They’re handsome trucks, you should find a buyer eventually. What did you snag as a daily driver instead though?

Oh yeah, the TR-6’s are spiffy AF. It’s not too late to open a dental practice if you want an E-type though :p

TBH, I’m glad to see so many on the road now that I’m seeing fewer MGBs. The Miata’s a worthy successor to foreign-auto roadster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_MGB

I read through their new posts and “strategies” frequently, mostly out of a sort of morbid fascination, but also a desire to protect myself from men.

Sound advice, it’s useful to recognize the bullshit lingo & rhetoric that’s all a part of these idiotic schemes (see: “Pickup Artists”). I realized that one of my acquaintances had started slipping those catchphrases into convos years ago, and it caught me off guard. They hadn’t seemed like much of an asshole before, but it raised my hackles knowing that they weren’t just reviewing the media, but integrating it into their personality/beliefs without any sort of filter.

Interesting idea, this bears looking into.

Something worth considering is all, no need to edit IMO.

There’s been an uptick in people interested in the older Ford F-series trucks and C/K Chevs. Barebones dash, heating & A/C system, radio, glove box. No weird electronic options, to Lowjack, nothing. I’m hopeful of some of the Japanese companies releasing new-model vehicles without all of the extra electronic baloney, but that’s a problem for another day.

I think that it was BMW or Jaguar that proposed a subscription-based seat heating option? I don’t know where these people get their ideas, it’s just wild.

You could do it, assuming that you had the genuine schematics available to you, but even something so harmless as modifying the components to remove wireless connectivity could violate clauses on both your car insurance and/or car’s warranty.

I asked an older relative about this sort of idea years ago when these systems were new, and they related to me a story about an acquaintance who had decades earlier modified the electronics on their car (automatic cabin light activation when doors open), and wound up burning to death after an accident because they inadvertently damaged the car’s electronic lock control system. I’m not saying that you need to be a Professor of Electrical Engineering, but please reconsider.

I’ve been saying it for years, starting with those idiotic voice activated “smart” speakers from Google or Amazon in people’s homes. Nobody pays attention to what’s happening behind the scenes, even when the press breaks a story about some unsavoury bullshit (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47893082) like “voice recordings are occasionally reviewed to improve speech recognition but the reaction to the Bloomberg article suggests many customers are unaware that humans may be listening.” That’s you, that’s you and your GF/wife talking about your work (possibly including restricted information), friends and family, politics, or about how you’re trying to work on getting your entire hand to fit inside of her. The thought that these same companies would design and furnish technology for vehicles without engaging in the same kind of stuff is absurd.

Too few people know, fewer care if you bother to tell them about it. They’d be aghast to know that what they had bought and installed in their living room/dining room/den/bedroom/bathroom is essentially a voluntary bug, yet telling them that the cops could subpoena the companies in question to excise the unit’s data and review everything they’ve been saying in the privacy of their vehicle over a relevant (or maybe not-so-relevant) period of time pursuant to an investigation usually will get you idiotic comments about how “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”

The content in question can at the very least affect their insurance, at worst be used as a honeypot by people seeking to exert influence via blackmail, or extort the person in question. The end-user risk is the same as that described concerning their use in households. Just think about all of the “uncomfortable conversations” or sex that you’ve had in your/someone else’s car over the decades - ask yourself if you’d want an open mic sitting there, which may or may not be later reviewed by persons unknown. This is the kind of information which may become available to cops, and worse yet, they don’t always need warrants. There’s been a pervasive culture of simply leaning into those unwilling to turn it over, in the kind of theme seen in recent years with doorbell cams. I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t pull the same routine with a vehicle’s computer data, whether or not it involves cameras/mics.

I’m not generally a big fan of outsourcing, but he might consider hiring someone who doesn’t become completely useless at elevations higher than 2000m, and need a helicopter rescue…

“Media reports said the climber had returned to the 3,776-metre peak on Friday because he had left his phone and other items at the scene of his first rescue. It was unclear if he had managed to find the device.”

LMAO, how mad were the rescue crews the second time around though? “You again? What the fuck is your problem?!”

Brain stuff.

Nifty memes to shitpost on main

People say shit like “half decade” to make five years sound longer.

What the fuck do you expect me to say to someone who comments “People say shit like “half decade” to make five years sound longer”?

Nice one, so I guess that you’ve never said “half dozen” then, right? Because you wouldn’t want six eggs to sound like a bigger number, right?

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in forever. Is that bunch still playing Urban Dead?

Right? If I’m ever inclined to believe that someone(s) is going to murder me, and tell my family & friends about it, and that I’m not suicidal, it’s because I want people to look into it if I die. It’s stunning to read all of these comments saying that maybe she was sitting on the fence, or that a half-decade is a lot of time to change your mind. Like, how fucking powerful do your enemies have to be before people are at least willing to entertain the possibility that you were killed for globally humiliating multiple multi-millionaires and their friends?

I swear to Christ, I think it’ll take a dead-man’s switch tied to a private investigator and/or hitman to get things moving after a death under suspicious circumstances… “I think someone’s going to kill me, if it happens, here’s $30K to ensure that something’s done about it. Don’t accept jerkoff diffusion from impotent wankers or fools. Make sure that dolts don’t say I just got sad and shot myself in the back of the head twice.”

Have your plans to not commit suicide been altered 180° in the last 6 years, or are you still opposed to the idea? See how that works, it’s not like picking your favourite flavour of chips or movie, is it?