"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

[KateHikes14]

Albeit his taste in vehicles is quite respectable. I believe he wanted an 80s or 90s steel body truck if I remember correctly. As someone with an older truck (not to get too specific) they are some stout, reliable machines, especially old Dodges.

Another pro to classic trucks is that they're way easier to work on than newer shit. If you have the original manual and or a Chilton lying about you can learn the ins and outs in a single afternoon. Finding parts can be tricky though, unless you know where to look.

Old trucks and cars are fun and cool, especially if the vehicle has a story or history, but dear god missing out in innovations like TCS, cruise control, or the performance per displacement. Or the general reliability of electronic vs electromechanical vs mechanical.
I think a lot of people talk out their ass never having experienced exactly why fuel injected vs carbureted was such an improvement, etc...

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

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Old trucks and cars are fun and cool, especially if the vehicle has a story or history, but dear god missing out in innovations like TCS, cruise control, or the performance per displacement. Or the general reliability of electronic vs electromechanical vs mechanical.
I think a lot of people talk out their ass never having experienced exactly why fuel injected vs carbureted was such an improvement, etc...

If you genuinely think the new fiberglass shitboxes, with shitty Chinese electronics that do nothing but flash check engine lights and advertise to you, that are designed to be as unworkable and uncomprehensible as possible to the average Joe, are superior, then you are retarded.

"OH but what about muh cruise control, or my camera that shows what's behind me because I can't be assed to use my rear view mirror." Yeah those are nice, but for every cool little convenience in modern vehicles, there are 2 more means the car companies use to screw over the consumer.

 

[Wooper]

It being Black History Month I have a formal request for an opening for the next MATI stream.

 

[JustSomeDong]

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Old trucks and cars are fun and cool, especially if the vehicle has a story or history, but dear god missing out in innovations like TCS, cruise control, or the performance per displacement. Or the general reliability of electronic vs electromechanical vs mechanical.
I think a lot of people talk out their ass never having experienced exactly why fuel injected vs carbureted was such an improvement, etc...

Sure, Wilbur. And the reason that new cars still come with 10 year/100-150k mile bumper-to-bumper warranties is because cars are so much more reliable, now, amirite? Oh wait, they don't, because having a product last that long is bad for business, so they make sure its obsolete and falling apart in 10 years, so the common dolt (read: YOU) must buy another one.

 

[DavidS877]

cruise control,

Not sure what the problem is here. Cruise control has existed since the 1950s and you can get a retrofit for pretty much any model out of the JC Whitney catalog. It's just: speed sensor using tachometer cable or magnets on driveshaft, throttle servo to move the throttle, brake pedal sensor using the brake lights for disconnect, and for cars with manual trannies a cluch disconnect sensor as well.

Difficulty level: Finding a JC Whitney catalog.

 

[KateHikes14]

If you genuinely think the new fiberglass shitboxes, with shitty Chinese electronics that do nothing but flash check engine lights and advertise to you, that are designed to be as unworkable and uncomprehensible as possible to the average Joe, are superior, then you are retarded.

"OH but what about muh cruise control, or my camera that shows what's behind me because I can't be assed to use my rear view mirror." Yeah those are nice, but for every cool little convenience in modern vehicles, there are 2 more means the car companies use to screw over the consumer.

No I just appreciate that swapping my ignition timing module was much easier and lasted another >60k miles till the car was totalled than troubleshooting what I eventually found out was misfiring distributor which is a wear part. It also cost less of the resource I can never get back: time. I also appreciate that the newer car told me exactly what was wrong vs listening for little hints as my driving behavior became more and more erratic trying to pin down the exact conditions that had to be present in order for a car that fired reliably when I had it the spark light plugged in. I also don't miss carb tunes, the rougher cold starts, more frequent starter motor replacements.
All that said I'm not paying for a subscription to heated seats in the winter. Old and new cars both have drawbacks, but to prattle on about how old cars are so superior is conveniently ignoring all that newer cars have to offer, while demonstrating ignorance to what it was/is like to own and care for one.

Sure, Wilbur. And the reason that new cars still come with 10 year/100-150k mile bumper-to-bumper warranties is because cars are so much more reliable, now, amirite? Oh wait, they don't, because having a product last that long is bad for business, so they make sure its obsolete and falling apart in 10 years, so the common dolt (read: YOU) must buy another one.

QED
What a way to share you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. They offered those and considered all claims to be on wear items, which you'd pay their insane dealership markup on parts and labor. Were you imagining that the dealerships in the whatever you consider to be ye olden days that you have no experience with to be more honest?

 

[Al from Dadeville]

Exploitable version for the artists

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

If you genuinely think the new fiberglass shitboxes, with shitty Chinese electronics that do nothing but flash check engine lights and advertise to you, that are designed to be as unworkable and uncomprehensible as possible to the average Joe, are superior, then you are retarded.

We have winter here. We're talking -40 isn't out of the ballpark on any given week. All of these fancy computers are going batshit and throwing codes/refusing to have certain services function. Meanwhile my dimmer-on-the-floor manual hubs 30+ year old Ford grunts awake as long as I've got the headbolt heater plugged in.

