There’s an immigrant-owned gas station in my neighborhood that I have refill my propane tanks. Nice guy, total stereotype being a Pakistani guy owning a gas station. Every so often I feel bad for the guy because he may have picked the screwiest neighborhood to start up a business. Once I walked in and found him yelling at two people that may or may not be on meth for using the bathroom a really long time. Then QuickTrip (the Mecca of gas station convenience stores) opened up across the street. Finally, over the weekend I found this. Poor guy, he doesn’t deserve this shit.
Anyways, the links!
The State Department issues a warning to Americans who wish to visit cities in northern Mexico like Tijuana. I know what you’re thinking, they always had a warning in place? Nah, this is beyond the usual shenanigans.
“He went to Jared”
Elsewhere in Mexico, they outlawed the “save water, drink beer” culture that is probably the biggest tourist draw to northern Mexico.
Good thing there is no inflation, right?
I’m beginning to think it doesn’t matter where in the world you are, teachers are going to complain about the same thing.
I blame Ronald Reagan for doing a half ass job.
Look at her. She loves it.
*Takes Ecuador off ex-pat list*
Have some tunes and a great afternoon.
“There’s an immigrant-owned gas station in my neighborhood that I have refill my propane tanks.”
Those are hard to find. Everyone around here wants to swap tanks.
Same here. I would love to refill my tanks, because otherwise you’re not guaranteed to get back one that’s in good shape. My wife’s cousin used to work at a steel processing plant, and they’d get propane for the plant but he’d also fill personal tanks for like $7. But that cousin just got a new job.
U-Haul places around here fill tanks.
That’s where I got the tank. Easy carry handles are the shit.
I’m just lazy and will do the $20 exchange at Lowes.
If you want a new tank they are over $60 now.
GF goes to Walmart.
WM is Blue Rhino too right?
I don’t know if there are specific rules, but the Lowes employees who don’t give a fuck would probably exchange anything that looks like a propane tank for a “new” one.
Yup.
Dollar General here in small town Iowa
Glad I bought another years ago so I’d have an extra. I go to Lowes to exchange as well.
The Walgreens drug store does propane tank exchange. Thankfully across the street. I check over my tank when exchanging. I don’t think I have had a bad tank in a long time. No doubt that figures into the cost of buying into the program ($60).
I will say my tanks have been significantly underweight the past two tanks. Like only 15 lbs. 18 should be nominal. I think companies are skimping to avoid major price hikes.
I have had to take one bad tank back over the last five years. Valve wasn’t working (exchanged that one somewhere other than Lowes, never had a bad one from Lowes). I think Blue Rhino are 15 lb tanks.
A typical 20lb tank should be filled to 16lbs. 80% capacity. Or does this regulation vary by state?
From my knowledge, it does not. I’ve heard far too many call center drones explaining that tanks are filled to 80% capacity at most.
80% capacity is also the regulated standard here in Alberta.
You want more than 20 lbs. of propane, buy a 30-lb. tank.
The liquid has to evaporate to leave the tank, the empty space leaves room for this to happen and also is a buffer for vapor if the evaporation rate doesn’t quite match the extraction rate. (Evaporation rate depends on heat transfer from outside the tank.
I’ve never had a problem with an exchange tank, but if I had a travel trailer I’d probably want my own.
I’ve had one bad tank. Walmart swapped it out no questions asked. Wouldn’t seal properly. Something was broken.
Strickland’s propane is too far from here.
Propane place is within easy walking distance from our house. But the tanks for the grill are too heavy to carry, so we drive (and they refill rather than exchange.)
There is a Shell station not too far away that does propane fills.
Not the cheapest, but worth it (they still do windows on your car!)
The key issue is that with a refill you get 20lbs of propane.. all of the exchange places only fill to 16lbs “for safety”.
I will “exchange” tanks that are past their hydrotest date at one of the majors, Blue Rhino also sometimes has valves that only they can re-fill, the fill port isn’t standard, so I make sure that it isn’t one of them.
“The State Department issues a warning to Americans who wish to visit cities in northern Mexico like Tijuana.”
What happens to all the unemployed donkeys?
They vote Democrat?
“He went to Jared”
More like Juan, who operates a business out of his trunk.
