I had to go see my doc this week because of a couple out of range results in my routine bloodwork. She’s a very smart young woman and somewhat cute as well. We have a good personal rapport, and she’s perfectly comfortable telling me about personal stuff. We went through an exam, discussed the results a bit, and she observed, “Well, despite the lab results, you’re the healthiest..” Yes? “…geriatric patient I have.” Oof.
To get to be geriatric, you need to have birthdays, and people who have or had them on this date include a guy who I am sure will be claimed by the trans community; a guy who developed the single most beautiful equation in mathematics; a guy we should all drink to; a vicious anti-semite who did have an effect; a great artist from my favorite school; a guy famous for his shoe; a shrink for the rest of us; someone who represented the very best of America; the most beautiful woman not named Diana Rigg to ever walk the earth; and a guy who was perhaps not the best date.
Let’s move on to Links.
We got those damn Rooskies right where we want ’em!
Maybe stop worrying about weed and using voodoo polygraph technology and, I dunno, concentrate more on actual security? I know, crazy talk.
Apparently he was unaware of “bros before hos.”
In spring, a young man’s fancy turns to…
So last weekend, the Old Man went to a little bar in Rochester with an NPR Lady and these guys were playing. And they were on fire! After we put it out, they continued playing.
Interesting how hard it is to effectively sanction a nation that has a commodity that everyone wants plus a host of other valuable natural resources. The Chinese and the Russians are laughing all the way to the bank while Europe slides into deindustrialization and irrelevancy. Itās a sad, and completely unnecessary, state of affairs.
The Strange Death of Europe.
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Death-Europe-Immigration-Identity/dp/1472958055
Hey, Old Man!
Thanx for the Lynx.
Gonna turn back into bed and read until I fall asleep again. Got a full day of chores to do before “Coworker” shows up late Sunday night.
I have the glamor of raking leaves and power washing the house. Then NPR Lady tonight.
You can’t use your cafe workers for that?
For power washing, or NPR lady?
Raking leaves in April?
Euphemism?
Must relate to the chocolate and tuna bit.
Mornin’, HE. Good to work at a gig that comes with great benefits, right?
The Russia/Ukraine ridiculousness is beyond baffling. Why TF did we ever try taking a side? It was almost “too local” and now it threatens to color decades to come or even get nooquooler.
We took a side because itās been Graft Central for the Biden family, various congresscritters, and Eurotrash elites for years and years now and no one wants to let a good grift go, plus the left has an irrational hatred of Russia for rigging the 2016 election (I know, itās horseshit but try telling them that).
Also, MIC. If peace were allowed, Trump would still be President.
a guy who developed the single most beautiful equation in mathematics;
Happy birthday Pythagoras!
I was gonna say Cauchy/Schwartz/Bunyakovski, but (a) it’s an inequality, not an equation, and (b) what are the odds they have birthdays on the same day?
I’m with the Old Man. Euler.
Mornin’, Old Man.
That story about teacher trysts has to be fake, those names can’t be real.
Arkansas educator Heather Hare, 32, was expected to turn herself in Friday for an alleged sexual relationship with a teen student and is now facing a first-degree felony assault rap, the Arkansas Times reported.
Rumor has it she fucks like a rabbit.
Oklahoma teacher Emily Hancock, 26, was also arrested Thursday after local police were tipped off to her alleged relationship with a student.
Hancock? Okay…
Kristen Gantt, 36, an English teacher at a Catholic high school in Des Moines, Iowa, was added to the tally Friday for allegedly having sex with a teen student five times inside and outside her school, according to local reports.
Her libido is off the charts.
Now I wonder how many of these tete-a-tetes go unreported. Do the participants ‘expose’ themselves?
I’d reckon most teenage boys would brag to their friends about it.
