#$250M

[cre0n]

PINNACLE ATLAS

"The worth of a man that releases diamonds is…..not sure about that until…. the realms of your continuous bleeding, births more heathens…. We gone start y'all off with a seasoned, melanated old man on a regular lazy Sunday with his granddaughter in the barn…. 1st Classic, 2nd Classic, 3rd Classic, 4th Masterpiece, next Diamond……"

Old Man: There was a tale of an old Baphomet sceptre buried deep in the Grand Canyon. The locals frequently report strange humming sounds at night. Some even seen floating men in the sky. Not much is known about what it looks like, but I've heard a long time ago when I was a boy, it has its own shadow with a diamond sparkle.

Young Girl: Is the woman God?

Old Man: The 'Wombman' (laughs) is whatever she wants to be, and you should feel the same right? Now pass me that bag, would you? …… Young minds run wild. I loved being in that place some time ago.

(The two work their way throughout the barn into the evening just before dusk. A shimmer of sunlight is still present, and the skies are calm.) (As the Young Girl is eager to go outside and walking towards the barn door entrance, a sudden light appears through the cracks of the door. The Old Man continues to talk to himself as the Young Girl opens the barn doors.)

Young Girl: What's that Paw? (Pointing to the field adjacent to the barn door opening. The Old Man finally realizes she really is watching something amazing or terrifying, and drops his jaw in disbelief.) Is it ok to be God now? (Pointing at the light through the barn door opening.)

Old Man: I've seen just about everything in my life, and I'm okay with dying now……..

Young Girl: Are we going to be okay Paw? Should I go tell Momma?

Old Man: Just fine, just fine. I'll tell her…….. We have our show now….

(Scene Cuts. A Television Turns on. A news reporter is live with breaking news on current events in the area.)

Melissa C USC23 News: Yes Stan, can you hear me?

Anchor Stan: We're here Melissa, go ahead….

Melissa C USC23 News: Ok Stan I'm here outside the 'Green Tree' subdivision just East of downtown, where local residents have also reported strange sightings and sounds coming from the sky. I have with me now is one of those residents Mrs. Sandra Purdue. Sandra, can you explain exactly what's going on for the people out there that have not witnessed these events?

Sandra Purdue: (accompanied by a small child) Yeah we heard this buzzing sound coming from outside, and my husband first told us to go to the basement. That's when I ….(child interrupts)

Annie Purdue: Momma we seen black people in the sky! 'Bzzzzzzwhoooshhhuuuooo'

Sandra Purdue: I know baby. Momma's talking to the nice reporter lady ok? Go on ahead back in the house.

James Purdue: (Sandra's Husband)(James is yelling in between the screen door just shy of the door mat) Y'all need to come back inside now! C'mon Annie, it's not safe out here. Let the news people do their job.

Sandra Purdue: Let's go Annie. (Jane and Annie walk away)

Melissa C USC23 News: Still unable to prove or confirm anything on what local residents are calling a phenomenon. We only hope to have more details later as updates pour in. For now, this is Melissa C with channel USC23 News. Back to you Stan.

Pull up zero sticks, go ahead and kill me hoe You and your seeds with suffer wrath, they call us Indigos Speed plus momentum kills G-F-L been too real Parking lots Cloud deals Bruh you pulling up in a Rolls-Royce To a faggot that gave you no choice Who owns that, the renter 160k down red slender Eye don't even want that lets ENTER…………. But naw for real….. text centered……

Female Vocal: And yall know how this DNA feels Didn't need likes, ownership overkill You got bills? Me too, call Never overturned in your life give a good diamond *colour………

Anchor Stan: Thanks Melissa for that 'interesting' report to say the least. Later on, we have a hot topic that is causing a stir around social media. Is racism churning the economy? Local lawmakers claim their only hope for survival into the future, is through unbelievably blatant manipulation… And what's that buzzing sound outside? We step into one of our own State military bases to get expert aviation analysis on what 'they' think and what you should prepare for. All that and more tonight at 10:00.

Producer Jared: And that's a cut Stan, great work. Good job today y'all. We are done for now.

Regular Stan: I know these son of a bitches are lying to us about this whole alien crap. I can't wait to get out of this hick town. Cindy, is my Uber on the way?