This is what you get at Jared
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/07/31/swarovski-crystal-studded-sv-infinity-grip/
OK, Liberace…
Big hands.
Gotta maintain my rep
Relevant
Ya know, Liberace was a great piano player. But I heard he really sucked on the organ.
/sees myself out. Its bed time
Blingy
Charles and Rudy from “Archer” called. They said you were faboo.
Every kiss begins with AK.
A-fucking-men. I love me some QT.
The sandwich shop used to be the bomb.
Sheetz is my local go to.
Wawa is the equivalent around here.
Wawa is best.
Sheetz is only good for gas and the bathrooms. I tried their sandwiches once. Never again.
We have those a little farther away. We also have Royal Farms, which I’ve never been to, and the lower end 7-11 and Fas Mart. Three exits south there is a Flying J.
One up the street from here. I’ve been told their chicken is too salty.
*shrug*
Who would buy fried chicken from a gas station?
*hides Royal Farms receipts*
I see these “Krispy Krunchy Chicken” counters in gas stations all over the place. Never tried it so I have no idea if it’s any good, but it looks OK.
I guess yall have never had a chance to visit the worlds best gas station chain,Buccees. Founded in my area in coastal Texas, they’ve been expanding for the last decade getting bigger and more convenient. For a while they were a Texas “secret” but now theyreall along the coastal region.
Their bathrooms are cavernous with floor to ceiling stalls and doors, always pristine, due to a constant cleaning regimin.
Food wise they sell all kinds of Bucees branded pickled items, jerkies, nuts, candies. The Beaver nuggets are like crack.
They have pretty dang hot food including brisket sandwhiches, sausage on a stick, and my personal favorite, the reuben. They also sell house made fudge, cookies, kolaches, muffins, banana pudding, bbq pits, lawn chairs, ice chests, patio swings, tie dye shirts, furniture, hubcaps, novelty keychains, home decor, and furniture. They also sell gasoline.
hubcaps?
They have a clothing section and sell Hawaiians and swim shorts. It’s crazy. Like a mini WalMart.
Guess you’re just down the coast from here then. Buc-ee’s definitely wins the bathroom contest, but for roadside food, I still think Prazek’s in Hillje is better.
I get their sausage from HEB, its pretty good. I just dont have too many reasons to go to El Campo, my friends that lived down that way have all moved off, and when I’m going down south I take 35. Every now and then ill stop at the store in Sealy for some jerky
Yeah, I learned about it from an ex-girlfriend who had family/friends in Corpus. We’d stop on the way home. Haven’t been in a while, and never visited the Sealy location.
Isn’t Buc-ee’s a white supremacist brand?
The Beaver nuggets are like crack.
Double euphemism?
Gosh Ward…
“You were a little hard on the beaver last night”
https://rumble.com/v11mk7j-izzy-wants-to-watch-leave-it-to-beaver.html
Basically they’re corn pops but crispier and with a stronger caramel flavor. They also sell a chocolate dipped version for bonus diabeetus.
Apparently you can order them online.
Texas has Buccees, Colorado has Kum-and-Go.
I chuckled when I saw the Kum-and-Go in Colorado.
I laugh every time I see one.
We also have Loaf & Jug
I’ve seen Kum-and-Go in Fargo. I guess they are coming up north.
A friend of mine (decades ago) tried stand up. One of his bits involved driving across Iowa and coming across two chains there. Coastal (at approximately the furthest distance you can get from something called a coast) and Kum-And-Go.
I prefer the little frontier fort stops in Texas. Gas station, cheesy gift shop and a nice sit-down restaurant (usually with bar). Very nice to get to when tired.
New Mexico has the worst. Usually two pieces of plywood leaning against each other. And no restrooms, ever, even if there was s a gas station. Always it is “out of order.”
I not amused that every rest stop along I-40 in New Mexico was closed.
At least, unlike Arkansas, they warned you before the exit ramp for the rest stop.
On my FreedomFest road trip, I drove past a Buccee’s in Denton, TX but didn’t need to stop, so I didn’t.
Later on the road trip, I saw a Buccee’s in eastern Tennessee. This time, I needed to stop. As I approached the exit, I saw a massive back-up of cars getting off at that exit and turning towards the Buccee’s. I said, “Nope”, and kept going.
So, I still haven’t been to a Buccee’s.