I worked in a high school as a ‘paraprofessional’, helping with the chem labs. The boys do brag, but keep it *very* close to their chests. I made a number of good friends amongst the students but it wasn’t until way after I left the job that I heard about some of the exploits. They’re not nearly so tight-lipped about peer group shenanigans.
Almost all white woman. One looks like and has a middle-eastern sounding name.
4/6 – Teenage Hero
a guy famous for his shoe;
Happy birthday Jeff MacNelly!
Youngest Patzer is seeking a summer internship. I told him to withdraw his application to the U.S. Marine Corp.
Good morning, OM,
You got some good medical news, for a man of your age.
Good links but I can see high school has certainly been updated since I graduated. Miss Schwartz and Mrs Castle would have been lonely(er) had they been looking at any kids. 60 and plus size limits one’s opportunities
I took 5 years of high-school Spanish because of Ms. Knoll’s short skirts and summer dresses. Sadly my lust was unrequited.
Apparently her step daughter (in my grade) got caught in the theater seats in flagrante delicto
a guy we should all drink to;
Happy birthday Eberhard Anheuser!
the most beautiful woman not named Diana Rigg to ever walk the earth;
I’m pleased to see you celebrate Marie Dressler, but I don’t know I’d call her second most beautiful behind Diana Rigg.
You like them desiccated.
Where are you, Natalie Wood? I’m still waiting…Natalie and I were the same age until…
Q: What’s the only kind of wood that doesn’t float?
A: Natalie Wood.
Youāre going back a ways on that one and what was Queen Victoria, chopped liver?
No, two sides of beef in a bushel bag.
I gotta toss in a vote for Grace Kelley here.
I see none of you Morena Baccarin.
Heathens.
Well, she is a bit old for OM’s fantasies, and too young to have impressed him in his youth.
She was the second hottest woman of both Firefly and V!
A young man’s thoughts turn to extra credit?
Good morning, Old Man et al! What a delightful musical band of brothers! So appealing I’ve switched from “Baroque and Beyond” on the satellite radio to their two year old 90-minute live stream from home. Thanks! šš¶šš»šŖ(no acoustic guitar emoji? WTH???)
In retrospect, I should have dropped in a link about Alito staying the Texas federal judge’s abortion decision. Coincidentally (maybe), I had a couple glasses of wine last night with an Alito protĆ©gĆ© who hadn’t heard the day’s news. I mentioned that Alito had ruled on the judge’s national order, to which she naturally replied, “I bet his upholding of the order pissed off a lot of people.”
“He stayed it.”
“HE DID WHAT?????”
“Stayed it.”
“Huh. I love the guy, he’s brilliant, but he’s waaaaay conservative. I guess he followed the constitution instead of his own preferences.”
“Crazy shit, that.” She nodded agreement and looked impressed.
Granting a temporary stay is a good way to pretend to be impartial. Heās just being crafty.
I thought today’s music would be Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher.
Van Halen (album) is all time banger
I grew up listening to Roy Clark. My parents were from Alabama, so we had both kinds of music in the house.
Roy Clark’s expressions were a hoot. He was made for TV. I watched his fingers fly. I think I have a cd of his. Great music.
We’re going to have to “sell” Ukraine a few nuclear submarines to stop those Russian oil tankers.
Mmm… The Black Sea nuclear submarine fleet.
No one saw that coming!
Good morning Glibs.
Good morning! 61N! If I recall your home base correctly, it must be awfully early there (and not very warm!)
Yes ma’am, you are correct on both accounts. There’s still 2-4 feet of snow in my yard, depending on what part. The big pine tree has bare grass under it but not too far is the deepest part because the sun never hits it this time of year.
Hey, 61! Been a while.
A quick peek at the google nooz gives us this headline from The Atlantic:
The Narcissists Who Endanger America
They’re doing an expozay on the Biden administration, right?
Right?
It’s sad to see a once decent magazine descend into, well….. that.
Well, as a headline it is possible that it could describe the correct set of people. But given the masthead above the headline, it isn’t.
