Cool start to the day but should be sunny and hot later. Yesterday turned out ok for us, no rain, no bright sun for most of the day. It was a bit sunny in the later afternoon. Hoping for similar today, but with a bit more sun.
Did my two pickups on the south side of town. Found a neighborhood I didn’t expect, with a very ‘out in the country’ feel, right in between the ghetto and the ‘hood. Big lots, old homes, real country boys… guy had a bunch of great older reference books on “rebuild society” topics. Lots of tools, and clearly enjoyed his hobbies. The other pickup was sort of “general merch” and is always good for some household item.
The pickup nearest to me was a heavy steel door for the BOL, a bookcase for D2, and some other misc. stuff for some other projects. Pickup truck is about 1/3 loaded, waiting for the rest before heading up this weekend.
And I’ll load up later, as we haven’t decided whether to head up tonight or tomorrow.
Before that, I’ll be spending some more time trying to get at least the expensive PTZ camera to work with the new NVR. Even at my hourly rate, it’s worth poking at it for a while. I can do some at home, but will really need to head out to the site to find out if I can make it work.
It would be nice to do some more cleanup and organizing this morning, but work slipped to today, so it is what it is.
I’ll be taking some more stuff to stack at the BOL. If the SHTF, “they” will definitely come looking for “it” for whatever value of “it” you like. If people are hungry, they’ll look for food. If jones-ing, they’ll be looking for drugs or booze. If it’s biggov, they’ll be looking for control, and we know what they’ll be coming for. Split your stacks up. Hide your tangibles. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Fallback positions are a good thing. So is ‘hiding in plain sight.’ Harden your heart, and your house. Be prepared to degrade gracefully.
And stack, what you can and while you can.
nick
I have a VAVA short throw UHD and love it. The 100″ screen is great. I have my eye on a 120″ screen that retracts into a long box. Makes everything portable, but is ex-pen-sive. I have a 65″ Vizio in the bedroom that hasn’t been turned on in 6 months. We like the laser that much.
Boats. Big horse trailers. Amateur auto racing rigs. I’ve seen all of those, but, admittedly, they’re rare applications.
The EV half ton trucks are more “manhood extension” than even the IC equivalents have become, but everyone still pretends that the electrics are “work” vehicles with towing/hauling capability to advance the agenda.
Plus, up until about a year ago, it was easy to move $50,000 trucks to a sub-$100k household income if an F&I room was clever and had a willing bank, especially here in Texas. $50,000 cars are a much harder proposition.
Papi doesn’t want a sedan, and Mama says $500/month is the limit to make him happy.
This week,GM announced a 500 mile range and $40,000 price tag for the EV Silverado. They still want Papi to believe in the agenda and he will cruise to his trades job at Ludicrous Speed.
Once CAFE starts looking real next Summer heading into the 2025 introductions, the trap will close.
Yeah, CAFE. Trump, tho.
Not uncommon. Many trailers in the US approach that weight. Some fifth wheel RVs are 12 to 14 thousand pounds. My trailer, loaded for a trip is close to 8 thousand pounds.
My mileage drops from a normal 20 mpg to less than 10 mpg. Climbing Roane mountain on I40 I get 5 mpg for about 10 miles.
The big difference is that the power reserve of an IC truck can be refilled in five minutes. Ten if you have a really big tank.
The owners manual of the F150 Lightning repeatedly warns against “fast” charging, the 12-16 hour recharge cycle of 1.2 kW/hr at home being the preferred charging method to avoid shortening the lifespan of the effective battery.
And the US EV fleet is still too new to prove what “real world” effective lifespan will be, regardless of all the nonsense testing in the relatively temperate microclimates of Southern California.
Not to distract, but I find it interesting that a lot of the early battery lifespan/replacement cost horror stories are coming out of Florida, particularly locations south of I-4, which is more or less the furthest down you will see freezing weather on the Peninsula most years.
Ford has (or had) a semi secret proving grounds outside of Fort Myers, a legacy of the Edison/Ford/Firestone families socializing in the area during the Winter in the 20s and 30s. They know.
71F this morning with clear blue skies. Put the D1 on the bus for the last time. They have a half day with a pizza party today. Don’t know if they count it as ‘education’ time for the yearly required minimum. Probably.