*flaunts Buc-ee’s privilege*
Buc-ee’s was a lifesaver when I bought my house. Due to closing on a Friday (and the sellers *not* honoring the agreement to keep water/gas service on over the weekend) I had almost a week without water service. Fortunately, there’s a Buc-ee’s about a mile and a half from the house, so I had a place to go.
“while climate change has made the weather more erratic and rainfall less likely”
CWAP
That Schutzenfest looks like a hell of a good time.
The biggest shooting festival (*) is in Hanover, Germany.
(*) In the Before Times. I have no idea how the Lil Rona Panic fucked over shooting festivals.
I agree, that Brazilian shooting festival looks great.
“I’m beginning to think it doesn’t matter where in the world you are, teachers are going to complain about the same thing.”
Schools should be banned. Let children forage knowledge on their own.
What’s the worst that could happen, the kids learn to read?
Set them free to Gambol.
GAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
If the folks leaving the tire marks were really talented, they would have done it in the shape of a dick and balls.
Thanks to President Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist
Obligatory for NPR
whose hero is former President Donald Trump,
They claimed, without evidence.
Yeah, that irked me too. Way to poison the well.
“”Criminal gangs have become a government within a government in Ecuador,””
What could possibly be a solution?
“Ecuadorean journalist Blanca Moncada was on the front line of the Covid-19 crisis in her home town of Guayaquil”
Stunning and brave.
She was the shriekiest of the shriekers….
Dog petting the cat.
🙂
I had a dog that would pin my cat and give it a bath. The cat was not pleased.
We had two beagle sized dogs and one really passive cat.
Dog A would grab the cat by the scruff of its neck and Dog B would grab the tip of it’s tail and they’d play tug-of-war. Not hard enough to hurt the cat, but enough that it’s feet would come off the ground.
The cat would just hang there with a kind of a “Oh fuck, here we go again” look on it’s face while it’s legs just dangled in the air.
Aww.
I see the footage stops just before the cat takes out an eye.
That cat is remarkably tolerant.
Crackdown.
According to a report by NOS News, police have responded to the demonstrations by cracking down on protesters, with over 100 people being arrested in relation to the anti-green agenda demonstrations in recent weeks, with hundreds more being handed fines for actions resisting the measures.
Perhaps more interestingly, the national broadcaster reported that around one-quarter of such arrests did not occur during the period when alleged offences supposedly took place, but after the events, with police taking the time to track down individual protesters, a number of whom end up being remanded in police custody for considerable periods of time.
That sounds awfully familiar. Right out of the Jan. 6 playbook
They need to keep going.
“Sharper” is an interesting term. Think they got some of the Ukrainian missiles and shit that went missing?
Leren coderen.
And the government hasn’t started freezing bank accounts yet?
/Castreau
Every murder in the Tulsa episodes of The First 48 takes place at a QT
QT, stealing the jobs of hard working immigrants
Not a euphemism: I’m getting throttled so hard right now. That last comment took 5 minutes to post.
Typing with your nose at a rhythmic pace doesn’t help
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2Fs2W7rA7Siaxfa%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1&nofb=1
“I’m getting throttled so hard right now.”
[Considers in light of earlier comment]
Please tell me you have a safe word. Blink twice if you need rescue.
I. Wish.
Kinky.
Paging Creosote Achilles… Creosote Achilles to the white courtesy phone.
That comment is knot funny.
I WILL KNOT get roped into a pun thread!
Pun threads are such tangled messes.
I’m not going to string you along so don’t twine
He might be tied up with someone right now.
No one. Is above. The law.
An 8-year-old girl selling lemonade near an Ohio food festival had her operation shut down by local police after they received a complaint.
Asa Baker was selling lemonade in an alley outside the business where her father works near the Alliance, Ohio, Rib and Food Festival last weekend when she says a local police officer asked her to shut down the stand, WJW-TV reported.
“Well, they were really sad that they had to shut me down but they gave me $20 to try and pay for it,” Asa said, explaining that the officer gave her $20 for her to use to purchase the needed permit. …
“I could definitely tell he did not want to shut her down, but, I mean, you get a call, he has to do it. He definitely did the right thing, you know, in the situation he was put in,” Katrina Moore, Asa’s mother, told the outlet.
I hope she learned her lesson.
