AttackBunny

The ones in my area frequently have all the self checkouts open, and no registers with human cashiers open.

It’s not. Somewhere along the way (at least in US) there was a “movement” for “body positivity”, which is great, when applied reasonably. It should be “we all have things we don’t like about ourselves, but so does everyone, so love you”. That’s totally reasonable. That’s healthy. That’s fantastic for younger people who see all the “influencers” and “models” or fashion images, and feel bad about themselves.

What it turned into was “no matter how unhealthy/obese you are, love your body, and be outspoken about it”. So, regardless of being 400lb, incredibly unhealthy, and doing major damage to yourself, love and be proud of your body.

Hell, some of my most formative years were the heroin chic era. It’s equally damaging, in the opposite direction. At least women’s clothing models are looking more and more like “normal” women, in a lot of cases.

Sounds like you should start with taking it back to the mechanic and having them bleed the system properly.

If that doesn’t resolve the issue, then find out what pads were installed, and what came out. Pad material affects how the brakes “bite”, but what your describing sounds like once you have “pumped the brakes up” you get the bite you are looking for, which leads me to believe air in the lines.

Yup. Apple Watch for me. It works mostly seamlessly with the rest of my Apple stuff. I don’t think any others do.

I assume people putting themselves, or their personal shit in everyone’s way.

Yes Karen, you and your five friends, walking shoulder to shoulder, on the only place for people to walk, at a slow meander, DOES obstruct everyone else. And yes, I have somewhere to be, but even if I didn’t, get the fuck out of the goddamn way.

Sorry, I don’t personally see aesthetic choices as “innovation” in cars. What makes the car do what a car should is where innovation matters to me. Looks are just the packaging, and theirs is horrible. Personally, I find Kia/Hyundai style absolutely offensively hideous.

Edit: the more I think about it, based on observation, I don’t think their body styling is even terribly innovative or better than the more established brands. I would bet that if you put a bunch of cars into a wind tunnel, Hyundai Kia wouldn’t be near the top. They still haven’t figured a lot of things out with airflow and how to quiet it down.

Oh, and I’m pretty sure they stole their current design trend straight frim 1985. I swear I’ve seen all their new cars in back to the future. With an appearance from the Audi in I, Robot with the wanna be iris wheel covers for fender trim on that one Kia suv.

I’m honestly curious why you think that. Can you please elaborate. I’m really not trying to be argumentative here.

As far as I can see, they have just copied others, with some small tweaks. The aesthetic ones are unreasonably offensive to me, but the technical ones don’t seem to be terribly innovative, or huge leaps, and seem to bite them in the ass, a lot.

I’d argue the Mazda supercharged 2 stroke with low load compression self ignition) or, I can’t believe I’m saying this, Nissan variable compression ratio engine of the world, who are experimenting with alterative techs, even for ICE, are leaps an bounds above Hyundai.

Two things. One, you have to consider that the 3rd party apps haven’t gone away yet. That will be a big deal. And more important, two, if you were a potential investor, you would be seriously considering what’s going on, before investing. Advertisers are already reconsidering. That’s a big deal, for an investor, since that’s a major revenue generation for the Reddit.

Then factor in all the bad publicity (contrary to the popular saying not all publicity is good). Shockingly, the majority of the articles I’ve seen, and the other press about it haven’t been even remotely flattering to spez.

My husbands car came with a B&M shifter, that has a billet shift knob. It’s manual, and a black car without window tint. You can imagine how fun that was in SoCal summers.

I sewed him a “koozie” to put on it while it’s parked. Works really well. Surprisingly.