WRT towing, the whole justification for a big truck is occasionally hauling, whether in the bed or in a trailer. I’ve moved my forklift at 10K pounds with my truck. I’ve moved trailer loads of dirt. Yeah, you could call and have it delivered, for a fee. Might be cheaper in the long run, but not as convenient. LOTS of people have boats, and you wouldn’t believe the number of people with a 20ft low trailer that they use either all the time, or at least a few times a year. At $10k, you don’t buy one unless you need it.
WRT the mileage, yeah towing knocks it down. The numbers are a fantasy anyway. Empty vehicle, careful driving, minimum gas load, no accessories like a roof rack. I have enough weight in my Expy to lower my mileage by several mpg all the time.
But I can refill it in very little time, and I generally don’t have to search for any particular station…
n
Yeh, as if I am going to drive 150 miles, then wait 12 hours for a recharge. That is not happening. It would take five days to drive to San Antonio. The only really viable use for electric vehicles is driving in the city, commutes of less than 100 miles. A person has to account for stopped traffic, using the A/C or heater, and other traffic related events. Beyond that electric vehicles suck. If I still worked in downtown Knoxville I would have an electric vehicle, the cheapest I could find that had A/C and heat.
But for anyone to tell me I must have an electric truck to tow my trailer, not happening. There are also those that tell me I should not have a trailer; it is extravagant and not necessary. Yeh, right, don’t tell me how to live and spend my money. If I want an F-450, a 45-foot 20K pound fifth wheel trailer, that is entirely my business. If they want to drive a pregnant roller skate with just enough room for two skinny short people and a lunch bag, that is their business.
We have it, but you can’t use it… ha ha
– food will be the same. It’s there, but you can’t have any.
n
Having hauled cattle and machinery with both F150 and F250 towing trailers I would not recommend the smaller truck for trips of any length having turns or grade changes, and certainly not with horses or other live animals.
-gasp!- That’s hate speech!
I’ve seen the half ton trucks used to pull horse trailers in a pinch, but, most of the time, it is either an F250 or the Dodge Ram, both with big diesel engines.
Banning short-haul flights in France seems unnecessary. They have a decent rail network. By the time you get to the airport, park and get through security, the train has already arrived. Who would fly?
If I can get to a location with a day’s driving, I will not fly. If I can get to a location with two days driving, I will consider not flying.
Having been in Germany many times I would never consider a flight within Germany. The train is more than good enough. One of my journeys on the upcoming trip will be from Regensberg to Hövelhof. That is going to be an eight hour journey by train. Would I fly rather than the train? Nope. I will be traveling in first class the entire journey.
I have driven in Germany on two of my trips. Never again will I drive. For one the rental is really expensive as the insurance is needed. Second is that I found driving in Germany very tiring. Mostly because of slightly different driving rules, signs, and speed on the Autobahn.
My wife and I have tickets for any seven days, not contiguous, any train, anywhere DB operates, first class. Total cost to me is $670.00. That is a very real bargain. I get it because of the non-European passport. Unfortunately, the train from Vienna to Regensberg does not have a 1st class section.
I have found train travel on the train mostly pleasant. I made a couple of mistakes over time for which I got thoroughly chastised by the Germans until they realized I was not German at which point they helped. People in Germany despise DB as they use it all the time. I don’t and use mostly the ICE which tends to have priority operating schedule.
I can’t speak for the French train system.
@ray
My wife and I have tickets for any seven days, not contiguous, any train, anywhere DB operates
Its new? always once you began, clock begins
Good for any 7 days in a 30 day time frame. It is just a single piece of paper about the size of a business check. I just write the start date on the ticket. Then when I travel I write the date on the ticket. I started using this back in 2005 and have for the last six trips. No issues on the ICE. Local loops the the ticket checkers have not seen such a ticket and I have to school them it is a valid ticket.
I do have to be careful writing the date as YY/MM/DD.
On the long trips on ICE I generally only get the tickets checked once. The ticket checkers remember me.
Having some success. Got a really old cam from my client’s house to work. Figured out the way they are assembling the command line. Figured out that some steps have to be repeated in more than one place, and in a certain order because default values supplant stored values when reloading the page, or changing input boxes.
