Routhinator

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 0 points 3 hours ago

You have a warped view here, I have to say.

I've looked all over for aftermarket options, and asked the dealership repeatedly for options for 4 years.. And I have no responsibility because I won't go spending inordinate amounts of money to try and engineer a potentially worse solution...

Right... Great viewpoint you have there.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website -1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

If I illegally modified my vehicle in a way that made it worse, it would be.

This is a factory vehicle from the dealership with no alternative light options. I'm not responsible for anything with regard to the lights on it unless I'm running around with my brights on, which I don't use.

Not sure how you think the law works, but that's not it.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Its bad enough that people constantly flash their lights at me because they think I have my brights on. At stop signs I literally need to flash my brights back to prove they aren't. (It would be impossible, the brights will not stay on when there are any red or white lights in front of the vehicle unless you manually pullback and hold the control stick.)

I never use the brights on this thing. The headlights are already too bright

Mentioned in another thread, this is a Dodge. And Mopar makes sure no aftermarket parts exist. Dodge doesn't provide any alternative light brightnesses.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 3 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

There are no replacement options, see other threads.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 4 points 21 hours ago

For reference where are you located?

The factory LEDs from any north american car manufacturer are absolutely blinding.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Canada used to have regulations about the maximum lumens that could be output by headlights, but corporate lobbyists undermined this with a rule that exempted cars that rolled off the dealership lot with brighter lights in the late 90's when the manufacturers started using the bright blue halogens. Then LEDs came out and they got the same bypass automatically.

I voted against the political leaders that supported moves like this for years, but most of the population doesn't.

So, here we are.

I've checked with different spots for 3 years. Maybe for some makes and models, but not for dodge.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Needed a vehicle and I won't buy older than 10 years. Every vehicle in the last 10 years has led lights. That's it.

I held off with the 2014 as long as possible, but when its maintenance costs got to be unreasonable, it was time to replace it.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 59 points 1 day ago (38 children)

Yeah, as an owner of a vehicle with these fucking things. I hate them but there's literally nothing we can do. All vehicles sold have them now, and the manufacturers have no options for softer lights. I've tried for months.

Do what I did and write your MP. This needs to be legislated.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This mindset is the entire problem. "Oh we don't need to worry about ethics or morals, just efficiency" is exactly the issue with every pro-AI argument and every pro-capatalism argument. Its the issue with our governments, with investing, with corporations.

I say fuck anyone who argues ethics is not important when talking about efficacy. Fuck that mindset and fuck AI.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The article is from read the maple, its been linked through archive.is to remove paywals. Its not Chinese state media.

 

Though Indium may be about to "disturb the peace" based on that fluffy shit-disturbing look she has.

 

I've been seeing a lot of startrek.website shares I do showing the wrong desc and image in the unfurl on the posts lately. It was a few of them a week at first, but it's become multiple a day now.

As the most recent example, the "Look at the time, its 7 of 9" post unfurls like this in signal:

Is this a known issue? Is there a better place to report instance issues? It kind of looks to me like UUID reuse leading to new posts displaying old images.

 

Just had this one shared with me directly on signal and could not find it in here, nor could I find a source. Too good not to share though. If someone knows the meme creator I'll update this with proper credit.

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