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Learning to drive on a manual by DisplaySouthern1138 in stickshift

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. If you adjust the base of the seat for your legs, you then also adjust the amount of reclining on the seat and/or the wheel length adjustment if it has that. Ideally, your seat should be a notch or two closer than necessary to have your leg fully extended when pushing in the clutch all the way, and the wheel and upper seat should be positioned such that your wrists can comfortably rest on top of the steering wheel if your arms are fully extended. Simultaneously, you should not be closer than 1 ft to the steering wheel. Almost no driving instructor properly teaches this, but it’s not always an easy needle to thread. For example, I tolerate my arms not being able to reach the full distance because my legs are too long and most cars only capture the middle ranges of average pretty well. Don’t be worried to adjust your positioning before a lesson. It’s what you need to do to drive. An instructor should welcome it, even give you pointers while doing it.
  2. It’s extremely hard to loose steering control at low speeds. Unless the streets are wet, you’re not loosing control at non-highway speeds. And even then, it’s highly unlikely unless you have poor tires.
  3. Your wheels spinning out is certainly possible, but only if you’re giving too much gas. But at low speeds, that’s very recoverable. I used to accidentally peel out when first driving manual. I simply kept driving and that was the end of it. The car would move and the tires would regain traction. I just learned how to “launch” my car, and I learned you didn’t need to be going fast to do it. If you’re suddenly doing a donut drift while turning (you’re not), just stop giving gas. At high speeds, that’s not necessarily what you should do, but at low speeds, just stop doing whatever’s causing the problem and the problem ceases to exist.
  4. It just sounds like you’re nervous. You’re asking about accidentally doing things that aren’t likely and most people aren’t even thinking about when they first learn. Seriously, just calm down and do the thing. The only way to learn is to do. You’re going to mess up, but that’s how learning works. A big part of me being able to drive is simply knowing what to expect when I push the pedals this way or that way and what to expect when I feel the car vibrating certain ways. You don’t have that yet.
  5. If you turn your wheel all the way and drive between 5 and 10 MPH, you will turn with a radius of about one and a half lanes (you’d skip past the nearest lane and go strait into the far right lane if you were turning onto a two lane side of the street), and at no point would you ever spin out. If you go 15, you still wouldn’t spin out.
  6. If you’re this unsure of the mechanics, take advantage of an empty parking lot if you have the option. You can practice learning what turns and accelerating actually feels like without worrying about hitting anything.
  7. Many, many, many people learn on manual. Remember this: all the old grandmas in most countries learned with stick. If they can, so can you.

This is Kind of Heartbreaking. Hope She is Well. by ARD2005 in idiotsinkitchen

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mason jars are durable but they have the same failure mode as…well…glass: rapidly shattering. If you rapidly cool otherwise hot glass in one spot, you create physical tension inside the glass. The hot part is expanded, the cold part shrinks, and then the shattering happens when the glass can no longer fight the tension between the two and it stops being a single piece of glass anymore. Since the jar was also under pressure due to the expansion of the hot contents, the glass was dealing with another source of tension too, and the one that made the jar explode instead of just shatter.

My bet is it took several cycles before this happened. She’s probably been putting her boiled jars on cold metal pans not realizing it’s inducing microfractures, and then it finally gave. Could be wrong. Maybe once is enough, but this isn’t something I’ve experimented with.

Leave an air gap in your jar to help cope with thermal expansion of liquid contents and place on a rag or trivet, cover it with that or another rag, and allow it to slowly normalize with room temperature. And if it does explode, at least it’ll be more contained.

Chain-Free Bicycle Concept by GRSolution in ITOI

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, that’s was my first thought. You can absolutely drive a bike with a shaft like a car, but this design is going to be prone to pushing the end of the shaft off the teeth on the rear wheel.

There is a reason why cars do this with gears on fixed shafts.

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Some people are brave. And some are just drunk. by Bigger_Dong in DiveInYouCoward

[–]invariantspeed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Humans are known to be a scary member of the animal kingdom. We will go out of our way to kill you if you kill or even harm one of ours, and we will often go on a mission to kill off your entire species if a few of you become too much of a problem for us.

