He had a good run.
Sports? What sports? Aside from Tom Brady retiring there ain’t much going on. But pitchers and catchers report in less than two weeks, so at least baseball is right around the corner. And with that, I’m moving on.
Yes, yes. Please go down this road. I really want this guy, who was so drugged up out of his mind that he didn’t even remember where he left his laptop, to be more aggressive in going after people over the laptop. I especially want him to sue media personalities for defamation. Discovery would be freaking amazing.
More of this, please!
Let the finger-pointing begin. She could have simply said no, by the way. And she could have refused to allow Baldwin to handle anything until he completed safety training. She bears some responsibility here. But at the end of the day, he’s also responsible for his own actions. My guess: both of them will end up helping the prosecution by constantly pointing out the flaws in how each other acted.
Uh, what do they mean by “won’t get better?” This is the best possible start. And the only way it could get better is if they do literally nothing at all.
“The city that never sleeps (on the sidewalk, anyway).” This will draw a to of complaints…from people who aren’t taking these people into their own homes. And it was largely unavoidable, had the city not taken away the right for most shelters to operate outside their direct control.
Easy-peasy!
Oh, good lord. They can’t develop every ride to accommodate every person. But if they did, I might get a chance to see Robert Reich and Jerry Nadler together on a roller coaster. So it might be worthwhile.
They should take it up with Steven Spielberg. (I’m sure at least one person will get that.) Anyway, hope they start pushing back. But they probably won’t. This is the Chicago way, after all.
But Twitter are evil! Why no outcry from the left when this regularly happens elsewhere?
This is a money grab. But everything done by government is a money grab. So this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Going way back today. These guys were underrated, in my opinion. And here’s a magical song. That mix of rock, calypso, and quartet singing was pretty ingenious. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely, freezing Thursday. It’s auction day here, so I’m gonna be scrambling for the next 12 hours.
Happy Groundhog Day!!
You can say that again!
Phil saw his shadow, which is weird because we haven’t had much of a winter at all this year.
Uh, what do they mean by “won’t get better?” This is the best possible start. And the only way it could get better is if they do literally nothing at all. – if the flow of new legislation stops the world ends
It won’t get better when the executive agencies run everything. But I guess that ship sailed a while back.
Oh, good lord. They can’t develop every ride to accommodate every person. But if they did, I might get a chance to see Robert Reich and Jerry Nadler together on a roller coaster. So it might be worthwhile. – maybe the builders of the ride need counseling for their irrational fear of fat.
Are low fat diets fatphobic?
shit I messed that up since all diets are fatphobic
“Fatphobic” I’m pretty sure that making sure that riders are within ride safety limits doesn’t mean the people doing so are afraid of fat.
I would hope the ride operators ARE afraid of exceeding the weight limit.
I had no idea Mario Kart was a Spielberg joint.
It’s fixed.
So THAT’S why I could never win a race on that game…
Have fun on 50 cc,
Train on 100 cc,
Figure out everything you learned was a lie on 150 cc.
Mario Kart is a lot like driving in real life. Everyone overestimates their own driving.
“Oh, good lord.”
“They should take it up with Steven Spielberg.”
Same link.
He was blue shelled while typing that one.
That’s what I’m here for!
I don’t see anything of a suitable size for a killdozer.
That Deere 700K and the Cat D6N would do the trick. And the Deere is Trimble-ready, so you could work your weapons while the machine did the driving (to a certain degree.
Wasn’t somebody here looking for a small backhoe like that Deere 17D?
Yes someone was
But Twitter are evil! Why no outcry from the left when this regularly happens elsewhere?
I seen several articles which said the other companies CEOs sent a bullshit standard email with “we are so sorry we have to make tough decisions”, and that makes getting fired all better than the Musk approach of “k bye”
“Houston pet owners must now microchip their animals to avoid fine
A Houston ordinance goes into effect Wednesday Feb.1 which requires all pet owners to chip their furry friends.
Feb. 1, 2023”
Houston parents must now microchip their children to avoid fine
A Houston ordinance goes into effect Wednesday Feb.1 which requires all parents to chip their kids.
Feb. 1, 2028
To be fair, how do you expect Truant Officers to track the little varmits if they aren’t chipped?
I remember an arcade near school with a sign:
Children must be accompanied by an adult during school hours.
This is a money grab. But everything done by government is a money grab. So this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
wasn’t there a monkey grab in Texas recently?
Also this has been the law in Bucharest since 2015 but the compliance is low, though they are starting to ramp up the fines. This was available paid by the government for low income families.
“Congress is off to a slow start”
Reporters hardest hit. Am I supposed to be upset? All those assholes do is pass more irritating laws. It’s not like they ever shrink the size and scope of the government. I prefer them to be in gridlock.
“The electricity comes out of my wall”
“Ah, but what if the electricity stopped coming out of the wall?”
“What do you mean? The electricity does come out of my wall.”
https://twitter.com/egreghost/status/1620615135172894722
At least a little positive news on that front. Hadn’t heard much about those the last few years, here’s hoping the research reactors and working through permitting keep these alive and they can pan out.
It won’t be allowed because it would actually SOLVE PROBLEMS. And we can’t have that.
The only way to solve climate change is to have everyone buy a brand new electric car. And buy solar panels for their house. And buy a battery to store the energy. And buy new energy efficient appliances. And buy reusable bags. And buy…
When I hear people say “it’s no big deal” I have problems believing the people aren’t sarcastic. But apparently there are people that stupid.
There are a lot of them and I’ve run into my share.
These are the same ignoramuses who will demand that all power lines be buried for aesthetics even though the carrying capacity per dollar of buried lines is vastly lower.
The general assumption is that we have infinite money, electricity, and distribution. None of which are true.
Look, compared to convincing everyone they’re really a rainbow pegasus unicorn named Sharon because they self-identify as that this week… these problems at least seem solvable.
“The general assumption is that we have infinite money”
You mean we don’t? Somebody better tell Washington D.C.
They aren’t being sarcastic and they are that stupid. A customer had noticed that I upgraded my cell phone. They asked for me to donate my old phone to some charity that redistributes old phones to women in troubled relationships so they can call 911 when they won’t make the sammich when they’re told. I explained that the old phone was submerged under water for 6+ hours on a kayaking trip when my water proof bag was breached. They responded “it’s Ok, the government mandates that all phones be capable of calling 911 even after they are shut off.” He was dead serious.
https://twitter.com/egreghost/status/1620783746260824064
There is the key. To replace petroleum in transportation with electricity, you have to replace 1 btu of gas with 3 btus of power generation.
