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>>18373
For sure. At least with regards to the suspension, and even the steering to an extent, that can be improved relatively easily. I'd much rather have a good drivetrain. Unfortunately it's so good that K20s are ridiculously expensive, not that I plan on blowing mine up. EP and FK's are great as well. I prefer the FL over the FK personally but I'd be happy with either.

And yeah Accords are great, if a clean CG shows up I would definitely try and get it. I looked up more on the CN2's and they look nice, especially the wagon variant. What happened to yours?

>>18386
Those roads wouldn't happen to be near Swanwick would they?

>>18401
Sold it on and bought the e87. I loved it, but my partner and I wanted to get one car that could do both our needs.
It was the top spec wagon with all sorts of silly features (Like a DVD drive just for loading maps onto the sat nav). Had a very hard life, but never let us down.

>>18453
Central parts of norway. Even the main E-roads can be nice and twisty, but the more rural roads have less traffic.

>>18453
>Had a very hard life, but never let us down.
To me stuff like that had always been a matter of perspective. It may have had a hard life but if something was made to endure that then on some level I think it's respectful to make sure it can fulfill that purpose. It's why I somewhat feel conflicted to see cars meant to be driven kept in unreasonably pristine condition.

Conversely, if there was a reason to get a different car that fit a different need then I can see why you had to sell it. That's just how things end up sometimes, as uninsightful that may be.

I wanna buy a Toyota 86GT; it's a cheap sportscar.

>>20177
I used to have the same issue sushi roll, and I didn't even realize how much I was neglecting my own feelings. Watching Dr K's videos helped me immensely with my problem. The video I linked is about Alexithymia, which is a condition with symptoms akin to what you're describing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQBdZ3RdfA


Dr K is a licenced psychiatrist in the US, who used to be addicted to video games, so now he helps gamers and adjacent people in his work life. He talks about feelings on his youtube channel and he interviews various guests (sushi rollymous followers of the channel, e-celebs, mental health experts, etc.).
He also used to study to be a hindu monk, so sometimes he veers into teritory more related to hindu religion and philosophy rather than science. Feel free to discard any advice you don't like, and only apply the advice that's helpful for you.

The video I linked you is just the tip of the iceberg, the real meat (? not sure if thats the correct expression but ykwim) is in the older guest interviews, where he talks to people about their feelings on stream, and goes into the nitty gritty on why and how the guests feel the way they feel. He's great at validating his guests' feelings, and watching Dr K validate other people's feelings made it easier for me to accept and validate my own feelings, especially if the guest had expierences similiar to mine.

He's great at validating his guests' feelings, so just try to copy his approach.

Watching multiple interviews over multiple months made me so much more in touch with my feelings, and made me understand other people's emotions so much better. Processing some of the feelings was painful at times, and involved crying, but that release helped me get the negative, pent up emotions out of my system. I feel so much lighter now, and so much more in touch with myself.
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>>20237
Psychology isn't really a science like physics, it's more same class as economics and has a kind of philosophy in it.

>>20246
Psychology student here, and I'd say what you said is mostly correct but there is a definitive science behind a lot of it too, more so than economics. Psychiatry is good proof of this, with heavy research into medications and stimulants that blurs the line between the psychological and the scientific. There's aspects of science that are like philosophy but a common misconception of psychology is that it's all speculation when in reality its much more than that and there's a hard science into a lot of psychological concepts. For instance, a lot of anomalies/undesired results from directed effective treatments are generally more so from a often times multilayered and complex reasoning than simply "it just didn't work". There are usually observable things that inhibit effectiveness and further approaches might be needed to target specific things like say, trauma, anxiety, depression, etc. Many medications are actually a lot more effective than people think, but specific cases often times need additional approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy that helps restructure the brain alongside with the medication allowing for that rewiring of the brain.

>>20246
Economics isn't even a science, is a doctrine which uses techniques from mathematics.

