Last night was a grand old time! To be perfectly honest I don’t recall all of it. The Old Man, SP, and Webdom hosted several other guests with dietary restrictions that resulted in my eating a lot of lentils. Not a bad thing but it does explain why I’m a bit bloated. Otherwise, like I said it was a bit of a blur. The points I recall:
“You can’t drink ALL of that. Well, you shouldn’t.”
“This polar bear is so FLUFFY.”
”Stand on this spot right here.”
“Want to see my new 9mm?”
”People really shoot the insulators on high voltage lines? I can do that!”
”This polar bear is so FLUFFY.”
”I don’t care if its your cow, it’s on MY property now.”
”I wish it wasn’t illegal to do this to children.”
”Oh shit its the cops!”
”Do you know why else hid people in cattle cars?”
”This polar bear is so FLUFFY.”
Somehow I found myself at home this morning with this note in my back pocket.
So for the links…
The newest fad to result in the deaths of idiot millennials.
Germany is one of those countries that has their shit together.
Hong Kong: “Sorry about that it was just Carl. Carl is new”.
I don’t care who any of these people are.
Its almost like they don’t see the benefit given its cost. Almost.
“Scandinavia is just the Arab Gulf for white people.” (H/T: HM)
Here’s some tunes and an underhanded insult at all of you.
If you need me, I’ll be at the gym. Catch you later.
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Next up: The Arsenic Challenge. Sure it’s more dangerous but at least the dumbasses won’t burn the house down plus there’s the upside of their genes losing the challenge with them.
Followed by the Old Lace Challenge.
Why not Glock roulette? Rather than the one-in-six odds you get with a revolver the Glock gives you one-in-seventeen – one round in a seventeen round magazine, rack the slide, press the muzzle to your forehead and give it a try!
I laughed
of course, a Glock doesn’t have the thing that goes ’round and doesn’t makes that whizzing noise
We’re talking millennials. They know less about the “thing that goes ’round” than the shoulder thing that goes up.
I was thinking of starting this rumor:
You can get whiter whites and brighter brights By washing your clothes with benzene.
The newest fad to result in the deaths of idiot millennials
Tide pods 2: electric Boogaloo
From the overnight thread:
The instructor seems oblivious to the idea of suggesting alternatives for newer attendees and/or those who aren’t daily gym rats. So I do my thing, stop when I can’t go further, and mentally dare her to throw me out.
An instructor who would throw you out for that isn’t worth shit. They should be pushing you to achieve your maximum, but shouldn’t be holding you to the group standard if you’re not able to achieve it. That said, sometimes it’s on you to translate from group goal to personal goal.
Fack! Edit faerie!?!
Thanks!
An instructor who would throw you out
how does that sort of thing work; I mean: are they paying you to take the class ?
They can ask you not to come back, or not to sit in the front. Since most spin classes are rhythm based, if you can’t keep to the beat, you can throw other people off.
/still hasn’t been asked to do either.
Congrats to OMWC and SP! Glad you celebrated in style.
Lucky that note ended up in your pocket instead of jammed in your…
I’m pretty sure “back pocket” was a euphemism.
It was in the pocket I normally keep my wallet, which was also missing,
I think you mean prison wallet.
Thats called “the trunk.” Its like you people never been around inmates.
I don’t care who any of these people are.
The gist of that story seems to be that Obama’s children should be above criticism.
From my limited exposure to Dave Smith and Owen Benjamin talking stand up, it seems like Holmes messed up in letting it get to him then breaking the act by asking them to be quiet instead of using a joke at their expense.
Did the audience know since malia that she was there since she was in the front row? Is SS still detailed to kids post presidency?
The trends are particularly ominous for public unions because 2019 should have been the year that they started bouncing back. In the tenth year of an economic expansion, state tax and local collections grew robustly, increasing by 9 percent in the second quarter and 5.6 percent in the third quarter, according to government surveys. States and municipalities subsequently hired more workers. The number of local government employees, for instance, jumped by nearly 100,000 in 2019, to 14.573 million. But these gains haven’t translated into increases in union membership, particularly in municipal government, the largest segment of public-sector employment. The total government workforce in America has returned to its pre-financial crash levels, but union headcount has failed to follow suit.
