Biden campaign bus, cars driven by staffers attacked on highway

Ah! Then yes, you are correct.

Well, please figure out how, because my iPad does not offer a way.

But you must be aware that relativity theory posits that motion is relative. So the pickup swerving at the bus is equivalent to the bus swerving at the pickup. And therefore, the driver of the bus needs to be charged with attempted manslaughter. :wink:

Sorry I can’t help because I don’t use, or know how to use, a mobile device. But I’ve seen it described. Can somebody help?

I asked the question earlier regarding how to view the hidden remark that every xkcd post has, and somebody here explained how. But it also depended on the xkcd site being coded in some particular way to make it possible. So does somebody know if it works on this site too?

(Anyhow, IOPBDWDDI means “It’s only punishable by death when Democrats do it!”)

Popped in here to say, my sister was visiting Wisconsin and was driving a rental small clown car with Minnesota plates, she got caught in a Trump Train in Madison, Wisconsin. Couldn’t get out of it for about ten minutes.

I can’t make it show on my cell phone.

Actually, the pickup was caught in the gravitational field of the much larger bus and was being pulled into orbit around it. There was nothing the pickup driver could do.

Not quite. Rather, each vehicle swerved from the point of view of the other’s frame of reference and thus each driver must be charged, as seen from the other’s frame of reference. As for the video (or various videos?) of the interaction, those are taken from the video-maker’s frame of reference relative to the other vehicles (which is different for each of the other vehicles, except that they coincide at the moment of contact), so this must be taken into account. The dents in the vehicles are just Lorentz contractions.

NBC did call it trolling ,in the fishing sense.

@Babale, @eschereal, @needscoffee, and to whomever else it may constern:

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I poked around on-line for information on hovering with a mobile device. It looks like it might be doable, if all the right stars align. It depends on your device, your browser, and the design of the web site to make it work.

Try one of these things, which might work for you (and even if it’s workable, who knows if this Discourse platform it coded to support it):

Tap once here.
If that doesn’t work, try tapping twice.

ETA: Oh, another possible possibility: Try tap-and-hold. I saw a few mentions that this might work for some configurations.

If that doesn’t do anything for you, I’m at a loss, but from what I’m finding on-line, maybe you just can’t do it.

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And the smaller vehicles can be thought of as remora.

No good.

Continuing the sidetrack. …

Xkcd uses the title attribute of the <img> tag to generate the hover-over pop-up.
Discourse uses the title attribute of the <abbr> tag to generate the hover-over pop-up.
So they are not the same thing. They are similar.

Both of those are bog-standard html being used correctly. Both are supported by all the major non-mobile non-tablet browsers.

Neither uses any fancy javascript or css; they just depend on how the browser implements the tag and recognizes and reacts to hover-over.

My experiments:
Chrome on Android suppresses the special formatting indicating there’s anything to be seen by doing a hover-over. And even knowing where to double press or press and hold produces no result

Safari on iPad has the same result: you can’t see special formatting and no amount of tapping, holding, etc., provokes any response.

I don’t have the dev tools to go behind the scenes on Android or iPad. This failure may be an artifact of Discourse itself, the mobile / tablet version of the available themes, or a shortcoming of the browsers themselves.

My conclusion:
For whatever combination of reason(s), the <abbr> tag is useless for a hefty fraction of our viewers and so posters should not use it at all.

Well I guess that settles that.

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We now return to our regularly scheduled campaign bus attacks.

Absolutely correct…

Nope, that involves science. Science don’t work.
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Science!

If only Trump supporters could be blinded by Science rather than Trump.

Snopes has an account of what the Biden bus attack videos show. In a nutshell, to Snopes it looks like the Biden bus changed lanes to the right, the white Biden SUV tried to change lanes to follow the bus, and the dark Trump truck zoomed forward to keep the SUV from moving into the lane.

Found another article that says the driver of the truck in the bus incident also drove through a crowd of protesters in San Antonio, saying they “should have been on the sidewalk.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tpr.org/news/2020-11-02/video-shows-man-who-rammed-suv-near-biden-bus-also-drove-through-crowd-of-protesters-in-san-antonio%3F_amp=true

ETA: I don’t know why my link did that “redirect notice” thing. It’s a link to an article on Texas Public Radio website (tpr.org).