““I could definitely tell he did not want to shut her down, but, I mean, you get a call, he has to do it. He definitely did the right thing, you know, in the situation he was put in,” Katrina Moore, Asa’s mother, told the outlet.”
Hey lady, I think I see the problem…
The Libertarian Party should seek out those kids and offer them paid speaking engagements at the state conventions.
situation he was put in was to but a cup of lemonade and not violate I would guess some ethical rules on giving money to people supposedly breaking a law
you get a call, he has to do it
Did he? I guess it is a small enough town that the police aren’t busy with actual problems.
On the way to meet up with the girlfriend’s step-brother for his birthday last week, we came across a sobriety checkpoint. On a Thursday… at 20:00 local.
It’s a good think Cleveland has plenty of cops and no crime…
Michigan may be a shit hole in the winter – but no sobriety checks.
Michigan may be a shit hole in the winter
but Ohio’s a shit-hole in all four seasons?
I came across one of those during early afternoon on a road in my neighborhood where it is only local traffic and no alcohol is sold. I believe it was a training scenario. I’ve seen the sheriff’s department running training in the area before. There is an intersection they like to use for traffic control training. A group of officers watch from the corner taking turns directing traffic even though the signals are working.
“sobriety checkpoint”
Those are totally not arbitrary searches, otherwise a free people would not stand for them.
I saw one outside Adelaide, South Australia at about noon on a Thursday. The cops waved me through.
The kids around here are capitalists – selling lemonade and cookies! and going door-to-door in the neighborhood to try and sell their goods.
OMWC would like the little red head. 😉
Don’t hate the player…
“Oh, there’s a little girl selling lemonade without a license? Well, that certainly sounds serious. Here, let’s get an appointment scheduled for you to come down to the station and fill out a report – shouldn’t take more than an hour or two – and once we have that on file we will send an officer over there at our earliest convenience to check it out.”
I mean, that’s generally the police reaction to real crimes, might as well be the same for this sort of bullshit.
There’s no risk shutting down a lemonade stand.
whaddup doh’
Brazil’s firearm ownership booms, and gun laws loosen, under President Bolsonaro
I’m looking forward to the future articles. “Crime drops in Brazil, experts baffled.”
That presumes TMITE would call attention to it if it happened.
Here’s another “Eye of the Storm”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc-FzpX-f1s
“‘Missing’ Australian actress, 37, who vanished in LA has been found… in JAIL after getting drunk on first date, throwing her drink over a CHILD – and biting cops: Bond set at $25,000”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11117343/Australian-actress-went-missing-LA-online-date-ARRESTED-Santa-Monica.html
LA gets tough on crime.
Would… not.
Australia is not sending its best.
Everything from there seems to bite
Would… get bit.
She’s probably a fun date right up until you drive over the cliff.
Would… Be careful.
I get the feeling she would be a spot of fun.
Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador has proposed ending beer production in Northern Mexico due to water scarcity.
NNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to President Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist whose hero is former President Donald Trump, it’s become a lot easier for Brazilians like Carneiro to get guns.
Good.
Gun stores and shooting tournaments are popping up all over Brazil. They include the massive Schützenfest, held in southern Brazil where many people are of German descent, and is a combination of beer-drenched Oktoberfest and shooting guns. An average of one new shooting range per day has opened during Bolsonaro’s nearly four years in office, Brazil’s UOL website reported.
🙂
Government officials in Ecuador have blamed a deadly explosion in the port city of Guayaquil on organised crime.
Guayaquil is popular among Asian expats. American expats prefer Cuenca. European expats prefer Quito.
The newest member of my dev team is located in Sao Paulo. In a different world I’d engage him in a conversation about local conditions, but the extreme wokeness of my outfit forbids that.
“Now Jill Biden tests POSITIVE for COVID: First Lady, 71, forced to isolate on South Carolina family vacation after two weeks apart from husband – and starts taking Paxlovid”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11116565/Jill-Biden-tests-POSITIVE-COVID-family-vacation-South-Carolina.html
Oh no – how could we live without the sage advice of this brilliant “doctor”?
Awesome. Now she gets to have Covid twice!
She is thankful for The Vaccine and The Booster.
Jeebus – just weather it out, you maniacs. It works for 99.99% of anything you’ll likely to catch.