Bummer, dude.
14.5 million local government workers? That’s something like 10% of the US workforce, never mind FedGov and all the contractors who are not de jure government employees.
How is it possible that govt union membership is falling? We have turned starting new government programs into a competitive sport. Is membership not compulsory everywhere? Someone needs to get on this! Wisconsin needs to come back into the fold of compulsory union dues. Where’s AOC when we need her?
Those legislatures and governorships that Obama cost the Dems created a lot of right to work states.
“ Marin can imagine the 4-day-week and the 6-hour-working day for our working world.”
That’ll help Finland with their productivity. Get to work ya friggin bums!
“Finland’s Sanna Marin: 4-day-week and 6-hour-day could be the next step”
Ah… Finland.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finns need more time to be Finnish.
It’s an entirely different culture, but I get some of that from NewWife’s Norwegian DNA. I just dig tall chicks.
Oh, who am I kidding: I dig all chicks.
Anyways, Finns need to be more Finnish.
“I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.”
What’s not to like about socialism? Why stop at 6 and 4 though? There are lots of people doing way less than that, I see them along the highways and byways all over the country, admittedly in the warmer climes though.
Unions have moved to stop a similar exodus of dues-paying members. They’re getting help in union-friendly states like California, New York, and New Jersey from new laws making it more difficult to exit a union.
Fuck off, slavers.
I’ve said it before, but I’m almost to the point that when a state like Illinois goes bankrupt, I wouldn’t care if the bankruptcy court wrote off the pensions and let the retirees literally starve.
That’s a little rough but they do need to pull back on the benefits. Even ticks and other parasites have enough sense to not kill the host.
🙁 if you kill old Tubalcain I will be mad at you
Tubalcain is a gem. I didn’t know anyone else here knew him.
(I assume we’re both talking about mrpete222?)
“bankruptcy court wrote off the pensions and let the retirees literally starve”
Migrate to Finland, 6 X 4 for the win!
new laws making it more difficult to exit a union.
Fuck off, slavers.
Sounds familar.
We can have no-fault divorce, but god forbid you want to get out of the union.
Ha! My initial reaction was to post this as a semi-sarcastic joke above. Made the mistake of not reading the article. Of course proggies gonna prog harder.
That bird video is wonderful! Best commentweet:
My thought exactly when I watched that.
In Finland, 8-hour-days for five days a week are common in peoples’ work life.
The horror.
The HORROR.
Also- people who talk about this stuff just blithely assume people are merely uniform interchangeable input units which may be swapped in and out of the process with no adverse qualitative effect. I hate that.
I’m not sure I can remember the last time I worked a 40-hour week. On a normal workweek I probably average somewhere between 42 and 50.
I just finished a 12 day stretch of no days off. Maybe I’m dead.
I was doing that way too frequently in my last salaried position. It was one of the main reasons I quit.
Most of the jobs I’ve had were defined as 9-to-6 with lunch not counted as work – but I’ve never had one in which that would have been enough.
I am seriously digging this project-based work I’m doing now. When I’m working I’m busting @$$ like I always did but when I’m not working there’s no office I have to go to and my schedule is mine. It’s starting to pay better than anything I did before and my skills and experience really shine and are valued by my company and our clients.
When the sales aspect of my work starts to kick in I might be making some crazy money.
Enjoy the crazy money. I’ll be enjoying my not so crazy money.
Yeah, I do love my bit of the gig economy. Problem is this: Mrs. Animal and I usually plan our vacations in between projects (elk/deer seasons excluded for obvious reasons) but this one I’m on now is projected to last at least until end of 2021. So we’re going to have to schedule some time off in there somewhere.
To that end, in fact, we just booked a week in late June at a resort on Lake of the Ozarks.
My gigs are very short term – 3 to 14 days or so. And the longer ones give me a day or two off – usually somewhere rather enjoyable since I’m installing/implementing hardware in hotels/resorts. I’m even encouraged to bring family on the longer ones when it’s feasible.