Cindy Sahara: Yes sir. 5 minutes and they will be outside.

Regular Stan: Good, I need a drink……

(Scene cuts to the State Senator's main office. His 5,000 square foot office boast a big, beautiful glass pane window overlooking the outskirts of town. Suited with State flags and various historical ornaments, the Senators office is quite unique. To a regular citizen of this town, it would be a lot to admire and take in with just one visit.)

Senator Lockheed: Greg, did you get my reports from this morning? (shuffling paper) We have a meeting at 9.

Intern Bimmy: Yes sir, they should be in the portal by now……ummm sir? It seems like someone from the White House is trying to reach you…..

Senator Lockheed: Well?

Intern Bimmy: Yes sir, they say it's some sort of…breach? Not sure. It sounds urgent. (buzzing sounds coming from outside become louder by the second)

Senator Lockheed: (Turns his head and locks eyes on the large pane window in his office overlooking the city) Son go home now….

Intern Bimmy: I'm sorry sir? But we just go started for tod…. (Senator Lockheed interrupts)

Senator Lockheed: (Shouting) I said now!

All these niggas Eye got to fight one Guess where in the fuck they come from Bitch still trippin' off avalanches Big homie C's the only one's that advances Magic hoe Magic tricks, Magic stick, a Magic show Unimagined sorcery All these baddies still gotta see More weed than you can find time to breathe lt's been infiltration for a minute at ease All these labels front companies Publishing diamond in a tight one Whatchu' gonna' do, fight or run? Fucking bums already know the outcome Voodoom paper planes straight into a house Burning purple, riding out, cuz what the fuck is you talking bout? So much class Eye got to like prints Running in private with her home tints Nigga get your gang, talk your shit Then go run and hide, you punk bitch My situation hella sacred Whatchu' wanna' do, hide or face it? It seems to me you're industry So Eye can't really hold you accountable G (really?) All this stress, straight with the shits All this red, Eye got to buy dips Honey love, sweetie pie, sugar lips Roses and hips Diamond status your boss a faggot Remarkable, now have at it………..(Magic)

(Scene cuts to a living room where two friends are watching an emergency interrupted broadcast via the White House.)

President Enlil: My fellow Americans…… we have come to a very serious place and time in our country and on this planet. Whereas as a society, (breathes heavily) we must now face the unknown. Our military and special forces are the best in the world. We intend to use any necessary action and all resources possible to keep this country safe. I, for one, strongly advise along with our Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency, for everyone to stay in their homes until these so-called "threats" have subsided……… What makes us Americans, is the ability to have unwavering hope in a time….

(Audio fades to a minimum from the living room entertainment center as the two friends talk)

Ton tray: Mane fuck these crackas! (laughs)

G'Davius: Goddamn talkin bout, stay in the house…. Shittin me. Cuz, nigga already know what time it is. They got us last time with that whole chasing lies mess. If anything, NIGGAS finna be out in the street celebrating life a mufucka cuz.

Ton tray: What goes around, comes around white boy!

G'Davius: My question is, where they gone run and hide now? (Gets up from sitting down and walks towards the front door.)

Ton tray: Hell yeah. Where you going?

G'Davius: Shiiiddddddd….. Outside nigga.

Ton tray: (Laughs) Diamonds for them folks nigga!

Rubik's Sirius download personnel in this Saturn dome Holla' at broads at the mall regardless of skin tone Smoking good, riding out, still nigga what the fuck is you talking bout'? Feds even want to jack my clout No sir, entity Black Man, energy Run shit, you run around Jews the lapdog clowns Eye been betting on Avyon, since Plainfield N-J Kunta, "nigga", muthafuckin' Kente Now welcome to the center Come in, make yourselves at home, socialize, relax For thee art thou's dinner Galactic slim thickness Slim 360 ignorant Penmanship, screen scripts, quarter-billish-ness………..(Shhh)

(An old country home with a traditional porch and dirt driveway appears. Running water and the sound of dishes being racked fills the void. Mayleen Briggs is in her kitchen just finishing up cooking breakfast and immediately asserts her attention to the chores at hand.)