“a 21-year-old guardsman at a base in Cape Cod had access to such sensitive information.”
Wait, he drilled at Camp Edwards? I deployed out of that place in 1990 and drilled there for a year after the war. A lot may have changed in 3 decades, but I’m very suspicious. It’s a little backwater base for Guardsmen and Reservists.
Well you see, once you are into JWICS, there is apparently no segregation of data, it’s just all there in a big pile and you sift through it looking for what you are supposed to need to know and ignoring all the stuff you aren’t.
That’s the description from The Hill’s national security experts. Though they were a little puzzled that no one noticed him printing and exfiltrating docs. Then again, maybe he was the only person in that SCIF.
Otis, I thought.
Okay – I think they are connected.
Ah, yes – “Joint Base Cape Cod”
At the base of Massachusetts’ wang.
I like how they toss in the Devout Catholic stuff with the racist stuff and the 2A topics on Discord.
Paywalled. Do people actually pay money to read the nonsensical drivel excreted by The Atlantic?
https://12ft.io
I knew I shared a b-day with DaVinci, Samantha Stevens, and Roy Clark but I did not know about Euler – that is cool.
Happy birthday! š
HBD š
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday ššš
Happy birthday!
Many more to go, Rhywun, enjoy, ’cause they don’t get any easier, according to OMWC.
Quordle is kicking my ass; off to a banging start.
It happens when you get older.
Speaking of which…
Daily Quordle 446
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Ho hum.
8 4
7 3
Obligatory. šŗšš
Good birthday, good sir!
For you.
Happy birthday, brother!
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=happy+happy+birthday+baby&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dlfy18ynhWNU
Excellent, age-appropriate choice.
I would also accept this
Oh hell yeah, excellent tune.
š
Happy birthday, dude. Hope you’re doing something to treat yourself.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6M7i2mfMlU
A Happy Birthday tune for you.
Happy birthday Rhy!
Happy birthday, Rhy š
“$29 ham and cheese sandwich a total rip-off ā so why are NYers eating it up?
A Subway foot-long can cost up to $15.99 in Midtown Manhattan.
āWhen you have politicians that never ran a lemonade stand, and you combine that with all the increases in raw goods, theyāre chasing businesses in droves out of our great city,ā Brooklyn Dumpling Shop restaurateur and author Stratis Morfogen told The Post.
āWhen we do our cost analysis on our menu, itās based not just the cost of food, but commercial real estate. They just added a rent tax. If your rent is over $20,000 a month, which most restaurants are, you have to pay 6% tax to the city.
āWhoās going to pay for that? At the end of the day, itās the consumer.ā”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/14/inflation-raises-price-of-ham-and-cheese-sandwich-in-nyc-to-29/
The cost of food also skyrocketed.
That’s just crazy talk. Everyone knows that only rich fat-cats pay these taxes.
If you pay that much for a dumpy sandwich, well, then that’s a you problem.
“Budweiser factories have also reportedly been targeted by a wave of bomb threats this week.
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that officers responded to a call from the Anheuser-Busch facility in the Van Nuys section.
A spokesperson for the St. Louis-based beermaker told Patch that several other facilities across the country also received bomb threats.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/14/anheuser-busch-exec-offers-flat-apology-following-bud-lights-dylan-mulvaney-backlash/
Where muh quaaludes?
I’ll believe it when I see arrests and prosecutions.
Of leftists who normally paint swastikas on school campuses?
Yes, it was a wonderful non apology apology.
https://youtu.be/Td67kYY9mdQ
Medical information you can use.
Drink plenty of beer to keep stones away
Beautiful pre easter day… Tommorow it will probably rain. The cherry trees and sour cherry are in full bloom, the apple tree is just geting started.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mRhRwU4f7MFzmrVdA
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zZ7r9M7iDpzqHr7dA
I was up in Canandaigua last night and the trees looked just like that. Perfect for next weeks expected freeze.
