So in a continuing series of stress tests, I’m doing a road trip with NPR Lady, a drive in to suburban Philadelphia to pick up, no, not throwing batteries, but some loudspeakers. This also will convince her that I wasn’t kidding about being a geek. For anyone else as geeky as I am, they’re Quad 988 ESLs, something I’ve lusted after for a long, long time. Anyway, if we’re still talking to each other when this is done, we’ll move on to our next stress test, about which more next weekend.
Wish me luck. But I suppose being born is luck and today’s lucky folks include the original Good Humor man; one of the people responsible for turning modern American Judaism into the joke it’s become; Perot’s running mate; the guy responsible for Jethro Tull’s biggest hit; a guy who raised being a total dick to an art form; a piece of shit grifter who should have died a long time ago for the good of our country; the best gunfighter, medical researcher, and accountant in Hollywood; one of the few Maryland governors who didn’t wear the title of “defendant”; an actress who had two great things going for her; the greatest quarterback I ever saw play (and I thought Unitas would never be topped); a piece of shit quack who couldn’t even beat a brain damaged lump-bearer; and a guy who fucked Selina Meyer.
On to links before I pile into the car and head to the City of Brotherly Love and Pelting Santa with Snowballs.
Well, here’s a total surprise. Total surprise.
Another total shock. And we, of course, don’t EVER do that sort of thing routinely.
You know, Isaac Asimov already did this better.
Now if we can only get AI to replace the churchgoers, problem solved.
You know, The Rutles already did this better.
These people just aren’t getting with the program.
This was fun to wake up to today.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
(L’chiam!)
I’m just having breakfast and trying to decide when to get started on my laundry.
I put mine in a basket and it comes back clean.
I live alone.
I dropped a music link for you last thread.
Congrats on the new job. 🍻
Indeed, congrats!
Mo money is nice.
Tres got a new job? I missed some news.
So scammers are scamming the support group of the Ultimate Scammer?
Hate against trans people is rising, but the suburbs are what gives this hate its fervor and popularity. By P.E. Moskowitz
If you think the free shit was unreadable, xe wants you to pay for this:
https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/discharging-emotional-violence: It’s 3am. I am at a club. This is not really my thing. I don’t particularly enjoy dancing, nor staying up for two days at a time, as many ravers do. But I’m here, and I’m kind of, to my own surprise, getting into it. The DJ is good. The music is layered—R+B vocals on top of hard techno beats, speeding up, slowing down, the bass getting deeper and deeper as more and more people smush their bodies against each other. And then, the beat nearly cuts out. Just a hypnotic drum now. I’m on a bit of ketamine but not that much. Enough to feel loose, but not really high. And something weird happens: I, for a brief moment, feel liberated. Then this footer: “This post is for subscribers.
Where exactly does one get a BA in WordSalad?
It comes with a student loan that should be forgiven.
It’s called “verbal diarrhea.”
Most any college.
WordSalad on the menu in the dining hall* at every meal.
*Disclaimer: Last I knew, enrollment was so low that I’m not entirely sure they HAVE a dining hall.
OK, I guess they do. WordSalad confirmed.
But what’s for lunch? Dig it up oneself?
Glad poor Job kitty is recovering.
Thanks! 😊🐱👤
Birthday Boy Music
Thank you, GT, I thought you had forgotten.
Some days though it feels like doing life without parole.
Wait! Is it your birthday, too?? I was referring to the performer’s birthday, but if it’s also your birthday, I’m glad I….remembered! Yeah, that’s it – I “remembered”! 🙄
Happy Birthday! So, is it “four score and seven years” now?
Not yet, just a 4 and a 6,
Onward and upward!
Happy birthday!
Well, next year you get called Gettysburg!
HBD 🙂
🎂🎈🎉🎁
👍
Bonne anniversaire! 🐝 🍯
Happy birthday, Fourscore!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, fellow Gemini!
Happy Birthday!!!
I’m a fan, but the comments tickle me: Just shows how amazing an actor he is!