>>20281
I study it as well informally mostly focused on psychiatry among other related topics since I couldn't afford uni, so as result I am not bound by being told a certain thing and expected to believe it. Though of course I also can miss some things since I focus mainly on practical application to help people I come in contact with in more than support, which actually does the most but sometimes not enough. It's a social science which is a soft science is what it is called because you can't really run experiments that account for every variable and proper control group at least not ethically anyway. Certain aspects do fall under same as in medicine when it gets more into the neurological and genetic aspects but nothing solid yet as those are in infancy, but then there is so much in psychology particularly abnormal psychology is just made up by boards of psychologists behind the DSM which also often is what the IDC uses as a guide to influence their conditions and diagnostics though they have their own. They create groupings of certain behaviors call those behaviors bad and call it a day but wind up treating a large number of them the same way anyway. They aren't as bad as they used to be where it is getting to be more accepting of different kinds of people but it still is an external subjective judgment for the most part. Psychiatric medicine research is lead by private corporations with a profit motive to hide data or just suffer from bias to confirm the hypothesis and the studies often fail to properly gather enough people of different genetic backgrounds to test safety and efficacy. When diagnosing psychiatrists do not run brain scans or any kind of medical tests on people to diagnose them vast majority of the time, they do not care about the individual symptoms a patient is having only the label they can give them from what I've seen most do and the medicines they give them are questionable in how they are used. I could go into a lot more detail but I don't want to bring in some debate. I'd suggest you check out Daniel Mackler's videos on YouTube. He has a ton of videos on psychotherapy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Fi32LbXHA

>>20285
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Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center?

I think it is pretty universally known by now that the "Las Vegas Loop" is impractical, poorly thought out, and generally an embarrassment to society and industry. I will spare an accounting of the history and future of the system, but I will give a bit of context for the unfamiliar reader. The Las Vegas Loop is a (supposed) mass-transit system built and operated by The Boring Company for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Besides four (ish) stations in the Convention Center, it has been expanded to serve Resorts World as well. It will, according to plan, be expanded to as many as 93 stops throughout the Las Vegas metropolitan area, despite the mayor of Las Vegas calling it "impractical" and "unsafe and inaccessible." This odd contradiction comes about because The Boring Company is footing a very large portion of the construction cost, while much of the rest is coming from casinos and resorts, making it extremely inexpensive for regional government agencies.

In practice, the Loop consists of a set of mostly double-bore tunnels of small diameter, which are traversed by Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model X vehicles manually driven by humans at up to 40 mph. They have more recently switched to Model Y, but the operations manual I have predates that change, so let's stick with the older models for consistency. Each vehicle seats up to four. The system is nominally a PRT, or personal rapid transit, as the drivers take you to the specific station you request. The tunnel to Resorts World is single bore, and can admit vehicles in only one direction. A simple signaling scheme serves to prevent vehicles meeting head-on in single tunnels. While Loop and Boring Company marketing focuses heavily on the single underground station, all other stations are above ground. In the current state, I think it is actually somewhat generous to call the Loop an underground system, as most maneuvers and operations occur at surface level. It is perhaps best thought of as a taxi system that makes use of underground connectors to bypass traffic. Future expansion plans involve significantly more tunnel length and more underground stations, which will probably cause the system overall to feel more like a below-surface transit system and less like an odd fleet of hotel courtesy cars.

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>>19339
The punch line here is… remember what my husband said about the golf cart we saw? GEM makes carts that seat five in addition to the driver, with a higher seating position and open sides or optionally large doors for faster board/deboard. Even with the 25mph stock speed limiter for NEV/LSV regulatory compliance (and believe me, with some adjustments to the motor controller they can go faster), I suspect that switching the Loop entirely to GEMs would increase its total capacity. And the GEMs honestly suck, in the world of light electric vehicles. They just kind of pulled off a regulatory capture move and got the NEV rules written to pretty much require something that sucks as much as they do for street legality.

Subjective Experience
So as I said, this is not a review, just trying to focus on some things of interest to transit, communications, and policy dweebs. Which I assume pretty much describes my core readers. But I do want to point out a couple of oddities that add to the "wow, this is cheap" sensation:

The ride is surprisingly rough, even in a Model Y with highway-grade suspension. I am concerned that they may not be able to do much better when paving in the confined tunnels, given that I don't think standard paving equipment would fit in the loading gauge. The ride experience was not "oooo electric car luxury," it was more on par with the Orlando Airport APM100s with sketchy steering gear.

For the segment that requires tickets (to Resorts World), the ticketing system is based on a QR code. The customer-side implementation is fine enough, but the ticket checking is laughable. It's an iPad where you have to show a QR code to the front-facing camera, meaning you have to present the QR code with your phone facing away from you, looking at the image on the iPad for alignment. It is very awkward and there is no reason for it besides cheapness. Plus there's not really any way for the attendant to see if the ticket is valid without standing awkwardly close to you to look at the same iPad screen you are, and indeed, I accidentally scored a free ride by merit of the attendant's inability to see the actual result of the ticket check.

