textik

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[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On a race car, some (not an absurd amount) of negative camber is needed because as the car leans into a corner, the outside tire gains camber. The car will have its best cornering performance when the outside tire is perfectly perpendicular to the road during a hard corner, because then the entire tire, not just the inside or outside edge, is gripping the road.

Here's a good example of what this looks like in practice: this car has about 4° of negative camber on the front wheels in order to achieve 0° in a hard corner.

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Hook my beloved. I understand objectively why it is not a good movie, but having watched it 852 times throughout my childhood, I could not find fault with it on a recent rewatch.

edit: I watched that movie so early and so often, that I can recite whole scenes not by word, but by phonemes and cadence, because my language skills weren't fully developed at the time.

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 71 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If you follow avherald.com for any length of time, you'll learn that 1) the vast majority of aviation incidents are completely benign, and 2) the vast majority of injuries aboard airliners are caused by passengers not wearing their seatbelts. The seatbelts aren't there for the once-a-decade crash; they're there for the once-a-month strong turbulence event, which the airplane itself will barely even notice.

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it was a hoax, but campaign 101 is to be absolutely confident in your candidacy until the nanosecond you drop out. If you telegraph weakness to the voting public, and then end up staying in the race, that will be a millstone around your neck. Even if he was wavering in the weeks leading up to his dropout, there would be zero upside to communicating that publicly.

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I always used to wonder how the Weimar Republic fumbled the ball so hard. Now I know.

Also, in Christian eschatology, isn't it a big deal that the Antichrist suffers a near fatal head injury before his ultimate victory?

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

My man grew that gross-ass soul patch just to reinforce his findings.

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Mostly because the rocks are very stupid and will misunderstand your instructions at first opportunity. Kinda like Amelia Bedilia.

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

My favorite character I ever played was a super shady rogue who, as it was revealed halfway through the campaign, was the estranged son of a very wealthy and powerful politician. He was very embarrassed to have to reveal this to the party, as he had carefully curated an image of himself as a self-made scallywag.

Turns out cleptomania isn't just for the working class, although PR is definitely for the ruling class.

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Looks like he has some Austrian tupperware in the other hand, so maybe he brought his grandpappy's .45AARP service pistol for show and tell that day?

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't fucking do this in zsh, it does NOT do the same thing that it does in bash.

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