Here we are past freezez. The apricot trees got burned as usual but i did count like 30 potentially viable apricots and i probably missed some. Not enough to.try pickleing though
Better late than never, I suppose.
Teen sexual health
Juliet was hanging out with her aunt and relaxing, floating in a lake in Georgia last spring when her aunt brought up birth control.
Juliet is 15, in ninth grade, and she’s got a lot going on. She’s learning to drive, plays tennis, is serious about flute in marching band, and she’s taking two AP classes. She’s also totally indifferent to dating and having sex. “I just don’t think it’s interesting,” she says.
The conversation with her aunt made her realize there were “a bunch of different types of birth control that I didn’t know existed,” Juliet says. (NPR is only using her first name to protect her privacy as a minor talking about her sexual health.)
Another NPR prurient-interest story. Maybe they’ll convince her to transition, or at least become lesbian.
That one time at band camp…
bunch of different types of birth control that I didnāt know existed – pulling out, blowjobs anal and many more
^^^Pie gets it.
Here you go, Juliet.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=at+home+pregnancy+test&sprefix=home+preg%2Caps%2C125&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9
I realize teens do what teens do, but why is the aunt encouraging a girl under the age of consent to become sexually active? Especially one who, at this time, isn’t particularly interested in having sex?
“The School That Couldnāt Quit Covid
A school in upstate New York imposed some of the most extreme measures during the pandemicāincluding silent lunches and outdoor masking. The rules are still in effect.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-school-that-couldnt-quit-covid
It’s like those Japanese still fighting WWII.
Goddamn new york rednecks amiright
Ithaca is a college town – an island of lefty loons in a sea of rednecks.
Itās like they learned it FROM Japan.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/23/japanese-schoolchildren-end-covid-ban-lunchtime-chatter
I was talking with my friends and the public in Japan had enough of this too. Bucking authority there is much more rare and this speaks volumes.
I’m guessing the teachers love the silence and that is why it’s still there.
My favorite bit of lunacy is watching Japanese talk shows and interviews. They are all either six feet apart, have dividers or plastic curtains between everyone.
Itās nuts.
I think they finally got rid of that āworkplace safetyā rule only a few months ago.
“I don’t think that it was ever expected that I would want birth control,” Juliet explains. “I just didn’t want to have to be so worried about ā if I ever did get raped, which I hope it doesn’t happen, but if it ever does happen and I wasn’t on birth control, there would be a chance that I would have to keep the baby.”
“I feel, after everything happened,” she explains ā with Roe v. Wade overturned and the six-week ban taking effect ā “I just wanted to be a little in control.”
Am I wrong, or are there a lot of deeply damaged children out there? Who fills their heads with this paranoid hysteria?
See the article on adult female teachers having sex with teenagers. It is *not* at all typical for an adult woman to be attracted to a teenage male; in fact there are a lot of biological imperatives that demand the exact opposite. Adult women typically find younger men (especially teenagers) intolerably immature as women, on average, mature faster mentally.
I don’t have any hard numbers on if in fact this has become more common or not, but if it has, this is another symptom of the psychological damage modern Western culture has inflicted.
It’s just a natural outcome of easy access to birth control, a lack of moral training from rejecting church, and general narcissism. If a woman doesn’t have to worry about the moral or physical implications of a relationship, why not get some young buck who will worship the ground you walk on instead of some hump and dump from the local bar.
If you have to worry about consequences, the math changes.
Juliet’s mom has been frank with her daughter about her own experiences. “When I was 15, I had an abortion, and that’s something that Juliet’s known about for a long time,” she says. “That’s always kind of been a part of our family conversations about sex and sexuality and self-esteem.”
Oh. I see.
Javelin coach: would.
https://archive.is/HbktD
NSFW.
OOPS.
It *is* SFW. Sorry.
Who’s working?
I First 24/7, but it’s more of an independent contractor type gig.
