THE MORNING RANT: The Lithium Battery Fire Problem Isn’t Confined to EVs; Plug-In Hybrids & Battery Storage Are Also Going Up in Flames

If This is “Clean Energy,” What is Dirty Energy?

What had been one the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities, Moss Landing Energy Storage in Monterey County California, burst into flames in mid-January, and burned for several days. There was no way to contain it so the fire was left to burn itself out, but it continued to periodically re-ignite. Now, over three weeks later, there is still
fear of Moss Landing re-igniting.

Rainfall poses a significant threat to the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing, where exposed lithium-ion batteries could react violently and spark a flare-up.
"Water reacts to lithium in a very violently responsive way," said Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church.

Initially as the fire raged, nearby residents were evacuated.

“Evacuations ordered in California after fire at battery power plant in Moss Landing” [USA Today – 01/17/2025]

Monterey County soon thereafter declared a state of emergency.

“'Terrifying': Monterey County declares emergency after massive lithium battery plant fire” [USA Today – 01/23/2025]

Initial tests are being done to examine the environmental damage, and it is very bad news.

“‘Extremely disturbing’: High levels of heavy metals at Monterey estuary after lithium battery site fire” [LA Times – 01/29/2025]

Days after one of the world’s largest lithium ion battery storage facilities burst into flames in Monterey County, researchers found alarmingly high concentrations of heavy metals at a nearby estuary that is home to several endangered species.
The concentration of nickel, manganese and cobalt measured on the surface of the soil is hundreds to thousands of times as much as the levels in the surface soil prior to the fire or compared with levels measured deeper in the soil.
San José State’s soil samples suggest there could be long-term environmental and health effects from the toxic blaze…

By the way, Moss Landing is not an isolated event. Just a few days later there was a similar fire in Australia.

“Factory in Cheltenham in Melbourne's south-east erupts in flames after lithium-ion batteries catch fire, prompting smoke alert for surrounding areas” [Sky News Australia – 01/30/2025]

There is nothing funny about these awful lithium-ion fires, but I do chuckle when these stories unironically refer to battery storage fires in the context of “clean energy.”

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Plug-In Hybrids: Another Fiery Solution to a Problem that Doesn’t Exist

Traditional hybrid vehicles (e.g. the Prius) that produce electricity with regenerative braking are an amazing technological development. The electricity is stored in a small battery that can then be used an energy source to reduce the amount of gasoline used for propulsion. This generally results in better miles per gallon than realized in a non-hybrid, gasoline-powered car. Toyota is now applying this technology to most of its fleet. In fact, Toyota was heavily criticized and mocked by the climate cultists for missing out on the “EV transition” as it focused instead on traditional, Prius-style hybrid vehicles.

It’s a confusing shame that the word “hybrid” is also used for the subset of EVs known as “plug-in hybrids.” A plug-in hybrid has two complete powertrain systems – one gasoline and one electric, so it is terribly inefficient, with limited range, unnecessarily heavy, and it has twice as many ways to mechanically fail. Plug-in hybrids also still require a large, unstable, lithium-ion battery, just like pure EVs, and they have the similar problem of spontaneously combusting.

A long-time member of the Ace of Spades horde from a left coast state sent me an email with the attached photo of a friend’s plug-in Jeep Cherokee.

Plug-in Hybrid Fire - Jeep Cherokee - Photographed by neighbor - Jan 2025.JPG

He wrote:

Hey Buck - Big fan of your columns on EVs, and they were the first thing I thought of when my friend’s car caught fire last night - it was a 2024 Jeep grand Cherokee plug in hybrid. Super nice car. All the features. Heated and cooled seats. Suspension that could be raised and lowered as needed. 40 mile electric range. Good gas mileage. Then it spontaneously caught fire after a 10 mile drive.

Meanwhile in Massachusetts…

“Hybrid vehicle catches fire inside Wayland garage. Why it could have been worse” [Metro West Daily News – 01/14/2025]

{Fire Chief] McPherson said a resident of the home was inside the garage at the time a Jeep Cherokee 4XE began to smoke heavily, before erupting into flames.

To be clear, this Jeep Cherokee 4XE is was a plug-in hybrid, not a traditional hybrid.