Got one of my newer 4mpx cams to display too. The old one was the plus as they no longer make a good substitute for that cam, and there isn’t a lot of space where it lives. That saves two cams being replaced.
The documentation (camera command lines) from Ispy and being able to test with my installed version of iSpy (now ‘agent’, ie the nvr software I use at home) was invaluable. That’s what got me a known good command line.
The manual wasn’t helpful.
Even once I get the cams running I’ll still need to config remote access and the app.
This thing does a sh!tton of other things including face and license plate recognition, and a bunch of AI based stuff too. Lots of capability in a $1000 package.
n
>> I’ve seen the half ton trucks used to pull horse trailers in a pinch, but, most of the time, it is either an F250 or the Dodge Ram, both with big diesel engines.
Roll Coal, FTW!
The biggest Dodge Ram I’ve ever seen was owned by a Millennial who was also a big lib politically.
She loved her horse, however, and competed in shows all over the Northwest more for the social aspect of it than making a serious effort to win. The horse was a rescue.
Her other car, a purchase forced by the reality of $5/gallon gas, was, of course, a Subaru Outback.
Regarding my new TV purchase – there are cheaper 4K TV’s out there. But they have lower brightness, lower refresh rates, less ‘intelligence’ to adjust the picture, less inputs.
A projection system wouldn’t work in my small den – the room is about 12′ x 16′ – room enough for a 2-person couch and one recliner on the long wall, with the TV on the other long wall.
My current main TV is about 12-13 years old. It’s only 1080p, so low resolution. Still works OK (it’s a Sony), so will resell to someone for a couple hundred, or give it away to an acquaintance.
I figure if I am going to get a new system, then it should be the ‘latest and greatest’, with features that will work well for the next 12-13 years (which I hope to achieve). A bit more costly than the cheaper ones, but better features. But, it is affordable for us. A good retirement from state of CA, plus SS, is not causing any financial issues.
I’m not worried about any ‘monitoring’ of my viewing habits. Amazon and Google already know a lot about me.
Watching every My Little Pony episode six times was for the grandkids. Really.
Have you ever heard of the “Bronie” subculture?
My wife didn’t believe it was a thing until she saw them first hand at a screening of the last movie.
Beforehand, she thought the only Austin screening, at an Alamo Drafthouse up near us, was unusual for a kids movie.
Nope, not treating you like children, and not yet treating you like thieves, which many of you are. Treating you like adults, who signed a contract, and are expected to honor the terms, and NOT steal.
– nothing like a rage quitter.
n
@rick:
Getting “not secure” errors in the last few minutes. The site certificate from Let’s Encrypt appears to have expired, maybe because the update script didn’t fire as needed.
FYI.
G.
The ethical and possibly legal problem for the company is that Netflix has known since they started the streaming service who was/wasn’t sharing, and they looked the other way to build the subscriber base and become one of the FANGs, darlings of Wall Street.
The Chinese in-laws all share one account between four households. They never would have paid for separate accounts 15 years ago when Blockbuster was still a huge entertainment force and one of the parties eyeing Netflix for acquisition on the cheap.
Shareholder lawsuits are coming. With a PE still in the upper 30s, anyone waiting for the days of $700/share returning are kidding themselves.
Maybe management at NFLX is trying to build a rally. In the old days, they would have been primed for a nice run just on technical indicators.
DeSantis announced yesterday and has already picked up a huge endorsement from the Mexican President.
https://thehill.com/latino/4020967-mexican-president-tells-florida-hispanics-dont-give-one-single-vote-to-desantis/
I smell Jeb! involvement. George P. (Diddly) still carries the hopes and dreams of the cabal behind the Bush family, and, contrary to popular belief, DeSantis is actually younger.
The window is closing for P. Diddly, however.
@Geoff (and others); regarding the SSL cert problem.
Had noticed the problem, and just got it fixed by Dreamhost support – a ‘server configuration issues’, according to them. I wasn’t able to fix it using their processes, so support was called in.
All better now. Please resume all comments of any types. (And you guys have a lot of ‘types’.)
>> nothing like a rage quitter.
A few weeks watching the free movies on the Pluto channel and some of them will come crawling back.