I had COVID – it sucked for a few days. And I felt tired for a 2 weeks. And then I was back to working out again.
Curious isn’t that all the exact opposite of the new CDC guidelines?
*yawn*
Let me guess: she’s grateful for the shot and encourages us to get it too?
DOKTOR Frau Biden to you, pal.
*horses whinny in distance*
It pays to represent anyone but your deplorable constituents.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) raised nearly $1 million from Texas for her primary re-election battle, including donations from former President George W. Bush and Karl Rove.
The total exceeded donations for Cheney from all states except California and surpassed campaign funds raised from her own state, according to The Houston Chronicle.
Cheney’s list of Lone Star State donors included maximum gifts of $2,900 each from Bush and Rove. In total, the congresswoman raised approximately $950,000 from Texans as part of her $15 million in total funds brought in to defend against her Trump-backed competitor.
Did she lose yet? One gleaming hope in the current world of stupid shit.
Polls close at 9 PM local time.
What time do the polls close there?
H-6
One more reason to hate W and Rove.
“Transgender activists heckle and intimidate woman, 80, who was banned from her local YMCA for demanding trans worker ‘with a penis’ leave women’s locker room
Clementine Adams, who is a trans worker at the YMCA pool is saving up for two procedures: Feminizing Laryngoplasty (vocal surgery) and Sexual Reassignment Surgery (often called bottom surgery)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11116553/Transgender-activists-heckle-elderly-woman-80-rip-suffragette-flags-her.html
So starting transition with the two worst surgeries?
The YMCA deserves to take some shit for creating that situation.
True, having someone who looks and sounds like a guy working in the women’s locker room is just asking for trouble.
Maybe you don’t move him into that position until he has had the surgery, mmmkay?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/15/trump-fbi-search-updates/10327490002/
Two scoops will get his passports back.
Why does anyone need three passports when children are starving?
I always travel internationally with three passports.
Check out Jason Bourne over here.
Not fair. My children only have 2 passports.
Geez, two of them are expired, people. I have two passports, too, but one has expired.
*checks passport* Oops, make that both are expired.
I, too, am some sort of criminal mastermind with multiple passports.
If I had a bunch of f-me money I think I’d get citizenship in St. Kitts & Nevis for the multiple-passport lulz.
#metoo
I have to admit I don’t understand the point of getting a citizenship in a place like this for a US citizen. It makes perfect sense for Venezuelans, Russians, Chinese but for US citizens… No need for another passport for travel purposes. Taxed on the worldwide income anyway. And it’s not like St. Kitts & Nevis would keep you safe from the US Government if you have some misunderstanding with it.
I’ve heard that the State Department won’t process renunciation requests unless you already have another citizenship, but I see nothing about it on the renunciation page.
Consider Snowden. The US cancelled his US passport while he was in transit. Had he had another passport, even if it was from a country that would have done the US’s bidding, it might have bought him some time if the US government didn’t know about it.
I’ve got three passports, a couple of visas.
I bet you don’t even know your real name.
I feel like there should be some sort of mash-up with that and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Heard about Houston. Heard about Detroit. Heard about Mar a Logo.
I went to the grocery store yesterday. It cost me 75 bucks to get out of there. Subtract the beer, and it’s still 50 for some random stuff I swear would not have been much more than 25, year ago.
Way to go, Brandon.
It’s for your own good, peasant!
Subtract the beer, and it’s still
Same here.
Those are just theoretical numbers.
PA liquor stores seem to be holding the line on prices.
I found bean coffee and a couple other now-expensive staples on sale the other day and it was like Xmas.
Nobody uses coupons around here, but I can see it happening if this shit keeps up.
A still is what you need if you subtract beer.
STEVE SMITH. NOW IN FELINE FORM.
That’s a mighty uh tail.
Somebody’s frisky.
Alexander Bidenton’s Standing IRS Army
The Biden administration’s “Inflation Reduction Act” will increase inflation with hundreds of billions in additional government spending and money creation by the Fed while making supply chain problems even worse with onerous new corporate taxes, especially on energy, and myriad new “Green New Deal” environmental regulations. Increased government spending and reduced production will cause higher prices, not lower.
