From one of the few people who actually could squish Hulk Hogan’s face.

Here, I’ll make a lot of you oblivious folk feel better about yourselves. I’ve been propositioned at a house sex party and I was still completely oblivious.

That one may be less contradictory than you think. Depends on the brand.

Historically, there were many Christian Zionists who thought “we should give the Jews their homeland so we can kick them out of Europe”. Likewise, certain white nationalists argue that every race should have their own homeland (granted, this may be a ploy more than a real conviction), and Bibi often finds himself in friendly company there.

But if it makes you feel safer, enjoy your bliss. I just hope for everyone’s sake you focus on steering the car to safety instead of pulling the parking brake if you ever lose control of a car.

If this is your version of “impersonal”, you need to recalibrate.

And no, I’m not wrong. Total brake failure still happens, and a separate system is still important.

Uhh, master cylinder failing would result in all brakes failing. Things these days are internally partitioned so that front and back are separated, and thus complete failure is unlikely, but still possible. It used to be all in one, and the e-brake is very, very important in vintage cars because of it. Less so now, but there was no good reason to change it besides manufacturing cost.

You’re making an awful lot of assumptions on my driving skill based on (checks notes) wanting a redundant system.

0 and 100 aren’t just “very cold” and “very hot”. They are potentially dangerously so, and you need to take extra precautions at temperatures beyond those limits. You don’t necessarily have to understand it beyond that.

Yeah, it’s been pretty common the last few years. My wife’s 2021 Mini does it.

There’s a theory about Alice in Wonderland that Lewis Carroll was satirizing the absurdity of the increasingly abstract mathematics that was popping up at the time. Now, I don’t think that theory holds weight–Alice in Wonderland doesn’t need to be anything other than a whimsical children’s book–but he did apparently write some things along those lines. This post is a pretty good example of something that would throw him into a rage.

Can you remember that at temperatures near 0F and 100F, you need to take special precautions when going outside? The rest is a matter of getting used to what the numbers mean, but those are very intuitive danger points.

Base 10 makes it much easier to remember.

When was the last time you did math related to temperature?

It is intuitive, and that’s fine. Having the same intuition around human comfort zones is also fine. One measurement system can’t really cover everything.

People tend not to want to live in places where it’s routinely under 0F or over 100F. You’ll tolerate it, but you won’t like it. It’s a very natural range of human comfort.

It’s caramel coloring, as in baked sugar. Old timey candies tended to put caramel more front and center than candies today.

There was “Crystal Pepsi” back in the day. People hated it.

So you’re saying that 0 and 100 aren’t intuitively obvious? I find that really strange when it’s doing a better job keeping to base 10 than the metric system in this particular use case.

For Debian, “unstable” just means “not running a five year old compiler”.

Given US healthcare, that’s gotta be more expensive than a leather fetish.

Yes, it is. The fact that it’s often considered a “parking” brake doesn’t change things.

If the hydraulic lines spring a leak or the master cylinder fails, the mechanical line from the e-brake is still functional.

USB in 1996: Let’s make one connector that handles everything

USB in 2024: Let’s make one connector do thirty different incompatible combinations of things

That’s more a statement against car ownership in general. Repairs are going to happen. Making the e-brake into a switch that activates solenoids by way of a CAN bus to microcontrollers doesn’t change that. If anything, it’s likely even more expensive.

I just did this on my 2011 Miata. It has about 50k miles on it. Driven in Wisconsin, and while I’ve mostly kept it off winter roads, it’s inevitably going to have more corrosion than an equivalent car kept in a warmer/dryer climate.

$600 for the repair. Given how long it lasted, I don’t consider that too crazy.