“Supreme Court curtails Clean Water Act”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/supreme-court-curtails-clean-water-act/
“The Supreme Court on Thursday established a more stringent test to determine whether the Clean Water Act applies to a wetland. The ruling was a setback for the Environmental Protection Agency and a victory for an Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett, who have been battling with the federal government for over 15 years in their efforts to build a house on an empty lot near a large lake.”
“The Sacketts’ legal battle began shortly after they began backfilling their property to prepare the lot, which is about 300 feet from Priest Lake, for construction back in 2007. The Sacketts received a notice from the EPA to stop work because their lot contains wetlands protected by the CWA, which bars the discharge of pollutants, including rocks and sand, into “navigable waters.” The CWA defines navigable waters as “waters of the United States.” The EPA reasoned that the wetlands on the Sacketts’ lot fed into a non-navigable creek that then led to Priest Lake.”
NOTE: This was a 9 – 0 decision ! ! ! The 5 – 4 dissension was in the remedies. And Kavanaugh went with the liberal minority.
“Four justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – agreed that the CWA does not apply to the wetlands on the Sacketts’ lot, but they disagreed with the majority’s reasoning. In an opinion joined by the three liberal justices, Kavanaugh contended that “[b]y narrowing the Act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands, the Court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States.” For example, Kavanaugh noted, under the court’s new test, the wetlands on the other side of levees on the Mississippi River will not be covered by the CWA, even though they “are often an important part of the flood-control project” for the river. Moreover, Kavanaugh added, the court’s new test “is sufficiently novel and vague” that it will create precisely the kind of regulatory uncertainty that the majority criticized.”
These peoples lives have been upturned for 15 years. This is a taking. They deserve compensation.
“Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/oath-keepers-founder-sentenced-18-years-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-cas-rcna85852
“Stewart Rhodes, who said after the Capitol attack that the rioters “should have brought rifles,” received the longest sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant to date.”
This is a serious travesty. The dude was not even there.
I am surprised that they are not going to execute him.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
“Exclusive-Slimmed-down U.S. debt ceiling deal takes shape”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-slimmed-down-u-debt-155518204.html
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and top Republican lawmaker Kevin McCarthy are edging close to a deal on the U.S. debt ceiling, with the parties just $70 billion apart on discretionary spending, according to a person familiar with the talks.”
“What is likely to emerge will not be a hundreds-page long bill, something that could take lawmakers days to write, read and vote on, but a slimmed-down agreement with a few key numbers, this source and another person briefed on negotiations said.”
“The expectation is that negotiators will hammer out top line numbers for discretionary spending, including a number for military spending, but leave lawmakers to hammer out the fine details of categories like housing and education through the normal appropriations process in the months ahead, the second source said.”
“In 2022, U.S. discretionary spending reached $1.7 trillion, accounting for 27% of the overall $6.27 trillion spent, according to federal figures. About half of that was for defense, an area some lawmakers have said should not be cut.”
This looks like a scam to me.
>> DeSantis announced yesterday
So, across both parties there are just three relevant candidates. One announced via a pre-recorded video, another from his empty office via live Twitter and one in front of a throng of his supporters. Read into that what you will…
>> This is a serious travesty. The dude was not even there.
Anybody that votes for Plugs needs to understand that this outrageous type of action could just as easily befall them.
Towing…10000lbs? Jeezum, what is that, an aircraft carrier? I’m not surprised that destroyed the range of an EV. What kind of impact does it have on the mileage of a IC-engine?
I feel adventurous when I’m towing a cubic meter of gravel – with the trailer that’s probably a bit less than 2 tons. Haven’t tried that with the new car yet, just towed light stuff. FWIW, the backup camera is incredibly well placed: you can see exactly when you are aligned with the trailer hitch. Makes life so much easier.
Merika !
Nope, anybody that votes for Plugs is too stupid to understand that.
IMHO, it doesn’t matter that Rhodes was not physically there. He was a main instigator in the conspiracy and sedition of that action, and is the reason that other members of his organization were physically there.
You are not ‘innocent’ of something if you actively promote an illegal action, even though you didn’t physically commit the crime.
My opinion is that the judgement and sentence is valid and proper.
