For sim, I utilize iRacing to practice and learn tracks before real life amateur endurance races in champcar and lemons as well as track days.

IMO iRacing physics are so good and the tracks are so well modeled that it's a very effective learning tool. It's the first sim since Live For Speed that really feels close enough to real life for me to forget I'm playing a sim.

Plus traffic management and race craft are so crucially important in wheel to wheel racing & I simply don't get any other opportunity to practice those.

Oh yeah for sure. I'm just a home gamer and I can't stand jumpsuits, so any axle grease or bearing grease turns me into a spec ops camouflage expert.

I'll re-shill tub-o-towels here. Seriously fucking awesome for getting the even most sticky grime off your hands before you touch any doorknobs (or to clean your hands when there's no faucet around).

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's for rotating the inner tie rod when adjusting toe, not for replacing the inner - though I do love purpose made tools.

I do a lot of track days and racing, so my toolkit is usually pretty minimal since I don't own a semi to haul my tools over. My rule is usually "make do with what you have twice. If you're still swearing the second time, go buy a quality dedicated tool and find room in the mobile tool box".

Because there already are tracks without electricity where I live. When coming from a nearby major city by me, the train has to stop for 40 minutes while they switch from an electric to diesel power car. Same process while taking a train into the city, switching from diesel to electric.

Oof. What if I don't want to buy a 33mm wrench for the one inner tie rod I'll do in five years?

Also, Tub o towels is the most magical product I've ever discovered for people to do automotive work. I could bathe myself with those

Well a battery electric train is probably useful for those routes with a section that isn't powered.

Not sure if it would be awfully cleaner than a diesel electric train, because those are already pretty efficient as I understand it.

Not sure what the problem is. Keep doing it.

This is how I operate in most traffic jams, since I only own manual cars & it's much easier on my leg.

I genuinely don't even remember any specific scenarios where somebody merging in caused me to have to come to a full stop (where I wouldn't have had to stop if they didn't merge). Not saying it never happened, but it was so rare and unnotable that I don't remember.

I do live in the northeast US, so maybe that has something to do with it, but I don't usually feel like I spend meaningfully more time in traffic because I let a few people in front of me.

Bonus benefit: my life is measurably better since I stopped getting pissed about people being in front of me. Road rage had such a broad impact on me, even after I got out of the car.

At one point, Charles Schwab allowed a password of infinite length, but SILENTLY TRUNCATED ALL PASSWORDS TO 8 DIGITS.

This is something I sent a few angry emails about wherever I could find an opportunity.

Looks like a Subaru engine

You've still gotta be good at prompt engineering to make great AI art.

Like you said - it's a tool which requires nuanced skill like any other art. It just happens to lower the barrier to entry a pretty significant amount

I mean Barbie was a woke movie...

In the best way a half movie half advertisement could be. It argues against citizen's United in the first 5 minutes of the movie ffs.

FedEx doesn't have my package yet, so still no definitive delivery date.

Google appears to use FedEx Standard Overnight shipping for Expedited orders (at least to my region), so that should be next day shipping once FedEx gets the package.

I'm gonna guess maybe they'll release the package to FedEx tomorrow so I can get it on the 12th? If they ship it today, I'll have it tomorrow on the 11th.

I hate FedEx, but at least their Express delivery drivers and logistics seem less prone to theft and delay than FedEx ground.