Firefighters used one of their engines to drag the burning SUV out of the garage, and prevent it from creating any significant structural damage.

All these recent Jeep plug-in fires would seem to explain this headline that I somehow missed a few months ago:

“Park outside: 150,000 Jeep Cherokee and Wrangler hybrids recalled for fire risk” [USA Today – 10/01/2024]

Certain Jeep hybrid plug-in models are being recalled due to several reports of fires starting when the cars are driving or parked, according to car companies Stellantis and Chrysler.

For those who purchase EVs (including plug-in hybrids) from a legacy auto manufacturer, it is becoming disturbingly common to receive a notice at some point advising that your vehicle is so dangerous that it must be parked outside and away from structures…

As a result, park-outside notices have been issued to certain Jeep Cherokee and Wrangler hybrid owners to prevent the spread of potential flames. Owners have also been advised to avoid charging their batteries for the time being.

If it’s advisable not to plug in your plug-in hybrid, perhaps it would make more sense to simply buy a gasoline-only vehicle.

The exploding plug-in hybrid problem isn’t just a Jeep problem either.

“Latest Ford Recall Entails Fire Risk in Plug-In Hybrid SUVs; A manufacturing error has presented the risk of a short circuit and fire in certain Ford hybrid SUV” [Ratchet & Wrench – 01/02/2025]

According to filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an error in manufacturing has resulted in potential microdefects and local stresses within the battery, causing the cell separator layer to get damaged. This chain of events will likely lead to a short circuit, and potentially a fire.

Audi too…

“Audi has recalled 4,616 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) because their high-voltage batteries may overheat and trigger a fire” [KBB – 12/10/2024]

While traditional Prius-type hybrids are a great advancement in gasoline-powered automotive technologies, plug-in EV hybrids are little more than clunky, complicated novelties for which there are much better ICE or pure EV options. It’s akin to buying an amphibious vehicle because you might occasionally want a boat.

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Splash-In Hybrids

Speaking of amphibious vehicles, here’s a fun little video of the early 1960s Amphicar. Why buy a boat if you can purchase a “splash-in hybrid” instead?

President Lyndon Johnson famously had an Amphicar at his Texas ranch, and it’s alleged that he liked to take guests on a spin around the ranch, then give them a scare by claiming his brakes had failed as he drove into a lake.

Have a great week.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2025 11:00 AM (KTCHq)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

3 We are ruled by fools

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2025 11:01 AM (zjgNU)

4 It's obvious

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2025 11:01 AM (fwDg9)

5 Well done!

Posted by: Darkness lifting at February 10, 2025 11:01 AM (2NXcZ)

6 (But that changed somewhat 3 weeks ago.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU)

7 Not first. Good Work, Biden's Dog.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

8 There was a vehicle fire in the DFW area on the news this morning and I am fairly certain it was an EV that was burning. The fire trucks were there but I didn't see anyone during the short video they had going near the fire.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2025 11:02 AM (Rcnd3)

9 Church of Global Warming needs to get destroyed

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2025 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

10 I've got to tell you, here in Israel we have more and more EVs on the roads and they're not bursting into flames. And they're from every EV brand under the sun, from Teslas to one night stand Chinese brands.

Same with hybrids.

Are we doing something wrong?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2025 11:03 AM (KTCHq)

11 9 Church of Global Warming needs to get destroyed
Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2025 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

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What if I told you that the Church of Global Warming was funded by government grants?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

12 Moss Landing is in the heart of woke country, CA. The horrible news about the environment, the dangers of lithium batteries and so on does not appear to have registered with the locals. To any significant extent that would open their eyes.

To them, the fire is Trump's fault. Or something.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

13 I thought Moss Landing was on Tatooine

Posted by: Luke Skywalker at February 10, 2025 11:05 AM (RHGPo)

14 11. But of course, just as we paid for the WEF and the invasion of Ireland.

