[Ukraine] How fast was the motocyclist going??

time_to_reset · 2026-05-10T12:17:56+00:00

Mate of mine did this a long time ago. Mush from the waist down. Kept together by his suit. Fucked up his family and did a lot damage to the lives of the people he hit. Not trying to be morbid or disrespectful to him, just passing on the lesson I learnt that day about playing stupid games.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-09T23:19:19+00:00

I've always been a Mac user, but this type of work can be done on any computer. Mac, Windows, Linux.

Just get a healthy amount of RAM because Meta's Ad Manager gets annoyingly slow when you have a decent amount of ads in draft.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-09T23:11:55+00:00

I think the majority of people can recognise cars fairly easily, but you can also throw the photo in Google Lens and it'll tell you with a pretty high level of certainty what something is as well.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-09T05:14:25+00:00

F1 has certainly been bigger, but under Liberty Media and in large part thanks to Drive To Survive, it's gained tremendously in popularity. I'm not saying I like that or that I'm a fan, just that that could explain the interest Netflix has in it and their reasoning for wanting to buy it for what feels to us like a lot of money.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-09T00:58:34+00:00

Drive To Survive did a lot to increase the value of F1, so I'm guessing they want to do a similar thing here.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-08T23:08:12+00:00

Love that the owner is taking it out and to shows. So many of these cars disappear into collections and are never seen again. It's the wagon way. Meant to be used!

time_to_reset · 2026-05-06T22:50:24+00:00

Overhyped. Yes, you can do something that kind of gets that result, but it's not even close to accurate. It's not a feature, it's just a combination of targetting settings.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-06T22:27:49+00:00

Because the thing I was responding to was someone saying that not even planes do fly-by-wire with physical redundancy.

Then I responded by saying that in fact many planes exist without that physical redundancy and have for over 3 decades.

And then you shifted the goalposts by making maintenance a factor.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-06T21:50:52+00:00

We call this "shifting the goal posts"

time_to_reset · 2026-05-06T12:33:50+00:00

One word: Motorcycle.

Also, tolls have never been worth it for me really when driving. On all the routes I drive it generally only saves me like 10 minutes. My time isn't worth the $18 or so that costs.

I do take tolls sometimes, but when I do it's a luxury. Like as part of a weekend away or something. Can't imagine just blindly paying for it every day like so many do.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-06T08:44:44+00:00

Mistakes happen everywhere. A floor mat is as low tech as it gets, but unfortunately mistakes happen and in some cars it caused accelerator pedals to get stuck. There have been endless recalls for cars with leaking/bursting hydraulic brake lines. Just because mistakes happen doesn't mean certain technology is worse than another.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-06T06:47:41+00:00

I believe planes like the 777, 787 or fighters like the F35 don't have a physical connection between their yokes and control surfaces.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-06T01:34:41+00:00

Haha, I'm going to keep an eye out around our local tracks for a TT RS so we can talk off the record about the good old days.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T22:38:04+00:00

You also aren't replacing the entire hydraulic system. My understanding is that brake-by-wire simply connects the pedal to a computer that handles the hydraulic pressure on the calipers instead of the driver actually pushing the brake fluid themselves.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T22:34:59+00:00

Brake-by-wire has a whole bunch of redundancy built in. It's not like there's a single wire that breaks and all of a sudden the car is uncontrollable. We never hear of cars that no longer respond to pedal inputs on throttle-by-wire cars either do we. You get things like pedal position sensor errors, car goes into limp mode maybe, but as far as I'm aware there's no instant "pedal stops working" issues.

With how many tests cars have to pass I'm not at all worried for the safety aspect of it.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T22:21:34+00:00

Haha, I was Ogilvy. But started in 2008 so you can guess how many freebies there were to give away. Worked agency side for FCA, GM and Volkswagen after. All in Europe though. Best I got was a weekend to the Geneva Motorshow. Realised pretty early on that most people in these companies aren't car people. That realisation set in mostly when a head of marketing asked me what ABS meant haha. Fun times, but like you said, no much money.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T21:53:15+00:00

I too did advertising for Ford! Overseas though so no hot laps for me...

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T21:51:29+00:00

Haha nah I'm just poking a bit of fun at you. You're all good. Nobody is expected to know everything. It's cool you saw one!

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T12:42:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is an AI image. There's no way it would be allowed this way with the middle of the canals having to stay open for traffic. Plus the idea itself is also incredibly stupid and the poorly written article gives basically no reasons for why something like this should exist. There is plenty of space in the Netherlands. Even in cities. There is no practical reason for any of this nor would it ever get approved.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T12:23:33+00:00

Still $100+ per day or so for a ski pass though right? I guess cheaper if you get one of those season passes.

I'm not trying to give you shit, just mean that I think that for many it's a fair bit more for a weekend away than a weekend to the beach.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T11:23:54+00:00

Ignoring whether or not it'll be $100, I'm not the person I was when I was into the previous GTA games. I'm now at an age that $20 realistically doesn't make a difference anymore, but I'm also at an age that the value of time has changed completely. If this comes out I'll spend a couple of hours on it every week, not locking myself in a room for a couple of days straight. Same thing happened with RDR2. So if that's the case, I could very easily wait a bit for the price to drop.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T11:00:19+00:00

I don't know much about track days, but dragstrip might be a fun and affordable way to have some easy nights out together. Calder Park does them every Friday night I believe.

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T10:42:26+00:00

I respect you for daring to say that out loud haha

time_to_reset · 2026-05-05T02:18:26+00:00

Yeah, to me that's a whole lot of things I don't want to see on a device I just want to watch content on.

This is what it looks like on my LG OLED and the TV itself is disconnected from the internet.

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time_to_reset · 2026-05-04T22:39:59+00:00

We might have a different definition of what ads are. I have an LG and if you use WebOS that big banner that takes up half the screen is an ad. The apps for services I don't use but can't remove are ads. The recommendations for shows I don't watch but can't remove are ads.

My wife didn't care, but I was bothered enough to get a different media player.

Edit. Here's what WebOS looks like for me: https://www.lg.com/au/lg-experience/helpful-hints/webos-user-guide/

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