He’s the Scottish John Wayne: just one gear, this persona he’s created. So long as someone suitably cynical is writing for him, he can be hilarious.
Uncynical song for DeT
It’s also my sister’s 35th wedding anniversary.
she was married 35 times?
Suburban Philadelphia?
Where abouts?
Meeting up with Sean? 😄😉
Meeting up with Sean and his girlfriend is not stressful at all for normal people.
speaking of which, more wacky shit from the P.E. Moskowitz site: https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/rejecting-the-strong-black-woman
“I started to realize that the only person who could get me out of this endless cycle was myself.”
Rachael Vaughan Clemmons is a writer currently based in Philadelphia. She hates it there and pretty much everywhere else, too.
Not only did Asimov do that, but Gene Wolfe did it, and actually cared about the religious side of it. Much more interesting in my opinion.
Also, Les Claypool is one of those musicians who should not be left alone. He needs a strong band leader like Tom Waits or John Zorn, otherwise he makes crap. Marc Ribot is in the same boat.
Clickbait AND gunz. Classic CNN.
Another good one:
🙄
LOL never change, The Nation.
Yes, I’m sure that was foremost in the thoughts of all those GIs returning from WWII – “Finally I can get away from all those uppity women and…” 🙄
Or you know, the rising middle class who started leaving the cities in large numbers well before WWI.
Let alone the English Home Counties. Oh, wait, that is a different country, where the exact same thing happened, long before the ascribed events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-land
Sean’s organic blurt in the late night:early morning lynx is beautifully close to a haiku.
“His broken step is not handicap accessible”
Let’s get it done.
Rules:
A) 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.
B) vaguely depressing observation on the inevitable march of time and death.
Redo:
The man’s broken step (5)
Is not handicap friendly (7
Now I eat fugu. (5)
I welcome better suggestions.
I had the nachos
Margaritas are good too
I slept like the dead
Lol.
I endorse this message
Life ends and stars die
Dull to an ember or explode
The result is final
what a buzz kill dude
totally harsh my mellow
I’ll show myself out
Just fulfilling the haiku request
This is great haiku.
Ticks all the correct boxes.
I’ll show myself out.
Sent this to my political Japanese friend years ago.
Summer politics
We all love beauty and art
China built islands
https://www.insidejapantours.com/japan-news/3617/shinzo-abe-appoints-haiku-diplomat/
A step once sturdy,
Now broken and unstable,
Journey paused, tread light.
-BAI chatbot
***Artificial Applause***
I remind you all after yesterday of the greatest haiku ever
Open your presents
No you open your presents
Kaczynski Christmas
Ukraine in Europe
It exists next to Russia
Russia is bigger
Romania is recalling its ambassador to Kenya back to Bucharest and has apologized after its envoy in Nairobi compared a monkey to African diplomats during a meeting he was chairing.
“The African Group has joined us,” Ambassador Dragos Tigau said when a monkey appeared at a window in the conference room, according to the letter demanding an apology seen by CNN.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/10/world/romania-ambassador-recall-africa-diplomat-monkey-insult-intl-hnk/index.html
Oh, give your nuts a rug, Europe.
Or a tug. Or would that be a male merkin?
Tug not rug
Gah.
Give your nuts a rug
The squirrels are hungry now
The website is down
Speaking of SQUIRRLz!! .. my former boss at Nevada nuke test site boxed up some of stuff from my old office and shipped it to me up here,
Taxidermy squirrel really brings the room together.
https://i.imgur.com/pMNT017.jpg
Mike Echo Oscar Whiskey How do you copy? Ha ha ha
Did the monkey have diplomatic credentials? You should have had security verify its identity. He might have been the ambassador from Opar.
Hey, Pat.
If your tinfoil hat permits, I’d like to meet up this week in Pahrump.
But we got through 2 years there without meeting so I ain’t holding my breath.
Power those speakers with your tube amps! That way you won’t need your heat this winter.
Ford has constructed an engine that makes BMW seemed designed for reliability. I didn’t think that was possible.