Posted by: Darkness lifting at February 10, 2025 11:05 AM (2NXcZ)

15 Good morning good people.

I'm shocked by these batteries burning!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:06 AM (WXNFJ)

16 What if I told you that the Church of Global Warming was funded by government grants?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 11:04 AM (GBKbO)
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Kash and Cary?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2025 11:06 AM (KTCHq)

17 Bidda-Bidda-Bidda, it's my good buddy Buck!

Posted by: Twiki at February 10, 2025 11:06 AM (LxER7)

18 Just like most liberals, electric cars are stupid, ugly, and dangerous.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 10, 2025 11:06 AM (gRcde)

19 Days after one of the world’s largest lithium ion battery storage facilities burst into flames in Monterey County, researchers found alarmingly high concentrations of heavy metals at a nearby estuary that is home to several endangered species.

Moss Landing used to be a huge oil-fired electric power plant, and then a huge oil-fired electric power plant.

That was better for the environment than this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2025 11:06 AM (uxCna)

20 "Flaming EV Batteries are known to the State of Califzuela to cause cancer."

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 11:06 AM (l0Tk4)

21 Bonfire of the vanities was only supposed to be a book, not a How-to.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2025 11:07 AM (tiJAF)

22 But, but, but ... Internal Combustion Vehicles catch fire all the time!

Posted by: not Joe Xiden at February 10, 2025 11:07 AM (D0HYP)

23 Lord Almighty, I feel my temperature risin', mmm
Higher, higher, it's burning through to my soul
Girl, girl, girl, girl, you're gonna set me on fire
My brain is flamin', I don't know which way to go, yeah

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025 11:07 AM (RHGPo)

24 Did Flaming EVs open for Crash Test Dummies?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2025 11:07 AM (tiJAF)

25 How can we sleep when our cars are burning?

Posted by: Midnight Oil at February 10, 2025 11:07 AM (gRcde)

26 Leilani Dowding on the Brit uniparty, a few hours ago:

2 cheeks of the same shitty arse.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 10, 2025 11:08 AM (Q9Zma)

27 I saw the picture up top and thought "Which government building burst into flames over a DOGE audit?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 11:08 AM (tT6L1)

28 What if I told you that the Church of Global Warming was funded by government grants?
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And two-thirds or more of what is asserted to go to fight "Global Warming" actually ends up lining various pockets rather than the entity of record.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2025 11:08 AM (azSra)

29
Lithium battery guano FTW!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 10, 2025 11:09 AM (RFg1E)

30 I just renovated two bathrooms in my house. I took the cruddy old junk i yanked out to the transfer station like an idiot, when i could have had a literal bonfire of the vanities in my own back yard.

Opportunity, missed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 11:09 AM (VoAdT)

31 Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center:

National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, Jurisdiction: Federal
Type: Incentives
Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation
Enacted: Nov 15, 2021
Technologies: EVs, PHEVs

See how it's embedded in State Laws & Incentives.

It needs to be unwound.

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 10, 2025 11:09 AM (NFX2v)

32
I got a hunka hunka burnin' EV!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 10, 2025 11:09 AM (RFg1E)

33 Hybrids have two motors and so are more complicated and more expensive. This can meet (and exceed) the necessary ROI for trucks and taxis that put on lots of miles. Not so much for lightly used second and third cars. The former doesn't need subsidies. The latter is an economic sink hole.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 10, 2025 11:10 AM (RTsLa)

34 10
‘ in Israel we have more and more EVs on the roads and they're not bursting into flames’

Do you have any idea what the total is ?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2025 11:10 AM (jbnUc)

35 I actually saw a few amphicars back in the day.

Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:10 AM (Yj6Os)

36 But, but, but ... Internal Combustion Vehicles catch fire all the time!

Never in my kitchen.

Posted by: Cliff Claven at February 10, 2025 11:10 AM (Q9Zma)

37 Just like most liberals, electric cars are stupid, ugly, and dangerous.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 10, 2025 11:06 AM (gRcde)
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I am skeptical about EVs' practicality in the short and long term. This might change should a better battery technology be found.

I own a Hyundai hybrid - very happy.