Mine have, until now, run anywhere from 2-3 weeks to a year and a half, but this one looks like it’s going to end up having been three years or a tad longer. The upside is that Mrs. Animal is paying off our few remaining debts at a breakneck pace while also stocking up our retirement-house fund.
We’re pretty much set – all debt paid off, all properties generating rental income. No mortgage nor rent to pay. Wife has a solid – if meager – income with enough flexibility to watch the kids when I can’t.
I’m starting to make contacts which might even leverage my skills/experience a bit higher than I’ve been doing so far.
We!re down to just the mortgage, and feeding the retirement income machine. Probably 2 – 2 1/2 years out. Won’t retire from full time work without paying the mortgage, which is the main math problem for my retirement date.
I’m thinking about setting up a gig thing after retirement – consulting on corporate governance, focus on nonprofits. I need to start doing some brand building for that, though.
My usual workweek is generally around 60 hours, often including Saturday mornings.
uffda
I wouldn’t work 60 hours a week even if I were a giggalo with a clientele built exclusively of recent Vandy alumae.
It helps that I mostly like my job and colleagues.
no doubt
don’t get me wrong: when my creativity and control buttons are pushed, twelve hours can fly by
I don’t much care for my new colleagues . . . which is great because it reminds me to get up and leave after nine. Previous job was with old friends I adore, and I hated one part of it: I couldn’t get the control to fix their bad decisions. We built a plant, poorly, and I left them in their own filth and incompetence after a couple of years. At the end they were working seven days a week to dig out of their mistakes and I just don’t care that much about anything . . . but how do you face your friends on Monday when they worked all weekend while you played golf? Now we can just be friends and their problems are their problems.
Ditto, or more, depending on how you count ‘work’. I’m actively doing my actual job between 10am and 6pm on weekdays, but I’m always screwing around on my computer, so I’m always sort of keeping an eye on our systems and available to help if things go haywire. I’ll frequently be ‘working’ between 7am and midnight throughout the day. But the job comes with great pay and ridiculous amounts of flexibility, so almost any time the kids are out of school for more than a weekend, we’re out traveling. I wouldn’t trade it, unless it was to be one of the idle rich.
Finland isn’t a NATO member. They’re going to regret this slide into laziness when they become a backwater province of the new Putinite Russian Empire.
They spent the entire Cold War that way.
Yeah, it isn’t like that would be new for them – either Swedish or Russian overlords.
Are you familiar with the Winter War?
Sadly, winter was followed by spring and a disastrous peace settlement.
You guys about finnished on this point yet?
NATO ‘t all.
We’re all just Russian around.
I find all of this disappointing. The Finns were the only Scandinavians I appreciated.
The Danes are OK (disclaimer: I know next to nothing about the Nordics).
Finns aren’t technically Scandinavian.
They’re the better Nordic hockey nation at the moment though.
#me too. Or at least one, Elsa from my senior year.
Meh, I heard she was kind of an Ice Princess.
Not feeling good? Was it something you ate?
Wow. Ozzy sure looks different now.
I wouldn’t care if the bankruptcy court wrote off the pensions and let the retirees literally starve.
They can have Social Security. It’s good enough for the plebs.
Sanna Marin would get my enthusiastic consent.
“you only like her because she’s pretty”
/misogynistberniebro
*/incelberniebro
Pete was shocked. Conan was shocked. Even I was pretty shaken up after hearing that Pete Holmes told Malia Obama to “shut the fuck up.”
Why?
Lese majeste.
I’ve been wishing fervently for all the Obamas to just shut the fuck up.