Mayleen Briggs: Baby finish your food before your mama comes and gets you. (Turns to the kitchen sink)

Child: Ok

(The sound of a truck pulling up into the driveway fills the kitchen. Herald Briggs opens the whining front screen door as he makes his way to the kitchen.)

Herald Briggs: May, you ain't gonna believe what's going on out there.

Mayleen Briggs: What? We been watching the news and ain't nobody said anything else.

Child: Yeah grandpa. Nothing new!

Herald Briggs: I bet those are the reruns. Gotta be. (Whispers to Mayleen) C'mon the porch with me please?

(They both make their way to the porch. As soon as the whining screen door closes.)

Mayleen Briggs: Well, what is it Herald?

Herald Briggs: Mayleen……… Ain't no white people left………

Mayleen Briggs: What?

Herald Briggs: May, I just drove about a good 100 miles all round town and the surrounding area. There is absolutely no sign of ANY white people anywhere.

Mayleen Briggs: What about Mr. and Mrs… (Herald interrupts)

Herald Briggs: Gone. Checked out the house and the neighbors. Gone.

Mayleen Briggs: A mostly white town, and all the white people just disappear huh. (Mayleen stares up at the sky) Are the stores still open? …….. I guess the scripts were right.

Herald Briggs: What scripts Mayleen?

Mayleen Briggs: It's an old prophecy that speaks on this exact situation and moment in time believe it or not. I used to keep up with this kind of stuff at the Juniors center right when I graduated from high school. It was a different time then. Different ideals, principles, and ways of life. To me, it was just fun socializing with that crowd. I didn't actually think some of the things they used to teach would turn out to be real. Well in so many words, the prophecy says that there is only one enemy left. That enemy just happens to look just like us……..

(Mayleen gently rubs the side of Heralds face with the back of her hand and proceeds back into the house. Herald takes a few steps down off of the porch and stares at the ground for several seconds as if he is taking in this new information from his wife. Herald gradually looks up as his eyes have now changed from circles to vertical slits. He opens his mouth slightly displaying a longer than usual forked tongue and overly grown canines.)

Mayleen Briggs: Herald! Come get your plate before it gets cold!

Herald Briggs: (Herald's appearance quickly turns back to his human form) Alright! Here I come…………….

[eddeyrie]

I finally got this avatar before the price skyrockets.

[unexpectedbrickattack]

Okay so i know this is your askbox and everything but I want to say that i feel like the bosses would start to hate pizzahead after peppino tells them what he was planning on doing, because as far as I know they were simply hired to guard the keys and look out for peppino.

I have some very minor tweaks to this but for the most part i agree!

put under a readmore bc i dont wanna clog up any potentially Non-Exploded pt tags lmao

-Pepperman, the eccentric man that he is gets shown 1 (one) image of a fucked up drawing of peppino and hes like ‘yes yes fat little human man, got it.’ And continues sculpting as if he hadnt heard pizzahead at all. Hes the MOST startled when peppino enters his arena bc he literally forgot he had to fight him 😭 hes like WHO is this little sweaty human in my fucking ART STUDIO????!! and then immediately gets stomped.

He is definitely indifferent to pizzahead; he didnt really care about this weird man and even postgame hes like well. This sly dog led me straight to my muse so I cannot be too angry with him 🤔

-Vigilante is like ‘hmm. Never seen this man round these parts; whatd he do?’ And pizzahead is like if you need a reason; its no longer just a simple request; its a bounty. And Vigilante it like ‘well... A bountys a bounty; if he wanders into my town he aint comin back out’ and pizzahead is like great! Fantastic! Im holding you up to that 🧡

Vigilante is probably the one most angry about pizzahead. Hes not exactly lawful good but he does Not like being used as Hired Muscle. He hunts down Bad People; not a human some weirdo has a personal vendetta against. He doesnt know exactly WHAT that vendetta is but its not worth his time and its not worth getting his cheesy ass handed to by Peppino again 😭

-The Noise craves violence and destruction. Hes a little menace! He also likes money. LOTS of money. And lucky for him, Pizzahead had seemingly Infinite Funds. Funds that he used to hire the Noise; to utilize this brats WEALTH of questionable tools and contraptions in case Peppino climbed his way through the tower. The noise was like ‘ur hosting this shitshow on TV? give me a 40/60 split from whatever ur filming and you have a deal’ and he does NOT find it troubling at all that Pizzahead is so eager to accept this.