The stations are not especially well thought out. People walking in and out of the stations have to cross the path of the Loop vehicles in some places. The attendants are supposed to dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

California’s new electric train makes for a shockingly better trip—we tried it
Caltrain’s electric trains started rolling out last week. The advantages go far beyond just cutting CO2 emissions.
California’s new electric train makes for a shockingly better trip—we tried it
[Photo: Caltrain]
BY ADELE PETERS

If you ride on the newest commuter trains from San Francisco to San Jose, the first thing that you might notice is how quiet they are: Instead of the rumble of a diesel engine, the trains now run on 100% electricity.

By switching to electric trains, Caltrain, the rail service, can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it’s also just a better experience for riders. That might convince more commuters to stop driving to work, cutting emissions even further.


[Photo: Caltrain]
ELECTRIC TRAINS ARE FASTER
First, the electric trains run faster than the diesel trains that they’re replacing. Instead of a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an “electrical multiple unit,” or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. “It’s generating power throughout the system,” says Dan Lieberman, a public information officer for Caltrain. “It just allows it to get up to speed much faster.”

Because the train can start and stop faster, Caltrain can add more stops to its express trains, and still shave minutes off the route. The new express route between San Jose and San Francisco will stop at 11 stations instead of seven, and take 59 minutes instead of an hour and five minutes. (The local train will take 75 minutes rather than 100 minutes.) During peak commute hours, more stations will now have trains every 15 to 20 minutes, even though Caltrain won’t use any additional trains. At off-peak hours, trains will run every 30 minutes, rather than every hour. (Caltrain started rolling out the new trains last week; they’ll be fully in service by the end of September.)

>>19367
If you ride on the newest commuter trains from San Francisco to San Jose, the first thing that you might notice is how quiet they are: Instead of the rumble of a diesel engine, the trains now run on 100% electricity.

By switching to electric trains, Caltrain, the rail service, can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it’s also just a better experience for riders. That might convince more commuters to stop driving to work, cutting emissions even further.


[Photo: Caltrain]
ELECTRIC TRAINS ARE FASTER
First, the electric trains run faster than the diesel trains that they’re replacing. Instead of a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an “electrical multiple unit,” or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. “It’s generating power throughout the system,” says Dan Lieberman, a public information officer for Caltrain. “It just allows it to get up to speed much faster.”

Because the train can start and stop faster, Caltrain can add more stops to its express trains, and still shave minutes off the route. The new express route between San Jose and San Francisco will stop at 11 stations instead of seven, and take 59 minutes instead of an hour and five minutes. (The local train will take 75 minutes rather than 100 minutes.) During peak commute hours, more stations will now have trains every 15 to 20 minutes, even though Caltrain won’t use any additional trains. At off-peak hours, trains will run every 30 minutes, rather than every hour. (Caltrain started rolling out the new trains last week; they’ll be fully in service by the end of September.)

Among the decades-old Windows apps to get renewed attention from Microsoft during the Windows 11 era is Notepad, the basic built-in text editor that was much the same in early 2021 as it had been in the '90 and 2000s. Since then, it has gotten a raft of updates, including a visual redesign, spellcheck and autocorrect, and window tabs.

Given Microsoft's continuing obsession with all things AI, it's perhaps not surprising that the app's latest update (currently in preview for Canary and Dev Windows Insiders) is a generative AI feature called Rewrite that promises to adjust the length, tone, and phrasing of highlighted sentences or paragraphs using generative AI. Users will be offered three rewritten options based on what they've highlighted, and they can select the one they like best or tell the app to try again.

Rewrite appears to be based on the same technology as the Copilot assistant, since it uses cloud-side processing (rather than your local CPU, GPU, or NPU) and requires Microsoft account sign-in to work. The initial preview is available to users in the US, France, the UK, Canada, Italy, and Germany.

If you don't care about AI or you don't sign in with a Microsoft account, note that Microsoft is also promising substantial improvements in launch time with this version of Notepad. "Most users will see app launch times improve by more than 35 percent, with some users seeing improvements of 55 percent or more," reads the blog post by Microsoft's Windows apps manager Dave Grochocki.

Microsoft is also adding generative fill and erase features to Paint in this update; the Paint app has already picked up several AI-powered image-generation and editing features. The generative fill addition allows users to select part of an existing image and type a prompt to fill in that area of the image with something AI-generated. Generative erase does the opposite, removing objects from a selected area of the image and attempting to recreate the background. The difference between the two is that generative fill is only available on Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X Elite chips in them, while generative erase will work on any Windows 11 PC.

