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?

Removed by mod

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.

You need to drink the bottle’s contents to stop the tears. Just to be certain, stir 8n some Draino first.

Elon musk is an immigrant.

Mudrock family are immigrants, also were in UK while publishing xenophobia.

Shiity people often abuse the USA’s liberties in bad faith and prosper.

But govt people allowed the mergers until the media are mostly owned by them, soon there will be ONE major grocery chain in USA, apparently the Loblaw imbroglio is invisible from Wash DC, and buying and selling personal data is commonplace, not even taxed much less protected.

Those Pogo comics of them going downhill out of control are from the 50s, that pure copper penny still hasn’t dropped.

Who got bailed out in 2008? And who bailed them out?

If I lived there I’d change them from time to time.

I was in Insufferable, we were from Seattle.

And of course they undermine him with that photo.

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!

If everyone you meet is problematic, the problem is…

Governor ran out of dogs to shoot.

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

I never see any ads.

Too early for skiing. And Bidis are an awful smoke.

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

Actually, that time was 40 years ago.

The tech world is steaming Full Ahead toward an inflatable Gibraltar.

I once asked/complained about something and sent it to possible bezos email addresses, just guessing.

On a Sunday morning, I got a reply from someone from his office.

I thanked them for replying on the weekend.

Canceled my account last decade…

We’re not going back.

I think the limo has arrived at the next refuge of a scoundrel.