He never figures out that the recorded content was never actually hosted anywhere. He eventually tries searching it up, asking his agents to look up anything recent with his face in it but they all come up emptyhanded. When asked about a name or title or scheduled tv slot and publishing, hes a bit sheepish to admit he never asked. Thats not his job! Thats his agents job! Hes so weirded out though; Pizzahead gave him a Ton of money. Obviously not alot by the Noise’s standards but more than what most people could even remotely afford. Weird. Well he got money and Peppino doesnt try to kill him unless he ignores the restraining order placed on him so its okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

-Fake peppino cant really comprehend hate. But he does comprehend…distrust. A man comes up to him, gives him a picture of some human, asks him to make sure this human does NOT make it to the top of the tower- ‘nononono. Listen to me. He does NOT make it past you. Do you understand that? I am serious. If you see this man come by your sorry excuse for a shop, kill him. Maim him. Eat him; i dont care WHAT you do as long as he does Not get this fucking key.’

And Fake Peppino just nods. But hes so wary despite his dopey expression. Hes got little goosebumps prickling along the back of his neck as the man hands him the key and a picture of the human. A human that looks like him. JUST like him. In the back alley of his poorly lit pizzeria. Just like him…Hes a bit taller than the man in the picture but…just like him… just like him just like himjustlikehimjustlikehim- ‘Yeah, yeah, just like you, but listen- listen; hes messin' with My business and you gotta understand that, right? You have a business too! Whatever this…*gestures weakly* is. You would be. Sad. If someone destroyed your business. Right?’

A slow nod.

‘Exactly! See? Right on the same page! Thats why im countin on you!’

When Fake Peppino gets to see that Human Peppino has his own Pizzeria; a pizzeria that almost got destroyed (a BUSINESS just like his...) everything seems to click into place at once. Hed probably maul Pizzahead like a chimpanzee 😭 WHAMWHAMWHAM BASH THAT DOUGHY FACE IN !!!!!!! Peppino doesnt need the manpower, but its Nice to have the equivalent of a bulldog guarding his shop

[weatherman667]

[bronzebluemind]

historical indeed

(for anyone confused: today was the first ever women's ski flying competition, for which they have been fighting for for years)

[risingsunresistance]

i've been on skyblock for an hour at most and so far i've gotten crit 7 from the table, smite 7 from just two revs, and i dropped an atmospheric filter when i remembered to go get pests out of the garden

single most productive hour of skyblock ever FKJGHG

[skijumpingf1]

You know what, I want a new german record

[sportsallover]

Penalty loops truly mean nothing to Johannes and Vetle. They brush them off like the tracks are just actually 150m longer.

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

STOP IT THOSE ARE THIRD GENERATION OPEL KADETTS >:( IT EVEN SAYS SO ON THE LAST ONE'S PLATE! LOOK! EVEN WIKIPEDIA SAYS-

Hm. I guess the world has a lot of very different views on what this is called.

You can just feel a weird story coming, can't you. And indeed, our story starts in '73, with the other war America is losing.

The United States are having an existential crisis over the discovery that oil is a finite resource, the hours spent lined up in front of starving gas stations have given Americans time to realize cars that use less of it are neat, so their own country's cars are getting positively barbecued by 'imports', i.e. cars made abroad. Some could argue it took 'domestic' brands around a decade to cobble together decent competition, and in that timespan foreigners were left free reign to gather an unprecedented foothold - American brands would never return to their domination of their home market. The local automotive output was so dire they became known as "malaise era" cars: the larger offerings that practically symbolized the country got shrunken in size and neutered in sportiness to cope with the wimpier engines caused by the new emission standards, and, while the foreigners moved ungodly numbers of the fuel efficient small cars they'd been making all along, yankees were pathetically scrambling to figure out what the hell 'small car' meant. And here's a hint: if you're bragging about how large it is you've not got it yet.