Nevertheless, I'm impressed:

https://tinyurl.com/4c6ymp9f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2025 11:11 AM (KTCHq)

38 For the people who know stuff: Is there a significant weight difference between Lithium Iron Phosphate battery and Lithium Ion?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 11:11 AM (tT6L1)

39 People who buy battery-powered Jeeps pretty much get what they deserve, no?

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 10, 2025 11:11 AM (gRcde)

40 The Federal government buys $40 million worth of subscriptions to the New York Times every year.

Wordle doesn't come cheap.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2025 11:11 AM (uxCna)

41 My Buick LaCrosse, the penultimate generation, was available as a hybrid. Unfortunately the gas engine was the 180-hp four-cylinder. I had that in a lighter car, the '11 Regal, and the car was woefully underpowered on any kind of steep incline like the bridge I drive across every day. If I were doing, say, 50, and a car pulled just ahead of me so that I had to back off, I had to downshift for the revs to achieve my former speed. In a heavier, full-size car like the LaCrosse, that would have been worse.

Someone here said that the engines as used in such hybrids have more torque than those standing alone. Maybe that would work. But I'd rather they'd coupled the electric motor with an engine toting more hp.

In the meantime I'm more than pleased with my big gas-engined Buick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:11 AM (J2vNu)

42 The Fall of The Holy Renewable Empire?

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 11:12 AM (l0Tk4)

43 People who buy battery-powered Jeeps pretty much get what they deserve, no?
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 10, 2025 11:11 AM (gRcde)

They've been around for ages now. They just were always tiny. And plastic. And driven around the back yard by a small child whose parents had more money than sense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 11:12 AM (VoAdT)

44 But, but, but ... Internal Combustion Vehicles catch fire all the time!
Posted by: not Joe Xiden at February 10, 2025

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In crashes, sure. Not while parked.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:12 AM (J2vNu)

45
And yet Barbie Convertibles for kids have yet to level any structure by fire.

Hmmmmm...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 10, 2025 11:12 AM (RFg1E)

46 "Water reacts to lithium in a very violently responsive way,"

I had a chemistry teacher in high school who would have loved to show that off.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2025 11:13 AM (+4yJ5)

47 39 People who buy battery-powered Jeeps pretty much get what they deserve, no?
______

I'm not worried. I have plenty of money.

Posted by: Harrison Ford at February 10, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)

48 They've been around for ages now. They just were always tiny. And plastic. And driven around the back yard by a small child whose parents had more money than sense.

And Wal-Mart sells a bunch of them every year at Christmas.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2025 11:13 AM (tiJAF)

49 Pardoned Criminal Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Threatens Class-Action Lawsuit of All Americans Against Trump Administration and Elon Musk Over Alleged Data Breach

... countersue for mental breach

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025 11:13 AM (RHGPo)

50 Harrison Ford, first worry about how you land a PT-19.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2025 11:14 AM (tiJAF)

51 Propaganda for EVs has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with keeping the non-elite from having access to private personal transportation...access the elite will of course still enjoy.

Ordinary people have to subsidize an entire industry for a product that has zero natural demand all for the benefit of their betters.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:14 AM (PzXaK)

52 I had a chemistry teacher in high school who would have loved to show that off.
_____

Did he have any eyebrows?

Posted by: Harrison Ford at February 10, 2025 11:14 AM (Dv3i1)

53 Drives like a boat, sails like a car.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 10, 2025 11:14 AM (dFiTe)

54 But, but, but ... Internal Combustion Vehicles catch fire all the time!
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Saw a car-b-que the other day.
If you see smoke under your hood, and you don't have a fire extinguisher, you have maybe 5 minutes tops to stop, get your stuff and get away.
It's crazy how fast and hot it burns.

Even crazier are RVs and travel trailers; frame and axle will be all you'll identify.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2025 11:14 AM (suJJy)

55 I’m no fan of rate regulation, but it would be good to see some red state legislation requiring homeowners insurance and auto insurance rates to be bifurcated for non-EV owners and EV owners.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at February 10, 2025 11:14 AM (HLTCB)

56 Okay

All 25 million of us who had our PII stolen from OPM by Beijing need to sue Gaylord then.