On the technical end of things, a new Windows Insider Canary channel build released yesterday adds some new features to Prism, Microsoft's rebranded x86-to-Arm app translation layer for Arm-powered Windows PCs like the Snapdragon X Elite-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop.

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>>20026
gorgeous forest I wish I was there

>>20035
wait that's a hueg flagpole what the heck

>>13606
Oh. Thanks for the qrd on qrd!

>>13606
Based and qrdpilled

>>13606
i don't know if true

>>13672
Probably not

fact no 1: its easier to find sushigirl by googling qrdpill than by googling sushigirl

2024 ~ the year of when the game changed

>>19577
>Awake overnight or asleep overnight Direct Service Professional
wow I finally have a name for the job I did in the army

Despite good intentions I absolutely fucked up this year and now I'm stuck in a shitty situtation that I practically put myself into. I've noticed the following flaws that are the cause of this.

1. Inability to make decisions, probably stemming from deep anxiety, fear of loss, fear of failure, and low self-esteem.
2. Avoidant behavior i.e. avoiding or delaying things like talking to people or paperwork because its psychologically stressful and depressing.
3. Chip on the shoulder. Resenting other people and myself for past greviences, or perceived greviences.
4. Poor time management, bad spatial awarenss, and shitty attention span meaning I get taken advantage of or mess basic things up because I didn't read things properly. I've tried reading stuff over multiple times but this still doesn't fix severe attentiond defecit.

How do I fix this garbage? I've got notebooks so I can write info down and map out my day. I'm thinking of grabbing a digital watch so I can keep track of time without getting sucked into the smartphone. I still have the attention span of a baby chimp on cocaine but hopefully with discipline things will get better. But I have no idea what to do for 1. and 2. I struggle to email people or even talk on the phone. I clam up and sutter easily. And if I have to send messages or do paper work or go outside I put it off for as long as possible. This has led me to massively fuck up my life and down the path of wasted opportunities and letting myself rot all year.

>>20007
>I struggle to email people or even talk on the phone.
Practice! I had this problem too, so I used to rehearse every call I had to make. After some time I didn't even feel anxiety when unknown numbers called me up. I used to reply with messages to avoid talking, silly.

If you struggle with e-mails, use AI assistance. You can ask it how they would interpret your message and it will also tell what you can do better. I use it a lot when discussing things on the webz - maybe even for this reply? Heheh.

>digital watch
Hell yeah, it can really help. If you can, turn off your smartphone too. I do that, and also put it in a place where I am too lazy to pick it up from. That goes for everything that distracts me. Regarding sounds I put rain on speakers, it masks irregular noises that make me lose focus. Unfortunately I do not have a strong will, so I have all kinds of dumb tricks to force me to be productive.

Basically I limit access to everything that is more interesting than my work - LeechBlock is a great extension for that, if you struggle with web surfing.

I think that is all I can offer help with, sorry!

>>19755
wow that seems OP

I appreciate you bringing this to my attention sushi roll.

>>18742
うわマジ分かるそれドラゴンボール凄いよね実はアタシそれも見たけど米国なので海外バージョンを見ましたよ字幕なしフランス語ｖｈｓけどそう言ったらいつもの奴らはアタシを責められるとか虐められるとか困るよ本当に実は日本語でこういう事言ったらあいつら何も分からないので日本語便利よねきっとそもそもフランス語あんまり上手くないけど信じる？ただ苦痛してたちょっと少し分かってきちゃったって中々展開を分かってきたよマジでなのに米国はドランゴンボールマニアはＺから始めました寂しい気分って感じそれにあっアタシこのキャラ知ってるよ悟空は幼い頃の冒険アニメもあるよ信じてよとか言って誰も信じませんでしたよマジ激おこ場合だったよ実はあんたのレスを読んだら既にドランゴンボールも見たい気分になっちゃうよそうしようとどう思う❓

>>18742
>誰も読まぬ未完全日本語は甲斐もない。上の存在の意見・訂正に参照しなければならぬ。要は読者は大事である。

思えば、上の発言は無礼の極りである。
なぜなら、ココに読者はある。本国人であらずものの読者は読者。
そしてその読者の意見・レスの答えは長らく遅れている。

>>14489
我より経験と使う機会が多いと思われる。
正直我より上手い様だ。
友人を大切にしよう。

>>14494
祈ってくれて感謝する。
今日の状況は改良にした。
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>>18775
えええぇどうしてダウンボるのよ読者に失礼じゃなくない？アタシ真剣にリプしたけどアンタは私ギャル候補者に名乗らたのよ信じらんない💢💢

>>18930
>アンタは私ギャル候補者に名乗らたのよ信じらんない
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>アンタは私ギャル候補者に名乗られたって信じらんない
めんご…

>ヲタ仙
いい響きだな今日からこれ名乗るわ

Forested hills. The area I live in has many rolling hills with caves and cliffs, and forests cover this whole area. Trees are maybe my favorite thing ever, so it's nice.