*imagines a dysfunctional scenario featuring Conan the Barbarian, a stoned teenage girl, and some guy called Pete who is “woke” but very controlling and insecure*
Conan is the stoned teenager’s adoptive dad/oedipal fantasy, and Pete is the verbally abusive boyfriend, who has been berating stoned Malia about some ironically insecure, controlling “woke” boyfriend crap. Conan says firmly, “noone talks to my baby girl that way”, and stoned Malia is freaking out saying “just shut the fuck up, dad, it’s not a big deal!”. Pete, feeling suddenly vulnerable and embarassed (and a little scared), attempts to utter a trite apology to Conan, but stoned Malia is still freaking out and babbling something about men, hiding from the Secret Service, and clowns. Pete, trying to make his groveling apology to macho dad, is frustrated that it’s being derailed by Malia’s incoherent hysterics, and snaps at her to “shut the fuck up!”.
eh. 2/10.
ps – Conan impales Pete on his magical sword and him and stoned Malia fly away on a quidditch broom. THE END.
So I slept a full two hours later than my normal, many thanks to mexican sharpshooter. And thanks to him for bringing only the third beer SP liked in her entire (admittedly short) life.
Bud Light Seltzer?
Shirley Temple.
No, no….thank YOU.
Just in case anyone needed a reminder of how the left perceives the impeachment trial (and it’s not about constitutionality or justice)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cnns-jeffrey-toobin-the-president-is-winning-in-impeachment-trial
The Trials of
JobCovingtonYikes. Link? Who died?
Oh well there goes my reading certificate.
Link
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bus-carrying-covington-catholic-students-back-from-dc-involved-in-fatal-crash
“you only like her because she’s pretty”
Well, duh.
Just because she has my attention doesn’t mean I like her – but I am trying.
Just because she has my attention doesn’t mean I like her – but I am trying.
There’s a glitch in the matrix.
I chalked that up to repetitive hand motion, IYKWIMAITYD.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bill-introduced-to-allow-emojis-on-license-plates-in-vermont
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OK2B??♂️
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Serious news from serious people
CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin blasted President Trump’s legal team on Saturday, arguing that its composition — all white men — highlighted how Democrats cared more about diversity.
“White House and white people,” Toobin said. “This is a lesson in the diversity of the two parties — I mean you look at the House managers. It was almost evenly divided between men and women. You had two African-Americans, you had a Hispanic.”
“It was all white men today, there are allegedly two white women on the team — we’ll see if they’re allowed to argue,” he continued. “But I think, you know, in a visual medium, when you have one side that has a very diverse team and the other side that’s all white men, that says something in and of itself.”
This wasn’t the first time CNN made racially-tinged comments. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper previously said it was “exciting” that white people will no longer represent the majority in the country.
And that’s why the Bad Orange Man must be removed from office.
IMPEACHIMPEACHIMPEACH!!!111!
A bunch of minorities and women acting as guns for hire for a circus and a farce isn’t the good example they think it to be.
How is having POCs and chicks who aren’t allowed speaking roles better? Haven’t watched, but all I’ve heard about is Nadler and Schiff actually doing the talking.
Remember when Condi Rice was the smartest person in politics? Remember how the dems treated her with respect?
Or did I have that confused…. Now that I think about it, it seems like they just called Bush a racist.
Don’t unzip yet, Andy. Sadly, wypipo are still 72% of the US.
Why would that be exciting to Anderson? I could see being neutral on it, but why exciting?
Why should (((they))) have all of the self-loathing?
Because he’s an idiot?
Well, there’s that…
Once you get rid of white people. it will usher in a new era of peace and cooperation between races. You know, like you see in the rest of the world, where everybody gets along perfectly.
…and like all the peace-loving Native American tribes did!
Or we see all across south and east Asia.
Mexican ass sex?
If being white is a crime, which seems to be what this article is blathering, Anderson Cooper is felony white.
Which is exactly the root of all this crap: guilt.
Anderson also gets the hate-crime add-on: being filthy rich.
Agree. I was going to say he’s a Vanderbilt, he’s old money.
Which is the worst kind of money to these people.
Yet we dont see them giving any of it away.
I’ve noticed young people with barely any life experience are getting into important powerful decision making positions more and more.
I’m not sure this is a good development. Often, whenever I listen to people like this 34 year-old Finnish ideologue, they remind me just how inexperienced and ignorant about human nature they are.
They really think they can just ‘social engineer’ habits that evolved organically.
Not wise. That’s how you end up with gulags.