JUNK Ford Ecosport 1.0L 3-Cylinder Ecoboost Teardown. How Do You Avoid This Failure?
So you don’t have to watch 40 minutes if you aren’t interested: it’s the first time I’ve seen a wet belt system. Rubber belts drive both the valve train and the oil pump and are exposed to the engine oil. The tensioner failed on the oil pump drive belt. Put those parts into the pan and the combination starved the motor of oil.
The design is an absolute POS.
I remember when BMW’s were extremely reliable.
Me too. Still see quite a few ’80s-90s 3-series around.
The engines anyway. Straight sixes are naturally balanced so have a tendency for longevity. It’s all the other stuff that fails in BMWs. Had a customer who had 1 headlight that quit turning with the steering wheel – $2,500 please.
I know what some of those words mean. And it sounds needlessly complicated. Which is the problem.
Every motor has these with either belts or chains.
The solution is obviously electric motors…
/s Person who believes in dreams over physics.
that came to me during the hybrid development years
why screw around with dual drive, dual controls, and dual expense: just go electric now
but the gearhead in me will always love knowing how FEADs work
I still use stupid belts on my fans up to 400HP
Just needs more turbos
One per cylinder should work.
Also the turbo in the video was bad. Wobble city. It too was cost engineered.
Yep, just put the fuel pump inside the gas tank. No problems there!
I used to kvetch about this, but it’s really not that bad. Everybody makes a trap door now and unless the customer is a hoarder, it’s easy access. Now, if it’s a CA Super Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle (SULEV) there are regulations requiring a “sealed” fuel tank, which means you don’t need a fuel pump, you need a fuel tank. My neighbor with an older Mercedes E350 found this out the hard way. Labor-wise, it clocks in around 3 hrs, parts-wise about $3,000. But what’s a few bucks when you’re saving Gaia.
My ’90s Dodge did NOT have a trap door, and I had to either pull the bed or drop the tank to fix that damn thing. Fortunately, I had access to a lift at the shop I worked at. Now, the ’66 Datsun my dad had, that had a trap door. Damn thing was awesome, even with the 1200CC engine.
I would hate to drop a tank in a modern car, the Dodge was bad enough.
Ford lost their way on small engines when they parted ways with Mazda. The 2.0, 2.3, 2.5 engines were fantastic and reliable. The 1.6 Turbo they developed after their breakup? Worst engine they had ever made, apparently practice for the 1.0 3cyl.
They learned even more cost engineering from the 1.6!
Ford seems to have had increasing engine trouble across their entire product line ever since they replaced the 7.3L PSD ~15 years ago.
here we are: another point on the curve
You’re not wrong, and I’m no Ford fanboi, but as an automotive industry alumnus I don’t want us to forget that they can’t sell you what you want
the perversions thrust upon the industry by government are too many to list
I wonder where we would be with the tools and insights we gathered in the Total Quality era if the entire industry weren’t hobbled by bullshit
here? https://media.giphy.com/media/l2JdSP4o5EZkTU16o/giphy.gif
Oh absolutely! I am, or was, a Ford fan and it’s sad how those government mandates are forcing design decisions that are just downright stupid (plastic oil pans..).
“and lives lived in suburban areas tend to revolve around the same kinds of places, and the same kinds of ideology.”
Mmm. Ok.
“And so it makes sense that these are now the places where fascism grows; that’s what these places were designed for.”
Lmao
Italy and Germany in the ‘30s were just covered up in suburbs, after all.
As I’ve discussed about the assholes on unregistered scooters and sidewalks in NYC this is my Ray of Sunshine today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/146beba/idiot_on_a_moped/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Who runs from the cops on a moped? That guy!
Chris Rock shakes his head.
Look at all those black faces of white supremacy in that video.