To collect all the new taxes for this latest election-year spending binge the administration is proposing to spend some $80 billion to more than double the number of IRS agents, hiring 87,000 new ones, 70,000 of which are reported to be armed. The Democrat party wants a standing army of armed tax collectors to enforce its will.
Armed IRS? Is that like the tallest midget in the room?
https://twitter.com/AetiusRF/status/1559312860064497664?
“We are going to lose a major audit.”
😀
We can eliminate the National Guard. IRS becomes a militia with the big boss as Commandante.
Florida Woman (one of Brett L’s neighbors) evidently needs a new hobby.
“Some days she dials in repeatedly. In early July, court documents said Jefferson called 512 times over 24 hours. That was more than half the total calls the agency received that day. ”
I’m surprised they didn’t block her number.
They say you got to do something at least 10K times before you really get good at it.
Question (I have no idea):
Does an ex-President get a diplomatic passport from the State Department, or something sililar?
Article read “2 expired passports” and one diplomatic passport, so I’m going to go with “yes”.
“Come get them at our office” isn’t “returning them”. Have one of your lackeys bring them back to Mar-a-Lago
*adjusts tin foil* seems like a ploy to get him to step foot in D.C…..
I’m sure Donald has orphans to pick them up.
Better question: does it give him diplomatic immunity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwC_IaY3BmY
I’m not even going to click and just assume that’s Danny Glover.
Fine, I clicked:
“The reason Joss Ackland’s character sounds like Palpatine is because he was a Sith African diplomat.”
😀
And, damn, did that guy do a lot of work. His IMDB page just keeps scrolling.
Still kicking at 94.
Its not just Danny Glover, Mel Gibson is right there writhing on the ground!
I like Tim Dillon, but all of his stand up clips I have seen on youtube and this clip from his special are no good. I guess I might still try it out and see how it goes.
*I like his podcast.
Not funny.
Hurr, durr he said “cum slut”! *commence laughing*
“Come get them at our office” isn’t “returning them”. Have one of your lackeys bring them back to Mar-a-Lago
No kidding.
And don’t forget to bring your for knee pads for the apology.
Read this to determine both the respect and accountability the state feels to its citizens.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-16/vanessa-kobe-bryant-sheriff-trial
Yeah, it’s a real mystery.
Avocados. They want avacados.
“Cartelization: A Celebration”
Ministry of Plenty
Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) on Monday accused the federal labor board overseeing union elections at its U.S. cafes of misconduct and asked for elections to be suspended nationwide pending the outcome of an investigation.
The coffee chain said in a letter to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman Lauren McFerran and General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo that NLRB agents helped Workers United win elections by manipulating the voting process and collaborated to cover up the behavior, according to a copy seen by Reuters.
Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) on Monday accused the federal labor board overseeing union elections at its U.S. cafes of misconduct and asked for elections to be suspended nationwide pending the outcome of an investigation.
The coffee chain said in a letter to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman Lauren McFerran and General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo that NLRB agents helped Workers United win elections by manipulating the voting process and collaborated to cover up the behavior, according to a copy seen by Reuters.
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NLRB spokesperson Kayla Blado said in a statement the NLRB had well established processes for challenging elections.
“The regional staff – and, ultimately, the Board – will carefully and objectively consider any challenges raised through these established channels,” she said.
Workers United said the letter was Starbucks’ “latest attempt to manipulate the legal process for their own means and prevent workers from exercising their fundamental right to organize.”
Anything short of a slam dunk “Heads we win, tails you lose” rubber stamp for the union is unfair manipulation of the process by the kkkapitalist oppressors. Wage slavery must end! Throw off your chains, comrades!
election deniers
You’re not my supervisor!!
Suck it Schultz. You supported this shit until your ox got gored.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/man-who-killed-himself-after-ramming-us-capitol-barrier-was-from-lehigh-valley/article_72fda32a-1d9c-11ed-8164-9f8a675c2ae8.html
Local boy.
🙄
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/fda-hearing-aids-will-soon-be-available-to-purchase-over-the-counter/
Wait, the government did something I approve of?
😯
RAF joins in the racist fun.
Dipshits.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the wokes…
Whee! At least the west is swirling down the toilet together.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yqoOCOctR-k
Your daily dose of Sanford and son.
When you have money to burn.
How much would you pay for a box of Winston Churchill’s personal cigars? If the number you’ve conjured isn’t close to the $20,000 mark, then you should probably put the idea of ever acquiring such a rare relic out of your head.
