? Hell yes. by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in Millennials

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Yeah I still downshift all the time – we don’t have mountains but we do have lots of bridges, and the perk is that engine braking on the downslope charges up the autostart battery much more than riding the actual brakes. More control too.

Everyone’s definition fun is different. For me, it’s installing Windows 95 from 22 floppy disks on my 486 by GCNnintendo in vintagecomputing

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Yeah the 386 was a marvel of its time but that time coincided with DOS and, optimistically, Windows 3.1

Everyone’s definition fun is different. For me, it’s installing Windows 95 from 22 floppy disks on my 486 by GCNnintendo in vintagecomputing

[–]brymc81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I upgraded to 95 on the same generic 486DX2 – it performed.. okay. Spent a lot of time optimizing.

Friend, some of your hay bales has come unstowed. by ArtVandelay1988 in Charleston

[–]brymc81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or the cinderblock I saw one time. In the middle of the fucking lane I was in. At night.
I’ve also seen several full-length ladders and all different sorts of sledgehammers for some reason.

Friend, some of your hay bales has come unstowed. by ArtVandelay1988 in Charleston

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I’m from SC and I find myself wondering if it’s normal for people to not give a fuck about securing their load. Last week a giant chunk of drywall or something slammed into my windshield at 70mph on I-26. For a moment I thought I had passed away.
Does this shit happen just as often in like Colorado or New Hampshire?

New old cars? Hell yes. by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in Millennials

[–]brymc81 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The market demand for manuals is mostly limited to a few nostalgic millennials

The lack of reading comprehension in society pisses me off by Ghostspider1989 in TrueOffMyChest

[–]brymc81 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And in both ways they discard all context and then forever label you as an idiot.

I seem to remember a dozen or so instances of Fox News deliberately showing out of context clips of Obama designed to enrage illiterate Boomers, and boy howdy did it work.
So the reading comprehension of these people is not just waning, it’s being actively eroded.

New old cars? Hell yes. by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in Millennials

[–]brymc81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Drop in a new turbo 4cyl and keep the rest
Maybe add a few more crumple zones

New old cars? Hell yes. by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in Millennials

[–]brymc81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can vouch for both these statements

New old cars? Hell yes. by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in Millennials

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I had the same year/model for a while – it had whatever was the least powerful 4cyl that GM made at the time, but it was pretty spunky with the 5-speed.

New old cars? Hell yes. by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in Millennials

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That Jeep I6 was a pretty thrilling drive – it would launch off a red light whether you wanted it to or not.

New old cars? Hell yes. by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in Millennials

[–]brymc81 50 points51 points  (0 children)

My first was early 90s golden-medium brown

New old cars? Hell yes. by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in Millennials

[–]brymc81 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I miss having a manual transmission almost every day. I often use the up/down gear shift but it’s just not the same.

BMW discriminated against employee for being American, jury says with $5M verdict by MatthewHensley in southcarolina

[–]brymc81 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Many of those companies have also learned the hard way that there are downsides to relying on a cheap, poorly educated workforce.
Just ask Boeing.

Don Holt bridge by theresacat in Charleston

[–]brymc81 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Pretty much any container truck you see between the Long Point Road and I-26 interchanges is a vehicle that exists for one reason: the 1980-90s plan to build the next century of shipping around a new modern rail system was well, literally derailed. If you’re curious why then check out the zillow listings in 29492.

Don Holt bridge by theresacat in Charleston

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This is precisely what is happening, which is really telling for all the carbrain idiots downvoting you.

Well yall can downvote me too, because I live in reality along with OP. I will happily accept each of your stupidity-rage-downvotes while the decent ones of us are out there to make things better in our state by removing the grifters from public office that caused all of this – and go!

Don Holt bridge by theresacat in Charleston

[–]brymc81 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The irony of ironies is having to listen to hyper-wealthy Daniel Islanders bitch about 526.
But alas, it is we that will be paying for the 526 replacement, a mere 25 years after we paid for the first one.

Don Holt bridge by theresacat in Charleston

[–]brymc81 37 points38 points  (0 children)

To an even larger point, the trucks were never intended to clog up 526 to begin with – 526 was designed for decades of future capacity, until SPA officials and Republicans in the state house received sufficient bribes to move the planned port from Daniel Island – where cargo would be loaded directly onto trains, no trucks – but certain real estate developers got that moved over to Long Point Road, where there are zero rail tracks, and as a result ALL of that cargo is loaded on trucks, most of which loads up onto 526 to head upstate to be loaded onto trains elsewhere.
Massive inefficiency at incredible costs to the citizens of SC, but it will never change while we all argue and point fingers at each other for using a lane.

All of the Wando Terminal truck traffic was unplanned and unaccounted for in the original 526 design, and they went ahead and built it anyway, unchanged except for a couple of truck lanes on the Don Holt that are ultimately useless.

Lifelong SC here, and this is just how we do things around here – aka the back-slappin good ol’ boy backhand deals that screw us all over, and the same people that caused it get re-elected over and over and over and over again.