Today, in people who should be shot
“‘I’m more political’: George Soros, 92, hands reins over to son, Alex, who promises to push more than $1.5BILLION to back liberal causes and far-left candidates”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182829/George-Soros-hands-reigns-son-Alex-promises-push-funding-liberal-causes.html
“AB957, proposed by Democratic Assemblymember Lori Wilson and state Senator Scott Wiener, amends the state Family Code which addresses the ‘health, safety, and welfare of the child’ in every household.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181615/Proposed-California-bill-brand-parents-abusive-refuse-affirm-childs-gender.html
Oh yay…
“C’mon, man. Is there even gonna be a Republican party in ’24? Is there?”
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1667530767260368899
Elected reps are now enemies of the state. Welcome to USSA.
DOD wants its wars
“Megan Fox furiously HITS BACK at ‘clout chaser’ who said she ‘forced’ her sons to wear girls’ clothing: ‘You f***ed with the wrong witch'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12182215/Megan-Fox-furiously-HITS-claims-forced-sons-wear-girls-clothing.html
CWAC
She’s so gross. And more of a troll or gollum than a witch.
👍
Having a lawn is fascism. It’s part of the catechism. Boring dumb people in boring dumb houses in boring dumb suburbs, blah blah blah. Not smart sophisticated open minded intellectuals living in a crowded rat maze where all the cool things happen.
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky… 🙄
I will spare you all the link to the worst voice ever grooved into vinyl.
Worse than Yoko Ono???
Hmm, good point.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/82/c8/10/82c810324c87d8a3068327fdf900ef0c.jpg
Yoko was the best Beatle.
Kinda handsome anyway, and if John wanted her there…
Isn’t there a different cover of that song for every episode of Weeds?
Dunno. Why did I watch that anyway? I’ll say Kevin Nealon.
I was good when it started, then it went downhill after it built an audience. Pretty sure that was Shotime’s business model.
That’s the majority of shows:
Creator: “I have a good idea for a show”
Network: “Great, go make a season and we’ll see how it’s received”
Creator: “Will do!”
… time passes …
Network: “People love it, give us another season”
Creator: “Uh, I didn’t really plot anything out beyond the first season. I’ll think of something, I guess”
Unless it’s plotted out over multiple seasons in advance (like Breaking Bad) or each season can stand alone (like The Wire), shows usually decline in quality. Even in the latter case, the good ideas for a season usually are done first.
The Wire worked on themes, at least for the first few seasons. And that helped as it build a case for how fucked the drug war is, and how deep reaching. But they did loose the plot.
Well, Jack, that’s because MAGA Republicans are clearly a terrorist organization.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1667668391367245824
“Pelting Santa with Snowballs.”
Maybe the rest of youze will tolerate a skinny, drunk Santa but the good folks of Philly won’t. No wonder he was pelted with frozen wudder.
You don’t really have a choice.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/10/trump-vows-to-stay-in-the-race-even-if-convicted-00101403
But I’m pretty sure the secret service would not allow you to jail a former president anyway.
Why not? They are federal pubsecs. Deep Staters until proven otherwise.
Probably safer in there.
And there it is.
The anti-trans panic at the center of the Target controversy says something dark about American politics, but it says something even darker about the American landscape, about the places and ways we choose to live. Without a massive reorganization of American life—away from privatization, car-centrism, and hyper-individualism—it’s likely the suburban ideology will remain popular, and even grow.
Bulldoze the suburbs and force people into cities. Take away heir individuality. Take away their stuff. Tell them what to believe. The State must have the power to control every aspect of life. Only then will we be safe from the threat of fascism.
What does trans have to do with those other things?
“Only then will we be safe from the threat of fascism.”
We have to be fascist to defeat fascism.
Mr. McGuire : I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin : Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire : Are you listening?
Benjamin : Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire : Plattenbau.
Benjamin : Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire : There’s a great future in Plattenbau. Think about it. Will you think about it?
Away from hyper-individualism. People should stick together like a bundle of sticks. They are stronger that way. Maybe we should come up with a catchy name for that.
Retirement party was last night, would you people please type more softly.
Fires up the IBM Selectric.
There goes all your spare time, JI
I dig the Primus this morning.