Surprise
Dodge will discontinue its gas-powered Challenger and Charger muscle cars at the end of next year, marking the end of an era for the brand as it starts to transition to electric vehicles.
——-
Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis has alluded to the possibility that the Charger and Challenger names could be used for future electrified vehicles, including a forthcoming electric muscle car in 2024. He’s previously said he believes electrification — whether hybrid vehicles with less powerful engines or all-electric models — will save what he has called the new “Golden Age of muscle cars.”
For several years, Kuniskis has warned that the end was coming for the gas-powered muscle cars due to emissions regulations. Dodge parent company Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, ranks the worst among major manufacturers for U.S. corporate average fuel economy and carbon emissions.
As many brands switched to smaller and more fuel-efficient engines, Dodge rolled out Hellcat models and other high-performance vehicles. Such models helped generate attention for the brand but didn’t help the automaker’s carbon footprint, forcing it to buy carbon credits from automakers such as Tesla.
“The days of an iron block supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 are numbered,” Kuniskis previously told CNBC, referring to engines like those in the Hellcat. “But the performance that those vehicles generate is not numbered.”
Do your part to heal the planet.
Or else.
It’s not a surprise. Dodge is an easy virtue signal, the brand can be killed. And it will die. Now try that with Jeep.
I think they are. My buddy just bought a hybrid Jeep.
Hybrid, yes. Full electric will not sell well. I am thinking the crash of all this madness will take a few years, when it is realized that it is impossible to make every car electric. By then, you will surrender your vehicle and give up, or fight back against this stupidity.
This news has been out there for a while. Late 2021 I think?
When I heard about it, I considered getting a Hellcat in 2023.
Dodge is launching a litany of special vehicles and products to “celebrate” the end of the cars as they are today. Dodge’s plans include seven special-edition, or “buzz,” models; a commemorative “Last Call” under-hood plaque for all 2023 model-year vehicles; and a new dealer allocation process, among other measures.
The new dealer process will see Dodge allocate 2023 Charger and Challenger models to lots all at once, instead of making orders available throughout the year. Dodge will provide customers a guide to locate specific models at each dealership.
Kuniskis said the process is meant to assist customers in getting the specific vehicle they want.
Great. More “special edition collectibles” which will sit undriven waiting for the big payday at Barret Jackson.
I have watched several “car guy” youtubes lately with the common theme of “cars today suck”. No argument from me. Many of them deal specifically with repairability and lack thereof. Cars designed with no consideration whatsoever of ease of maintenance. Toss in a dash of “right to repair” and what you have is at least two decades of a concerted effort on the part of the manufacturers to force everyone to take their cars to a dealer any time they need service, even (especially) post-warranty.
A lot of independent shops can’t or won’t take on some of those nightmare jobs. My friends and I used to joke about $350 labor to change a $.10 light bulb. Scale those numbers up. $2500+ labor to change a leaking A/C cooler in a pickup truck (Car Wizard). A pickup truck which would have been worth about $3000 two years ago, but now it’s probably triple that, today.
But here’s the thing. The question I am asking myself lately is when do the dealerships start hearing, “Fuck you, your cars suck. I don’t want to work here anymore. Nobody wants to work on these shitboxes.”
Congratulations, manufacturers, you’ve made your cars unfixable. Now what? More Cash for Clunkers?
I’ve been told that in more delicate words when trying to get work done on my Mini.
Had to take one of my trucks to the dealer recently because my shop was slammed.
Got the truck back and inspected it:
1) Air box was loose and passing dirt
2) Cotter pin missing from a strut (front end rebuild)
3) Tires not rotated and hard wobble at speed
4) Power steering fluid all over the engine
I was displeased to say the least.
We see that shit daily from persective.
The biggest issue is no one trouble shoots they just change parts until it works, fucking hackers
Mercedes has headlights that need to be programmed.
But with all the government interference, how on earth do you go back to sensible? They want us stationary, sedentary and dependent. “You will own nothing. And you will be happy.”
Im down to what fits in my van, fuck them, try to take it!
Aaaahhh! This conversation is triggering me tonight!
It’s no one’s fault, just I am tired of the absolutely visible bullshit of climate change and this whole electric car fad.
