So close, yet so far

I suspect these are also people who don’t like to use turn signals. They don’t like the car fighting their ill-advised lane change.

The “Lane keep” in my car only seems to see road lines whenever construction is going on and I’m diverted to an odd pattern… Then proceeds to scream at me that I’m leaving my lane as I avoid the giant orange cones to the front of the car.

My “Adaptive Cruise” is set to the farthest back follow distance it can be but brakes very late and always slams on the brakes when a car is fully in a left or right designated turn lane.

I have learned to adapt to the car’s ‘personality’ and keep my thumb on the cruise button so I can click it off when needed or apply throttle before the car can hit the brakes.

There’s another thing, when you press the throttle, you override the “automatic” braking. That means homie saw the big sign and floored it on through.

Honestly, it’s a job that comes with an implicit “you are worth less than our objectives and your life will be risked if we deem it.” No OSHA, no safety regulations (well, militaries have their own regulations…) Get in the barely tested hardware and determine if it’ll protect you from a bomb. Also, if you disagree, we’ll put you in jail or jack up your life.

That said, countries need armies. Where would Ukraine be if they decided to disarm for security agreements that were then quickly violated? And what if that foe was actually competent?

But, like, post-Vietnam, Americans should’ve realized they weren’t the good guys. It’s a shame new people keep getting born and don’t realize the whole history of their country…

Which is hilarious because you violated AP style by not first saying Associated Press.

They mean the PDFs of them or ePub or whatever they’re scanning them into. Yeah, the original is gone but imagine if the Library of Alexandria went up in flames but every ash contained a complete work for free to everyone to read at their leisure.

Oh, and Ram.

You just steal plates from another car. Bonus points if you can find the same model. Most people don’t check their front and back every time they hop in - just snag their front plate and swap.