It’s the same with the electric car push. They completely ignore the cultural and human element whenever they argue in favour of it. People aren’t ready for the anxiety of not knowing where their next charge will be. The combustible engine eliminated this concern in a life that has plenty enough. North Americans are ‘road trip’ happy and asking for a society to reduce their driving is impractical. What will they expect people to do? Stay within a 300km radius of where they live? Because I can see that as being a potential unseen consequence. Use more transit? How? Can it even accommodate more people? As it is, they seemed stuffed to the tilt.
I’m just musing.
Young people don’t see the power in the message ‘live and let live’.
It gets in the way of their idealism.
And this is problematic when they get in power and start to ‘we oughta do this because….’ I don’t even want to call it ‘good intentions’ anymore.
I just read an absurd rant about how tourism is intolerable because of climate impact – all of that going someplace far away (in a convenient amount of time) is such a waste of carbon. The young and ignorant fail to appreciate that humans didn’t always have such freedom of movement as we now enjoy, and the results of that weren’t pretty either.
EVERYBODY STAY HOME!
Convincing people that CO2 is bad for the environment has to be one of the biggest scams ever.
May be? It is the biggest load of horseshit I have seen in my life.
Thanks EPA and Supreme Court!
I read somewhere once that, before the railways were built in the UK, a person had a 99% chance of marrying someone born within 5 miles of them.
Now, with the ability to travel basically anywhere in the world within 48 hours, we’re trending toward all being the same shade of beige. I would think that leftists would consider that some sort of victory, in that there will be no more wypipo.
There will always be wypipo. The definition of wypipo will just change…
/looks at the Irish and Italians.
You’ll never get me pot of gold!
That’s not very “diverse”. I expect them to revive miscegenation laws before that happens.
“Genetic appropriation is not OK”
I’ve actually been pushing that angle for 15 years. You want to reduce your carbon footprint? Cut out the trips to Europe and the Far East every year, use Skype, and you can keep your meaningless plastic bag gestures.
See: Justin Trudeau
Re:” young people with barely any life experience are getting into important powerful decision making positions ”—> AOC
Re: eleftric cars: It should all be optional. Get one if it works for your needs, but don’t subsidize it or force others to get one too.
My fear? They will ban ICE.
Of course they will. Just like straws or plastic bags. No one should be allowed to make a wrong choice.
These people suffer from a serious “all which is not forbidden, is mandatory” ( and v.v.) mentality.
Yes. They’re very important. They’ve been told so from day one.
And they’ve got degrees in sociology and public service and shit.
And they’ve got degrees in
sociolgy and public service andshitI think youth getting out of their lane is just a subset of wider, common ignorance taking over in the social media world.
It’s the platforms: any moron with a modem now has a global audience. Everyone opines on everything; like in voting, the dumbest amongst us now has a full share.
So listening to kids or watching them get elected is no more prevalent or annoying than listening to any other morons holding for on, say, trade, macroeconomics, international law, military tactics, or a thousand other things that they have never studied, worked in, or experimented with, or even lightly read up on the history of. Imagine if someone like that got elected president and then spent the whole day on twitter . . . just imagine, if you could.
Mornin’ Glibbies. Church starts at 830 now so I have to drag my ass out of bed at 730 after being up late and then having to take Tylenol PM to sleep. AND I have to wash my hair! Oy. (It’s very long, very thick, very dry. Washing it more than once a week damages it.) I cannot tell dick jokes at this time of day. Not only am I half asleep, morning is not my time of day for sessytime.
Nuclear: Do the peon activists understand that if they get what they want they’ll be making candles and chopping wood to power and heat the homes of their overlords?
6-hour workday. They aren’t wrong exactly. They seem to be going on the premise that you push hard for 6 hours instead of fiddle farting around for 8, which is probably correct; however, the lede was buried: “cut down on meetings.” I do project work too. I can work on one project nonstop for a good 12-14 hours until either I fall asleep or I finish. And if I go to bed, I’m up and at it immediately because it’s the only thing I can think about. So then I wonder, if people switched to task/project-based, how much that would average out to.