There is no way renewable is going to grow fast enough to do that.
I would love nuke power to grow, and hopefully it will, but it also can’t grow fast enough. With an effort, renewable and nuke power could replace coal. But that doesn’t do anything to solve the EV problem.
Renewable (really, intermittent) power doesn’t contribute anything but cost, because it needs either 100% non-intermittent backup or massive and prohibitively expensive storage (if its even feasible – grid-scale storage has never even been piloted successfully, as far as I know).
Just skip the intermittent crap and go straight to nukes.
Renewable is fine for small scale systems. Putting solar panels on your room for home use, for example.
In that way, it replaces electricity, of course you need the backup.
Nuke has the opposite problem, it is great for constant power but not great for load following…although the French made it work.
But, hypothetically, if we eliminated coal, you could use nuke for base power and load follow with natural gas.
Still doesn’t do anything about the fact that petroleum is super efficient for transportation. Neatly packaged without all the transmission losses.
This is the way.
“In that way, it replaces electricity, of course you need the backup.”
Which means, you need 100% backup. Anyway, I was talking about the grid, not specialty applications. You can’t really do home solar at a scale that reduces the need for grid backup, meaning, not intermittent. There simply is no storage solution for solar or wind, whether grid or home/dispersed, that reduces the need for non-intermittent grid backup by enough to matter, at all.
So just skip to the end, and not waste vast amounts of money on intermittent power generation at the grid level. If people want to do it at home, fine. Very few people will, due to the cost, even if subsidized as it is now.
I agree about the grid, but if you look at that chart, only 59% of renewables are going to the grid, 41% is going to specialty applications.
I also notice residential coal is non-existent. That is a big change from, say, London in 1700.
Intermittent, not renewable.
Interesting. I wonder what they count as specialty. And whether those are off the grid, or still on it and in need of grid backup.
I am sure they have grid backup.
Lots of industrial use, they probably found it cost effective to use renewable when they can and add on grid power.
Exactly, there’s no real gain on solar/wind once you’ve built out a reliable nuclear capability.
grid-scale storage has never even been piloted successfully
All we have to do is suspend a giant heavy weight over each town, and use the kinetic energy of it dropping back down to turn a turbine.
By the way, I have been speaking to a former coworker who now works on repairing windmills. Sounds like a pretty nasty process. Lots of fiberglass residue, paint, and lubricating oils are getting dropped in the ocean or showered over the prairies, not to mention all the birds and whales they kill.
It has not been piloted successfully. There is one small-scale pilot that I know of – a small island somewhere – and it’s a massive failure.
But we can ramp up an entire country with technology that hasn’t been invented yet, no prob.
Pump-storage projects exist. Bath County in Virginia is one of the largest in the world.
But they are expensive to build and require a mountain that you can hollow out.
I think the wind farms in Denmark use excess energy to pump water into reservoirs in Norway for use when the wind isn’t blowing. It seems to work for them, but you need the right geography and topography for that to work. And good luck building dams needed for that in the US.
How much can they store, in terms of output from the storage facility? The little I have seen on pumped water energy storage is that it is pretty inefficient.
And it still adds cost. You are now paying for both the wind facility and for the backup hydro plant.
In the case of Norway, I think the dams were already in place, so “all” they needed to do was build the pumping infrastructure. They were a pretty unique case.
Dams and hydro-electric is grid-scale storage of energy. Even that has failings.
Even if you can satisfy the generation problem, you cannot possibly create enough batteries to move the United States to work every day and back. And even if you did manage that, you have to turn over the entire inventory of batteries every seven to ten years.
The mining and extraction of those rare earths would be devastating to the environment. The heavy metal pollution would be devastating to the populace.
This is not about the environment. This is about denying cheap energy and mobility to the populace. This is about control.
Nuke power can grow incredibly quick. In fact, as quick as a blink of an eye. Good luck capturing it though 😉
Capturing is easy. Moderating is hard.
On Wednesday, Lowell, the Biden attorney, said that the new letters from Biden’s team “do not confirm Mac Isaac’s or others’ versions of a so-called laptop.”
“So-called laptop” is a nice touch.
I wonder how CNN obtained copies of the letters.
“Yes, we must only allege there is an age difference between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.”
— PJ O’Rourke to either Ted Koppel or Sam Donaldson (I forget which) on overuse of the word “alleged”.
Israel and Spain both represent successful decolonization projects, where the descendants of foreign invaders were successfully removed from lands their ancestors stole.
Funny that no one who takes “decolonization” seriously discusses this.
https://twitter.com/AngryFoodie2015/status/1620073549649289216
heh
In both cases, the foreign invaders stole land from people who stole land.
Not many “original” Iberians left after the Romans and Visigoths and etc came through.
Basque shake their fists at you.
Which just confirms the fact that if you go back far enough, everyone is living on “stolen” land.
NO! Our holy origin story of our tribe says the Gods placed us here. You denier of our religious freedom!
*Comanche war party leader nods sagely*
Mongol horde laughs while cutting off your head.
If you didn’t create the land, or buy it in a deed chain from the creator, you stole the land.
Israel might have a valid argument. Everyone else is a thief.
Israel might have a valid argument.
Speaking of holy tribal origin stories.
Yeah, I knew what you meant.
THAT WAS ORIGINALLY NEANDERTHAL LAND
FREE NEANDERTHALIA!!!
I have been out of the loop for a few days…
I heard a bit of some radio show while driving the other day where they played a clip of a phone call by then Vice President Biden to some Ukrainian official about some payment scheme and abouthow this prosecutor looking into Barisma was being a pain in the ass. Imissed most of the story, but it sounded like he was pressuring the Ukrainian about some money scheme or something.
I haven’t had time to look for it. It wasn’t on the NBC news when the wife was watching. And I didn’t see anything at CNN.
Did anyone here follow this? Was this some kind of hoax?
I think they also mentioned that some reporter found an email or text message from a Barisma exec thanking Junior for introducing him to daddy. There was a lot of chaos around at the moment, so I missed a good chunk of what was said….
Anyone on this?
I seem to recall Biden bragging about it when it happened.
Here’s the USA Today “factcheck”
*Citation Needed
The recording was before that moment.
They were discussing how they needed to move ahead with something big, so that everyone could get paid. And this prosecutor investigating Buriama was causing problems.
