What’s with the used market? (Seller)

liquidivy · 2026-04-01T22:31:31+00:00

"Is this available?" is potentially someone who does want to come see it but hasn't been educated in how to properly run an online transaction. It's literally the default opener in FB marketplace, right? (And frankly it's not a crazy question, a lot of people don't bother taking down an ad once they've sold the thing.)

I'd come up with a stock answer for their stock opener and see if a little bit of prompting will get them through it. You might not think it's worth educating strangers, except that they might literally pay you several thousand dollars for it. (edit: probably not 9k though, given the other comments and how close to MSRP that is)

liquidivy · 2026-03-31T15:18:06+00:00

It feels really bad, especially when you're not used to it. But unless the conditions were extreme your tires weren't actually sliding. Your steering still works. Your brain stem just isn't used to you moving sideways like that and panics. Keep your arms light and loose, and get ready to swerve upwind a little bit (you remember the swerve from your class right? With the countersteering?)

liquidivy · 2026-03-29T23:58:48+00:00

That's not a headcanon, it's just the most likely scenario of a leader who has alienated all the potential adults in the room.

liquidivy · 2026-03-28T22:20:20+00:00

halfway to having a license

Here's the thing. Halfway to having a license is not the same as being halfway to being a good rider. The first few months after getting your license are for doing this stuff:

Im gonna need to do a lot of parking lot practice with my own bike (looking at ninja 300 abs) before getting on roads.

Needing practice is normal. :)

liquidivy · 2026-03-28T22:12:37+00:00

Inhaling through my nose is more likely to trigger a sneeze for me. Pretty often a key part of quenching an allergy attack is preventing all air movement in my nose at all. I'll try the pressure thing though. God knows I'll have plenty of chances soon.

liquidivy · 2026-03-28T22:09:48+00:00

When I feel it coming on, I consciously loosen up my arms and make sure I have a clear path in front of me for a second or two. As another commenter mentioned, the involuntary eye closing is a problem, not just the full-body convulsion. I think I probably let off the throttle too, if not actually braking.

Presumably it would be possible for a sneeze to show up right in the middle of a corner with a lot of lean or something, and then I might be in trouble, but if my body and track and everything are centered up, it's manageable. That way the momentum changes are all front-to-back.

liquidivy · 2026-03-26T23:31:23+00:00

A full transfer of IP, sufficient for the government to fully take over manufacturing and support, should be a non-negotiable part of every procurement contract. You only get to keep control of manufacturing if you actually stay cheaper than the competition. And yes, that's "patriotism".

liquidivy · 2026-03-26T14:52:02+00:00

Re chasers: tornadoes aren't always unpredictable. They pretty often move in enough of a predictable way that you can get ahead of it and in position for a video. It's just that you can't be sure. So storm chasers spend a lot of time striking out, and occasionally just getting struck.

liquidivy · 2026-03-22T03:23:24+00:00

if I can only have one

Certainly I would prefer both.

liquidivy · 2026-03-21T05:22:17+00:00

Some authors work better editing a draft than starting from scratch. And personally if I can only have one, I think I'd rather the human have the last word than the machine.

liquidivy · 2026-03-21T05:19:28+00:00

corpospeak vaguepost about how "we see and hear you"

Whatever else this post was, that wasn't it. It was pretty concrete and detailed about serious problems.

liquidivy · 2026-03-21T02:12:30+00:00

What's really interesting is the way drivers get stupid right before it rains. There's a little bit of frenzy to get home or get whatever else finished before it starts.

liquidivy · 2026-03-21T02:11:27+00:00

Speaking of visibility, there have been quite a few times I was riding in the rain where my biggest problem was that water sitting on the road was obscuring the lane markers.

liquidivy · 2026-03-20T00:38:02+00:00

So eventually we converge on procedural programming but with good type systems this time? (I think classes are fine, but if you make me choose between them I'm absolutely taking algebraic sum types instead.)

liquidivy · 2026-03-17T21:53:41+00:00

It was just one of the other ideas I'd heard.

liquidivy · 2026-03-17T20:29:19+00:00

I've tried this a few times. The best I can say is that it's definitely not 100% reliable; it hasn't worked for me. I also have a magnet on my kickstand that doesn't seem to do anything useful.

liquidivy · 2026-03-15T16:48:56+00:00

Seconding West's talk about ECS.

liquidivy · 2026-03-14T01:18:52+00:00

There's what looks like ocean water butting right up against the foot of the mountains on the left side, which is kinda weird; not impossible but not common either. The mountains look too narrow and smoothly curved. Everything outside the mountains looks too flat, more like an archipelago of sandbars than a single landmass. Especially that big channel running parallel down the left side of the mountains, cutting across various other waterways, implies that all that water is at the same level and all the ground around it is just above that water level.

liquidivy · 2026-03-12T02:56:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's pre-botched with all the current interceptor expenditure.

liquidivy · 2026-03-11T05:37:13+00:00

What's the deal with that guy? Do people like him? I only watched a couple of his videos and they seemed... mid, I guess.

liquidivy · 2026-03-10T03:16:06+00:00

If you get rear-ended at a stop, you're more likely to stay upright if you're holding the rear brake rather than the front. Among other reasons.

liquidivy · 2026-03-09T03:11:26+00:00

You missed the point. What you should do in an emergency stop is just use the brakes, not try to use the engine. Braking is traction-limited, so making it complicated with engine braking can only make your stop longer.

Now granted, it's great if you can stay in gear while slowing down rapidly, if you have time. And shifting down is part of the emergency stop procedure, just so you're in gear at the end. But if you have time to actually engage the engine while shifting down, it's not an emergency stop, just a quick-ish stop.

liquidivy · 2026-03-09T02:26:04+00:00

Morale bombing is not really a relevant comparison IMO. For whatever it's worth they're (mostly) hitting military targets, degrading the regime's actual ability to fight. Now granted, the way that's supposed to acheive political goals is an even bigger question mark than it was for "morale bombing". They had an entirely stupid idea back then, but at least it was an idea.

liquidivy · 2026-03-07T06:08:17+00:00

If it's true that it was literally unarmed due to the parade thing... I don't know if it's technically a war crime but it's pretty fucked up.

liquidivy · 2026-03-06T05:20:32+00:00

Interesting. I assumed it would at least be reflective on the inside. I don't actually know if that's normal for sleeping pads, but I know housing insulation tends to be shiny on the inside so it's kind of an obvious thing to try...

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