Oh, and it gets worse! But to learn just how much, since even those familiar with my engine layouts post may not have a sense of scale for engine size or even know precisely how it's measured, we must make a brief stop at the explanation station! Choo Choo! The combustion chamber, the volume above the piston in which the combustion happens, shrinks and expands as the piston goes up and down its travel (whose length, you'll love this one, is called 'stroke'). The change in volume between the top and bottom of the cylinder's stroke, aka the volume of air the cylinder's movement displaces, is called cylinder displacement. Add up the displacement of every cylinder and that's your engine displacement! See? That was easy!

As this stolen and pefrectionistically tweaked graphic points out, displacement is expressed in two ways: - cc, or cubic centimeters - ci, or cubic inches While in ci even large displacements remain in the hundreds, in cc even small displacements reach the thousands, so what in ci is a 250 engine in cc would be a 4096 engine, which really lacks a ring to it. Usually, then, such an engine would be called a 4.1, being pretty much 4.1L because 1L is 1000cc - how cool is having a measurement system codified by people who actually knew what they were doing? Really guys you should give metric another shot sometime.

And now, an example for scale: I happen to own one of the small cars that was whipping yankee ass the hardest (bar perhaps the Viet Congs' jeeps) - a first generation Volkswagen Golf, that reached their shores as Rabbit. It was sold with four cylinder engines, the wimpiest -that would be mine- a 1.1L, the mightiest a 1.6 - and the spicy sporty version, the GTI, with its splitter and wider fenders and sick ass wheels made out of the P of tire supplier Pirelli...

...that little riot, in its last years, got upgraded to -huzzah- a 1.8!

The Pacer, meanwhile?

Okay, it was also offered with six cylinder engines as small as 3.8L -not even four times the size of mine!- and the V8 was just for those who wanted something faster. Which made me wonder: if the GTI hit 100 km/h (that's 0-60 for you yankees) in 8 seconds, what'll the V8 Pacer's time be? And so I looked it up, got lost in laughter, and desperately looked for other figures because they cannot possibly be talking about the V8, and then realizing that no, the V8 really did 0-60 in fourteen seconds, and laughing for other minutes.

I could bring more examples, but in short, to call the American small car offerings especially inadequate would be charitable. But what if they didn't try to make a decent small car? Wouldn't it be better to just let the foreigners figure it out, and then ship some units over to sell under a brand of their own? Well, that's the idea behind captive imports, the name given to vehicles born through this specific form of badge engineering. And what better foreign manufacturer for General Motors to hit up than Opel, the German vehicular colossus that GM happened to own and already have been importing cars of, selling them through Buick dealers! So essentially, GM needed dear god anything acceptable badly, and decided to bring over what someone else had cooked up and spotted the right business from inside the house. However, the Steamed Hams parallels end here, because they openly sold it as the Opel Kadett it was. While it still was.

But due to that whole crisis thing, the Deutschmark rose in value relative to the American dollar (so, for the economically inept, the same amount of Destumchrak cost more dollars to obtain) such that, while Opel asked for the same Dusthemcrhak for each car, the cost to Buick rose past sustainability. And, to save you the short story about the boss's lover answering the phone, they did what you do when a supplier's nationality causes their product to skyrocket in cost: find a supplier elsewhere. See, normally badge engineered cars can be split between those jointly developed by two manufacturers and ones merely picked up by another manufacturer after the fact. This, instead, was both, since Opel developed it with help from Japanese manufacturer Isuzu, which themselves made and sold it as the Isuzu Bellet Gemini at first and later just Isuzu Gemini. So Buick just started buying units from them instead. However, to denote that the car was the same but different (read: more cheaply built) they cobbled up the name Opel by Isuzu. After a year, someone must've realized that name was ass and demanded it be changed - presumably forgetting to specify to replace it with a non-ass one, since it got changed to Buick Opel.

And no one gave a shit. Because really, no one gave a shit about the car in general, reserving their attention for more established alternatives like the Toyota Corolla or the aforementioned Rabbit. So Buick devised a cunning strategy: the Buick Opel 5 Car Showdown - also known as possibly the hardest I ever laughed at automotive advertising, and pretty much the only reason I actually made this whole post.

Essentially the idea was to evaluate the Buick Opel in various showdowns against compacts people actually gave a shit about and at the end of it score them overall. Thing is, the problem with such a test is that it has to be clearly impartial for its conclusions to be worth anything. "Oh, so was it, like, just so laughably rigged?" No. Exactly the opposite. It was laughably not rigged.