It seemed to completely wreck their story that the prosecutor was corrupt and not doing anything. Their complaint seemed to be that he was trying to enforce the law and it threatened their whole scheme.
Ok, the internet confirms it is true.
The response teams are already in place. Google et al demoting anyone not “official source” talking about it. So the AP article comes up first
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-media-social-media-joe-biden-russia-292da15771d83932249b32873774f8ae
Their take?
Nothing to see. The Ukrainian lawmaker who shared the tapes is actually a Russian agent, so this is all disinformation to interfere in American elections.
No, literally, that is what they say.
The AP article is primarily about how it is dangerous that the internet is not able to completely block this release.
That is where we have come… From ,”deep throat” and Woodward and Bernstein being national heroes, the the Associated Press bemoaning that the censorship regime is not airtight.
I’ve become convinced that Woodward and Bernstein were given the info to bring down Nixon by those in the government who wanted him gone. Nixon ended the war, made friends with China, and they were pissed.
And John Dean is a grade A piece of shit liar.
I saw somewhere that almost all of the Watergate burglars were CIA. If true that would tend to corroborate your thesis.
https://reason.com/2022/06/16/the-weird-world-of-watergate/
Nixon was certainly no saint and fuck him for closing the gold window, but it seems pretty clear that there were other things going on than how it has been portrayed.
And Woodward was also a spook fresh out of Naval Intelligence. He was literally a new-hire at the Washington Post when he was “assigned” the Watergate story.
From 2020.
Woodward and Bernstein weren’t national heroes at the time it happened. They were largely alone while a popular president won re-election in a landslide.
They were by 1976.
I was there. Heroic investigative journalism was the highest public service.
In hindsight, given what I know now… I question everything I know.
After Nixon’s resignation, revelations, and the movie came out. Summer 1972 was different.
“False and unsubstantiated” and we’ll leave it at that, it’s not our job or anything to substantiate this stuff. – journolists
And they know it’s false even though it’s unsubstantiated how?
I love this tactic.
Same with heart failures and the vaccine: “We don’t know what’s causing random heart failures in healthy young men, but we can say with certainty that it definitely isn’t the vax.”
Government making a Dairy Farm in Southern Ontario dump 30,000 litres of milk because they have gone over quota.
Can’t donate it to a food bank, or to a hospital, or to a homeless shelter. Right down the drain so we can pay $7 per litre for milk.
https://twitter.com/BushelsPerAcre/status/1620857144777269249
this probably lower CO2 emissions so it is necessary
$7/L? Even with CAD that’s insane.
FDR’s Agricultural Adjustment Act says, “Hello, eh?”
Robert Reich and Jerry Nadler
Well Nadler isn’t the fat-fuck he used to be, though he is still as dumb; how about Reich and Fetterlump?
Even better.
Twins for the postmodern age.
It’s not a toomah
I know that’s Kindergarten Cop, but right generation Ahnold
You really need to respect Fetterlump because he will be our next vice president.
They’ll be back on the same sidewalk within a week.
Or… they could cook up a Spanish accent and score a nice hotel room, or at least a warm cot in Red Hook.
Well you could offer to take someone in in your spare bedroom
I think I won’t do that.
No cheating, which Soviet communist said it?
https://twitter.com/alexsmjnw/status/1620873506606182401
“Human penis is found in parking lot of an Alabama gas station”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11702537/Dismembered-human-penis-parking-lot-Alabama-gas-station.html
is the word Dismembered really necessary in that context?
I think “severed” is the word they wanted, but failed to use. A body is dismembered. A body part is severed.
This is why I come here – for the language autism.
Seriously. I just left a comment on a guntuber channel to, “…quit saying ‘presently’ when you mean either ‘currently’ or ‘at present’…”
Well somewhere there is a dis-membered body.
“Remember when gas only cost an arm and a leg?”
What a dick move.
Someone really got the shaft.
I think I would probably stroke out if I came across something like that.
Dismembered or degloved?
Detachable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJU-S8T0-k
Dammit, Rat on the A Train beat me.
Identical timestamps and tie goes to upthread?
Comparing dicks is childish.
Well thank God, I was wondering where my dick went.
https://youtu.be/NQBPgJQhQHc
Back alley surgery? See. This is what happens when you prohibit hospitals from mutilating children.
I can’t believe it was actually severed. It seemed like a glansing blow.
There’s a vas deferens between the two.
What?!!!
Ok, now I am *really* interested.
Under what possible scenario are they imagining this as *not* any sort of foul play?
I really want to hear what they have on that one….
Sounds like a criminal level of phallus see.
Dicks just fall off occasionally.
“his front fell off….”
Transgender surgery lost their medical waste bag?
Clearly the perp just trying to get ahead.
Detachable?
https://youtu.be/PE7r7cjJ8ZA
“Transgender substitute teacher is fired after sharing salacious TikTok videos of herself with sixth-grade students – and clips where she discussed hormone therapy and her transition”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11703655/Transgender-substitute-teacher-fired-sharing-racy-TikToks-sixth-grade-students.html
It’s never anyone passing.
Will this transphobia never cease?!?!
When we are no longer a culture of narcissism.
The European Commission (EC) has allowed the Romanian Government, under EU State aid rules, to set up the Romanian Investment and Development Bank with an initial capital of EUR 1.6 bln.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ec-allows-romania-to-capitalise-new-investment-and-development-bank/ar-AA16YkiL
The Romanian economy is saved.
‘Orning ‘ordles — mid-range by y’all’s standards… acceptable by mine. Certainly better than the double chumping.
Daily Duotrigordle #337
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 05:16.99
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 374
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quordle.com
Your Quordle score is definitely not mid-range. Well done!
Daily Quordle 374
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6️⃣7️⃣
Awful. Brain not yet functioning.
Daily Quordle 374
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Attorneys for Hunter Biden on Wednesday asked state and federal agencies to investigate a computer repair shop owner, Rudy Giuliani and number of right-wing political figures involved in disseminating contents of his laptop, alleging that they committed computer and other criminal violations in their effort to “weaponize” the laptop contents against his father.
You forfeited the laptop when you failed to pick it up. You are a criminal that should be behind bars, you cunte.
I’m sure there are several DC judges and juries that will agree with anything they say.
They would not have taken it to a Delaware prosecutor if they did not already know that he was on the team.
So this guy is about to be turned upside down.
They also have an interesting twist… Claiming that anyone who “looks for” this information is a criminal. Are we to expect DOJ raids against journalists who are starting to look through the contents and are finding more proof that the president was taking bribes and perhaps actually selling classified information?
