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AKADriver t1_jegaf24 wrote

Reply to comment by sonicjesus in This old doll uses a vinyl like record to talk and sing by Eigenurin

Nissan, not Chrysler, in fact did use a small phono record. It actually sounded pretty good, since it used natural speech. You'd think, ah, the Japanese, surely they had electronic voice synthesizer technology ahead of the US. Nope! Ultra-miniaturized record player.

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/but-wait-theres-more/a1875076/when-cars-talked-using-tiny-phonograph-records-nissans-voice-warning-system/

They did develop a solid state version of their own by '85.

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Canucklehead_Esq t1_jegaebp wrote

Reply to comment by _BELEAF_ in My Grandfather, on a Canadian corvette in WWII. The ship escorted vital supply ships to Britain, and was almost totally unarmed, with cardboard gun-shaped decoys on deck. He worked below deck in the boiler room during the U-boat threat, and lived to tell the tales. by _BELEAF_

The US didn't enter until 1941. Canada declared war in Sept 1939. In the early part of the war U-boats dominated the North Atlantic, blockading the UK. The Allied response was to organize large convoys and protect them with small ships like the corvette, that were specifically made to hunt substances. The corvette and the new of the Canadian Navy were instrumental at that.

The U-boat threat would probably have been at its peak sometime in 1941 or 1942, but convoys and the development of increasingly effective antisubmarine warfare turned the tide soon after.

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DrHaroldSkrote t1_jegadvp wrote

Reply to comment by Timely-Vehicle in What surfing says about the importance of serendipity in life by ADefiniteDescription

Lol, I think you got Miyagi-ed. Your instructor taught you a lesson, just not the one you wanted. Your lesson was more cultural. Surf brah culture is filled with these shitheads. It's totally unique to surfing too when compared to other sports....skateboarding, BMX, mountain biking , and whitewater in my experience.

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kameldinho t1_jegadvt wrote

Reply to comment by Alukrad in Casual hit and run by driftingwood2018

It's always on when driving but you can turn it off when parked. It drains about 1% battery every two hours, and even faster if it is parked on a busy street. So no guarantees it was on.

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thegreatmei t1_jegad6r wrote

Reply to comment by Curious-One4595 in Is my marriage over ? 31M/29F by [deleted]

I was dating someone who I really loved and trusted, but I started getting icked out. I thought it was a me problem, because as far as I knew at the time, nothing in our relationship had changed. I just felt gross and anxious when he touched me, and the feeling grew. I felt like I was losing my mind! I told him that I was dealing with some complicated feelings, but it was really hard to articulate what the issue was because I genuinely didn't know what was going on. I ended up breaking up with him because of it.

Turned out, he'd started cheating on me. I didn't consciously see any signs of cheating. No sudden weirdness about his phone, I didn't catch him in any lies, but the first time he slept with the other woman was the night that I just couldn't be around him without feeling gross. It all lined up later once I found out the truth.

Now, obviously, the wife in the post ( if we can trust OP as a narrator, especially now knowing he has omitted important details ) is giving reasons that don't seem to make sense. It makes me wonder if that's done by design to get a certain reaction from us here.

Should she communicate with him? Definitely. Has she? Hard to say.

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