This week,GM announced a 500 mile range and $40,000 price tag for the EV Silverado. They still want Papi to believe in the agenda and he will cruise to his trades job at Ludicrous Speed.
400 mile range for $42K including shipping. But you can’t buy the base versions. The retail versions are $90K.
Not uncommon. Many trailers in the US approach that weight. Some fifth wheel RVs are 12 to 14 thousand pounds. My trailer, loaded for a trip is close to 8 thousand pounds.
My neighbor has a 40 foot 18,000 lb fifth wheel trailer RV that he tows with a F-250 turbodiesel 4×4. Three a/c units and three axles. He has three teenagers.
The owners manual of the F150 Lightning repeatedly warns against “fast” charging, the 12-16 hour recharge cycle of 1.2 kW/hr at home being the preferred charging method to avoid shortening the lifespan of the effective battery.
The Ford F-150 EV battery has a overheating problem while charging. There is a fix with additional refrigerant cooling lines that they are applying to the first 10,000+ vehicles. Yes, the battery uses a/c for cooling. So does Tesla, GM, etc. Just about every EV battery except the Nissan Leaf uses a/c cooling.
It’s that time of year for fleas. I have always bought Frontline Plus. Not this year.
Penny’s dose increased a few bucks. Buddy’s dose almost doubled. Oh hey, here’s a handy link to the Amazon Basics version.
Same stuff although the carrier may be different. Different packaging but the same percentages of fipronil and (S)-Methoprene.
$57 less.
Fipronal is what kills the fleas. It’s neurotoxin to insects. Mammals don’t have a place for it to hook on. Supposedly you can drink a glass of the stuff to no ill effects other than your gut flushing out everything. The Methoprene is, I think, what makes the flea eggs sterile.
I got a bit of spray while applying to Penny. Her hair flicked it on me. I did go wash my eyes. You know what? The stuff tastes just like it smells. It’s like getting your eyes dilated and complaining “that stuff tastes bad” and the eye doctor is like “what?” like I’m a weirdo.
Hazy day today. It was suppose to be sunny. It’s bright, just not sunny.
MSRP much above $40k is a tough sell to dealers in places with median household incomes below the $75-80k range. They have to pretend at least.
Thanks for that. I didn’t think to search for a generic on Amazon. I got 6 doses of Frontline on sale for around $70, and this will save me a lot of money.
Our previous dogs I didn‘t worry about it, as they were homebodies. The current dogs love walks, and my dog and I walk 10 – 15 miles a week, often in wooded areas.
Oh, and that mileage doesn’t include the significant time spent by my golden fetching the ball. She would go until she collapsed from exhaustion if I let her. The other golden (an English Cream) will chase it once and then lay down.
Where’s the link?
Makes perfect sense. When you blink, some of the dilation liquid will go down the drain holes into your sinuses. Sense of smell is closely related to sense of taste and some people can’t distinguish.
@brad
The ones that have their own jets and aren’t affected by regulations for dirt people?
What kind of moron was shorting Nvidia this quarter?
No A100/H100 GPUs (plural, 8 of them), no ChatGPT at full resolution.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-25/nvidia-short-sellers-lose-2-3-billion-in-one-day-as-stock-soars?leadSource=uverify%20wall
@Lynn
19 years. Yes. Yes.
Difficult to boycott Target for “tuckable” children’s clothing when you’ve made one visit* in the three years since they encouraged sexual predators to use women’s bathrooms.
*Checking price of cat litter, IIRC.
Goodbye, Brown Sugar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmfi3UbDPnQ
(back when we kept the drag queens on stage and out of libraries)
Question for all of the Drag Queen Story Time people and their supporters: Why don’t you go to nursing homes and hospices to read your books? The oldsters would love the company and the distraction.
Corporate America still hasn’t learned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZmeBcmboSQ
Well, I guess I’m driving up in the morning. Just got home from the client’s house. I ended up with about 90% functionality at the end of today. Still no remote access, or control of the PTZ cam, but he’s got image from 7 cams, and he’s recording. The remote access is just a matter of port forwarding, and some downloading of apps. Oh, and making that all actually work.