Those speakers are interesting. They look to be made like a capacitor. Are the electrodes a wire grid with lots of holes, or a metal thin film printed on the plastic. It would be fun to build one at home.
Pwnd.
https://citizenfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/kristol-trump.jpeg
LOL what a douche
Speaking of Les Claypool.
Here is one of his favorite bass players. RIP
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4gAF18AVLE
https://twitter.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1635643712696119296
CWAA
They are planar speakers.
TW Paul McGowan is an audio fool who believes in magic cables, but here is some pictures and theory
https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/pauls-posts/how-a-ribbon-speaker-works
Still common in headphone. For budget people these are great, but a bit fiddly to make comfortable and cheaply made. I had to take them apart and tighten down screws.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Z2SK5C4
That was supposed to be a reply to Timeloose above.
Inverse ribbon microphone?
Yeah, 40 years of motorcycles, guns and punk shows have rendered me incapable of appreciating those.
/goes back to laptop speakers, enjoys thoroughly.
FFS…
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1667685732557762567
Hope OMWC avoided this.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/interstate-95-collapse-huge-tanker-truck-fire-shuts-down-highway-philadelphia
“The roadway is expected to remain shut down for an extended period of time while crews continue to work in the area.”
If they work at the same pace as NJ construction crews it will take years.
Well first they have to mine the iron for the new steel…
Not to mention the Environmental Impact Studies.
even NJ can’t fuck this up
bridges that small have been modular for decades
there’s probably cured inventory on the shelf within 100 miles
sometimes a few days are needed to figure out how conservative to be
but then it’s demo until you get down to good material, adjust to fit, and snap the new pieces in place
the precast yard near my shop has been closed for almost twenty months
last month, suddenly, someone came and got all the beams that were left in the bottoms
they’ll snap ’em in somewhere
“even NJ can’t fuck this up”
My town says, “Hold my beer”
https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/planning-engineering-regional-planning-transportationprojects-under-construction
Old Tappan – Old Tappan Road Bridge Replacement over the Hackensack River
This project encompasses the complete demolition and replacement of the above referenced bridge (No. 020043A), approach roadway improvements and intersection adjustments to meet current AASHTO/NJDOT standards. The project will require the bridge to be closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic for the construction duration. The bridge was closed on November 21, 2022 and detour established for vehicular traffic. Advanced utility relocation has started with bridge work to follow. Bridge construction is expected to be completed by summer of 2023.
About 50 yards on a two-lane road. Seven months and counting, and “summer of 2023” is not looking good.
“White House Revives Masking, Social Distancing Policies For Unvaccinated Event Attendees
Lawmakers were notified that they would be required to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test in order to gain entry. If unvaccinated, guests must wear a mask and practice social distancing”
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/white-house-revives-masking-social-distancing-policies-for-unvaccinated-event-attendees-cmc/
SCIENCE!!!!!!!
😂😂
😷😷
🤡🤡
The dirty unvaxed must wear the shame muzzle.
Just how close to death is Biden?
And just how scared they are if he does kick said bucket?
Ford has constructed an engine that makes BMW seemed designed for reliability. I didn’t think that was possible.
That was pretty impressive. Also the infinitely adjustable cam timing. They should mate it to a CVT and then call for swapping out the whole mess every 25k miles as routine service.
Without so much as a Google, I believe Ford attached that to its disastrous dual clutch automatic transmission.
That was also a low cost disaster.
You’re probably thinking of the variable compression engine. Adjust the crank while running, what could possibly go wrong?
CWAA.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12180019/Gender-studies-professor-BRAGS-failing-students-offend-woke-gender-beliefs.html
But there is no reason to be taking gender studies anyway. It’s barely even a pseudoscience.
“Unabomber Ted Kaczynski reportedly committed suicide inside his jail cell
Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber who was found dead in his jail cell Saturday, is believed to have committed suicide, according to a report.
Kaczynski, 81, was serving four life terms in federal prison for a decades-long spree in which three people were killed and nearly two dozen others hurt by 16 of his homemade bombs.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/10/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-committed-suicide-inside-jail-cell/
Did he have information on Hillary Clinton?