I like number 10
That one poor girl can’t afford either furniture or clothes.
So nba playoffs
Celtics in 4
Bucks in 5
Sixers in 5
Cavaliers in 6
Warriors in 5
Nuggets in 5
Suns in 5
Grizzlies in 6
Thoughts?
Agreed about the Celtics, don’t much care about the rest until/unless the Celtics play them.
Lebron is going to get another ring
Question: what is the best month to visit the US? For Romania i would say September/october still warm, not hot, and usually fairly dry
That can be OK for the Deep South – I think the Glibs North should opine.
September is a good month. for the band from New England to the Dakotas. Can’t speak for parts west of there.
Third Sunday in September would find you at the Honey Harvest with more of your ilk. Weather is cool, jacket weather mornings/ evenings
I think, if springtime isn’t possible, Sept/Oct would also be an ideal time to travel through the vast majority of the contiguous US.
In romania i would say that autumn is better then spring for better food if one likes fruit and vegetables
The again food is bad in the US so this does not matter
What GT said.
End of July to western New York for the annual SP-Fest.
Is july not too hot to drink wine for example?
Somehow we managed last year.
It rarely gets super hot here, just warm.
Depends where in the US.
On the best coast, late spring is the time to come.
I don’t know about the beast coast.
IMNSHO, Michigan is at its best in October. Or, depending on how the weather is going, maybe as early as mid-September to mid-October, or slightly more likely, mid-October to mid-November. But November’s a tricky month here. So, on average, it’s October.
New Orleans is wonderful in December. Alaska in May before tourism ramps up, but weather can be iffy. I like coast around here in the fall, January or February for storms. Lot of tourist places close but much more pleasant to drive 101 anywhere from Washington to California.
New Mexico in October is glorious.
September after Labor day for the Pacific NW. The weather is still good and the crowds have left the national parks on the weekdays.
I’m here for the gangbang.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22013648/partner-fantasy-becoming-swingers-reality/
Instead, Whitworth said he was āfocused on building and protecting our remarkable history and heritage.ā
āMoving forward, I will continue to work tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation,ā said Whitworth, a Harvard Business School graduate who served in the Marines and was a CIA officer.
I have come to bring you ignorant losers into the Light.
We all know Whitworth has no future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Whitworth
Thread winner. This thread anyway.
Even this one sucked
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Whitworth
“PICTURED: Jackie Brown star Bridget Fonda, 59, looks unrecognizable as she’s seen on rare public outing 20 YEARS after she left the limelight to focus on family with Danny Elfman”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11975433/Jackie-Brown-star-Bridget-Fonda-looks-unrecognizable-steps-rare-outing.html
Damn.
Yowza. That’s really letting yourself go.
Oof, yeah.
There’s a story there, I suspect.
Wasn’t she in a bad car wreck?
“On February 27, 2003, she suffered a serious car crash in Los Angeles that caused a fracture in a vertebra”
A fucked-up back will ruin your life. But still, take it easy on the bread.
I smell steroid use.
My newborn’s pediatrician was slim and svelte the first time I met her. Six months later she’d swollen like a zit about to popāand stayed that wat. Only one esplanation for that.
Her husband likes to load her up with cakes for tres good times?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11974851/Vanderpump-Rules-star-Ariana-Madix-joins-Scheana-Shay-Brock-Davies-Coachella.html
I haven’t heard of 90% of those bands.
*yells at cloud*
I just turn back to radio station* KNOTT, playing all my faves all the time.
*hey, WiFi is effectively radio transmission, right? So WiFi from my iTunes playlist to my Apple TV to my receiver, with synthesized surround. I’m happy.
Then you know more than me.
*shakes cane at whippersnappers in yard*
Does Elon exaggerate?
https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
Yes.
So does Lincoln, with an ad for a car you can’t buy yet they ran during the Superbowl, or the latest Honda ad featuring a flying car that runs on unicorn farts.