They provide a way to fumble around until you get it, but it’s completely undocumented. I searched the pdf manual, and the menu choice NEVER occurs. I’m pretty good at monkey punching interfaces and GUIs until it works, made a career out of it, and if this was something critical, I’d be a hero today. Did get the client to approve the purchase of new cams. After all, my messing around at my day rate ate about half the cost difference and could have eaten it all.
WRT the Oathkeepers. 18years. Murderers get 7 and out in 3, if they get prosecuted at all. IIRC the last time someone was prosecuted for sedition, it was politically motivated selective prosecution too. This is some banana republic sh!t that everyone will come to regret.
Hell, even the irish made sinn fein a F’ing political party and they killed people. IDK what evidence was presented, but just hearing the judge’s comments reveals serious bias issues. How much time did the progs who actually bombed the Senate get?
n
>> What kind of moron was shorting Nvidia this quarter?
The usual ‘yeah, Jim Cramer’s a genius’ morons. Every trade needs a counterparty.
Corporate America still hasn’t learned.
– they are being threatened and extorted by ESG ratings firms. Until now, it’s been easier to pay the Danegeld. Armies of woke protesters were a bigger threat than disgruntled customers.
I’m about 90% sure that most companies hate their customers anyway, and would be happy to have fewer of the troublesome critters around. I’m also pretty sure that they are going to get their wish.
n
Been a while since I bloviated about chemistry,. This is marginally related but practical:
I mentioned heat treating the other day wrt a problem with aluminum plate.
Most people have some vague idea that heat treating affects the hardness of some metal alloys, and that hardness is measured by something called “Rockwell C”.
Rockwell C refers to an ASTM-specified test method. That method uses a device that vaguely resembles a tabletop drill press. The piece to be measured is placed on the platen and a probe called a Brale indenter (in place of a drill) is brought into contact with a standard 10-kg force called a preload, followed by a 150-kg major load. Rockwell C is the difference between the two readings, read as HRC xx directly on the tester. It is used primarily for steel alloys. The preload is designed to break through any surface corrosion or coating, and the concentration of force is sufficient to visibly deform the work piece, leaving a mark. Good practice is to take several readings and average them.
Rockwell C is routinely used to test the hardness of heat-treatable steels, and instantly determines whether heat treatment has been effective.
I recently put together a Chinese product using an ordinary L-shaped hex key (about 4-5 mm) supplied in the box, It was deformed and cammed out of the sockets after torquing about a dozen bolts.
Tonight I watched:
Harbor Freight Bremen Parallel Clamp 4-Month Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxJwydzjriw
in which 1 clamp out of 4 failed during the test.
For anyone familiar with metal manufacturing, both of these failures were obviously due to lack of or defective heat treating leaving parts in a soft condition inadequate to the task. Sloppy Chinese manufacturing/bad QC. Machining shapes the parts while they are soft, heat treating makes them harder to withstand use. I recall my father commenting on some 16D nails when we were putting up a stud wall when I was about 10. “Too soft” aka inadequately heat treated, they tended to bend unless struck perfectly.
Steel hardness is pretty much the inverse of toughness. A hard steel is brittle. Strike a metal file heat treated to HRC70 across the top of a vise and chances are it will break. Heat it to cherry red with a torch and let it air cool and it will be much softer but tougher–it won’t break in the same test, but it won’t work very well as a file, either.
There are lot’s of hardness scales designed for different purposes. I learned the Moh’s hardness scale for minerals when I was about 8. There are Rockwell A and B tests that use the same scale with different preload/major load and indenters/probes, and other tests to measure harder and softer materials, coatings, etc. It’s not uncommon to use several harness tests in combination. Heat trating is usually done in batches of parts which often include test parts of standard configuration that make it easy to compare results and are often used to test other properties. The Charpy impact test for example uses a small steel bar that is broken by a swinging hammer, after which the pieces are often tested for hardness.
ADDED:
A current search for Wilson Rockwell Hardness Standard Test Block Calibration Sets
shows an e-auction for such. If you look at the photos you can see that the used hardness standards are pock-marked where they have been tested. SOP would be to have a log book for the test results, and require recalibration if the results drifted over time.