I believe the end will be a revolt of non-participation that will result in total collapse of things such as big car companies , computer firms, even social media. Perhaps another night I can explain myself better. Right now I want to go have a pizza (without crickets) and hang out with my wife.
I’ve thought about this fairly often. The government does have a blind spot, and that’s assembled/kit cars. I think it’s theoretically possible to develop a kit car that could be economical to run, easy on the wallet, and easy to assemble.
I think the first candidate that I would attempt would be a small, Rangeresque pickup truck.
Several open source projects exist for the command and control of the vehicle. Speeduino, for instance. 3D printing is making molds/trim/etc far easier to produce on very small scales.
I’m in.
Let me write up a better proposal. Maybe I’ll submit it to Glibs for further comment?
I’m interested to read it. It would have to be something like Cody Wilson’s mission – always staying ahead of the regulators, but it is intriguing nonetheless.
More from (fake) Kamala
She’s pretty.
The wild part is her mockery of Kamala makes as much sense as Kamala’s own speeches.
Uh, stochastic terrorism?
Fucking psychos.
They’re truly oblivious to the damage they’re doing to kids.
They’ve got no backup in them so it will eventually come to blows.
Right wing disinfo
The FBI raid of Trump’s home on August 8, in concert with the Department of Justice (DOJ), marks a dark and seminal point in American history. There can be no undoing of that act. Sadly, the world has seen America, once the land of the free, descend into a new the realm with the DOJ and FBI attempting to decide who can be president of our country — not unlike so many military coups throughout history.
There will be much fallout over the raid at Trump’s Florida home. There are significant legal and political consequences, including potentially making Trump into a political martyr and even helping his 2024 presidential campaign. Those pale in comparison, however, to the FBI and DOJ’s stunning foray over the last few years into politics, a foray that was capped off by the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Stated in the starkest terms, the FBI and the DOJ are now in the business of deciding who shall be eligible to run for office in America. Period. Full Stop.
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The current motive, plain and simple, is to prevent Trump for running again for office again. Elias referenced US Code Title 18, Section 2071 in relation to Trump. That code’s sections provides a penalty of disqualification “from holding any office under the United States.” Nothing more need be said.
DEMOCRACY! hangs in the balance. If Trump is allowed to run again, America is doomed.
Binge watching hoarder shows while I stitch. Question for you small-L libertarian types (because I am conflicted and I need some help):
Code enforcement is often involved in these cases, making demands like “clean up or we’ll condemn your house and boot you out of it and take it.”
What, if any, role should such an agency like code enforcement play in … anything? Your property, you can junk it up all you want. You can host all sorts of rodents and roaches and rattlesnakes or whatever if you want.
But the neighbors are getting a rodent, roach, and rattlesnake problem because of your habits—and never mind the stench! Without an agency, the neighbors have no legal/ethical recourse (arson is a felony!) to protect their own property.
I guess this is a MUH ROADZ question.
Who would deal with it and how, sans code enforcement?
I’ve had the same conflicting thoughts while watching that.
I’ve always wondered what happens in row/townhouses absent some sort of HOA/structure to encourage good maintenance/fire prevention.
Obviously there are firewalls and stuff, but I’d imagine the next door unit burning down doesn’t exactly help your property value.
A former roommate of mine owned a rowhome in Philly.
Other than code enforcement, nothing.
He wondered why there was a low wall of dirt around the edge of the basement. He found out when copper thieves stole copper out of a rowhome a few down from him, and then turned on the water when the left. That low wall acted as a makeshift dam.
Stop building 6″ from the house next door?
Should be a mediation, where the neighbor would be bound by arbitration to give you restitution for the damage done. Or just shoot the neighbor.
Somebody get me a hot rock! 75 is too cold for August
Hey Lizard.
Here you go.
Lizard emerges….SMOD soon?
Finally, somebody saying what we’re all feeling.
I think it’s theoretically possible to develop a kit car that could be economical to run, easy on the wallet, and easy to assemble.
Factory Five has a new WRX-based car that’s really interesting. The 818. Not exactly a practical family solution (it’s no Volvo wagon), but it can be done.
hmmmm. Maybe once I’m done building a kit plane or two…this is intriguing
Sure – first, spend $91,000 on a WRX…
Jesus.