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Oh yes, it’s absolutely dependent on the car’s abilities. But honestly there’s nothing wrong with using the handbrake if you need to in a bad situation. I’d say it’s a sign of a good driver to know the option is there and to use all of them together to get going safely.

I had to use the handbrake once on a 73 Beetle to prevent disaster. I was coming to a stop sign near home, pressed the brake, and it went to the floor. The sensor on the brake cylinder had shorted out and melted a hole, and the brake fluid went right out. Terrible design. But my awareness of what was left made me go straight to the handbrake and slowly come to a stop just in time, then I limped back home and figured out what had happened. So it’s not there just for a parking backup.

It’s a quick motion, but the essence is that while moving from the brake to the gas, you’re also starting to apply the clutch to grab even at the still idle speed of the engine. It’s not several steps but a fluid motion, and as weird as it sounds, it’s something you pick up by feeling what the car needs to maintain the right engine speed while also not engaging the clutch too much and causing lugging or a stall. It’s why most new manual drives start in a empty level place like a parking lot and practice just going from stop to moving slowly, over and over. I also told both my boys the first time they got behind the wheel the same thing my dad did - you WILL stall out the first time. And they did. :D But they both have and love driving stick now, and hate if they have to drive someone’s automatic.

Trained on definitely not at all biased sources, of course.

The amount of people in a populated area is beyond comprehension. You can look at the numbers, but being aware of how many people there actually are is a rare epiphany. I was driving in rush hour traffic a few days ago and had a touch of it - I could see the line of lights both ways stretching out for a few miles and realized that I was but one in this sea of people, and it was but an instant of an hours-long flow of cars.

A marina full of boats isn’t that many compared to lanes of stopped cars for miles.

Transitioning to some level of self sufficiency is always a good idea, and can be done gradually. It’s a deep dive though, and disturbing to find how dependent most of us really are on a functional society.

Buy some gold, or eat next week. Decisions, decisions.

This guy? No, his lobes are far too inferior to be even an average Ferengi.

Classic C64 is a work of art, inside and out.

What bugs me about it is believing such assistance is going on is implying the person being helped isn’t good enough to do things on their own. Jesus is pretty sadistic if he helps Timmy hit that pop fly, only to zoom over and help Bobby in the outfield catch it.

It’s an irrational number, that much I’m sure.

Can we add the classic Don’t Be a Sucker? Similar message about paying attention to what’s happening to other people and not waiting until it’s your turn.

It didn’t work before. Everyone who voted for Trump seemed to forget his first term and the damage done, including harm to those voters themselves. “This time will be different” is the stupidest take ever.

The Fourth Estate has been dead a long time now. Every once in a while you get someone that pushes back , but then they seem to get quietened.

Progress and running a society costs money. There is always places to improve how it’s spent, but doing restorative work on a building with C4 usually isn’t the best route.

He bought all the mail order and online books on how to perfect the villain look.

Right. I don’t mind people wearing certain red hats. It lets me know right up front what to expect. Reddit had the same dilemma once upon a time where specific subs were banned, and that just forced the roaches to hide in unknown areas where once you knew exactly where to find them all.

That last pic cracked me up. That’s exactly what our single brain cell orangey does when you play with him. Head and body flat, pupils all the way open. Hilarious.

I’m sure if he had an ounce of thinking he’d see me laughing and say, “c’mon man, don’t laugh, I’m practicing my hunting skills!”

And North Carolina. Trump can keep South.

Ha, didn’t even think of that scene but it fits. Only with Trump and the yes men around him, it just keeps looping that part as he says one crazy thing after another.

He asked someone if they can just declare bankruptcy, and everyone in the room looked at each other worriedly until someone talked him into looking at the debt problem.