Not with an injured knee. And not all intersections are built with a convenient downward slope.

Git gud.

I tore my left knee up skiing years ago (torn ACL). The ski area first aid people put me in a temporary brace and asked me how I was going to get home. "Just take me out to my car and I can still drive it." It's an FJ40 (stick). Fortunately, there are only a few lights and stop signs between the parking lot and my home about 60 miles away.

Down shifting isn't difficult. Just pop the stick out of gear and you can feel when the synchros want to slip into the next lower one by nudging the throttle. Stop signs aren't a problem either. Just hang back so you don't have to stop/go repeatedly. Then when it's your turn, you shut off the engine, put the car into first gear and then hit the starter. I did that a few times when the cable clutch linkage on my old VW broke. No problems getting it back home.

It's a technique they actually teach in some countries when your engine dies and you've got to get your car out of the way (like off a railroad track). You can actually crank a car for a hundred feet or so on the starter to get out of dicey situations. I'll pay for a new battery and starter rather than getting run over by the 3:10 to Yuma.

Try that with an automatic.

If even he thinks AI is dubious, you know AI is bad news.

This.

Give me a Lenco or a Unimog shifter forrest and I'm happy.

That and a choke knob.

Wait! What?

I just used one this morning.

NRO satellites are busy looking for illegal weed farms and people wading across the Rio Grande.

Nobody needs a fully semi-automatic vehicle.

The roads would be a lot less crowded if all cars were stickshifts and those who couldn't handle one just took the bus.

My dad bought a new truck years ago. The family tradition was that new vehicles always went to my mom and he got hand-me-downs. So he said, "I'm keeping this one for myself. I'm buying a stickshift." Problem was, my mom is a better manual transmission driver than my dad. It was the "no power steering" that sealed the deal.

If you can find out which device my data is on, fine. But it's probably not on the same hardware or subnet as your filthy little game is.

And what will they do if I say, "No"?

.. as the truck backs up.

"Hey buddy. We've got a load of pull requests. Where do you want them dumped?"

... I avoid automated fund transfers to make payments. No matter how much businesses beg. If there's a human in the loop, there's always the opportunity to look at an error like this and say "WTF?"

When the Y2K issues rolled around, a number of people asked me (based on my previous utility experience) whether the lights would stay on. My reply was: "The power company made it through the Year 1900 and not much has changed since then. Sure, you might get a bill for 100 years of consumption. But humans look at this stuff and nobody is going to hold you to that or cut your power."

Unfortunately, humans are increasingly out of the loop.

Dear child rape enthusiasts still supporting Donald Trump, please die immediately. Thank you.

Yeah, but you support trump, so we know you don't actually care about sexual anything. You're pro child rape.