And then there are professions that demand crazy hours so I don’t know how 6-hour days would work.
It’s starting to seem like people have too much time on their hands, but there’s a solution to that! Kill nuclear and fossil fuel and nobody will have any leisure time at all! Just a life of grinding, backbreaking labor stuffed into a small shanty with your loved ones. Paradise!
Is it very bad of me to think of that as an ungodly hour?
Seriously, though, that seems early unless a congregation has two Sunday morning services. I know of some that make one service more “traditional” and the other more “modern” – likely the most noticeable difference is the music.
Too many people, not enough meeting space. Four wards (parishes) meet in this building for 2 hours each (used to be 3) and rotate through the day. #1 ward meets at 830, #2 ward meets at 1030, #3 meets at 1230, and #4 meets at 230.
At the beginning of each year, the 4 wards rotate 2 hours. Last year, we met at 230. So come January, we all shifted. Hence, 830.
I actually like it best once it’s over. It doesn’t interfere in anything else I want to do.
Agh, 2:30 sounds like a killer. We went from a 3 ward building at 9 to a 2 ward building at 11:30. No overlap with other wards, so its nice to be able to use all the space.
230 really puts a crimp in your day for sure.
We do 4, so our first is 7:30, followed by 9, 11, and the evening showtimes.
I’m guessing either a Roman Catholic parish or a Protestant “megachurch?”
6-hour workday. They aren’t wrong exactly. They seem to be going on the premise that you push hard for 6 hours instead of fiddle farting around for 8, which is probably correct
Except that it means farting around for 6 hours and hiring another person to fart around for another 6 hours, with an efficiency metric of 70%, resulting in a 40% gain in productivity for a 100% increase in cost.
They were told there would be no math!
Hey, Mo’. I just saw your reply about Wagner. I honestly couldn’t name a Wagner piece of music. I was mostly trolling for a “You know who else…?”
I like classical, but not enough to be able to say who wrote what. I know a few of the more famous pieces, but mostly I just like listening to random classical music collections and don’t really have a favorite. I do seem to prefer Baroque collections more than others, FWIW.
I think “Ride of the Valkyries” is bad ass tho.
Oh, shit. Forgot that was Wagner (see? haha) Yeah, that is one of my favorite classical pieces, for sure.
“The basic details of the Tesla Semi indicate that it is a Class 8 truck with a base price of $150,000-200,000, a full load of 80,000 pounds, and range of 300-500 miles. Expected fuel savings are ~$200,000 over a million mile lifetime.”
How much mileage does the average truck/van get?
Is there an assumption that the charging is done for free buried in there?
Probably. I imagine the truck stops will still be filled with the chatter of idling diesel engines, but now they won’t move by the next morning.
just plug it in the Wall, Free! Electricity!
Can’t see many getting to a million. Private vehicles go for, what, 200-300K? Commercial vehicles rack up miles at a faster rate, but I imagine that most vehicles get rotated out before getting that high. I imagine that in many places, road salt kills them before they get anywhere near a million.
A million mile lifetime is on the high side but still realistic for a semi truck.
million is not remotely unusual
a truck will make 100 to 150k a year depending on duty cycle (team drivers, for example, can top the 150k)
especially in the past decade after the recovery started, annual ton-miles were increasing faster than the OEM could build; several years of delayed and reduced purchasing moved the average truck age up and, when the fleets decided they needed trucks, they just couldn’t be built. We usually build 200k trucks and can build maybe 300k trucks at most (old thinking, I might be a bit behind), so the national fleet of first-owner trucks getting behind on replenishment can’t be caught back up sooner than 100k (300 – 200) per year.
