*related=https://videosift.com/video/The-Great-Pacific-Garbage-Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been added as a related post - related requested by notarobot.

I'm waiting for the next patch.

Never did a stint as a commercial driver, but passed all the courses and went through down to the Michigan Decision Driving training grounds and did runs in trucks with jacknife scenarios, etc.

He's not drifting there. His trailer brakes are locked up. And because of inertia and ice his trailer is trying to pass his cab.

The goal is to maintain control but keep as low a speed as possible, so you give power to the cab to pull the trailer back into line in a normal situation. In this case he doesn't want to accelerate because there's no safe ground to regain control on, so he's going to aim for keeping the cab going at equal to or just slightly faster than the trailer.

As soon as he hits a clear patch of pavement or level ground then a little bit of acceleration from the cab pulls the trailer back in line behind the cab, drop the acceleration as the drag from the trailer slows you down, etc.

A good reason to always wait before pulling back in after passing a truck on the highway. In an emergency their maneuvers can take long distances when fully loaded. If something goes wrong during your passing maneuver your want to be as far out of their way as possible.

If you wanna quit smoking, buy a proper vaping kit (not the sort they sell at the gas station or likely anything a tobacco company makes), cut down the nicotine level bit by bit over a month or so (but don't let it drag out too long) until you're at about 1 or 2 mg a day. Then stop.

It's pretty easy if you do it right. The vapor makes all the difference. The gum and patches don't work, you need the instant absorption you'll only get through your lungs.

If you don't want to quit smoking, don't.

Let's not forget the Cabbage Patch wars of 1983.

@1:17 it sort of looks like he has a brace or maybe even a prosthetic leg.

I instantly pictured that the lion ate his leg once but they patched up the relationship, forgave each other and maybe the 4 weiner dogs are just a little safety buffer in case?

Eh, this is pretty bad. For a start, Solid Snake doesn't have an eye patch.

But mostly, the direction and fight choreography are awful and the punch line just falls completely flat.

Yeah, exactly. There were tons of streams on Twitch of NMS before release. I should have said this in my statement, but before I thought it was just going to be an indie space exploration survival game - but it became clear from the streams - that this game consisted of a lot of grinding and was pretty repetitive. I wasn't sure if I would actually enjoy that, which is why I didn't pay for it First thing I noticed was the nerfed surface travel, you can't even crash and second thing I noticed was the retarded inventory system, third - mine, mine, mine, grind and not much variation. It WREAKS of consolitis (framerate at 30, on PC, attention to detail Sean, come on?!), but to their credit, playing the game with a controller is quite nice, so much better than the shitty PC controls they implemented. I still like it and am enjoying the surprising relaxation of the grind/exploration, so I will pay for it when it's $30 and is heavily patched & modded. $60.00 is absolutely ridiculous for this game, but hopefully they take that extra $30 they ripped off from people and put in some major work.

Overwatch is another game that I was pissed at having paid $60.00 for. But, since it's a Blizzard game I always know they will make it worth my while in the long-run and it's steadily been true of Overwatch. Blizzard really know how to support their games unlike any other developer. I enjoy OW much more now that the competitive mode came out, a new hero (a little underwhelming but still cool) added and pretty soon an awesome looking new map. The lucio-ball thing is cool that they added in, but don't care much for it. Still hate the loot, though....

The gun industry is extremely manipulative. I'm not a big fan of the rift in American politics which is based on ignorance and manipulation just like the gun industry... but if the economic policies continue on, at least we have the 1% to focus our guns at and patch up the "divide" a little bit

Really? No one even wants to watch this awesome old school smooth grove, much less vote for it?
I had forgotten this song until I saw it on Family Guy and had to look up who sang it...I'm glad I did.
The same group that sang 'when you're in love with a beautiful woman', 'walk right in', and the ironic (coming from a guy wearing an eye patch) 'sexy eyes'.
Some great hard core 70's smooth rock I couldn't remember, but will never forget.

As an aside, I've often thought the US Power Grid is overly unstable and an overly easy target for terrorist groups. Knock out a few sub stations (okay, more than a few, one or two in major cities) with a small blast, and no need to lose lives with said blast, and the grid would fall apart from there in a chain reaction. Things would be hampered further by the fact we don't have a good number of backups of transformers and other equipment to replace many of them that would be damaged directly and via cascade failure. That's why I never understood Republican calls for the Keystone XL, aside from oil lobby money, when fixing the grid would create far more jobs, both short term and long term, and increase our safety as well. A major outage would cause far more panic and damage than the 9/11 attacks thanks to how much we rely on electricity, and if enough damage was done to the system, it could take weeks to months for the system to be patched back up. The electrical grid NEEDS fixed, and soon.

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It would be interesting to know why it failed. The good thing is that Tesla collects all the telemetry, and if it's a bug - it will be patched.

Eh, I still upvoted for the glorious juxtaposition of that awful happy music with the (completely faked) tragedy...

ps. Done with a drill press (and be warned, there is an awful graphic picture), but this is what can happen...

"Women scalped by electric drill"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lupD4LZc5s

Like any fibre that is securely rooted in thousands of places, hair doesn't just pull off in large patches. The girl in the vid should consider herself lucky only the fake hair got caught up.