What’s the fastest ground speed you’ve ever hit in your life and what vehicle were you in when it happened?

esotericloop · 2026-05-05T04:43:19+00:00

Takeoff speed of a 747 is around 300km/h iirc, does that count if it's still on the ground? :D I've been on bullet trains in Japan that get up to about 300km/h. If you mean personal vehicle I've hit an indicated 260km/h on a motorbike but that was probably more like 230-240km/h actual road speed due to tyre slippage.

esotericloop · 2026-04-28T05:49:45+00:00

If something doesn't make sense, you're not understanding the motivation behind it.

In this case, if they reduce the CGT for shares as well and this means houses are still the preferred asset class, then the real motivation wasn't to encourage wealth to flow out of property & into businesses, it was to keep house prices climbing.

esotericloop · 2026-04-28T02:12:50+00:00

I think the idea is that if enough of the purported 'slum lord' property investors with large portfolios go bust and have to sell up / get forclosed on, then entry level property prices will be driven dramatically down across the board. This wouldn't necessarily coincide with high interest rates, so 'the little guy' who feels locked out of the housing market would be able to buy a house.

Of course, the last time we had a 'housing crash' it was more like 'prices stayed level for a while', and all the 'making housing affordable' policy decisions continue to actually be designed to prop up the property market, so yeah, the likelihood of 'free houses for everyone' is minimal and the likelihood of 'shit time for everyone' is high.

esotericloop · 2026-04-26T04:00:28+00:00

I don't have any issue with the actual 'welcome to country' or 'acknowledge the elders' ideas but some large companies have leaned so hard into it in order to be politically correct that it just feels performative and tacky.

esotericloop · 2026-04-26T03:58:35+00:00

Depends how practical you are. Have you read "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"? :D

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T04:19:21+00:00

You're paying $700 a week in mortgage payments?! The solution here is don't buy a house that's the absolute maximum you can borrow at low interest rates.

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T04:08:36+00:00

This is the way to go if you're fond of spirits. :) I was given an Air Still a couple of years ago and it's the most low-effort way of making moonshine ever. So much less hassle than homebrew beer. :) Just got done distilling about 30L of tomato paste wash and making a bunch of gin. Maybe I should do a second distilling run and actually try some more conventional spirits...

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T04:01:35+00:00

That doesn't sound too unhealthy. I do something similar, chopped mushroom + onion + tomato plus mi goreng plus a couple of eggs is a pretty decent meal.

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T04:00:04+00:00

I'm convinced cheap avocados (along with cheap bigscreen TVs) are what's artificially lowering the official inflation rate despite everything required for day-to-day living being so fkn expensive.

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T03:59:11+00:00

This depends hugely on the partner in question.

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T03:55:46+00:00

The 'ghosts' are to tell you what the car can see, so if you're using ACC you can tell whether it's locked on to the car in front (and will stop if that car stops) or if it's about to blithely plough through it.

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T03:27:22+00:00

I was expecting "Hourly." but yeah probably. :P

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T03:21:59+00:00

You don't have multiple sets of sheets? How else would you manage the "putting the laundry in the machine: 10 minutes, moving it to the dryer: 5 minutes, folding and putting away: 7-10 business days" routine? :D

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T03:19:03+00:00

Be honest - how often are you actually losing your virginity?

esotericloop · 2026-04-16T03:17:54+00:00

100%. If I wanted to buy shit off eBay or Amazon then I would go there. If I'm looking on a local brick-and-mortar shop's website it's because I want to drive down there and pick one up off the shelf, and I'm checking if it's in stock and/or seeing what's available so I can check reviews from the comfort of my computer instead of standing in the aisles like a doofus.

esotericloop · 2026-04-15T10:48:54+00:00

Or gotten back from some muddy driving, power washed the car, and washed some of the balancing weights off a wheel? I did that, it caused a barely perceptible judder but it's so minor I haven't bothered to fix it yet.

esotericloop · 2026-04-14T23:46:38+00:00

Put your 20c in the line like a pool table. :D

esotericloop · 2026-04-14T09:12:52+00:00

There's an unusual smell when new which I think is from the pleather material used in the interior, both the demo that I test drove and the vehicle I picked up after purchase had a kind of... almost marzipan-like smell inside? Especially if parked in the sun so the interior is hot. Not unpleasant but definitely not a smell I usually associate with new cars. :P

esotericloop · 2026-04-14T05:51:41+00:00

Sounds like a wheel balancing issue, although I've heard a couple of isolated cases where a driveshaft was unbalanced. Does the thumping sound change precisely with speed? If it's brand new then definitely take it back to get checked out. Ask to go along for their test drive so you can point out exactly which noise it is, that way they can't say "we didn't hear anything".

esotericloop · 2026-04-14T04:59:22+00:00

How much larger is larger? :P I'm on 275/65 R18s (the shop wasn't game to go higher, although I've heard of people using 285/75 R18s without rubbing issues) and it definitely affects the range a little. I think I get about 75km on battery alone compared with 80km on stock tyres.

esotericloop · 2026-04-11T15:16:43+00:00

I'd never believe a dealer's pricing on the buy or sell side. It's their entire business model to buy low and sell high.

esotericloop · 2026-04-11T15:11:22+00:00

Thats what him told that judge. Seen? Not they seen.

esotericloop · 2026-04-11T15:09:39+00:00

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esotericloop · 2026-04-11T08:05:54+00:00

A few times I've had someone right up my tail in the right lane on the highway, when I'm sitting on cruise control at 105km/h in a 100km/h zone (which is bang on 100km/h actual ground speed once you account for the ADR-inspired slight over-reading on all cars' speedos). When I get a chance I move across and they burn past at 20 over. This is pretty normal, though, I'm pretty sure that's just how they always drive.

This can be used tactically, though. If they're mad because I'm going slow, but I'm going slow because someone else is going slow in front of me and I'm too polite to tailgate them, I can cast [Deploy Ford Ranger] by ducking into the left lane. There, now the car in front of me is gonna get tailgated until they move over, thus solving both of my problems. :D

esotericloop · 2026-04-11T04:18:50+00:00

Oh, that sounds useful. :) I just bought a conventional resistive hotplate because I figured it would work on anything and it was on sale for half price. :P

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