Mars gets all the attention but Venus is so much more interesting. It has a surface so hot it could melt lead shrouded by clouds of acid. Its so alien but so much like our Earth at the same time.

I started on my Sanskrit learning journey not long ago. I am happy to say it's going fine, as far as fine can go with just a few days of study. I always wanted to learn Sanskrit, not out of a particular interest in Indian culture and literature (though I plan to read the Mahabharata), but because, generally, I am a sucker for ancient languages. When I'm done with the Sanskrit book, I'll probably read one for Ancient Greek.
I can't help but feel I'm perhaps putting too much on my plate, being primarily interested in chinese culture and being, for the last few years, learning Classical Chinese. The effort I've been putting on Sanskrit prompts me to put at least an equal amount of effort on CC, especially now that I've been reading yijing (aka I Ching) commentaries.
Oh, but it doesn't end there! I am also actively learning Russian these days. I also put some effort in learning Russian, but by now I'm stretching myself a bit too thin, especially with time, as I try to squeeze at least some time for Russian in my daily study.
All this comes with no small effort at acculturation with the respective cultures of these languages, which increases the amount of material to read. I've been trying to read history and fiction, mostly from China and Russia, and some meta about the Mahabharata (did I mention I plan to read it?), which taken all together amounts to quite a bit of overload on my brain.
Considering I have other stuff to do in my day, I don't want to neglect it by focusing too much on my language studies, nor to neglect one for the sake of the other. I am happy to be able to learn Sanskrit and Classical Chinese, I wouldn't want to put them aside, but I don't want to end up burning myself out.
Maybe I will just cut back a bit on the part of reading history and fiction, which is, as usually happens to me, a product of a bit of an overly eager intellectual ambition.

>>19607
What resources do you recommend for Classical Chinese? I really want to learn it. I love ancient and classical languages too but they soak up a lot of time and there pay off isn't obvious. There are too many great languages and books to learn and so little time.

>>19610
>What resources do you recommend for Classical Chinese?
My favourite book is Kai Vogelsang's 'Introduction to Classical Chinese', that, along with Paul Rouzer's 'A New Practical Primer' should be sufficient.
There are others, though, I also like Archie Barnes' 'Du's handbook of Classical Chinese Grammar' and 'Chinese Through Poetry'.
For a first look into it, Van der Norden's 'Classical Chinese for Everyone' is a very brief book giving a first taste for the language, you should start by reading that one.
Obviously ctext.org for classical texts and an on-line dictionary.
> I love ancient and classical languages too but they soak up a lot of time and there pay off isn't obvious.
They do. For me the pleasure lies in the process itself. However little additional understanding I can get from even a brief brush with a language makes the reading of ancient texts, even in translation, many times more enjoyable. There are usually very many terms involved which have no easy translation, and meeting the language halfway adds a lot to the experience.
I don't think I would ever reach the point of being able to 'just read' the Mahabharata in the original without any aid. I enjoy the challenge of making sense of the original even if I depend on the translation. There is, for example, Sargeant Withrop's Bhagavad-Gita, which comes with thorough glosses for each word, showing all the grammatical information (such as verb roots, conjugation, case, number, etc).
>There are too many great languages and books to learn and so little time.
Ikr, hence I am also learning Russian, so maybe I can read Tolstoi, Chekhov, Dostoievsky, Akhmatova, Lermontov, Pushkin…

>>19612
Btw for anyone interested in the New Testament, here is a site with the original Greek, with dictionary and all!
https://biblewebapp.com/reader/

>>19612
Thanks a bunch Sushi! I'm gonna start on Classical Chinese in a few months. Barnes Poetry book is great even if its a bit technical. I'm going to see if there are any Chinese culture/language clubs around my local area who can help me out too. I really want to dig into classical Chinese philosophy and religion with the original literature.

>I don't think I would ever reach the point of being able to 'just read' the Mahabharata in the original without any aid
I get the feeling that its easy to hit a plateau and burn out or never develop further because you have vastly fewer opportunities to speak in or use a 'dead' literary language.