They’re two separate things. That’s the idea, a clutch is a disconnect between the engine and transmission.

A really good driver only uses the clutch to start and stop.

Anyway, another of my comments got removed without explanation, I’ll just see myself out of this misinfo echo chamber that can’t understand why people don’t post here.

I had great hopes for the fediverse idea, but the same human greed issues, like mastodon selling iut to Meta, and zealous moderation, like whatever happened to my comment and another one before that complaing about the Mudrocks and Musk.

Bon chance, fedi.

Try driving an 18-speed truck transmission without the clutch.

Who’s stupid?

Raymond Chandler’s novels, esp The Lady in the Lake

The Pirx the Pilot stories, 8 in 2 volumes

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key

2nd the Hitchhiker’s Guide and they’re easy to rejoin

A A Fair’s novels are short and have odd western us lore in them, one has a great way to bet in Vegas, others name spots in Mexico, they were Gardner’s fun books that he liked to write more than other series.

I remember being in a certain pizza hut near a certain corporate HQ, and managers from that acquiring corp were working the lunch in the kitchen.

I doubt they knew the end was coming, but I did.

Corp still sells a lot of flavored water.

I don’t have the space; can one download e-bricks?

We need them pointed at every tech CEO constantly.

They chased the people with any common sense away.

Doesn’t surprise me.

You can only choose from what billionaires want.

Ask the AI companies who scraped my sites while the media companies were DCMA-ing everything in sight and working with enforcement paid for with publuc funds to prosecute/persecute the “pirates”.

How’s battery life? Thinking of using mostly as e-reader.

Thank you, helpful.

There weren’t crossovers for routing signal in live recordings?

In my youth I wanted to learn more about this stuff, but I appeared to be much younger than I was, so was shooed away.

Thank you, that’s the piece of info I never had. If it’s not a Reddit-level fact. The 2 channels were new and people wete trying things out and mind-altering substances were freely available as well, so judgment might have been hogtied at times.

At the time, there was sentiment that it was a way to sell two amplifiers and speakers instead of one, a suspicion furthered by the later arrival of quad, which for many was a bridge too far. Audio places tried that briefly and then went back to selling stereo. And may be why a certain generation looks askance at 5.1 etc.

There were other changes as well, tubes/valves to solid state plus hybrids…when I read about Cloud products in IT, it rhymes, marketing hoodoo inveigling into genuine tech appraisals.

If only I knew whete he lived, I’d put a pie in the next bush. Then in the next one.

First I want to know if it’s a dog race or a cat roundup.

Peta is the Autism Speaks of its field. And vicee versa.

Can we have a vegan rust sub, please?

Is Betteridge’s law always correct?

And now we have a former McKinsey consultant as DOT Sec.

During his term we had aircraft doors coning off midflight, a catastrophic train wreck in Ohio that polluted into New England, a ship tear down a major highway bridge, etc.

Def presidential material.

You can find a used machine to practice with and start by fixing and altering.

Local indy sewing shops that I’ve encountered have been happy to advise and some have open sewing days.

I fix my outdoors gear and clothes routinely, often with hand-stitching, just takes practice.

ClassicPress is WordPress without Gutenberg, if you’re used to that interface. It was based on 4.9 but now on current releases.

Whatever Molly White uses for https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/ is something she wrote and was available on one of her accounts.

I’m looking for a similar thing that absolutely excludes all scraping, bots, search engines, etc. I think the only way we get the web back is cordoning the leeches off to one side. Let them drown in each other’s AI regurgitation.