Are we to expect DOJ raids against journalists who are starting to look through the contents and are finding more proof that the president was taking bribes and perhaps actually selling classified information?
That really wouldn’t surprise me at this point.
Rebel Scum is correct. Per contract, you forfeit everything on that computer plus that physical computer if you fail to pay for or claim your PC. The idea of this is another nuisance lawsuit. Fuck those assholes. If you don’t want your dirty laundry aired, don’t leave it lying around.
“Send lawyers, guns, and money… Dad get me out of this.” – Hunter Biden (probably)
I wonder if Hunter realizes his dad is about to be bumrushed out of the office and then he will have absolutely no cover. Maybe this is in hopes he can get some favorable rulings before Joe has absolutely no juice anymore.
What am I talking about? People don’t really care how much influence someone has. I’m sure the money still pouring into the Clinton Foundation will turn around Haiti any moment now.
“Weaponize” is a word I’d like to see banned.
Woot! Gun stuff on the way!
Mag gauge in Philly, red dot in town! It would be nice to get it tonight so that the loctite would be cured by Saturday for zeroing before Winter Steel on Sunday.
America’s most powerful lawmakers have been twiddling their thumbs, unable to hold hearings because committees aren’t set up.
This is actually the best they could be doing.
Welcome to the Seinfeld Congress. It’s a show about nothing.
I am sure you sat back and smiled in satisfaction at this.
Forget making historic laws. It’s not even clear the new Congress can agree to keep the government functional
Dems need to negotiate. But Rs will cave anyway.
or prevent a self-imposed economic meltdown.
So you agree that reckless printing and spending is a bad thing.
“Historic laws”
What, you expect those idiots to make the Code of Hammurabi?
For the love of all that is holy, please stop with the “historic laws” already.
Look — who’s more likely to be remembered by the average man on the street? Augustus or Nero? These f’ers are betting heavily on Nero.
Likely response: Aren’t they that lovely Sienan couple who opened a bodega a few blocks away?
“Historic laws”
Because we obviously don’t have enough fucking laws already. I recall with horror the bodies piling up in the streets and the unmitigated chaos and horror in the 1980s due to the dearth of sufficient laws. And let’s not even think about the 70s.
Well every law that is broken now means we need two more laws to make it MORE ILLEGAL!
It’s like California with their response to the recent shootings: “Well, the shooters broke the multitude of laws already in place, so we obviously need MORE LAWS!!!”
They can’t develop every ride to accommodate every person.
Physics is fatphobic.
Technically physics is mass-philiac.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks Jimbo.
Yay!
I think my employer sold my email address to spammers.
Um… yeah… we’re going to need you to provide all your biometric data so we can make this quarters number, mmkay?
Oh… and we’ll need you to come in on Sunday to finish up those TPS reports. Thanks…..
You forgot to mention the cover sheet…..
A large percentage of thrill ride deaths are caused by people being too large for the restraints. Physics is not fatphobia. I have disdain for people who would bend the world to accommodate them to the detriment of everyone else. Yes, this is about the ADA.
“. I have disdain for people who would bend the world to accommodate them to the detriment of everyone else.”
Why stop with the ADA?
With the ordinance in effect, pet owners could face a fine if they don’t comply.
This and the chips are part of someone’s corrupt pet project.
That pun really screwed the pooch.
I’m not sure aRFID is the right technology.
They’ll hound you until you get the job done
This is a money grab.
It’s probably also a freedom grab. Big Tech will find a way to use your pets location data against you, and feed it to the alphabet boyz.
Why is the (surprisingly hot) chick in the photo wearing a mask to interact with dogs?
As far as I know, the chips are not GPS traceable. They reveal the owner’s name when scanned and that’s about it. I looked into getting some traceable microchips for my livestock and the damn things are prohibitively expensive.
My county requires rabies shots and that these can only be given by licensed vets. The vets are required to report the vaccine administration to the county, who then sends threatening letters about Animal Control seizing your animals if you don’t purchase a dog license each year (as i found out). It’s such a racket.
We already do the other vaccines, heartworm meds, etc. ourselves, so finally made the jump to buying the rabies vaccines ourselves online and keeping the dogs completely off the system. We chipped them ourselves too. Our vet will make house calls as needed for medical care we can’t handle and doesn’t make follow-up reports for house calls (also pay him in cash which deters reporting).
While my state doesn’t accept proof of self-administered rabies vaccines, they haven’t banned the sale online. But a bunch of states do ban online vet suppliers from shipping rabies vaccines to residential homes. What a sick and corrupt system that actually bans people from buying rabies vaccines for their animals. It reminds me of the OTC bans on Narcan.
In an interview with KHOU 11, BARC Deputy Director Cory Stottlemeyer said the microchip is to help pet owners and city officials find pets in case they’re lost.
I guess I assumed the location data was available because of the way he worded this “justification”. What the chips will actually do is allow the shelter to ID pets that have been found already.
Good for you for circumventing the scam as best you can.
Wasn’t Amazon trying to use Ring doorbells as a way to track location for something? In other words, if you walk your dog down the street it could ping on a doorbell giving away your location. It wouldn’t work if you are in the countryside somewhere, but it might in an urban environment depending on the range of the chip.
Having seen our vet trying to get a reading with their scanner, I have serious doubts you could read it unless you’re right on top of it.
This says 80mm for the ones used in pets and livestock:
https://makarfid.com/5-types-rfid-read-range-know/
They reveal the owner’s name when scanned and that’s about it.
The ones in my dogs, at least, have just returned an ID number when scanned; you need to register yourself as the owner.
Maybe that’s just the chips the rescue agencies use for all their dogs?
That’s how our dogs are chipped. Only way to do live tracking is an RF collar with GPS.
This happens locally here as well. Vet clinics are technically healthcare providers according to the county, so you have to follow the covid protocols that are in effect based on what the current case count is. So during flu season, everyone at any healthcare provider is now masked up and distancing again. Even at the vet.
Repent- the end is nigh
“Willow is a carbon bomb that cannot be allowed to explode in the Arctic,” said Karlin Nageak Itchoak, senior regional director at the non-profit Wilderness Society. Already, the Arctic has been warming almost four times faster than the rest of the world.
“Our Native villages are eroding into the sea, thawing permafrost is making infrastructure insecure, and food sources are disappearing,” Itchoak said. “And this project would just exacerbate and speed up the climate crisis in the Arctic.”