So a truck would average 300-450 miles a day. Which means the range of the Tesla semi would kind of work (I personally would like more of a buffer). I don’t know how long it would take to recharge the Tesla semi but I figure you can refill a diesel semi in an about an hour or less. Plus I seem to remember truckers would idle their truck if they needed to keep the cab warm while they slept and I don’t figure Tesla has figured that into their calculations.
idling: trucks used to average only 30mph based on engine hours, but idling is way down due to regulation, so that number has probably sky-rocketed
HOS: how far you go in a day depends on duty cycle (how many dock calls) and the road you’re on (interstate versus stop-and-go); I’m not current on the hours-of-service rules any more since they’ve been back and forth the past decade. 600 mile days were not uncommon in the deregulated era, and I see something about a 14-hour day being possible now. To your point, I’m sure the 30 minute break required now after eight hours would certainly always be used charging. Shore power is pretty common already for lower loads (non-idling HVAC), but a second generation will be needed to deliver the kVA to charge such a beast.
In most places it is illegal to idle for long periods of time/overnight. HOS rules I don’t remember but it is so many in an 8 day period. As far as I know the 11/14 rule is still in effect meaning you can work 14 hours in a day but only 11 of them can be behind the wheel. Most major carriers have (brain fart what they are called) small generator units that run heat and A/C for comfort during off hours. During my short driving career my only multi day unscheduled stop was for exhaust system repairs. Those rules have really fucked up a diesel engine and increased maintenance costs a bunch.
APU, just like on planes. There were incentive programs a couple years ago by the local DOT(s) to get semi retrofitted and cut down on emissions from the prime mover.
Yep, that’s it thanks GL.
Why, it’s almost like they WANT to make life more difficult and more expensive than it already is!
Oh wait…
also, consider this:
Volvo was offering 3y/350k bumper-to-bumper warranty well over ten years ago
sixish: at $3 / gallon, that’s $0.50 per mile for fuel
so Tesla would be promising a 40% reduction in energy consumption
Fuel savings. Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Someone needs to take a physics class.
Young people don’t see the power in the message ‘live and let live’.
It gets in the way of their idealism.
Yes, exactly this. There are a lot of people who cannot bear the thought of other people doing things they disapprove of.
This is why I prefer to be armed when it is an option. “They” can disapprove but there ain’t a fuckin’ thing they can do about it.
Silly. They have no intention of risking their own lives to keep you from doing something; that’s what the police are for (and the rest of the unlimited power of the state).
Expected fuel savings are ~$200,000 over a million mile lifetime.”
So, I’m expected to believe operating costs are zero?
They are simply comparing fuel cost.
But maintenance on electric vehicles is much cheaper.
Well, until you have to change the battery pack. Tesla is claiming a million miles for the new battery pack, I think.
But maintenance on electric vehicles is much cheaper.
Generally true, but I’d caution a wider view of maintenance. That rule of thumb is based on gasoline-powered cars, whereas the cost of maintaining a Class8 truck’s diesel engine is a fraction of a car’s on a ton-mile basis. And, anyway, most truck maintenance is not in propulsion: it’s in secondary systems like comfort and trim; the problems with A/C, for example, will still be with us . . . and some new problems will arise (like comfort heating (resistive?)). . . little will change on the majority of trips to the garage.
“Tesla is claiming a million miles for the new battery pack, I think”
That would be impressive, if true.
Meet the Press:
“Where is our new John McCain?”
I wish his ghost would pop up in front of them and demand which of them voted for him against Obama.
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Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.
I am at a loss trying to figure out what rights they lack that everyone else has.
Also, now do 2A.
The right to get up in your face about it and to educate your children about their lifestyle.
I have known two trans people fairly well. This was back in the 1990’s and both of them wanted to draw the absolute minimum attention to themselves and to get through the process without more drama than necessary. Both ultimately got SRS surgery and worked at blending back into normal life. I wish I had not lost contact with them because I would be interested in their thoughts on the current “trans movement” and is it helping or hurting actual trans people.
One was XXY and the other not. Both were highly educated and knew their conditions were “not normal” for others but deeply felt the absolute need to go through with it while in their early 30’s so they had time to live as best fit them. Both were honorable and were aghast at the idea of hiding their past from a future partner, but also felt they didn’t need to flag it at people. Both fully understood that there would be a months long period when they would stand out as a “dude in a dress” which was going to be uncomfortable for them and others and tried to minimize the impacts all around.