Pretty much all you have to do is look at this ?guy? to know that most people will have issues with s/him and anything s/he does.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12123209/Satan-loving-artist-slams-Targets-decision-remove-products-Pride-collection.html
Are there no adults in charge anywhere anymore?
n
Since attendance is so important to success, they’ve chosen to do LESS of it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12125563/Texas-high-school-postpones-graduation-ceremony-just-FIVE-33-students-eligible.html
Bloody hell. Let the 5 graduate, and get them bus tickets out of town.
n
IMHO, it doesn’t matter that Rhodes was not physically there. He was a main instigator in the conspiracy and sedition of that action, and is the reason that other members of his organization were physically there.
You are not ‘innocent’ of something if you actively promote an illegal action, even though you didn’t physically commit the crime.
My opinion is that the judgement and sentence is valid and proper.
How many people did he rape ? Murder ? Zero.
The rumor (per Mark Levin) is that this was a test case for the DOJ and they are going to charge Trump with seditious treason next.
Goodbye, Brown Sugar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmfi3UbDPnQ
Ah yes, the heroin chique with the ultra skinny bodies.
But, you get fat on methadone.
Nice little house on five acres down the street from my house for $1,720,000. Unreal.
https://www.har.com/homedetail/7534-and-7526-misty-meadow-ct-richmond-tx-77469/16313495?lid=7833575
I love horses but you have to go pet them for an hour each day or they go feral.
“SpaceX Offers Rare $100 Discount on Starlink Dish at Best Buy, Home Depot”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-offers-rare-100-discount-on-starlink-dish-at-best-buy-home-depot
“It looks like SpaceX is holding its own Memorial Day sale for the standard Starlink dish, which normally costs $599.”
The wife and I just completed our dusk 1.2 mile walk. The gnats are biting this year. That sucked, otherwise the 85 F, 60 % humidity was OK. I do prefer the 60 F, 25% humidity from March though.
“Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it” By Matt Hanson
https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-is-so-broken-that-even-microsoft-cant-fix-it
“Microsoft admits there are Windows 11 problems it just can’t fix”
And I have been thinking about moving to Windows 11 Pro on my Windows 10 Pro x64 office pc.
First time I read that I saw “hores”. Seemed reasonable in terms of context.
Starlink at HD not available in TX. My BOL is showing “expanding in 2023” even though my neighbor got his.
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@Nick
Obviously not, and it legitimately begs the question: If they can flock up this bad with major PR consequences, how many of their cost control people believe that 2 + 2 can equal 5?
They’ve been fired by HR or the board for vaguely specified* offenses or intimidated into silence by the example of others being fired.
* Yes, “vaguely specified” is intentional. It suits the modus operandi of HR weasels and Karens.
“Help Save AM Radio In Your Car!”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/help-save-am-radio-in-your-car
“Write your Congressman and Senators and tell them you want to save your AM frequency! When weather turns bad, for traffic reports, and even in the case of world events, you turn to AM radio. AM radio is the home of the Emergency Broadcast Network to warn you of things you need to know.”
“Some automakers want to try to save a few bucks and eliminate AM radio. I say that is crap. Don’t eliminate my choice! If I want to listen to AM, let me. If not, I don’t have to, but this is America and I want to decide.”
And I have been thinking about moving to Windows 11 Pro on my Windows 10 Pro x64 office pc.
– still on win8.2 for my main machine, win7 for my work laptop. 8 for my “personal” laptop, an underpowered atom that I rarely boot anymore.
Dad’s machine, used only for solitare is win10, and the family desktop is too. Lots of tablets of various but mostly apple and river flavored. Kids had chromebooks.
Couple of boxen with *nix in various flavors, and probably a couple of boxen with more exotics like QNX in dedicated and OS hidden roles.
One winXP that only gets booted to run my vinyl cutter.
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“REVIEW: 2023 Ford Maverick Lariat Hybrid”
https://www.carpro.com/vehicle-reviews/review-2023-ford-maverick-tremor-xlt-0
“We’ve got to talk fuel economy. Fuel economy is rated at 42 city and 33 highway, but I think that might be under rated. In one 10-mile stretch of highway speeds around 65 miles per hour and got 50 miles per gallon.”