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“It’s outrageous that Biden seems ready to greenlight the massively destructive Willow project, prioritizing oil industry profits over the future of polar bears and other Arctic wildlife,” said Kristen Monsell, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “We’ll keep fighting it until it’s scrapped.”
Biden had promised during his election campaign to end federal oil and gas drilling, and transition toward renewable energy. But as oil prices rise as a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the president has faced further pressure to increase drilling.
Poor Joe.
Holy crap, if you took a shot for every falsehood in that story, you’d die of alcohol poisoning.
Big Oil isn’t drilling enough which raises their prices which leads to evil profits. And Big Oil is trying to drill too much leading to evil profits.
I can tell you that the Native villages up there are damned anxious to have those jobs.
THICC Thursday tries to class up this joint.
https://archive.ph/bH2Ca
It’s really all she has.
Yet another example of VP Kamala Harris saying a lot of words that mean absolutely nothing.
Authentic political gibberish.
that is not an insignificant skill for a politician
No more veneration of autocrats
Australia is removing the British monarchy from its bank notes.
The nation’s central bank said Thursday its new $5 bill would feature an Indigenous design rather than an image of King Charles III. But the king is still expected to appear on coins that currently bear the image of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The $5 bill was Australia’s only remaining bank note to still feature an image of the monarch.
The bank said the decision followed consultation with the center-left Labor Party government, which supported the change. Opponents say the move is politically motivated.
From now on, Australia will be a free nation.
So when are they going to dump the monarchy?
We’ll grow our autocratic, top down authoritarianism locally from now on, thank you very much.
Are they replacing them with that Megan Markle gal and her cuck?
I tried to take it up with Spielberg, but he was at lunch.
I’m sure we are all overjoyed.
Cementing what has been in the works for months, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will formally announce she is running for president and will seek the Republican nomination for her party’s 2024 ticket, The Post and Courier has learned.
According to an invitation soon going out to her backers, Haley’s advertised “special announcement” will come Feb. 15 at the The Shed at the Charleston Visitor Center, a downtown gathering spot that could draw hundreds of supporters into the heart of the city’s tourism district.
The confirmation she is entering the race came Jan. 31 from a member of Haley’s inner circle.
*yawn*
No.
Oh yay, warmonger with tits.
To be fair, I enjoy tits.
lose them in video games, gain them in real life warmongering
Meh, I’d have to watch TV to enjoy them on warmongers.
The GOP establishment loves to dangle a nonwhite female candidate out so that boomers will say “yeah she’s not perfect but this is a trump card for those racist/sexist allegations!”
At this point, Republicans could elect a gay black woman as president, and the left would claim white supremacy is a much bigger problem than they thought.
She’s as good a choice as anybody to lose the fortified election of 2024.
Australia’s Reserve Bank said the new $5 bill would feature a design to replace the portrait of the queen, who died last year. The bank said the move would honor “the culture and history of the First Australians.”
Men in stripes busting rocks?
Use AI
They should just put the dude from Midnight Oil on it. He’s practically an aborigine.
The governments of Bolivia and Chile have agreed this Tuesday to extend the attention of the Chungará-Tambo Quemado border crossing, located between the two countries, in order to unblock the passage of numerous Bolivian trucks stranded on the border with Peru due to the socio-political situation in which the latter finds itself.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bolivia-and-chile-agree-to-reinforce-one-of-their-border-crossings-in-the-face-of-peruvian-blockades
https://twitter.com/terminallyOL/status/1620419849167208452
Seconding hands are the devil’s play thing. What, being all sticky and covered fecal matter and all.
I remember seeing people complain that Wall-E was fatphobic because all the humans were depicted as fat slobs that couldn’t get out of their robotic scooters.
I will say, the highlight of that movie for me though was when the ship was tilting over and all their soft shitty bodies were sliding down the incline.
‘…all their soft shitty bodies were sliding down the incline.’
Stop jacking off, Tres.
The Judge Dredd comics had “The League of Fatties”, a criminal organization devoted to stealing food in the harsh, rationed future.
https://judgedredd.fandom.com/wiki/League_of_Fatties
That was a hilarious story. The belly wheels are the best.
Desfile completo da Garota Verão do Pará 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZk_FjYE2-I
Nuance
California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to limit where people can carry concealed guns after multiple mass shootings left dozens dead across the state in January, calling for more restrictions in a state that already has some of the nation’s toughest gun laws.
He endorsed legislation Wednesday that would ban people from carrying concealed guns into churches, public libraries, zoos, amusement parks, playgrounds, banks and all other privately owned businesses that are open to the public. The rule wouldn’t apply if the business owner puts up a sign that says concealed guns are allowed.
Democratic state Sen. Anthony Portantino, the bill’s author, called that exception “a legal nuance that I think helps it with constitutional muster.”
Everything not mandatory is prohibited.
I cannot get the reasoning behind gun free zones. I can understand the idea behind say background checks. But mass shootings are rarely spontaneous events, I would think.
Some casual study indicated that the average time between decision and execution for a spree killer was around six months.
Seems like they usually have some kind of manifesto or planning materials they worked on for a long time before the spree.
Is there a law VERY SPECIFICALLY prohibiting me driving a boot up Gavin’s ass? Then it must be mandatory!
I would never join a church that needed a “Guns Not Welcome Here” sign. Any deity I decide to devote my life to had better damn well spend a little time protecting his flock from mass shooters in the church.
Other way around. Churches would need to post a welcome guns sign.
All the ushers at my buddy’s church are armed. I carried in church many times. Pretty sure that’s somewhere in scripture.
I am armed at church as well, but with a sword. We’re one of those congregations that seeks to emulate the Apostles in our daily life.
:facepalm: Because the mass shooters were all about following all the laws, right Gav?
Right?
f’ing moron.
Has he not been seeing other such laws getting overturned by the courts?
To be fair, he’s probably knows the tenor of the California courts pretty well.
And the 9th Circus.
ban people from carrying concealed guns into churches, public libraries, zoos, amusement parks, playgrounds, banks and all other privately owned businesses
Because that will stop a wannabe murderer from entering said places to commit murder.
Int: Day, CBS Conference room table
Studio exec: Dammit! Our ratings suck! We need something to get eyeballs on our ads!
Director of New Program Development: What about a reboot of Matlock? That was popular, and oldsters watch TV all day long.
VP of DEIB: Eh, “stale, pale, and male” isn’t what modern audiences are looking for.
Director of New Program Development: What if… we made Matlock a woman?
Exec: Brilliant!
