This is the spare part for the rear cover of the tow hook attachment point to give you an idea of what the flap looks like.

https://partifyusa.com/products/honda-civic-ex-rear-tow-hook-cover-japan-built-ho1129109

Send me your car models out of curiosity - I’ll see if I can find them in the manuals.

Then we can name and shame shit manufacturers.

I mean… most cars have tow points designed for towing up into a flatbed do they not? Certainly all Japanese and EU cars of the last 20 years do.

BUT, they are usually hidden behind a small plastic panel on the bumper, and require attaching an eyelet hook designed for this exact purpose, which is supplied with the new car somewhere in the spare tyre / flat kit.

The real issue is that tow drivers are too lazy to find the manufacturers tow point (or look it up), remove the plastic cover panel, and carry several eyelets so they’re covered for any model - that could take upwards of 5 minutes and some prep work!

Better to just throw your hook into a fragile suspension arm, crank it up the ramp at full speed and call it a day, hope they don’t notice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You’ll_own_nothing_and_be_happy

Time to update the distribution map, it also lives in the waters of the opposite pole.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Somniosus_pacificus_distmap.png

In context, defeating the privacy exposure of requiring to use CC details would be by getting an anonymous credit card, which in most countries are now either very difficult to obtain or simply no longer offered (outlawed).

Hope that helps.

(Edit: spelllering)

I love that we edge ever closer to ‘Darnak and Jalad at Tenagra’ style meme-talking now.

shakes head Tarzan swinging from vine, holds Jane in both arms.

Face scan is actually much easier to defeat than CC details.

Nowadays with VISA ‘3D Secure’ and the equivalent on Mastercard you have to validate your legal name attached to the credit card, this is done via third-party which can request details your bank has on file (often your home address or mobile number), and even while those details are not supposed to be shared with the merchant (we know how careful banks are about keeping control of PII), the core detail - your legal name, is confirmed. It is not hard to tie a user to other data via data brokers once you have their legal name, and credit card number, and any other details they may share with the service (email, phone, etc).

The point of listing the others is that NAFTA being pointed to as a ‘good sounding’ or ‘well-named’ acronym is that it’s completely by accident.

The US almost always titles their trade agreements [country initial]USF(ree)T(rade)A(greement), and their title becomes their acronym.

Near zero thought goes into it.

Its just a perfunctory acronym.

Same as the US ones ever were…

AUSFTA. BUSFTA. DRCFTA. CUSFTA. USCFTA. PUSTPA. TTIP. NAFTA. FTAA. USTFTA.

Yeah, they really roll off the tongue.

Thanks for the info, I’ve never heard of Comalco alfoil. Then again I also never hear kids drinks called ‘poppers’ (just pop-tops) nor toasties ‘Brevilles’ 🫠

White Australia policy 2.0.

Sounds about right for an LNP in shambles and trying to win over their National Party coalition.

Fun blog post.

In Australia we call aluminium foil ‘alfoil’, and have for 40 years or more.

Do other English-speaking countries not?

Good advice. I’d add that a good message to take from all the issues exposed with Discord is that people should treat it like a data and privacy-hostile service like Facebook and use it as little as possible.

Don’t share personal shit, don’t share shit at all if you don’t have to. Just use it for whatever you’ve deemed necessary like memes or game voice chat for your wide circle of gaming friends, not as some kind of social media replacement to post your life to.

Appreciate the sourcing very much, thanks.

I don’t wanna shit on the positive result of a good environmental policy, but it sure is hard to sit it in my brain alongside the knowledge of the semi-militarized Chinese mega-trawler fleets that are devastating the oceans while this is happening…

I mean it’s not outside the realm of possibility, but I think it’s far more likely he just abused her.

“You remind me of my daughter,” Mr Trump told her in the hotel room, according to Ms Daniels.

Imagine saying that to a porn star in your hotel room that you have paid to have sex with.

There is no vomit emoji strong enough.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stormy-testimony-trump-trial-ivanka-b2541079.html

I have daughters and would never ask (or force? coerce?) them to sit for candid photos like this, let alone for professional photo shoots like three of these four images are from. It would make all of us uncomfortable.

And yet, I have family members who are not even from the US that support this guy, and used to make comments about doctored photos of ‘creepy old Biden’.

The cognitive dissonance is insane.

Fucking stupid also because the university should be paid for ChatGPT to give them access to the queries and input the highly academic CU staff and interns are inputting, or at least give it to them freely.

ChatGPT is getting more value out of the arrangement than the university, yet the university is the one paying them $2mil.

'Member when presidents knew how to have an in-depth discussion on a range of topics, or even a deep conversation with an interviewer on a single subject, or just talk eloquently at all, or just not ramble incoherently.

Man I remember, good times. Hasn’t been since early 2017 but it feels like a lifetime.