If it was an accident — tank rupture or otherwise — they would just say so instead of firing the driver.

Maybe the driver just pulled the dump valve, got back in the bus, and drove away leaving a long streak of disgusting on the road behind him, but the stretch over the bridge is the only part we hear about??

It seems unlikely any professional driver would expect to get away with that without being noticed.

How does this happen, physically? Do fancy tour buses have a “dump poop” button that the driver can actuate while under way?

My motor home has a black tank with a dump valve, but to open it I have to be standing outside the back of the vehicle, open a big hatch to the wet bay, and pull a lever. This is not something that could happen while the vehicle is in motion.

Also it takes a few minutes for the tank to drain out — much longer than the time to drive across a bridge — and if I did it without the sewer hose attached it would mostly go out the hole for the sewer hose under the dump valve, but also I’m sure the side splatter would make an unholy disgusting mess inside the wet bay as well.

Assuming you wanted to do a deed like this with any normal motor home, I don’t see how you could.

Has anybody got more technical detail on how this dastardly deed was done?

Mostly tradies are learning by hands-on apprenticeship with a master. All that discussion is not on the internet.

I drive a giant motor home with headlights about five feet lower than my eye level.

Other cars’ reflectors work fine.

Sometimes it’s hard to read reflective signs above way over the highway, but retroreflective stuff at road level is definitely working

Yes, those count as technical skills and there are many, many people for whom it’s too big a hurdle.

picking out a decent micro PC that actually works is hard.

Getting a pc install (presumably windows) configured in a way that will display in the TV legibly from the couch is hard.

Requiring a keyboard and mouse to use your TV from the couch is weird and off-putting. Most people won’t want to and some people will have difficulty understanding what they’re supposed to do with these objects

The technical competence bar for getting a TV plugged in and working is just ridiculously, ridiculously low, and that’s for a reason

It does not — dumb people have the same access to the better drugs as smart people.

A eugenics-driven society where dumb people are left to die and smart people get extra health care likely would be effective at breeding children who are better at passing the “smart people” test, but I would not like to live in a society like that.

If you’re about to argue that having enough money to pay for health care correlates with intelligence… I would welcome some evidence. I used to think that was obvious but, having grown up and experienced the world some, the only thing I see that correlates with intelligence is depression.

What are tech companies going to do when customers go an increasing amount of years between purchases?

Ignore them and continue selling almost exclusively to businesses and manufacturers?

those jobs just pivoted

How many car jobs are there now compared to however many horse jobs there used to be?

I feel like it’s many many fewer jobs, and the horse jobs did more of a disappearance than a pivot. But I don’t know it.

Does anyone here have data?

This was an awesome read, thank you

Yes. Chinese manufacturers are using sodium batteries in some low-range cheap city-cars, too. But fundamentally there is less energy storage in a charged sodium atom than a charged lithium atom so it seems sodium batteries must always be bigger and heavier than equivalent-capacity lithium batteries.

Cost, yes, energy density, very much no.

No it’s not, at least not according to Wikipedia.

Epstein-Barr virus is a different herpes virus that causes mono, which is not the same as HSV1 with its cold sores

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein–Barr_virus

Canva surely would become assholes if they had a monopoly, but it’s a loooooong way from “gaining some market traction” to “Adobe is defeated and powerless to compete”

How well does clipping the antenna actually work?

If my FM radio antenna rusts and falls off, my FM radio still works. Reception will be shitty but it’s absolutely still usable for nearby or powerful stations.

When the GPS antenna inside my much-abused phone came loose, GPS got very unreliable but still often worked in a glitchy way.

If I clipped the external antenna on a car’s cell modem, would it not be the same way? Based on my experience with those other kinds of antennas I’d expect maybe the manufacturer would lose the ability to track me while driving in remote or mountainous areas, but generally in cities or highways it would still connect. Is it not so?

Now do it with the new ones that have eSim

Oracle are not fast movers. But also this is not their first recent layoff.

Reddit went absolutely bonkers overboard every year with dumb April Fools posts to the point where it crowded out every real topic and made the site unusable for the day, even back in the early days when it was otherwise very usable.

I personally never saw that level of bullshit overload anywhere else.

One of the things I like about Lemmy is that it avoids (somewhat) the everybody-piles-on-same-joke plagues that swept through Reddit. I’m hoping we as a community can keep avoiding them (somewhat)

Sorry for all you beans and Stör enjoyers. This place is big enough for the both of us but sometimes it does get uncomfortable.

This shit is dumb. It was dumb on Reddit and it is dumb here. Why do we want to make ourselves suffer obnoxious fake news once a year?

Man that video at the end of the view of the axle from underneath while driving — two separate fan enclosures with small sheet-metal straps and fiddly little electronics-case screws, all facing down toward the road and right behind the wheels?

This is not a place where you put fans, or big openings into the kind of electronics you need fans to cool, if you want them to keep functioning while driving through salty slush and mud.

Seems perfect for Southern California

• 300M half axles with 930 CV joints

!!! That is WAY TOO MANY half-axles and CV joints! You need to tone it down guys, TWO half axles with TWO CV joints each is plenty!!!

No wonder it costs so much….