See my comment above.

I used to adjust my mirrors to see a sliver of my car, but it’s still not ideal. See my comment above.

ITT: a whole bunch of people more worried about scratching or bumping their car in a parking lot than possibly killing themselves or others on a highway with an unsafe lane change.

Adjust your mirrors so cars approaching from behind in the lane to either side start entering your side mirrors as they start leaving your rearview mirror. There should be a point where you can see one half of a car in the side mirror and the other half in the center mirror at the same time. You should not be able to see your own car. You might not be able to dial this in while parked and might have to adjust on the road, but it’s absolutely worth it.

If you need to see the lines while parking and your mirrors don’t auto-move in reverse, explore methods that don’t rely on mirrors. I used to park on a long, squiggly driveway. I’d crack the driver door open to see where the edge was while I was reversing, and I could follow it precisely at speed. If your car allows you to crack the door open without shifting into park, give that a shot (you’re wearing your seatbelt, right? Don’t fall out and run yourself over.). Otherwise you could try rolling down a window and peeking out that way.

My work Teams is only really active for my department’s channels. My department is about 10 or so people, so I don’t suffer from the same problems others have mentioned with notifications for reactions and whatnot. My two gripes are:

• I’ll send a writeup from my Google Pixel phone while on-site doing field work and include inline photos. I’ll proofread my message and everything is good. After I click send, my phone shows my post truncated in the group chat. I cannot see the full message, and it looks like I deleted half my written message. From the desktop or my coworker’s Samsung phone, everything shows up fine.

• I’ll often find Teams silently closed on my workstation. I might minimize it occasionally, but I don’t believe I ever close it, and Windows reliability history doesn’t show any crashes.

Born in South Africa to a mother who was born in Canada. If Wikipedia is to be believed, he holds citizenship for South Africa, Canada, and USA.

At a Sea Parks‽

But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does. We should just leave it alone.

Wouldn’t surprise me if this was inspired to circumvent the new ban on oil drilling Biden just enacted. “We’re drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico.”

The recommendation to not daisy-chain UPSs together is less about what makes for a cleaner setup and more about not damaging them.

https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/support/eaton-answers/daisy-chain-ups.html

(5) grammatical error(s): “We will ship again in” instead of “we will ship again on”

Edit: more subtle errors and phrasing that feels like it was written by a non-native English speaker.

I was 18 or 19 when my dad scared me straight into learning to drive manual transmission.

Please sit on my face

My boss has a Land Rover that was in the middle of an OTA update at one point in the first few months he owned it. Wouldn’t start and appeared basically dead, and he didn’t know it was updating. He had it towed to the dealer and it had finished the update by the time it got there.

I had an American-made 2001 Honda Civic that didn’t start having significant problems until it was well over 100k miles. Had an American-made 2007 Accord that never had a major issue with 116,000 miles. Now have an American-made 2023 Integra, and I hope it fares the same.

Edit: but our American-made '96 Astro was a total piece of shit.

Coming soon to a Supreme Court near you:

“It is this Court’s opinion that this rule infringes on businesses’ First Amendment right to free speech.”

The system is working as intended.

The car itself should never come with something that will require recurring payments.

Cars already do. Satellite radio has been a thing for decades now. I’ve never used it. Never felt the desire to use it. I haven’t even taken the free trial. I’m less annoyed that it exists, and more annoyed that I’m forever fated to receive unsolicited junk mail for this feature that I have to unceremoniously dump in the recycling bin every couple weeks.

As for the remote start, yeah, it’s kinda bullshit that they’ve removed the more permanent, older version of a feature to replace it with something out of the owners’ control. If anything, it should exist in parallel with the key fob button, not replace it entirely. I’m less concerned about the fact that it’s a subscription than I am about the prospect of that feature dropping support down the road with no recourse for the owner.

Batman: The Animated Series

Unique art style (it was drawn on black paper), excellent writing, excellent voice acting.

Ahh yes, dropping nuclear weapons right next door, risking fallout in your own territory and pissing off every country around you, as well as all your allies. Why not?

It has Fiat Multipla vibes, but on the back instead of the front.

Because there are legitimate reasons for some robo calls. Appointment reminders and confirmations, school weather closure announcements, two-factor login verification, etc.