Jacob
@roundtheoutside.bsky.social
mechanical engineer / sim (sometimes real) racer / occasional rally codriver / shitbox car enjoyer / bike, train and transit dork / takes nice photos sometimes / he/him
MKE
car enthusiasm =/= liking car dependence
MKE
car enthusiasm =/= liking car dependence
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gonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question
May 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
gonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question
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Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
May 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
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Return of the Mack arranged for a 100 voice choir
September 8, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Return of the Mack arranged for a 100 voice choir
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when the race comes down to tyre strategy:
July 7, 2024 at 3:09 PM
when the race comes down to tyre strategy:
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Wrath is stored in the grapes
July 1, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Wrath is stored in the grapes
@bencollins.bsky.social if y'all bring back the print version I will pay out the ass for it
I'd grab those every time I saw them back in middle/high school
I'd grab those every time I saw them back in middle/high school
April 26, 2024 at 10:36 PM
@bencollins.bsky.social if y'all bring back the print version I will pay out the ass for it
I'd grab those every time I saw them back in middle/high school
I'd grab those every time I saw them back in middle/high school
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April 23, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Technologies that allow us to do more with less (read: are efficient uses of resources) are the shit, my jam, and cool as hell.
Technologies which seemingly need more and more resources (energy, compute cores, human labor) to do questionable things at best are whack and you shouldn't like them.
Technologies which seemingly need more and more resources (energy, compute cores, human labor) to do questionable things at best are whack and you shouldn't like them.
March 30, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Technologies that allow us to do more with less (read: are efficient uses of resources) are the shit, my jam, and cool as hell.
Technologies which seemingly need more and more resources (energy, compute cores, human labor) to do questionable things at best are whack and you shouldn't like them.
Technologies which seemingly need more and more resources (energy, compute cores, human labor) to do questionable things at best are whack and you shouldn't like them.
finished my long overdue read of @niedermeyer.io 's book yesterday - it's so good especially if you like getting irritated at how much musk has been able to bullshit his way through this whole thing
shoutout to the MKE library for having a few copies too, love the library
shoutout to the MKE library for having a few copies too, love the library
March 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
finished my long overdue read of @niedermeyer.io 's book yesterday - it's so good especially if you like getting irritated at how much musk has been able to bullshit his way through this whole thing
shoutout to the MKE library for having a few copies too, love the library
shoutout to the MKE library for having a few copies too, love the library
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www.motor1.com/features/713... my new piece for Motor1: 7,500 pedestrians are dying every year on American streets, and yet American policy is still to encourage carmakers to build ever-bigger trucks. We need to act *now*.
Pedestrian Deaths Are An Emergency. We Need To Start Acting Like It
With 7,500 pedestrian fatalities in America every year, we must consider the safety of people outside our cars.
www.motor1.com
March 28, 2024 at 2:08 PM
www.motor1.com/features/713... my new piece for Motor1: 7,500 pedestrians are dying every year on American streets, and yet American policy is still to encourage carmakers to build ever-bigger trucks. We need to act *now*.
all-timer thread
10B lb*ft/s is roughly the same as getting hit by a fully loaded tractor trailer traveling at four times the escape velocity needed to reach orbit
March 27, 2024 at 12:36 AM
all-timer thread
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I’m not rewriting all of this here. Just know that ships are incredibly big and hard to steer with full power and impossible to steer with no power(every boat is) so don’t be a fucking idiot. x.com/thewapplehou...
Kristi Yamaguccimane on X: "You don’t know shit about navigation or shipping or hydrodynamics or the physics of stopping that ship or who the harbor pilot was or what call they put out over the radio so please for the love of god shut the fuck up" / X
You don’t know shit about navigation or shipping or hydrodynamics or the physics of stopping that ship or who the harbor pilot was or what call they put out over the radio so please for the love of god shut the fuck up
x.com
March 26, 2024 at 1:57 PM
I’m not rewriting all of this here. Just know that ships are incredibly big and hard to steer with full power and impossible to steer with no power(every boat is) so don’t be a fucking idiot. x.com/thewapplehou...
holy fuck a use case for AR that I actually want
Free idea: some sort of AR/VR tech that shows your time trial ghost for literally anything and everything. So you could beat your record going to the fridge and your record for filling up the Brita etc. We could all be doing everything so fast
March 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM
holy fuck a use case for AR that I actually want
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A family of "Baby Trainmasters" H-16-66's chill at the engine shops in Escanaba Michigan awaiting their next ore run.
March 25, 2024 at 4:24 PM
A family of "Baby Trainmasters" H-16-66's chill at the engine shops in Escanaba Michigan awaiting their next ore run.
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rétro cars voiture 🚘 CITROEN A la ville comme a la campagne il y a toujours de bonne ID
March 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
rétro cars voiture 🚘 CITROEN A la ville comme a la campagne il y a toujours de bonne ID
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my favorite part of the new stardew valley update is when the farmer said “it’s harvesting time” and then he started harvesting all over the place
March 19, 2024 at 7:18 PM
my favorite part of the new stardew valley update is when the farmer said “it’s harvesting time” and then he started harvesting all over the place
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CAR FOUND
Who in Oakland wants to go out and have some drinks later?
CAR FOUND
Who in Oakland wants to go out and have some drinks later?
March 17, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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CAR FOUND
Who in Oakland wants to go out and have some drinks later?
CAR FOUND
Who in Oakland wants to go out and have some drinks later?
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In Madame Web at 39.30 minutes in you can clearly see an Amtrak locomotive painted in Amtrak's Phase V livery, which wasn't widely adopted until 2005, despite this film being set in 2003. Boy I hope someone got fired for that blunder
March 16, 2024 at 1:47 AM
In Madame Web at 39.30 minutes in you can clearly see an Amtrak locomotive painted in Amtrak's Phase V livery, which wasn't widely adopted until 2005, despite this film being set in 2003. Boy I hope someone got fired for that blunder
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TRAINS AMERICAIN des E7 de Chicago et du nord-ouest recevant un bain dans les magasins de la 40e rue à Chicago, vers 1948
March 15, 2024 at 9:26 PM
TRAINS AMERICAIN des E7 de Chicago et du nord-ouest recevant un bain dans les magasins de la 40e rue à Chicago, vers 1948
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What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck? We’re gonna stick the military in subways and pay police billions of dollars in overtime for doing nothing, but we can’t fund basic science?
This country needs to learn how to stop being afraid of things. Bunch of fucking grown ass toddlers.
This country needs to learn how to stop being afraid of things. Bunch of fucking grown ass toddlers.
Pretty depressing day at work today with lots of staff updating their resumes as we grapple with NASA's decision to shut down Chandra, the world's only ever high resolution X-ray space telescope, still returning fabulous science discoveries. Still hoping this can be reversed
March 13, 2024 at 5:28 AM
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck? We’re gonna stick the military in subways and pay police billions of dollars in overtime for doing nothing, but we can’t fund basic science?
This country needs to learn how to stop being afraid of things. Bunch of fucking grown ass toddlers.
This country needs to learn how to stop being afraid of things. Bunch of fucking grown ass toddlers.
we had no ice on the lake this year, garbage winter
The lower 48 states just had the warmest winter in 130 years of record-keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures were more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average.
U.S. has warmest winter on record – and no, that's not a good thing
From lack of snow to wildfires, a record-warm winter had impacts across the country. Scientists say winters are warming faster than any other season in the U.S.
www.npr.org
March 9, 2024 at 6:34 PM
we had no ice on the lake this year, garbage winter