Recently, my roku youtube channel has been serving me up some Goodwood Festival of Speed stuff. My favorite from the other night was the pre-war cars race (in the rain!). Lightweight cars with really hard five inch wide tyres and plenty of horsepower, backing it in to the corners, lap after lap. Riveting.
And then, there was the hillclimb. A “10 best times” thing, half of which are now electric, because make no mistake, electric motors make serious torque, and torque = speed. Hit the switch and hang on. If you can manage to not hit the hay bales or the stone wall, you’ll be at the finish line in no time. But- they have no soul. It’s not just the Dust Buster soundtrack. It’s the way the power is delivered.
There was a ‘Brabham-BMW F1 car which was vastly more impressive, to me. The power delivery is not linear. There is a big spike on the horsepower curve. If you have ever driven something which really gets up on the pipe, it’s a feeling I don’t think an electric car could ever beat. When the power suddenly seems to be doubling every 500 rpm, that’s what performance is about.
For me EVs allow a return to focus on lightness and handling for ICE vehicles.
Hopefully it stops the utterly unnecessary horsepower in everything we have now. If the family hauler has roughly a 6 second sixty time do you really care about faster?
All the 5,000 lbs luxury barges are just crazy. Here is looking at you BMW.
The “safety” regulations make light cars impossible.
James May and Female Stig proved this during the Azerbaijan episode.
Good morning, Old Man!
The leaker story is getting dumber by the minute. Fine, the kid had information he shouldn’t have, but what about the y’know, actual facts in question? Dumb fucks.
Again, dumb fucks.
On the other hand, I’m gonna go down to Golden in a little while and watch my daughter and her pals compete in the school’s annual cardboard boat races down Clear Creek. Should be hilarious (and chilly)!
What do you fine people have on the agenda?
Hanging out here at Tranquility Base at least until noon, refilling the long-neglected bird feeders, mixing up some hummingbird nectar and setting out THAT feeder, making muffins (from a mix,) and generally enjoying my first outdoor Saturday of the season! š
I think we are having food truck dinner with some friends. Unless the autistic wife managed to blow up another friendship.
Otherwise, my normal Saturday get out the house, give her some space.
Hitting the books so I can finish this damned coding course and cross stitching.
I haven’t had to go anywhere since Wednesday and I don’t have to go anywhere for another >week. I’m golden.
Take a dead battery out of the garden tiller, exchange on Tuesday for a new one. Cheap ones last a year.
“I havenāt had to go anywhere since Wednesday and I donāt have to go anywhere for another >week. Iām golden.”
My personal hell.
Breaking out the new sander and seeing what I can do about the janky outdoor table (and then the chairs).
The one thing I didnāt say is āI hope it is not a veneer.ā I guess we find out soon?
Does Elon exaggerate?
In the grand tradition of P T Barnum.
The leaker story is getting dumber by the minute. Fine, the kid had information he shouldnāt have, but what about the yāknow, actual facts in question? Dumb fucks.
Once more, with feeling.
“It’s not wrong. It’s wrong for you to know.”
Literally what that stooge Kirby said this week. And too many of our fellow Americans think he’s right.
We’re fucked.
It’s different this time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/it-doesnt-matter-whether-alexander-vindman-leaked-to-the-media
It’s a lovely Saturday morning and I’ve already been to the dump and back.
The sweet smell of garbage and pee-stained mattresses gets your juices flowing.
I thought you had orphans for that.
Thatās where they live?
Sounds like you found some good stuff?
Well, I laughed but again it doesn’t take a lot.
Those people are called pickers. If you dump along the road or in a ditch or woods it’s OK, too.
Sandra Bullock is proud that her adopted nine year old daughter is upset that there are no black people in a South Korean show.
https://fandomwire.com/i-dont-want-dad-to-watch-that-sandra-bullock-claims-her-daughter-was-distressed-after-catching-actress-boyfriend-watch-netflixs-squid-game/
How to raise an idiot.