 

[Jotch]

I would say that technologies like Fuel injectors, The ECS, Traction control, Automatic Transmission and the Continuous Transmission improve the usability, longevity, and efficiency of the vehicle. While new technologies are almost always associated with the BS touch screen based car and wifi, it does not mean that every single engineer and development behind them did not want to actually push the envolope.

They include these wifi, bluetooth, touchscreen things because the marketing fuckers get everyone to think you want them.
Vote with your wallet, please.

 

[Pelican Bones]

They hate BMJ because you'll cowards don't even smoke crack.

 

[popnloch ness monster]

I would say that technologies like Fuel injectors, The ECS, Traction control, Automatic Transmission and the Continuous Transmission improve the usability, longevity, and efficiency of the vehicle. While new technologies are almost always associated with the BS touch screen based car and wifi, it does not mean that every single engineer and development behind them did not want to actually push the envolope.

They include these wifi, bluetooth, touchscreen things because the marketing fuckers get everyone to think you want them.
Vote with your wallet, please.

"voting with your wallet" isn't a thing

 

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

I'd be fine with a million BMJ segments if it meant no more inane xitter bits.

 

[JustSomeDong]

What a way to share you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. They offered those and considered all claims to be on wear items, which you'd pay their insane dealership markup on parts and labor. Were you imagining that the dealerships in the whatever you consider to be ye olden days that you have no experience with to be more honest?

Was really just an example to exemplify the point. But, if you don't think planned obsolescence is much more rampant these days, and you honestly think newer cars are easier to service, then I'd counter that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. The whole point is about being able to service and fix your own shit. How many average joes out there can spring for all the special shit your dealer service center has and newer cars require? Hell, you're lucky if you can change your own brakes or oil, with some newer cars. And most people haven't even heard of an OBD2 scanner, let alone any of the more modern diagnostic and service scanners and consoles. Throw in electric cars and said average joe is screwed even more.

My own car is supposed to go to the service center to replace any exterior light, man! And its almost 10 years old now. That's just fucking dumb. I can walk into Walmart to get one for my old Ford Ranger, and replace it in 5 minutes for less than 50 bucks. I love my little Scion, it was a gift from my grandfather before he died, but its just dumb to need a dealer to service a headlight, and much more expensive. I actually could do it myself, but I'd have to spend a few hundred bucks to buy tools I'd never use except for that.

And you want to talk to me about dealer service charges? They stack up much faster when you require them for almost every formerly small thing. And if you do try to work on it yourself, congratulations, champ! You may have just voided your warranty anyways! Of course, cash for clunkers sure gave doing any work on older cars a big ole "fuck you" but we won't discuss that particular backchannel stimulus gift for big auto, who were more than gleeful at the prospect. The warranty thing was more an example to make the point, but I admit it wasn't well put and somewhat obtuse, for which I shall blame my low coffee levels at the time..

 

[KateHikes14]

It's definitely harder to work on modern cars in a lot of ways, but it's far far from impossible in most/all cases depending on your dedication. Most everyone can still do the small services like headlights, assuming they aren't working on a car where they are all one assembly.
I think the more impactful thing when it comes to user serviceability is the customer. The majority of the people do not understand how cars work in the slightest and do not want to mess with it, the guy who likes them and wants to tinker with them will, no matter what the manual says. I wish they were easier to work on, and more people understood what's going on and why, and more people would defend shit like right to repair, but exaggerating the difficulty to say it's impossible only aids in growing the fear customer feels.

 

[4090 Chad]

A sitting member of congress is Pinochet pilled and is for giving migrants free helicopter rides


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This is in response to spics assaulting NYC police officers and then being released immediately without bail and laughing.

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

A sitting member of congress is Pinochet pilled and is for giving migrants free helicopter rides

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This is in response to spics assaulting NYC police officers and then being released immediately without bail and laughing.
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Personally I recommend the Chinook

Enough space to fit about two small Mexican families (so about 50 people) if you really cram them in there, and you can airlift their donkeys out as well, so you don't have to make two trips.

 

[Seafarer]

Chinook

Based, it sounds like a racial slur

 

[Lidl Drip]

Pls have chat vote if Pewdiepie is going to troon out or not. He has started to draw little anime lolis using himself as a reference.

 

[CoolSixtyNiner]

The only way to get some sort of deterrence with this type of conduct is to be able to directly sue sites themselves, or be able to seek injunctions to take down sites hosting such material. Some mutt in Vietnam with no identifying info online could post this stuff on Twitter—then what can you do besides pressuring Twitter to take it down? And that’s just Twitter. It could be posted on some weird part of the fediverse or something.

Though that type of solution would affect even this site, which might host archives of drama-inciting pictures, so there’s obvious problems with it. I guess the philosophical question is whether AI produced pornography is worse than leaked private nudes, since we can kinda analogize the legal and societal treatment of one to the other.

Make no mistake, trannies will be scouring kf for content like this to make claims against the site.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Hasan Piker had a mental moment after witnessing himself get soyjak'd on Xitter. I count roughly 13 seconds of stunned silence.