[–] 2 points 3 months ago

How else are you expected to ash your cigarette without causing a fire hazard? Crank the window down?? And exactly how am I supposed to accomplish that when I have my hands juggling 4 tasks already, genius?

My smoking hand is holding my cig and shifting gears, and my driving hand is steering the car and holding my beer upright without spilling. There's kids in the car, so I need to focus on the task of driving for their safety!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is super convoluted to some people, but its the easiest way for my weird American brain to convert it on the fly:

    1. 2*°C=ans1
    2. ans1—(0.1*ans1)=ans2
    3. ans2—32=°F

    The conversion most sources give you is:

    (9/5)*°C—32=°F

    But I find it easier to break it down into those 3 simple steps. If you're the kind of person who calculates 20% of X in two steps [20%*X=(0.1X)*2], you might also like my weird method of converting °C to °F.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I remember when I got a PSP in middle school, I thought everything was going to start using UMDs eventually since they were "universal".

    Everything about the PSP looked so high tech because it could display graphics close to PS2 quality, played tiny disks, had a wide screen, and somehow fit 32 whole megabites on a little memory card.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    From the article:

    "During a search of Rush's Virginia home last week, FBI agents found 303 gold bars that each weighed about 2.2 pounds and are estimated to be worth more than $40 million ..."

    So no, it is much more than double what is shown in the photo.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen a US cop pull someone over while going over the speed limit. Most of the time they are sitting in their cars doing fuckall. Other than getting overpaid to scroll on their phones of course.

    It still amazes me when I see a huge pedestrian-annihilation-class pickup truck fly past a cop doing 90 mph in a 60 mph zone and absolutely nothing happens. I think to myself, surely they are going to get pulled over. That's felony speeding.

    Nope. That would require the cop to get off their ass and do something. The only time that happens in this country is when there's a constitutionally protected protest happening or when someone with dark skin is in the vicinity.

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