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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

I'm going to allow myself some unsober thoughts. Have a good Tuesday.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

"get used to it man or join that statistic." Hmm. There are times I wish I weren't as staunchly pacifistic.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

It's been a while since I've done a `dump -0u $volume` by hand against ext4.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

Do whatever suits you! That sounds solid enough to me. But, man, this dude was meticulous about his inventory. He came in when I was doing prep in the mornings to weigh everything and record it. If there was a discrepancy, he chased it down. Made no bones about calling at 6am wanting answers.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

The way my bar manager cleaned this up was getting those bartenders fired for either stealing from the bar (by pouring too much) or for stealing from the guest (by pouring too little). This was what I meant by not qualifying. Jigger use was heavily encouraged to avoid this fate.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

The bar manager where I worked would require jiggering unless you consistently qualified on speed pouring. (No one qualified on speed pouring with the required consistency.)

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

Haha, of course they use an example that properly shows off how delightfully batshit Finnish is.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

German makes a game of this. Bonus points because the genitive makes an appearance here. die Gleisschotterbettungsreinigungsmaschine "the machine of the cleaning of the track gravel bed"

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

It was unusually good! They also cast Jared Harris and David Strathairn (Whistler from Sneakers!) well. While I'm here, weird BattleTech/MechWarrior crossover: the voice actor for Sebastian Spears in MW5:Mercs also plays show-exclusive spy Kenzo.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

Jesus wept, Burn Gorman as Murtry was utterly genius casting, as was Frankie Adams as Bobbie. Also, Wes Chatham as Amos??? The book's descriptions of him are considerably different, but he lends the character a lot more than mere "I need someone to be my moral compass."

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

I actually appreciated how the books approached New Terra/Ilus, and I've so far adored how the shows gave folks who read the books enough "omg they said the thing!" fodder (much like the MW5:Mercs Chaos Reign cutscenes did for folks who'd seen the Saturday morning cartoon).

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

The show's pacing through the timeline is leaving me scratch my head a lot in places, but there were production issues that led to some odd choices. Notably, they wanted Shohreh Aghdashloo to have a lot of screen time when Avasarala isn't even introduced until the second book.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

Oh, huh. The Laconia plot in the Expanse is kind of speed-running Kerensky's exodus and the return of the Clans, just with a lot less iron womb eugenics.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

Yep, or they'll use the Japanese imperial sunrise standard.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

There are plenty of folks north of the Mason-Dixon, from all generations, who support the Confederacy as a legitimate political project. They're wrong, but they're there.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

I grew up in Illinois (though, granted, just across the Mississippi from Missouri), but there were countless examples of the CSA's St. Andrew's cross flying around there.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

The fact that I have language for talking about this does not make me feel especially great!

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

When I mentioned that we were officially at the Reichsadler stage of our descent, I meant it. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee make 11 states.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

I mean, we properly got the Volksgerichtshof months ago, so none of this is terribly surprising.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

Oh, good, we've crossed over into the "Reichsadler" stage of where we're at.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Current catus Laureline has been TALKING to me all day today, and all she wants to do is either laze on me or laze next to me. What the hell happened?

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

my continental experience is less that buildings aren't well-insulated and more that buildings have both a lot of thermal mass and not a lot of protection against solar radiation. like, once the house absorbs all that energy, good luck shunting it somewhere else after the sun goes down.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

streng verboten, at least if the Tier-LMHV has anything to say. but the plastic oil pan should definitely be written into the Altölverordnung and into § 324 StGB as a priori being Umweltfeindlich.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Don't apologize! "Huh, maybe we should file that symbol down whenever we find it."

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

… sonnen… grat? I can't say I've ever seen it called that before, but it's (unintentionally?) funny and very apropos. A Grat in German is a burr, as in a rough edge to be filed down so it doesn't catch on things. A Rad is a wheel, which is conventionally what this is called.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

hematology is a hell of a rabbit hole. wait until you learn that one of the carbohydrates that forms one of our antigens is called galactose and that ABO and Rh are only two of the 48 overall established blood group systems for humans.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Oh, hey, it actually installed the 25H2 update. I broke that installation of Windows pretty badly, so it's kind of a miracle that it succeeded at all.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

As a German speaker, I'm always amused by the cognates. It's Pfote there.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

It was his directorial debut even! For some reason, I pegged that as happening in '74, not '67. And yes!

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Alright. Lay it on me. What would a maned wolf-shaped triffid be? :3c

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Oh, fuck, he did direct that one, didn't he?

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Current catus Valérian is curled up in the eepy baby box. Laureline, who is the one most guilty of sock crimes in this house, has knocked the "sock crimes" cushion off the armchair and curled up in its place.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Hey, psst, the 1987 Mel Brooks film "Spaceballs" is free to watch on YouTube. Sadly, his 1981 film "History of the World, Part I" is not, nor are his 1974 films "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles." I'm sure there are others that are missing, but those are what come to mind.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

the other stuff is some combination of accommodating neurodivergent people so they stay engaged and memory palace techniques.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

yeah, exactly this. the idea with the pre-reading is to turn a class meeting into a space for synthesis rather than mere acquisition. you really need a guided way to play with the material so that you can engage in self-discovery. that's the big way learning happens for basically everybody.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

the accommodation i wish i saw more of was assigned pre-reading and fill-in-the-blank skeleton notes that have just enough of a structure to guide the reading. lecturing is a poor way to impart new information, but if you go over what folks have already seen, that has very clear benefits.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

haha, i guess i'm on the far end of the gaussian on this one. so, like, using this as a cudgel to ban typing is wrong for these reasons, but there is a connection between drawing shapes by hand and information recall. if anything, doodling during lecture is the most helpful!

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

Haha, but like I said, the thing that sucks about this place is that it's just my friends here! I have to behave!

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

Yeah, but I have my ways around that. Shitposting is only one presentation of being a troll. My superpower is that I'm kind of a lovable dipshit, so I can generally string someone along who's trying to be sincere. This works well with a cover identity of a hopelessly confused grandpa or uncle.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

I'm not a maned wolf-shaped tree on the Internet for nothing. :3 IMNSHO, the problem with this place is that it's just my friends here, modulo techfash and blue MAGA, but neither of those groups are especially fun to play with. I have to exercise a lot of restraint to avoid wrecker behavior.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

From my perspective as a reformed troll, I absolutely consider it more a "you're trapped in here with us" kind of situation. When Twitter added that circle feature, I added all of the brand and ad accounts to it and basically had a shitty ant farm. It was great.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

I kind of miss brand accounts. Getting blocked by GameStop for tweeting at them that my mom won't drive me was my greatest achievement.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

Summers here in the SF-SJ-Oakland metroplex tend to be comparatively pretty mild! We get maybe a week or two of temps in South Bay that top out at 35~40°, but I'm nonetheless checking if it dips below 20° in the evenings so I can make sure I have a jacket.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

Less so California unless you head to the Central Valley, but yes. My hometown of St. Louis right now is already at a heat index just shy of 35° at a dew point of 24° with 77% relative humidity. I also grew up there without AC, so I know *exactly* how miserable this all is.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

No, most of the US (at least in terms of where people actually live) is not a dry heat.

It's a map from NOAA, undated, that shows annual mean relative humidity across the continental United States.

It's a map, unsourced, of the United States across all 50 states on a per-county (or per-parish or per-borough in the cases of Louisiana and Alaska) basis.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

Yeah, but that's Caesar getting his hands into my Galois theory. It's still interesting to point out though.

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Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

Current catus Valérian is cawing at the crows outside.

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