“More interesting, if you fill the 13.8-gallon fuel tank, you can go 500 miles on a tank of gas. I am more than impressed with the fuel economy on the hybrid Maverick.”
“Total MSRP on my tester is $32,395 with transportation. For me, I think the XLT package that you can get well under $30,000 is the best buy out there.”
If you want a small pickup as a daily driver, you cannot beat the mileage. And yes, carbon taxes are coming.
How does the Maverick hybrid do with a thousand pounds in the bed? Going up a steep grade with a thousand pounds in the bed? I’m asking not only about fuel economy but about longevity of the electric motors.
@stevef. just because I’ve put over 1000 pounds in the bed of my Ranger, and I’ve seen as bad or worse, doesn’t mean you are SUPPOSED to…. I think it’s actually rated for 500#.
Handles like a pig, and burns gas like crazy.
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I think DeSantis is correct, esp in light of all the pimping of Mooshelle… who the press fawned over, while ignoring t’s family.
Ron DeSantis says wife Casey would be on the cover of ‘every fashion magazine’ – if she were a Democrat: Governor slams media’s double standards for wife that ‘everyone looks up to’
Sounds kinda petty though.
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>> The rumor (per Mark Levin) is that this was a test case for the DOJ and they are going to charge Trump with seditious treason next.
So in which federal prison will they be setting up the “Trump 47 Off-site White House?”
>> The rumor (per Mark Levin) is that this was a test case for the DOJ and they are going to charge Trump with seditious treason next.
So in which federal prison will they be setting up the “Trump 47 Off-site White House?”
Probably Big Spring, Texas. Toasty.
The wedding photos Disney leaked to the press in November backfired spectacularly and may have tipped Dade County in DeSantis’ favor.
Dade hadn’t voted Republican for Governor since Jeb!, twenty years ago.
The Maverick is a Fusion/Escape platform with a truck body. You aren’t going to haul 1000 pounds in the bed.
I see one regularly at our Home Depot, and I looked at the base model up close last year poking around in the fleet section of our local dealer’s lot early one morning. The bed is extremely small.
Ford must be in panic mode over the rumors of a competitor from Toyota. Jerry probably received an extra check this week to write up another review.
AI saved Nvidia and Intel.
The capacity for my ‘94 Mazda B4000 (¼ ton) is 1260 lb (minus my skinny self), same platform as your ranger. My ’06 Sierra 1500 (½ ton) is 1774 lb. Capacity has been creeping up for decades as another selling point, and GM even has the HD variants which are rated to carry around 3000 lb in the ½ ton platform.
Put enough drywall, or garden soil in the bed, the suspension will bottom out in the back while the nose goes high…
The tires will bulge, and the whole thing rides like a boat, but it will do it… Pretty sure my leaf springs are supposed to be smiles, not frowns though. $200 the pair, and straight forward to replace, but … long list of projects.
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>> Sounds kinda petty though.
We were in FL for most of the pandemic and as such got to witness a lot of Ron’s pettiness via his daily “press conferences.” He has quite the talent for ignoring those that he deigned not worthy.
>> “Help Save AM Radio In Your Car!”
Ford has capitulated.
>> The capacity for my ‘94 Mazda B4000 (¼ ton) is 1260 lb (minus my skinny self), same platform as your ranger. My ’06 Sierra 1500 (½ ton) is 1774 lb. Capacity has been creeping up for decades as another selling point, and GM even has the HD variants which are rated to carry around 3000 lb in the ½ ton platform.
Wait, how is 3,000 lbs a half-ton??
Ya gets what ya pays for…
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/two-die-fungal-brain-infection-30077357
It’s whatever the marketing guy calls it! Although I think the capacity creep is to keep the home-gamer happy with the least expensive class while still giving them the increased capabilities they want, without having to get into the more expensive (and more capable) ¾- and 1 ton class vehicles. So selling more at all the price points / capability levels. I’m not even getting into the trim level costs.
I drove a Maverick a couple months ago. It was a Lariat non-hybrid. Nice vehicle, but not for the price. I’d rather buy a Honda Ridgeline for about the same money. I still think I’ll just keep the boy’s Tacoma when I get his Mustang next year. With the cost of vehicles now, getting something in as good a shape and for equivalent cost is impossible now.