:: Murder She Wrote taps CBS on shoulder ::
That reminds me; other than John Larroquette, the new Night Court is not good.
Considering two of the main characters are dead, that’s not too surprising.
Three. Well, four counting Mel Torme. Only ones left are Bull, Ron, and Dan.
*Roz not Ron
Yeah, not really I saw that via RedLetterMedia.
It was a special level of bad. Seriously unfunny.
And watching John Larroquette doing the exact same twitchy mannerisms that played so well with a goofy Harry Anderson was painful with this unfunny cast playing things much flatter.
Jake and the
FatmanWeight-Challenged Man is also being rebooted.This article about how much munitions are being expended in Ukraine made me wonder when China will decide to invade Taiwan and we can do nothing because we have no reserves.
You mean our shitty decisions have repercussions beyond the immediate concerns?
That’s Russian propaganda talk, buddy.
We still have nukes
Yes. And all we have to do is give Taiwan a few and China will go double check their math. While we’re at it, let’s make sure Japan has a few as well.
We already gave Japan two nukes.
Too soon
-1 half life
That joke bombed.
I await the fallout.
*standing ovation*
Zing!
Seriously, though, I’m pretty sure the Japanese have nukes, or at least the capability to assemble nukes on the ASAP plan.
The Japanese aren’t stupid. They have to have observed how we treat our allies.
LockRayBoe-INNNGGGGG laughs and says… “They’ll focus on Taiwan first… plenty of time for war hysteria to ramp up our orders! CHA-CHING!”
good news you are getting rid of old stuff and replenishing it with new
Lest anyone forget that we’re still committing genocide against a population that doesn’t pose any threat to us whatsoever.
https://original.antiwar.com/Joziah_Thayer/2023/02/01/the-us-is-making-billions-being-warlords-in-yemen/
But our BFFs in the Arab world don’t want to have to face off against those subhuman Shi’ites without us having their backs.
And it appears that the Saudis have our nuts in their pocket with the petrodollar arrangement, which is highly vulnerable because of our shenanigans in Ukraine and sanctions on Russia.
We’re ruled by malicious morons.
Another reason energy independence in the short term (fracking) and long term (nukes as discussed above) is a good idea in my opinion. Self reliance and being able to tell the rest of the world “No foreign entanglements, fuck off.” is a lot better than World Thug.
Choir. Preaching… I know.
Why won’t this fucker die?
The nicotine – we hates it, however you can consume it. We wants you to suffer.
Protective Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on COVID-19-Related Intensive Care Hospitalization and Mortality: Definitive Evidence from Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864223/
And yet anyone who suggested early on that mass distribution of vitamin D to vulnerable populations (nursing homes) was labeled with “SCIENCE DENIER.”
I assert that the government agencies wanted those deaths so they could push their precious vaccines.
The reason Ivermectin was slandered was the Emergency Use Authorization for the vaxx stipulated that the condition have no effective therapeutics. One thing Covid illuminated for me was how thoroughly the establishment has been captured by the snake oil salesmen.
Oh absolutely, and HCQ has done even better than ivermectin. Those were direct therapeutics and as such couldn’t be allowed in order to get the EUA.
Vitamin D is just a general preventative, not a therapeutic. They could have distributed it en masse and still gotten their EUAs, but they would have taken a narrative hit which they couldn’t abide.
I rescind that statement, HCQ was known earlier, and it is more useful as a prophylactic. Ivermectin is a better early treatment therapeutic.
https://c19early.org/
I like this chart. Cost per life saved.
https://c19early.org/cost.html
Melatonin – $8
Paxlovid – $59,777
It is too laugh that the Food & Drug Act was to tame the wild beasts of the market.
I don’t think you’re wrong. I also don’t think reducing the pension and social security / medicare outlays wasn’t thought of.
That’s my opinion of our “governing class” at this point…
In an extra-large serving of derp…
We have no agency. Please help.
Choice is bad mkay. Bugs and gruel for everyone.
Also fuck Scotland swamping me with whisky
They need someone to open a Souplantation …
*leaves site*
I can’t wait to see how this is woke-ified.
Following years of rumors and speculation, King of the Hill is officially getting the reboot treatment at Hulu.
The Disney-backed streamer has handed out a straight-to-series order for a revival of the former Fox animated series from 20th Television Animation. Creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels are set to return and exec produce alongside showrunner Saladin Patterson (ABC’s The Wonder Years update) and original voice castmembers Kathy Najimy, Stephen Root, Pamela Adlon, Johnny Hardwick and Lauren Tom. The reboot, which has been rumored for years, has been in the works since Judge and Daniels reunited with the King of the Hill cast in 2017 at Sketchfest in San Francisco for the 20th anniversary of the beloved comedy.
Bobby goes trans.
Something isn’t right with that girl.
Electric grill and electric grill accessories.
Dale is a Q-tard MAGA terrorist.
Peggy is a closeted lesbian.
Luanne renounces Christianity and joins Antifa.
Luanne won’t be in it as Britney Murphy died a while back. Nor will Lucky, as Tom Petty is dead.
All of the articles in my feed have been about Khan, and how Toby Huss hasn’t been announced as returning. So will he be written off the show, or will they cast an Asian voice actor to play him? In the same articles they talk about how good of a character Khan was and then say how he’s still “problematic”.
Disney is the Joe Biden of media entertainment. Never underestimate the power of Disney to fuck things up.
This is true. But they also green lit Andor, which was phenomenal.
Luanne is dead
I doubt Mike Judge will go woke. He certainly didn’t with the Beavis and Butthead reboot.
I have some faith in Mike Judge.
Agreed. Just like Trey and Matt, might flirt with and poke fun with it, but I do not think will go full retard.
I smell a lawsuit.
A federal institution, the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum, just kicked out an entire group of pro-life students and their chaperones simply for having a pro-life religious message on their hats. It’s absolutely outrageous, it’s unconstitutional discrimination, and the ACLJ is fighting back.
Last Friday, students from a Catholic school in Greenville, South Carolina, traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the National March for Life. After the event, they went over to explore the nearby Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. Once in the museum, they were accosted several times and told they would be forced to leave unless they removed their pro-life hats. The group all wore the same blue hat that simply said, “Rosary PRO-LIFE.” Other individuals in the museum were wearing hats of all kinds without issue.
The museum staff mocked the students, called them expletives, and made comments that the museum was a “neutral zone” where they could not express such statements. The employee who ultimately forced the students to leave the museum was rubbing his hands together in glee as they exited the building. We here at the ACLJ are absolutely appalled at this blatant discrimination and won’t let this behavior stand.
