There are an infinite number of proper times to start Pi Day festivities.
At both 03:14 and 01:59 I am either sleeping or urinating. Unless pi day festivities involve either activity I cannot answer.
I once rented a car with stop-start and almost caused an accident because of it.
Was waiting to turn left from a main road onto a side road. When there was a break in oncoming traffic, I hit the gas — and went nowhere. When the engine finally kicked in, traffic was closing in fast and I just barely finished the turn without getting t-boned. Terrible “feature.” Never again.
(Yeah, I know the correct response would have been to abort the turn until a larger opening presented itself. But the car’s lack of response took me by surprise, and by the time I realized what was happening I’d already begun to cross the oncoming lane.)
Pi Day starts the moment I awaken and ends at the tolling of midnight.
We had chicken pot pies for lunch
See, I have a rhyme assisting my feeble brain its tasks offtimes resisting
I think the only stop-start cars I’ve ever driven are the Priuses I’ve owned. It’s not quite the same as stop-start in an ICE car, because as soon as you press the accelerator, the car starts moving using the electric motor, while the engine starts up in the background if and when necessary. I like it very much, but I don’t know if I’d be so sanguine about a feature that caused a delay when accelerating from a stop. I’m not even sure if a hybrid is even really considered to be a stop-start.
Technically, I’m not sure what the term “stop-start” covers, but no, I don’t think it’s the same thing. I drove a Prius for years and never had any problem with acceleration.
Me, neither. But the first car i drove used to often stall when i tried to turn left. I got very good at restarting it in the middle of an intersection.
This. It’s a day, after all.
Uhh, yinz guys do know that you can shut off the Stop-Start feature, right? There’s a button with an A and a semi-circular arrow above it. Press that and you’re good to go. You have to press the button every time you start the car but the feature stays off for the whole time the car is on.
We got Wee Weasel a book for his birthday. Pi to 100,000 places. He loves it. He knows pi to 100 digits.
I know 3.14 that’s it.
Useful! (Well, for some values of “useful.”) I have always spelled this “oftimes,” though Wiktionary decries it as “chiefly US, uncommon.” Still, even if I misspell it, I get four more digits correct.
Yeah, I knew. I don’t want to have to hit a button to disable something I don’t want every time I start the car.
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Amazon sells a little wedge that keeps the button depressed. I’m sure anyone could come up with something free to do the same. I’m thinking a matchbook cover or something similar.
Is that possible for all cars with that feature, though? I recall reading somewhere that many manufactures don’t have a way to turn auto stop-start off, because if they do then the EPA won’t give them credit for it in their fuel economy rating. The EPA assumes that if it can be turned off, it will be, and therefore publishes fuel economy numbers that don’t account for the fuel savings it gives you.
That information might be out of date though, especially given the current administration.
Store changes in as restroom stall. Duh
Superman changes out in the open these days. I mean, it’s not like he ever did it in the phone booth out of need, that was to appease the PTA, the Grundy’s and the government when he was an agent of the state. Since the era of the films (not reels), his speed is so high that he can effortlessly change faster than mere human eyes can track.
Of course, if he has an actual phone booth fetish (I don’t judge), even the Metropolis semi-stand in, NYC, only has a few…
And it’s not like they include closing doors anymore, so he’s still out in public as it were.
[ aside, I haven’t spent the time to actually fact check all the claims, are yes, there were by most reporting a few remaining in other areas of the US ]
I believe that in the earliest comic books, the phone booths in which Superman changed were opaque wooden closets. Even by the 1960s, the phone booth trope was pretty pointless. Why bother changing in a glass-walled phone booth that everyone can easily see into?