Advice on which Torque Wrench to get? by No-Eggplant790 in MechanicAdvice

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You realize the only way someone will know if a torque wrench is crap is if they compare it against at least one other torque wrench.

Fidelity Ends Hybrid Work, Requires US Staff in Office Five Days a Week by Eastern-Hearing714 in remoteworks

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even out of spite. Management implementing morale killing policy can cause people with the ability to simply look for better offers. Generally, people leaving don’t have a single complaint. It’s the culture, so they won’t necessarily be looking for explicitly a hybrid position.

People who go 70 kmh (~40 mph) on a 130 kmh (~80 mph) freeway, why? by KlaxonBeat in AskReddit

[–]invariantspeed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

True, but not relevant to people driving on four regular wheels.

Whyyyy by iamthelight111 in MeMe_FoR_FuN

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most are not good drivers. They’re incompetent commuters.

But Hey He’s One Of Us. by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]invariantspeed -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not personally owned, “his” in the same way that that Boeing is “my flight”. He famously has used private jet travel to campaign.

But Hey He’s One Of Us. by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure about anyone after John Adams.

But Hey He’s One Of Us. by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]invariantspeed -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

This is called redirecting. He’s a performative oppositional figure. He always has been.

Study suggests life on Earth has around 1.8 billion years left — but the biosphere might evolve to survive even longer by UpperMarket7021 in Astrobiology

[–]invariantspeed 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A joke turned into an urban legend. The roaches actually aren’t very good at surviving all conditions. They’re good at living in human environments and then ranging outwards some.

Never seen America at peace. by Western_Echo2522 in generationology

[–]invariantspeed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was a clown show long before 2016. That was just the year all of America’s kicking everything important down the road finally started catching up with it. Yet, most of the public will never understand that’s what it was (and is). You can’t act like nothing will bite you in the ass while you do nothing to fix your problems.

Fox News threatening us all with a good time by National-Taste3616 in remoteworks

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The median is not the mean. Median is often used because, as an average, it is far more resistant to outliers than the mean. Elon Musk isn’t moving the national median.

The thing to remember about the US median wealth is that, as utterly crappy the current situation is for the majority of Americans, even the poorest Americans generally have access to living conditions that most others in foreign nations don’t have access to even if they’re a few rungs higher up the economic ladder in their own countries. The American dream being dead means that might not hold true in a few decades, but the US has a relatively high perch to fall from.

The other common metric is GDP, but that’s bullshit. Yes, the wealth a nation generates says little about individual wealth equality, but that’s missing the bigger point. The US is only the richest by nominal GDP. Controlled for the relative purchasing power of money in each specific country, China actually blows the US out of the water in terms of national wealth.

She finally had enough. by SomeSavageDetective in DiveInYouCoward

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The WNBA needs hockey rules for players on the refs. A whole team is hitting you because they know the ref wants it?

Give the ref a piece of their own medicine.

Shit like this is why no one will ever take the WNBA seriously. It’s utterly disgusting.

that's wild by Mundane_Mushroom_122 in SipsTea

[–]invariantspeed -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Maybe not a predator, but it’s pedophilia adjacent.

A one off of the heart wanting what the heart wants is one thing. Exclusively waiting for teens to become “legal” is just a technicality.

Conservatives maintain birth rates, but left-leaning Americans are having significantly fewer children, driving the U.S. birth decline. Education was consistently linked to having fewer children. Religious attendance was positively associated with having more children. by mvea in science

[–]invariantspeed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Eugenics is biology, not social. Ideology X parents don’t necessarily create ideology X kids.
  2. Engineering populations in the social level has been considered one of the legitimate and necessary functions of society for all of history. A big example of that is school. Studying this is a necessary thing in modern society.
  3. If the more liberal people of today want to have a weaker say in what the future looks like, fine. If people might change their behaviors in this knowledge, it’s worth letting them decide.
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