LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@qoto.org

@bonifartius @Coyote

regulation kills everything that does not have the strength to rebel

@niclas @bonifartius

Also, Bluetooth was never a completed product. It's made a lot of progress today, but was implemented before bugs and features could be fixed.

@bonifartius @Coyote

In 1974, the carmaker withdrew from North America due to U.S. design regulations that outlawed core features of Citroën cars (see Citroën SM).

Huge losses at Citroën were caused by the failure of the Comotor rotary engine venture added to the strategic management error of going the 15 years from 1955 to 1970 without a model in the profitable middle range of the European market, plus the massive development costs a string of new models: the GS, GS Birotor, CX, SM, Maserati Bora, Maserati Merak, Maserati Quattroporte II, and Maserati Khamsin. Each of these models is a technological marvel in its own right. Thus, forty years after the bankruptcy related to the Traction Avant, Citroën went bankrupt again, losing its existence as an independent entity; selling Berliet and Maserati and closing Comotor.[28]
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The SM's system of six replaceable-bulb composite halogen headlamps with swivelling high beams was illegal in the U.S., where regulations at the time required all vehicles to have two or four round sealed-beam headlamps on fixed mounts and with no lens or other covering in front of them.[41] So, SMs for the U.S. market were fitted with four exposed round non-swivelling sealed beams.[37]

Despite initial success, U.S. sales ceased suddenly when Citroën did not receive an expected exemption for the 1974 model year 5 mph (8.0 km/h) bumper regulation imposed by the NHTSA.[37] The integral variable height suspension of the SM made compliance impossible.[37][42] The 1974 SMs built for the U.S. market (134 cars), could not be supplied to Americans due to the effective date of the bumper regulation, so were sold in Japan instead.[43]

-Did the #onechipchallenge
-made it to Apex Predator
-regret it later that night

@nyx

I am one with my demons.

@slash @icedquinn

@icedquinn

Corporations Kill Competition
Independents Inspire Innovation

@kura

So a platform just for memes? Like 9gag?

@kura

Irc? IRL.
IRC? IRA

Not really a meme-centric medium.

My glass eyes are squeaking again...

@kura

Why not #irc? #LiberaChat ?

@Magooish @dnc

Published 1995 and 168 pages::::
https://archive.org/details/spiritofchristma09leis

@eickefrohwein @SmudgeTheInsultCat
@lothcat
@grrrr_shark

Night people vs Day people....

@LouisIngenthron

What's a newspaper?

@LouisIngenthron

Check the ToS to see any updated conditions.

@davidboatymcboa @JelliedHeals@mastodon.social @neilhimself

Still have to make an account of sorts. Will have to set aside time to do so.

Pics attached for those who are interested but don't want to click on links.

@icedquinn

@skyblond

Maybe I should moonlight as an NBA advisor of sorts? Apparently LinkedIn thinks I hold some small percent of expertise in that industry.

@dysonlogos

Very kind of you. I know many of my former coworkers have been given burn notice by my former employer even as of month. Many people(including those never having been inside) are wondering how this is all possible, given the outwork projected image of success and financial stability.

The truth is that it's all a lie to keep stakeholders happy until assets are sold. None of my close associates are really wanting to go back after having been done dirty like that- and will only do so on short term basis now that we all know the truth.

I've been helping others reconnect to resources and services we had before we go into our industry. There's only so much I can do though- since I can't consistently pay their bills or shovel nonexistent jobs on silver platters.