Yeah.

To be fair, there is an area in which it came out on top, and the ad frames this as a result that proves it's a car worth considering just as much as every other. Really, it's hard not to be endeared by the candid honesty of this copy.

Of course, none of this makes it much less hilarious to imagine whoever worked at marketing for Volkswagen grabbing the paper and finding out General Motors had bought a three page ad to tell the world the Rabbit was better than their own car.

Easiest paycheck of their fucking life.

Okay, now that you've seen the ads about how General Motors said my car is better than theirs, you can go. Or, if "GM then renamed the car Isuzu I-Mark" sounds like riveting content to you, hop under the Read More, because hoo boy is there some weird shit.

One place where our poor little car fared better was Australia, where it was sold as the Holden Gemini, since Holden, as I hinted at previously, was the Australian arm of General motors, just like Vauxhall is the British arm of it. Vauxhall has for almost all its life just been a badge they slapped on Opels, and Holden has been that to varying extents, but due to the Australian obsession with a type of car that just doesn't sell elsewhere they've always had some bespoke stuff going for them. The tables turned this time, it would seem, since the Holden Gemini was just a rebadge (albeit of the Isuzu model) and the Vauxhall Chevette was a different model, with a nick of unique styling about it in the form of a different front...

...perhaps more reminiscent of the Chevrolet Chevette sold in North America.

Wait, why's the name in green? Was General Motors selling Americans the same car twice? Well, not quite.

Though built upon the Kadett's platform, this is a somewhat different car. And we could argue about whether it's fair of Wikipedia to cite that under a different name the Kadett was known by. We could, if this was what it was included over. But it wasn't. Because the Brazilian Chevrolet Chevette was the same car. In the first four pictures of the original post you can faintly make out a Chevette badge next to the right headlight. Here's a picture of its restyling and HOLD ON A SECOND

Yeah, these cars were a big cauldron of mess. For another example, since Holden wanted to sell wagons and panel vans, which Isuzu didn't make, those were derived from, respectively, the Opel Kadett wagon and the Vauxhall Chevette panel van, onto which Gemini fronts were grafted.

And that's not even all the places these were made and sold in! South Korean manufacturer Saehan struck a deal with GM to sell these as Seahan Geminis (and exporting them as Saehan Birds), and when they updated it the name changed to Saehan Maepsy, which when Saehan got bought by bigger South Korean manufacturer Daewoo became Daewoo Maepsy, which later got updated again into the Daewoo Maepsy-na (new)...

and GM Argentina made and sold the car as the Opel K-180.

And then in 1992 it got even weirder, when Brazil made a slight update aimed at the Argentinian market and called it GMC Chevette.

You know. GMC. The truck/SUV/van/bus brand that, in its 112 years of existence, has never been stamped on a car before or since the 3 year run of this thing. Imagine finding out that, for three years in some relatively random country, Ferrari sold a pickup. It's starting to feel like someone warned automotive manufacturing the world over of approaching alien invaders that could only be warded off by enough names for the Opel Kadett.

Unfortunately, the Wikipedia page foregoes mention of the heroic efforts of Uruguayan operation Grumett - Yah! Here's an estate called Grumett 250M Rural! Yah! Here's an update of it called Grumett Gazelle Estate! a coupe called Grumett Coupe! Yah! Here's an update of it called Grumett Sport Coupe! Yah! We export these as Grumett Condors! Yah! Take that, extraterrestrial plurikadettonomophobes!

This mess of different manufacturers involved meant that all those different names, once the manufacturers worked on updating and replacing the model, ended up on completely different cars!

Here's a 1980 Opel Kadett/Vauxhall Astra...

...here's a 1983 Chevrolet Chevette...

...here's a 1984 Daewoo Maepsy-Na...

...here's a 1984 Opel Kadett...

...here's a 1985 Isuzu/Holden Gemini...

...here's a 1990 Isuzu Gemini...

...and here's a 1992 GMC Chevette.

You somehow get the vibe that Argentina wasn't doing quite as well as Japan.

