Show newer

I've missed a basic 4x4 utility vehicle. The new Land Rover defender costs about the same as an aircraft carrier and probably drives itself.

Russia is selling a civvy version o the UAZ and my God I wish they'd bring them here. Never happen because Americans only buy mall crawling thot yachts with heated leather seats and Apple carplay, and which cost the same as a house.

Show thread

I learnt to drive in a 1978 Land Rover. It had a 4cyl naturally aspirated Diesel engine which made approximately 3hp (idk) but lots of torque. The thing was like a fucking tractor. I loved it. It topped out at about 50mph, or you started damaging your hearing. The air conditioning was a metal flap in the dash. it took about 3hrs to start on a cold morning. 😻

I crashed it into my mum's Mercedes and was prohibited from driving it ever again

I think this because a lot of domestic hot-topic trends are presented with zero context and hordes of people shitposting, to the extent it is very difficult to find out what it's actually about.

Show thread

I swear Twitter manipulates its trend algortihm to stir up the most shit possible.

U2 are releasing 4K versions of much of The Unforgettable Fire videos.

youtu.be/LHcP4MWABGY

Jim boosted

Cut a new release of Sprite, my terminal pixel art program.

What's new? An 8x8 canvas option (start sprite with the -s flag).

github.com/ibara/sprite/releas

I plan on animation support next.

#pixelart #sprite #sprites

Does anybody have dreams where these persistent locations exist which are real places you know, but they're actually very different but consistent from dream to dream? I do and it fascinates me.

I hadn't seen the full footage of Fernando Alonso's demo laps in his 2005 Renault at Bahrain late last year.

I note people plugging their ears, these cars were not hearing safe at at trackside distances, to put it mildly.

Also much, much lighter (around 200kg lighter) than today's cars. 🇪🇸

youtu.be/fpgv1iN9HR8

Gone down this YT rabbit hole of finite element armor piercing simulations. There's loads of them. They're visually very pleasing for something so destructive.

youtu.be/_1sNSBQdiBo

Marvelous little documentary about the Soviet arctic exploration utility vehicles: It's good enough to excuse the murderous pronunciation.

youtube.com/watch?v=f6R-h06IsJ

The Dutch do seem to love them some restored German tanks. The Panther really is huge, I can't believe the Germans considered it a 'medium' tank. It's like a dinosaur.

youtu.be/tRGQJL0Amqs

Jim boosted
Jim boosted

@sullybiker "We deeply regret the need to close one of our most valuable profit centres strictly due to a negative growth forecast for Q2. While necessary and setting an unpleasant precedent, we would like to reassure our other profit centres that this was an isolated incident.

We value 'competition' to our business & are working diligently on a franchise system to facilitate this.

With regards to the externalities of our policies, we are 'sorry' but aren't we all to share the blame?"

Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence video from the top of WTC 2, which makes this an interesting historical record now, as well as a banger, as the kids say.
youtu.be/e7Y699aQvJk

Jim boosted

I did appreciate the comment on crushing alternatives to Twitter not being like, cool, man, but his conclusion is bullshit. There is no way those companies just simultaneously independently decided to go after Parler. No way.

Show thread

One reason I just don't believe him is companies that have power and control will not give that up. Not voluntarily.

Show thread
Show older
Mastodon

The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!