It helps to be an idiot.
For me EVs allow a return to focus on lightness and handling for ICE vehicles.
I want to believe. It took me an absurdly long to to realize that the overwhelming majority of people view their cars as essentially appliances. As long as it starts every morning and gets them to work, and the heater works, they’re happy.
Retaining a nichefor lightweight nimble performance cars would be fantastic, but unfortunately the powers what be seem intent on wiping out both the internal combustion engine and the car-as-joy-inducing-plaything.
Youtube also served up this the other evening. The “Radford/Lotus” you might call it. But guess what; it has about a $400,000 projected sale price. 600 hp, or something, all the same over the top nonsense. It’slighter and more analog and less aero whizbangery than most of the cars in that segment (looking at you, Gordon Murray), but give me a fucking break.
SIMPLIFY. LIGHTEN.
The BRZ / GR 86 look fun and a move in that direction (though I don’t know how light they are).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKBMUXcxCQ
Or make EV SUV.
https://www.lotuscars.com/en-US/eletre
I saw that. Made me feel angry.
Oh fuck off.
*grumble*
I used to mock people who went to a Porsche dealership and drove off in a SUV. This is worse.
I confess, I want a Macan.
(really, I want a Panamera Sport Turismo. Or an AMG E-63. Or a A6 Avant. But I can’t afford any of those).
What I want is a Caterham 7. A small 4 banger that revs with dual Del’Ortos and an exhaust put together by someone who actually understands scavenging effect.
Oh, I will accept those skid pad numbers!
I’d like an Exige or an Elise.
āAMG E-63ā
This is the way.
Thatās not an SUV. Thatās a (small) station wagon.
There. Feel better now?
Also- that Radford is a beautiful car. There is a lot of GT40 in that shape.
The BRZ / GR 86 look fun and a move in that direction (though I donāt know how light they are).
I don’t think they’re especially light. The big knock on them is that they are “underpowered” and people either turbocharge them or do a swap such as a Honda K24. Mighty Car Mods did one a while back which seemed like a pretty lively and well handling car when they were through.
BRZ is 2,864 pounds, 225 hp, 184 pound ft of torque, and the backseat literally is useless since it doesn’t have legroom even for a small child.
Too heavy or underpowered, take your pick.
Or make EV SUV.
Great. I was blissfully unaware of that five minutes ago.
I checked the Starlink site again last night…and they are now providing service to my new place! They weren’t when I checked Thursday.
Woohoo! I only have to suffer the slow phone hotspot speeds for 2 weeks.
/not addicted to fast internet
*fingers start shaking*
What I want is a Caterham 7.
This is the way.
Victory
Germany began winding down its three remaining nuclear power plants Saturday as part of a long-planned transition toward renewable energy.
The shutdown of the reactors Emsland, Neckarwestheim II and Isar II, agreed to more than a decade ago, was being closely watched abroad.
Other industrialized countries, such as the United States, Japan, China, France and Britain, are counting on nuclear energy to replace planet-warming fossil fuels. Germany’s decision to stop using both has met some skepticism, as well as unsuccessful calls to stop the shutdown.
Public pressure in Germany, stoked by nuclear disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, put pressure on successive German governments to end the use of a technology that anti-nuclear activists argue is unsafe and unsustainable
Rubber band power is the new new thing. Get in on the ground floor.
Right, accidents that happened 40-50 years ago are stoking that supposed public pressure.
Germany was a hotbed of radical eco-nuts when I lived there in the late 80s and it’s only grown since then. So yeah, I can believe it.
Fukushima ramped things up, too.
So 3 failures in 80 years. One from an unmaintained Soviet plant, one from a plant where nobody died, and one built by necessity on a faultline.
Is Germany also banning cars because this one time somebody had too many lagers at the biergarten and got on the autobahn?