So, this was the story of a world car and the ways various parts of the world interpreted it. And if you thought it was excruciating to read, try writing the damn thing. Not just in terms of the sheer work of getting any sort of narrative flow going, it was a mess to research - the info could get unclear or even contradicting, "it's more complicated than that" was a common refrain, and there seemed to be a near endless supply of tidbits that- wait, what's that? It's too big for a bird, too fast for a plane... oh no... it's a stereotypically-shaped flying saucer!!!

*the unrealistically humanoid aliens dive towards the helpless crowd around me, but as my eyes light up with the fierce courage of the chosen one, I rush towards the oncoming ship against the wave of people I urge to stand back, and when it seems close enough, I climb atop a conveniently placed statue of a riderless horse and fill my lungs at peak capacity*

IN MALAYSIA IT WAS CALLED OPEL CHEVETTE!

*the ship engulfs in flame, loses control and crumbles gracelessly onto the street and surrounding buildings, causing four debilitating injuries and 37 first degree burns*

Chevy Chevette Coupe

[thekingdomofdong]

we cock dick ballin

quite a grind for this thing but something ive always wanted to have. dont even know what imma use it on right away more just wanted it because of the Swag Factor, and i am sure it will be nice for cox someday

[radcircless]

every year i am amazed by how much construction can be done on the same stretch of road

[ur-mag]

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[estallbd]

Ahuja SSA-250M 250Watts Amplifier Price In Bangladesh

[hearditinapastlife2019]

that was hard af but the scenery was beautiful :)

running 5k for the first time today 💪

[transienturl]

no idea if anyone would know this, but... if you do two fetches to the same api endpoint, do you know if the browser waits for one to resolve before starting the second one?

look at the four info network requests here (circled in green). the first two are fired from tumblr's code (the big t.hydrate block); the latter two are legacy xkit's boot process and xkit rewritten's boot process. you can see that the grey bars of the first two don't overlap, and the grey bars of the second two don't overlap, but that doesn't apply to all of them as a whole. why? because each pair has identical query parameters. the tumblr front end is doing two identical requests back to back (seems like you could optimize that, btw), and both xkits do the same request as each other as well, but the redpop and xkit ones are different.

what do those bars actually mean? here, google says:

The left line is everything up to the Connection Start group of events, inclusive. In other words, it's everything before Request Sent, exclusive. The light portion of the bar is Request Sent and Waiting (TTFB). The dark portion of the bar is Content Download. The right line is essentially time spent waiting for the main thread. This is not represented in the Timing tab.

if I'm interpreting this correctly, that means the left side of the grey bar is Request Sent, and I'm interpreting that as a sign that chromium is waiting until the first request comes back before starting an identical one.

of course, in this case we would expect the user info endpoint to respond with the same thing twice in a row in a few milliseconds, so ideally you would want these requests combined into one. if not, though, the general assumption I would have made before seeing this is that each request is fired when you request it, and the results should come back, well who knows when obviously, but in a similar-enough period of time. it would not have occurred to me that my network request might be slower because another piece of code did an exactly identical network request.

(when you say it like that, of course the obvious implication is that I assumed you could have an unlimited number of outstanding fetch requests for the same resource; when put that way I'm like "oh I wouldn't be surprised if you can't do that")

this came up because I observed different behavior when trying to fix this xkit rewritten loading bug with and without legacy xkit installed. I had figured it was just because a ton of code was getting loaded at once, but looking at the graph, none of it was really at the same time, so that seemed not to be true. but then, why was it not at about the same time? you would think the extensions would request similar things on boot, right? why is one so much more delayed than the other? ...ah, wait a second.

the weird consequence of this is that I could probably make xkit rewritten boot faster when you have both versions installed by adding something unnecessary to our /v2/user/info request to make it not the same as legacy xkit's and thus not get delayed, which, uh, what. intuitively I would expect the opposite, you know? like, caching. or whatever. I would have changed the xkit ones to be the same as the tumblr ones but that would have actually made it much worse apparently.

(being me, I of course tried to just steal the result of tumblr's request instead, which did work but is probably too convoluted and fragile to be worth it. but hey, saved a network request whee)

anyway. the big problem with things like this is that. all of this sounds pretty definitive to me but also... I have never been educated in this in any way, formal or informal? I have no idea if anything I just said is even vaguely close to true? it is a weird position to be in I guess.

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