Sure, if you are a museum employee.
Eh as long as the taxpayers pay and the museum employees are unaffected let them have their lawsuit
Good morning, Sloop!
I’m tired of pretending these people are homeless because no home. Once again, no mention of drugs in the article. Just “mental illness.” And then this:
No good, huh? I wonder why?
Blah. I’m gonna goo listen to the Hollies and remember.
But did you know that this one country solved homelessness by giving everyone homes?
Yeah… they just happened to be all in a camp in Siberia… problem solved!
Well, Siberia is not a bad model for Minnesota…
Well, I found a home in the army. 3 hots and a cot. They booted me out finally though, for which I will be eternally grateful.
That’s the problem right there in a nutshell. It’s up to society (really government money) to figure out and provide where these people should go. Not, you can’t do these things and it’s up to you to figure it out yourself. Fuck the 9th Circus. And fuck the city of Boise.
Shelters are “no good” because they have rules, like “no doing drugs”, “no obnoxious inebriation”, “no stealing people’s stuff”, etc. etc.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, if I’m not gonna do any of that I’ll just get a job and boycott the shelter.
Bingo.
Man you’re harshing on my culture!
Speaking of pointless new regulations… Why do you make me hit you baby? I have no idea what the reasoning of a new ordinance in Minneapolis, but they decided to make it illegal to park on the even sides of streets. We have a lot of snow this year, maybe it is because they are so shitty at plowing that they just decided to ban parking?
Anyhow, those dang white supremacists in Minneapolis are not following the rules.
Ooops, I should have paid more attention to the article I linked. This is why the need for a parking ban:
Again, “it is your fault we can’t do a good job”. I wonder how they are squaring the circle of “you know who is really getting screwed by this parking ban? Poor people. Poor neighborhoods without offstreet parking are getting hammered because they have no where else to park their cars.”
I’m waiting for the articles about how BIPOC and trans people are being towed at higher rates than whitey.
That would be a follow on for providing parking subsidies or another new program, not for getting rid of the original regulation.
zOMG parking garage deserts!
Global Warming strikes again!!!
Even side of the street? I wouldn’t know what that means.
House numbers- usually houses on one side of the street have even numbers, houses on the other side have odd numbers.
Gotcha.
They created a handy guide for the plebes to use to determine their allowed use of public roads.
https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/snow/winter-parking-restrictions/#d.en.47117
The Fed only raised by a quarter point. I was expecting a half point raise.
“To be sure, Powell added that it’s premature to declare victors against inflation.”
I was hoping for a half point.
Hoping appears to be a mistake these days.
Is it just me or does that picture of Hunter Biden look a lot like Mitt Romney?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-owner-discovers-cars-software-update-wont-install-when-parked-on-incline
Lulz
My father’s Nissan Frontier ECU goes batshit every once in a while and you have reboot the system by disconnecting the battery or the truck won’t start.
It is simply too expensive and time-consuming to properly test out all of the software on modern vehicles, therefore it doesn’t happen.
But all electric vehicles are gonna be great.
I think software on vehicles is tested better than just about any other software package.
I worked for a giant German company that was heavily involved in the automotive industry and it took forever to get software tested and cleared. And we just did parts for the cars.
And yet, it still fails.
Now Germans may be more rigorous than Nissan America, but…
I used to work at a place that made flexible circuit boards for Jeep transmissions. I ran the bed of nails machine that electrically tested each board. We had a 50% scrap rate. I can’t imagine what the scrap rate was after a few bending cycles.
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Steak & Eggs by Katie
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1621145434260672514
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Beef Brisket by Kathie
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1620422205632040968
Good smoke ring… tips look like they have a bit of char, which is good. Sauce looks a little thin — and not sure if that’s pulled pork or pickled onions on a biscuit in the back… too much bread for my liking, and lost the goat cheese in the salad or whatever that is. But otherwise, looks pretty good.
I assume onion
Looks like a tomato, arugula and beet salad with goat cheese. I believe you are right that those are picked onions on top of mac n’ cheese (or potato salad) though, not a biscuit.
See, I was giving it bonus points for the goat cheese/tomato/avacado/beet salad. Really a nice contrast to BBQ meat.
What biscuit? Not sure if those are grits or what. Originally I thought it was Mac and cheese with pulled pork, but now don’t know.
Being and english twitter account I assumed mashed potatoes and didn’t look to closely
also avocado? I see unripe tomato. which makes sense in England
Yeah its red/green tomatoes, arugula, beets and goat cheese. Oh and maybe some chiffonade mint or basil.
would eat tbh
Right there with you pie, see nothing on that plate I wouldn’t shovel
If vinegar based sauce, the thinness is fine.
I’m fine with plain white plates.
oh ha ha
“Mooooo!”
(Sorry, I’m one of those heathens who likes at least medium-well.)
The meat is fine, runny eggs bother me though, except on a croque madame.
Not enough fired potato, too many chives.
I thought that was parsley
I think you’re right. Some kind of sauce on the fries? Now I don’t know if those are smaller things on the plate or just enormous finishing salt crystals.
Crystal meth?
Yes sauce on the fries…I was gonna say a cheese sauce, but not too sure about that. Maybe a bravas or mustard aioli. Definitely finishing salt
Thats parsley I believe.
They failed to finish cooking the egg.
The detail about the CEO who just killed Gawker 2.0 spending more money on an old hat ($1.4M) than Gawker ($1.35M) is going to live with me for awhile
https://twitter.com/jaymboller/status/1620855470134116352
To the twit, not Pie… “Why? Is it your money? Do you have some vested interest in Gawker existing over other over-rated blog wannabes? Do you just enjoy telling everyone else how they should live their lives to mask how pathetic you really are? Oh wait… we can already tell on that last one…”
Fucking twerp is a wannabe media mogul.
It is simply too expensive and time-consuming to properly test out all of the software on modern vehicles, therefore it doesn’t happen.
But all electric vehicles are gonna be great.
But everybody says EVs are simpler and much cheaper to repair. They can’t be wrong, can they?
I’ve had a lot of cars. The thing that scares my checkbook the most is electrical gremlins.
“Why is it doing that?” “I don’t know, by all electrical standards, diagrams, schematics and theory, it should not do that”
Yet there it is, doing it.
Even in ICE vehicles replacing failed electronics is expensive.