So that’s one life sentence down and three to go?
Ted Meme.
But I’m pretty sure the secret service would not allow you to jail a former president anyway.
Didn’t they all go to lunch when the FBI raided the place?
“All your children are belonging to us.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/09/california-bill-would-charge-any-parent-doesnt-affirm-transgenderism-child-abuse/
I’d like to be able to say “the necessary backlash to this will be swift and harsh”, but I know it won’t be.
Idiots on Scooters:
I’m impressed the guy could get up and run after slamming his hip into the end of that guardrail.
And then asshole mini-man-bun cop keeps yelling at him to stand up straight when he’s obviously in a lot of pain.
The cultural revolution continues apace.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/10/revolutionary-war-gen-philip-schuyler-statue-removed-in-ny/
Interestingly, Alexander Hamilton’s family had slaves and leftists have a musical dedicated to him. Wonder how they square that circle.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!1!!11111!111!
“Supporters of former President Donald Trump are reportedly being scammed out of thousands of dollars through the sale of commemorative “Trump Bucks” that fraudsters say can be exchanged for real cash.”
I wonder if they’ll accept Dewey buttons on lieu of cash.
Everything can be exchanged for cash. It’s called buying and selling.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/145828
Hello, all. I am now unemployed. Day two. It needed doin’. I fiercely need to destress.
A week or so off. I have a slight-in, I want to respond to a personally-written rejection of my application for podcasting. I made a big mistake of adding an aside that I would be good at doing it myself.
I just wanna write. Part of the requirements was working with the staff with delivery. I’ve worked with EVERY demographic and I was stressing that. I did it poorly.
I hope everyone is well. Hendricks, my favorite (current) pitcher, and the Cubs were lights-out last night. DAMN. No-No until 2 outs in the 8th.
Evan! You crazy diamond. How’s the reverse culture shock?
The solution is obviously electric motors…
Speaking of, have you seen the Driving 4 Answers video on “What ever happened to freevalve?”
Yup. Interesting analysis.
Free valve is a great system and concept. The issue with ICEs are they are a 120 year old design that has had all of the low hanging efficiency improvements taken already. Freevalve is an endgame improvement that wrings out a ~5-10% improvement over a cam phaser based VVT system. This system has a cost to scale.
EV systems are still able to improve by significant steps by innovation and evolutionary changes. The battery systems are the most open to innovation. The traction power systems are being driven to increasing efficiencies and capabilities. Auto companies are not innovating in ICE anymore. They will have few big changes but will continue to make small cost and performance improvements.
There is a whole ream of ICE that could be further explored: two stroke engines. We cast it aside, but I would be willing to bet that there is plenty of room in that concept for improvement. I remember that, back in the eighties I think, Jaguar was looking into direct injection 2-stroke diesels, and I wonder what happened with that?
Also, there is still a lot that can be done with external combustion, especially in larger, high torque applications. Steam would be quite useful in heavy equipment.
I’d add turbines to that mix
a tiny turbine as a genset charging the battery of an electric car
or a modest turbine as a genset for a tractor-trailer rig
exhaust temps remain a consideration
Turbines are great for generators. It would also improve the weight of a series hybrid compared to a three or four cylinder motor.
There’s still time to get your bid in
Totally doable. It just lacks a little finishing up.
My favorite line.
Ah, memories. The copy checks out. Smooth shifting though, long throws. Don’t make me nostalgic for my exes, dammit. Careful about second gear.
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1804-Alfa-Romeo-Spider-1600-10503-1966.html Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson… 🎵
My college girlfriends dad had one, slightly older. Fun car, although I would prefer a tin-top.
So in a continuing series of stress tests, I’m doing a road trip with NPR Lady, a drive in to suburban Philadelphia
You survived the first fight – who sleeps on what side of the bed?
Enjoy the trip!
While traditional public school enrollment declined by 4 percent in the first year of the pandemic, between fall 2019 and fall 2020, charter school enrollment grew 7 percent.
