small annoyances like it shifting up when you know you need to slow down in a second to take a corner, and then it’s in the wrong gear and it has to shift down again when you need to accelerate out of the corner

I mean, no modern automatic acts like this. It shifts up when you’re accelerating, shifts down when you’re decelerating. I guess if you’re a lead foot, it would make more difference. Or if you’re driving a race car. Not your typical road driving.

automatic transmissions are still more expensive than manual ones

Is it still though? I dare say it is becoming increasingly common (in the US) that in order to get a manual transmission you have to make a special order.

Try this: stand up, walk to the other side of the room and back

I mean, I have spondylitic arthritis, but okay. (Luckily I got on the good meds again.)

which steak do you think will turn out the most delicious?

Ah but the question wasn’t quality, it was convenience.

Even if you argue that after a while the less convenient becomes familiar, that doesn’t really mean it was more convenient, it was just not inconvenient for you. But I have to say even if you’re a seasoned manual driver, not having to shift every 25mph is arguably more convenient than having to, even if you’ve gotten used to it.

People got used to climbing stairs, doesn’t mean we stopped using elevators.

Regen has been on trains for a long time, fwiw.

It’s weird to me that y’all don’t appreciate the convenience of advancing technology.

It’s like going “only mentally disabled folks use microwaves, the rest of us light the wood stove and let it simmer for a half hour”

Especially when Europe is known for its electric kettles, which are only recently becoming common in the US, who have traditionally used range-heated kettles.

Shit… are you also all still on Nokia 3310s and connecting to the internet with SLIP/PPP too?

At some point in time it was argued that manual allowed finer control of engine efficiency to automatic which simply shifted at certain speeds or rpms that weren’t always ideal. So properly driving a manual meant you saved gas.

I dare say in the decades since that argument began, automatic transmissions have gotten way better and reasonably as efficient as the average manual driver.

Also, when manuals were more generally common, they were generally cheaper than automatics. I don’t know if that’s true anymore, but I think the average person will have a hard time finding a manual new (consumer grade) vehicle in any given dealership in the US these days – you’d have to get it ordered.

I will say when I rented a car in Wales in the mid 2010s they had like literally 2 automatics and they were double the rate. It wasn’t at all common there then.

bro why did you leave your house

This almost kind of sounds like just punishment for a nosy karen

is that like chemo curls

It honestly made fuck all difference how I voted. My state went for Harris. My state was always going to go for Harris.

Matter of fact? My state is the only state that actually went MORE for Harris than it did for Biden.

i came to see if it had been mentioned and then would have if it hadn’t

I was in my teens before I discovered that “weed” just meant “plant you don’t want.” There is not really a biological definition of weed. Anything is a weed if you don’t want it there.

He’s on a good trip

Would actively fuck apps up because it would register as a file touch and break things that expected unchanged file content

I swore I read that mysql dbs will store multiple bools in a row as bit maps in one byte. I can’t prove it though

Which part?

“I tell the future”

“Okay, tell me mine”

“Soon… You will go to Rome.”

“But I’m in Rome.”

“Do I lie?”

i’d just like to say this aged badly. not quite like milk, but still rancidly

Probably not on interstates. But for most roads it ought to be okay.

All I ever want to say to these people is: YOU DUMB FUCK. YOU STUPID GODDAMN FUCK. YOU SCREWED US ALL WITH YOUR STUPIDITY.