I agree with those who posit that the current trans movement is not about a burgeoning number of trans people, but being the latest way to socially signal. I also strongly suspect that there are a large percentage who have powerful mental issues that have nothing to do with any possible transgenderism. I think that the mental health community is complicit in this as well. More issues equal more contact hours which means more cash in the pocket.
As an aside, a woman I know is powerfully built and always enjoyed physical sports. Seeing her at first glance and listening to her one would think “lesbian” but you’d be wrong. Over drinks recently she said to the group that she is glad she was a teen in the 90’s since people didn’t try to convince her to change her sex like she suspects young girls like her are hearing today.
What a bunch of ineffectual, pointless nattering. They (MtP nodders) should be doing something productive, like talking about Meeeeeeghan and Harry. Or second-guessing third-and-short play calls in the Sooper Bowl.
Marin can imagine the 4-day-week and the 6-hour-working day for our working world.
And I can imagine Finland being totally irrelevant, economically speaking.
Sanna Marin is the new Prime Minister of Finland. The 34-year-old social democrat was celebrated internationally because of strong women-led government: It is a coalition of five parties – and in all of them, women are the leaders.
Because that matters.
Irony alert
In the clip, Kaine can be seen recalling the phone call while talking with Hillary and his wife, who was also there.
“President Obama called me last night and said: ‘Tim, remember, this is no time to be a purist. You’ve got to keep a fascist out of the White House,'” Kaine said.
Afterward, he said — while laughing — that Obama “knows me and he knows that I could tend to err.”
Hillary agreed with Obama’s remark. “I echo that sentiment,” she said. “But that’s really — the weight of our responsibility is so huge.”
Good call, seeing as Trump has been threatening to prosecute journalists for espionage, prosecuting leakers, murder-droning American citizens overseas, changing laws by fiat, using the irs to target political opposition, spying on political opposition, stoking racial animosity, etc. Or am I thinking of someone else?
Just wait until he arrests someone for a youtube video that caused an embassy attack!
It would fit my preconceptions to believe that, but Kaine is a mendacious little man.
Not. A. Whiff. Of. Scandal!
Or am I thinking of someone else?
They all tend to blur together.
“Donald Trump is very afraid of Joe Biden.”
Okay, Chuckie.
Afraid Biden’s going to sniff his hair?
PURGE
Progressive group MoveOn called on Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to renounce the presidential endorsement of popular podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan.
The group, which endorsed Sanders in 2016 and is fueled by many of the same progressive activists who have backed the Vermont senator’s White House bid, called on Sanders to reject the endorsement over Rogan’s past discriminatory comments.
“It’s one thing for Joe Rogan to endorse a candidate. It’s another for @BernieSanders’ campaign to produce a video bolstering the endorsement of someone known for promoting transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, racism and misogyny,” MoveOn tweeted Saturday.
“We urge Sen. Sanders and his campaign to apologize and stop elevating this endorsement. We stand in solidarity with folks hurt by this.”
Denounce the thought criminal. Burn the unbeliever.
Given how many people here listen to Rogan, I was under the impression that he was libertarian-ish, not a BernieBro.
Maybe he is one of them there Libertarian Socialists.
When he first started claiming we libertarian label, I got the distinct impression that he was not smart enough to understand what he was talking about.
He is most definitely gotten better over the last few years handling diverse topics. But I would not call him a philosopher.
I’ve never listened to him but why do I get the feeling this is not an accurate portrayal:
Promoting = interviewing people who hold opinions that the progs label as such.
MoveOn.org…….the people who have made more money from Monica’s blow job than Monica did.
I honestly couldn’t name a Wagner piece of music.
Kiww da wabbit!
Yeah, spaced-out on that one.
I still believe in my heart of hearts that “The Rabbit of Seville” is the superior cartoon.
My life: up at 3:00 am, coffee, kiss wife, cook for wife, cut the grass, work.
Why would anyone want 6 hour work days?
That was me this AM. Wide awake at 3. Did some tidying and started prepping the pot roast for tonight. Lotsa stuff I want to do be still not allowed. Beer and Glibs, it is!
You forgot the “fuck wife’s brains out” part.