Game on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2025 11:15 AM (tiJAF)

57 Do you have any idea what the total is ?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2025 11:10 AM (jbnUc)
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Grok:

Electric vehicles (EVs) have become increasingly popular in Israel. Here's a breakdown based on available data:

Market Share: By the end of 2023, EVs represented about 18.6% of new car sales in Israel. This indicates a significant growth in the adoption of electric vehicles within the country.
Total Number of EVs: As of December 2023, there were approximately 97,721 electric vehicles in Israel, a notable increase from 45,270 in December 2022, showcasing a more than doubling of the EV fleet within a year.
Growth Rates: In 2024, the EV market in Israel grew by 27.9%, suggesting continued strong growth. This follows a trend where in 2023, the market share of EVs was around 24.5% of new car deliveries in February, indicating a year where EVs made up a substantial portion of new vehicle sales.
Brand Dominance: Chinese manufacturers like BYD have taken a leading role in this market. BYD was the most popular EV brand in Israel in 2023 with significant sales numbers, followed by Geely and Tesla. This reflects a shift where Chinese brands are capturing a large segment of the market.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2025 11:15 AM (KTCHq)

58 Plug-in hybrids were largely designed to avoid government emissions and gas-mileage requirements. Because of their (limited) EV-only range, PIH can score much higher on these tests, and thereby avoid costly fines or restrictions. of course it's a scam, and everyone knows it's a scam.

According to official figures, the new Lambo Revuelto -- a fire-breathing, 1000-hp, 9500 rpm V12 -- somehow scores as good on emissions and mileage as basic transportation. It does that by gaming the system with its limited EV range, when everyone knows that nobody is paying $800k for a Lambo to drive around in EV.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 10, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

59 49. His new crimes can be punished.
How many "czars" did Obama appoint? 38. Did the Senate approve ValJar? Oh, he'll no.

Posted by: Darkness lifting at February 10, 2025 11:15 AM (2NXcZ)

60 If you're ever in Orlando you can take an amphicar tour at The Boathouse restaurant.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2025 11:15 AM (Y6IkP)

61 The Amphibious Car reminds me of the Top Gear episode where Jeremy and James made boats out of cars to cross the Channel.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:16 AM (PzXaK)

62 And driven around the back yard by a small child…

Or little old ladies who never drive further than across town to the grocery store. But those battery-operated cars respected the limitations of the power source and marketed only to those people who it actually made sense for. Sadly, safety regulations have pretty much killed the ability to meet that market by mandating that all vehicles be ridiculously heavy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Q9Zma)

63 Amphicar?

Schwimmwagen, "hold my bier ja?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2025 11:17 AM (tiJAF)

64 Kash and Cary?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2025

***
That was the snarky saying in the 1940s when Cary Grant married "Poor Little Rich Girl" Barbara Hutton, heir to the Woolworth fortune (and whose father founded E.F. Hutton): "Cash and Cary."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:17 AM (J2vNu)

65 Did he have any eyebrows?
Posted by: Harrison Ford

Maybe he was Dick Gephardt, and never had any to begin with.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

66 Heavy Metal? Excellent!!
- Bill and Ted

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 10, 2025 11:17 AM (2xLsW)

67 People who buy battery-powered Jeeps pretty much get what they deserve, no?

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 10, 2025 11:11 AM (gRcde)

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I've been assured for the past decade that by now the roads nationwide would be populated exclusively with Driverless EV Semi-Trailer Trucks.

Man, are those ever gonna be Lit AF ... literally!

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 11:17 AM (l0Tk4)

68 52 I had a chemistry teacher in high school who would have loved to show that off.
_____

Did he have any eyebrows?
Posted by: Harrison Ford at February 10, 2025 11:14 AM (Dv3i1)

______

Had a chem prof in college who had an artificial arm and a badly-pocked face. Said to have been caught in a lab explosion. Supposedly a student was killed in the same blast.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 10, 2025 11:17 AM (LxER7)

69 52 I had a chemistry teacher in high school who would have loved to show that off.

Did he have any eyebrows?
Posted by: Harrison Ford

Yes, but God only knows why.

Experiment One: He demonstrates a reaction with magnesium and gunpowder. Very pretty. You could even see the one spark that jumped out and buried itself happily in the open can of gunpowder.

Experiment Two: Shows how sodium reacts with water. Large chunk of sodium added to bucket of water.

So back in 86 when our school's science building burned down overnight, he was our first suspect.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2025 11:17 AM (+4yJ5)

70 Neil Oliver interviewed people who can document that the Covid response was a military response and that very vax was brewed up by the DoD.