The detail about the CEO who just killed Gawker 2.0 spending more money on an old hat ($1.4M) than Gawker ($1.35M) is going to live with me for awhile
I don’t know about the hat, but he definitely overpaid for Gawker.
Adani: How the billionaire’s empire lost $100bn in days
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64494466
From WaPo today. I read a paragraph like this and I hear someone ranting and spitting about the menace of “Jewish science” in my head.
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1620958265889935365
I think software on vehicles is tested better than just about any other software package.
I worked for a giant German company that was heavily involved in the automotive industry and it took forever to get software tested and cleared. And we just did parts for the cars.
Still not not gonna trust drive-by-wire.
I’ll have a cable-actuated throttle, and a column of high pressure hydraulic fluid directly controlled by my foot to whoa things down, thank you very much.
Don’t fly…
“Why is it doing that?” “I don’t know, by all electrical standards, diagrams, schematics and theory, it should not do that”
“It never did that in the lab. You must have broken it.”
Ticket status: “Closed: Works for me.”
Unable to reproduce the error.
Mechanical tattoo
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1621019815803772928
I don’t much like tattoos. I appreciate the skill the artist needs to do this, it is masterful. I still don;t think it looks good on a human.
Wow. Excellent work. I can’t imagine how many hours that took.
Or how much it must have hurt.
Not my thing, but if you are going to get a tattoo, get a good one.
Brooksie, I found your next car.
that looks like a younger man’s thing
Does it come with a government coverup?
I bet that thing really burns rubber
🙂
What makes it ‘spooky’ — it looks like a normal Camaro.
oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utIjyD721XY
Spielberg would just refer you to John Landis.
An auspicious day for KK!
I like it, Tundra, but it’s an automatic. No deal.
Resistance is futile.
Don’t fly…
I gave that up a long time ago.
Did you watch the last I Do Cars teardown, Sensei? I don’t even know how you could do that much damage to any motor, much less a Honda. You’d expect the thing to lock up after the first two or three rods broke.
Yup. I agree it was worse than the Kia destruction.
I prefer his videos of German engines and how they are engineered. They are constructed of as much plastic possible and designed to last exactly 30 seconds past the factory warranty while being impossible to service.
I’m so glad I stopped buying them.
That was my experience with a BMW. We bought the warranty extension to 100k, at which point it self-destructed.
One of my neighbors has a BMW SUV that needs a new motor mount at 70k. Before BMW, I never heard of a motor mount wearing out.
I had them wear out.
On an early ‘70s Chevy Nova.
The mall is never closed for an idiot.
Lotta space in this mall.
Lawsuit can proceed against Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse/a>
Conspiracy theory alert!
I can’t imagine why he wouldn’t want people to know about his whereabouts.
Uh, whoops.
Wrongful death? “But for” Huber chasing Rittenhouse down the street, hitting Rittenhouse, and trying to take the rifle away, Huber would be alive.
I am guessing the state will extract its pound of flesh from him.
Look it doesn’t matter if he went out of his way to chase him down or then swinging a potentially deadly object at him while on the ground…
Huber is the guy who tried to wing him with a skateboard, correct?
Yep, skateboard guy.
As it turns out, all 3 guys Rittenhouse shot had rap sheets of some type.
Even better, the lawsuit alleges a conspiracy between Rittenhouse and Kenosha law enforcement. Fine, serve it, and then dismiss it with sanctions for filing a frivolous suit.
Wait…what? So the police conspired with Rittenhouse and none of that was ever alleged during his trial. Weird. I get the dad is in pain, but your kid was an a-hole
They were angels helping blind orphans cross the street until Kyle shot them for no reason.
His dad didn’t give two fucks about his kid until the kid got killed.
This is laughably retarded. But I expect Kyle will be railroaded somehow here.
Well, I am now in my new cube, and have the key work pieces in order (computer, phone, chair).
Of course, the only people who wander past to say hi are higher managers. Haven’t seen anyone who reports to me show up.
(-.-)… Now I’m suspicious of what they’re up to.
I prefer his videos of German engines and how they are engineered. They are constructed of as much plastic possible and designed to last exactly 30 seconds past the factory warranty while being impossible to service.
It seems to me the auto industry is careening toward a model in which engines are replaced at 40k miles as routine service.
Not Toyota, as far as I know. We’ve got 200K on the FJ Cruiser, and that’s after putting a supercharger on it, which I can’t believe extends the engine life. There’s a few people on the FJ forums who say they have as many as 500K on theirs.
It has had approximately zero (0) problems. I think we had to replace the alternator at maybe 120K? That would be it.
Toyota is a bit of exception. Mind you in places with road salt the body will rot in ways not possible with German cars…
Toyota motors are designed to be serviced and even when forced by emissions standards to use direct injection they have port injection as well to avoid carbon on the intake valves.
If forced to buy the last car I would ever own I’d choose a Toyota.
I just brought my 2008 4Runner with 200K miles to the mechanic for routine service, and mentioned I should probably start thinking about a newer one at this point. He said why? you could easily get another 100K out of it.
I’ve heard it said that EV’s are not cars, they’re appliances. So it makes sense those will be built in the same way. Don’t bother to get new batteries, just leave your old $60k EV on the curb and buy a new one every few years.
Nissan Leafs (err Leaves) gave EVs a bad name for battery longevity. They cheaped out didn’t use active cooling and had short lives.
Modern liquid cooled battery tech should easily last 10+ years and be recyclable.
Current cars with 20+ electronic control modules get mechanically totaled all the time after they a 7 or 8 years old.
I am now in my new cube
Did you get a door? I missed it f you said, previously.
Doors are for closers
I did not get a door. I do have a window.
I found out where all my direct reports are – Thursdays are apparently “Everyone works remotely” day.
Wrongful death? “But for” Huber chasing Rittenhouse down the street, hitting Rittenhouse, and trying to take the rifle away, Huber would be alive.
No, no, no. Don’t you get it? That bloodthirsty vigilante Rittenhouse stalked and killed those poor innocent people, same as if he had a hunting license.
Hey dad, your son was an asshole. Not sorry he’s not around.
Rich socialist won’t pay for Netflix.
his videos of German engines and how they are engineered.
When he did the “hot vee” BMW V8 I was completely astounded. Who could possibly have thought that was a good idea? Well, aside from the people who sell replacement engines, anyway.
Terrifying footage captures dangerous predator stalking and taking down its elusive prey:
https://twitter.com/S0NlA9/status/1620935422275883008
You muscling in on the Pope’s turf?