They’re two separate things. That’s the idea, a clutch is a disconnect between the engine and transmission.

A really good driver only uses the clutch to start and stop.

Anyway, another of my comments got removed without explanation, I’ll just see myself out of this misinfo echo chamber that can’t understand why people don’t post here.

I had great hopes for the fediverse idea, but the same human greed issues, like mastodon selling iut to Meta, and zealous moderation, like whatever happened to my comment and another one before that complaing about the Mudrocks and Musk.

Bon chance, fedi.

Try driving an 18-speed truck transmission without the clutch.

Who’s stupid?

Raymond Chandler’s novels, esp The Lady in the Lake

The Pirx the Pilot stories, 8 in 2 volumes

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key

2nd the Hitchhiker’s Guide and they’re easy to rejoin

A A Fair’s novels are short and have odd western us lore in them, one has a great way to bet in Vegas, others name spots in Mexico, they were Gardner’s fun books that he liked to write more than other series.

If I ran it I’d rename the dinosaur to T-rexiera

Lina’s got her radar pointed…

I want a WordPress plugin that refuses to load my site for anyyhing newer than Netscape 3 and pops up a modal “you need to upgrade your browser” pane.

IMO Alphabet has run out of goodwill by abusing their market dominance in a more overt way.

Looking forward to more aggressive action by FTC, note that tech donors have asked Harris for Lina Khan’s removal as a quid pro quo.

I remember being in a certain pizza hut near a certain corporate HQ, and managers from that acquiring corp were working the lunch in the kitchen.

I doubt they knew the end was coming, but I did.

Corp still sells a lot of flavored water.

Kahn!

Excellent!

Any undiscovered cave entrances from the surfaced part?

I don’t have the space; can one download e-bricks?

I never see any ads.

It’s time to start taxing the acquisition, retention, and selling/trading of personal data.

Actually, that time was 40 years ago.

Perhaps they didn’t want to associate with Meta.

We need them pointed at every tech CEO constantly.

Face is looking increasingly compromised and distorted every photo.

This is why I’m single.

Good to see this version pop up.

They chased the people with any common sense away.

Doesn’t surprise me.

Needs: Eyes rolling and slight frown with face lines showing it’s permanent.