Posted by: Darkness lifting at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (2NXcZ)

71 OT: proof that generative AI is evil.
"Music to celebrate Harambe (FULL ALBUM)"
https://youtu.be/rGI_A_XwO24?si=sYr5kwnIwaXjQF2z

😬

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (LPS7w)

72 It shouldn't be possible to gain a First!! from amny thousands of miles away like that. Unseemly. Egregious.

Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (G5+As)

73 Remember Samantha Power? You can tell she's a Person of Interest by the jobs she's held. Most recently as head of USAID, appointed in 2021 by Joe Biden, ISYN. She's tied to a lot of shenanigans, including Ukraine.
If I were Pam Bondi, I'd squeeze Samantha until she squeeled like a pig.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RTsLa)

74 Experiment Two: Shows how sodium reacts with water. Large chunk of sodium added to bucket of water.

Love watching the vlips where they toss it in the lake. Bam! And you watch a piece go flying off until it lands in more water. Bam! Repeat. Bam!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (QDum0)

75 Danes launch bid to 'buy California' (since Gov Newsom has done everything possible to lower the price) and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump's Greenland threats

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

76
Get rid of CAFE standards.
Get rid of subsidies.
Let the market decide.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2025 11:20 AM (dg+HA)

77 We had a chem teacher who did "blow shit up day" once. Sodium, lithium, magensium, etc etc. It was like a nerdy Gallagher show.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 11:20 AM (VoAdT)

78 *sees video of amphibious car*

You see! You see! 1963 was the peak of American culture.

Now, it's all EV car-b-ques.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2025 11:20 AM (Aqu9a)

79 If you squeeze Samantha Powers too hard, might get some of her on you.

Yuck

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2025 11:20 AM (tiJAF)

80 75 Danes launch bid to 'buy California' (since Gov Newsom has done everything possible to lower the price) and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump's Greenland threats
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

Well shit, can we just call it even?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 11:20 AM (VoAdT)

81
75 Danes launch bid to 'buy California' (since Gov Newsom has done everything possible to lower the price) and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump's Greenland threats
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

How can I help facilitate this transaction?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 10, 2025 11:21 AM (2xLsW)

82 Saw a car-b-que the other day.
If you see smoke under your hood, and you don't have a fire extinguisher, you have maybe 5 minutes tops to stop, get your stuff and get away.
It's crazy how fast and hot it burns. . . .

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2025

***
Happened to me one January night in 1985. The '75 Volvo I'd just bought began to spurt gas onto the windshield, and, Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 told me later, "Flames were licking out under the dashboard." I pulled over, we leaped out and ran to a safe distance, and we watched the car burn end-to-end.

We were right outside a dance club. People came out to watch, and one asked me, "is that your car?"

I said, "It *was* . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:21 AM (J2vNu)

83 So back in 86 when our school's science building burned down overnight, he was our first suspect.

I had a chemistry professor with a PhD from Berkeley who got misty eyed about the time they blew out a wall of one of the chemistry buildings on campus.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2025 11:21 AM (uxCna)

84 Thx Buck.
The electric buses of late are having problems with bursting into flames world wide. The more lithium ion batteries you use in either a facility for a vehicle the greater the likelihood of a fire. Someone must have a formula bti determine the danger of fire caused by increased amount of lithium

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2025 11:21 AM (KXtU1)

85 So...

I have a GoTrax scooter that I use for, well, quick jots when I don't feel like walking. It's good for that, though of course at that scale weight becomes an issue.

Anyway, to me that's a reasonable application for those who don't feel like bicycling around or whatever.

It still takes four hours to charge for a range of about 3-5 miles at a top speed of around 20mph if I have the wind at my back and am going downhill. I am thinking about a Vespa though...

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (PzXaK)

86 When it hits 88 mph, you're gonna see some serious shit.

Posted by: Doc Brown at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (hY4dx)

87 72 It shouldn't be possible to gain a First!! from amny thousands of miles away like that. Unseemly. Egregious.
Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (G5+As)

We're all thousands of miles away from Nauru.

Except for Pixy, I guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (VoAdT)

88 64. And it was brought out again when Governor Hugh Carey married a very wealthy woman.