Anything that hurts the public schools makes me smile.
🙂
And so it makes sense that these are now the places where fascism grows; that’s what these places were designed for.
Go fuck yourself. I tapped out here.
A teacher admitted to a class of us late 20C pupils that absences cost the district money. I was glad to learn that even if she wasn’t sheepish.
They sleep in separate beds like Nick and Nora Charles.
OMWC drinks like Nick, but I don’t know if NPR Lady drinks like Nora.
How much does Asta drink?
Asta drinks toilet gin.
George and Martha. Sad, sad, sad…..
Comments are the usual horrified, “That’s not an original ______!” nonsense. It’s an Alfa. Put some seats in it (or a milk crate), throw the top away, and drive it. Listen to that sweet Alfa song. “Restorations” are for people who have no imagination.
Agree 100%. Those were fabulous awful cars.
Concourse level car people can be snobby purists. They remind me of BMW bikers.
Lol. Yes, the shitty Stromberg and smog equipment was never, ever going back on my car.
Heh, I used to be a BMW biker; R100/7. Of course, I put a 2into1 exhaust and solo seat to cafe it. Still, gummikow, if you know what I mean.
The bikes are marvelous. The snobbery is in customization using only certain brands. I had a gentleman go over everything but an bolt on my buddy’s BMW. He tried to give him shit over his Sargent seat and aftermarket heated grips.
If it were up to those people there would be no hot rods. Every car must be stuck in amber in the exact configuration it left the factory in.
I’m chomping at the bit to pull the stove pipe six, trans and torque tube out of the 40 Chevy.
Got to finish the garage first.
I used to be a V8 kinda guy, but as I get older, I like I6’s better.
One of these days you’ll smack your forehead and say, “Wow, I could have had a V8 instead!”
No. Tomato’s are gross.
I’m warming up to I6 engines, just not 80 year old ones.
Jeep kept that 4.0 cast-iron I6 around forever. It was solid.
“California moves to provide surrogates to gay male couples in the name of ‘fertility equality’
Co-author of the bill Senator Caroline Menjivar (D) said the bill “will ensure that queer couples no longer have to pay more out of pocket to start families than non-queer families.
California Bill SB 729 seeks to redefine “infertility” to be a status, as opposed to a medical condition. Changing the definition to “a person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention” would classify gay men as infertile.
The bill, which passed the Senate last month, would require insurance companies to cover in-vitro fertilization procedures. With the change in definition, this would also include forcing the firms to cover surrogacy for gay males…
An organization called Men Having Babies boasted that the bill will “remove financial barriers” for gay men who wish to rent a woman’s womb to have a child who has the DNA of one of the males in the relationship.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/california-moves-to-provide-surrogates-to-gay-male-couples-in-the-name-of-fertility-equality
Insurance companies shouldn’t be required to cover that for anyone.
of course
My boss has known me for two years, and for the past year it has been nothing but eye rolls from me
He’s obsessed with his Baptist GOP bullshit and all the daily FoxNews drama
Of course, it’s all old news for me, further data points on the old curve; nothing interests me anymore
He keeps bringing stuff up at lunch, but I just don’t care if Team Red or Team Blue ruins the country first
insurance companies shouldn’t be required to cover ANYTHING of course
but here we are: another point on the curve
I’m running out of runway: the kids can deal with the mess we’ve left
* sigh *
“reproduce either as an individual or with their partner”
I did a lot of self-pollination as a youngin but never got a baby out of it
We must use tax dollars so people can have abortions. Also, we must use tax dollars so people can have babies.
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
I think Tennessee still has draconian cigarette taxes AND subsidizes tobacco farmers
Perfect.
For anyone else as geeky as I am, they’re Quad 988 ESLs
You don’t have any English as a second language speakers at the university?
Charter Schools Now Outperform Traditional Public Schools, Sweeping Study Finds
Only now?
The article claims two previous studies showed the opposite. I had my doubts.
The studies were performed by public school graduates.
Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson…
I wonder how hard it would be to graft an early tail onto a later car. That tapered tail looks so much better than the flat chopped off style.
Anything can be done, if you want to do it badly enough. Who knows, maybe there’s a kit somewhere.
Cam tails provide better aerodynamics and handling, which is why you see them on Ferrari’s and such after a certain point.
There is also a reason for whale tails on Porsche’s. Ugly, but keeps the rear end down, somewhat.
I’m chomping at the bit to pull the stove pipe six, trans and torque tube out of the 40 Chevy.
I have a bit of a fondness for straight sixes. I learned to appreciate them when I owned my BMW Bavaria.
check in the mail from my bank for $3,200
because I had too large a credit balance on my credit card
and they want me zeroed out so I might trip up and catch some late fees and interest later
fuck you bank
in a perfect world they probably want me to lose the check too
so they can sit on on the balance and draw interest until the last second when escheatment is required
Good thread here:
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1667254327541485576
TW: TOS links
Below that…
OFFS.
Yes, totally ridiculous for so many reasons.
Online ads for AARP:
Happy AARP member: “I may not always agree with AARP, but I can trust them on Social Security.”
Translation: Join us and send us money even if we violate your principles on all the stuff we stick our nose into.
“You can trust us to support you greedy bastards who want to seize other people’s money at gunpoint.”
I’ll see if I can sneak this past the Server Error Skwerl without the link:
Really nice old Thunderbird restomod with Coyote (and auto trans, unfortunately). It’s a nice clean low key sleeper. I don’t much like the wheels, but hey.
And there, in the comments is Prissy Douchebag of the Day.
Nice car except for the 1956 Mercury Montclair tail lights. This obtuse step backwards ruins my interest in the car.
Mercury
I liked the ’63 Monterey for the reversed back glass; wonder if it helped or hurt the aero
“American military advisors are recommending that Biden give Zelensky nuclear weapons.”
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1667906307318226944
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, An experimental mini base has been poured and is waiting. The downsides of the technique is setting up the mold and waiting several days for the poured material to set. But I’m hoping the water effect will be worth it.
It could be an interesting visual effect, but I won’t know until after it dries and I can remove the mold.
what is the poured material ?
would reducers like some ketone speed up the process ?
I don’t know what the chemicals involved are. It’s This stuff
one commenter says it yellowed after a year
another says just stick to epoxy resin; I was thinking urethane in a similar vein
Since I added subtle blue pigment, if it yellows that might turn green, which doesn’t negatively impact the overall effect.
And I hate working with epoxy resin.
The reboot of the Breakfast Club sucks.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1667760341357297665
Cam tails provide better aerodynamics and handling
Axially, I’m pretty certain Alfa changed the rear of the spyder to comply with American bumper regs.
That doesn’t mean you’re wrong about the Kamm tail.
https://www.outkick.com/lessons-viral-tiktok-woman-masculine-liberal-date-mary-katharine-ham/
my heart wants what my heart wants, but my head is up my ass
The reverse of OMWC’s dating strategy.
PS: MKH is a Georgia alumna
“A machinery of civil rights enforcement built to dismantle Jim Crow is now being used to…force the Korean immigrant owners of a nude women’s spa to allow entry to an untransitioned male with intact male genitals who “identifies as a woman”
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1666651499496103937
It’s more a case of feminists being hoisted by their own retard. They pushed and pushed to force male spaces to allow females.
United States: Fifty Little Dictatorships
More fuckery.
Is it my imagination or is everything speeding up?
It’s not your imagination.
Narrator: “It’s not his imagination.”
We must adapt our food systems, energy grids, infrastructure, healthcare, etc ASAP. – AOC
There is no food system: there is are markets.
There is no grid: there are generators, markets, and connections.
There are no “our” anything: the components are property, not yours, AOC….or, to the extent that the components are public property, that is precisely the problem.
like everything else, there is corruption and stupidity baked into the least bit of the language
Hey would you guys tell Hi-X I was here, but couldn’t find her again?
Or just talk to her If she wants someone to talk to.