Posted by: Darkness lifting at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (2NXcZ)

89 If you squeeze Samantha Powers too hard, might get some of her on you.

Yuck
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2025

***
That manly, dried-up-looking "woman" that Bill Nye was pointing to on the Morning Report pic -- was that her?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (J2vNu)

90 We were right outside a dance club. People came out to watch, and one asked me, "is that your car?"

I said, "It *was* . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:21 AM (J2vNu)
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Heh, I can see myself in the same situation and answering just as you did.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (tT6L1)

91 Bidda-Bidda-Bidda, it's my good buddy Buck!
Posted by: Twiki at February 10, 2025 11:06 AM (LxER7)

Bidda-Bidda-Bidda buttcheeks!

Posted by: Twiki on MST3K at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (/HDaX)

92 A hybrid that harvests it's own energy through braking or coasting to recharge batteries that are used to augment acceleration or used for low speed environments would be my idea of an "EV."

This tech is found on Formula 1 race cars and various iterations of endurance racers... like the ones you'd see at the 24 hours of Le Mans.

I'm unaware of many mainstream hybrids that can utilize this technology to enhance performance other than simply extend range or provide some sort of virtue signaling.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (Q4IgG)

93 Get rid of CAFE standards.
Get rid of subsidies.
Let the market decide.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2025 11:20 AM (dg+HA)

The American car-buying public is far too stupid to know which vehicle is the correct vehicle they should buy. So we'll decide for them. It's for the Greater Good!

Posted by: EPA Mandarins at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (Aqu9a)

94 If you squeeze Samantha Powers too hard, might get some of her on you.

Yuck

I had no idea who she was and just googled her.

Serious case of the Ick. Man, you gotta warn people.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (gRcde)

95 We had a chem teacher who did "blow shit up day" once. Sodium, lithium, magensium, etc etc. It was like a nerdy Gallagher show.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yep - us too. The same guy also brought in an antique flintlock and loaded and fired it in the classroom.

Lots of the ceiling tiles came down. It was a glorious day and no one said a word to him about it. HS in the late 60s and early 70s was lit!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (WXNFJ)

96 Remember Samantha Power?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RTsLa)

Fugly....really fugly.

Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (Yj6Os)

97 Danes launch bid to 'buy California'

Sorry, we're handing Alta California back to Mexico to undo the great historical wrong of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Land Back!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (uxCna)

98 Hey hey now. I have to sleep with that thing.

Posted by: Cass Sunstein at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (hY4dx)

99 Damn. I dreamt I was behind an amphicar a few weeks ago, having never seen one in my life. I watched it go in the water and float along Mine was not an amphicar.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (H7qcR)

100 @96 She's no Irish Rose.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (LPS7w)

101 49
‘’ Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Threatens’

I wonder if he committed any crimes not covered by Biden’s pardon.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2025 11:24 AM (jbnUc)

102 My high school chem teach just liked to put gross smelling chemicals on a paper towel clipped to a box fan. He'd do that and the girls screamed EEEWWWW. I think he got off on that. I was like, hand up "Maybe next time you could just describe the smell. Mmmkay?"

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2025 11:24 AM (Y6IkP)

103 77 We had a chem teacher who did "blow shit up day" once. Sodium, lithium, magensium, etc etc. It was like a nerdy Gallagher show.

I think that after the sodium incident, he was told that further demonstrations were to be done outside.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2025 11:24 AM (+4yJ5)

104 101. Probably every day. And twice on Mondays.

Posted by: Darkness lifting at February 10, 2025 11:24 AM (2NXcZ)

105 Quite a few Amphicars are still around and running.
They come up for auction now and then on Bring A Trailer.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 10, 2025 11:24 AM (1Au9i)

106 That manly, dried-up-looking "woman" that Bill Nye was pointing to on the Morning Report pic -- was that her?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I thought that was Matthew Lesko, not Bill Nye.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)

107 I had no idea who she was and just googled her.

Serious case of the Ick. Man, you gotta warn people.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (gRcde)

Looks like the missing sister of "Lurch" Kerry. Married Cass Sunstein and actually managed to spawn.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 10, 2025 11:25 AM (/HDaX)

108 Posted by: Twiki on MST3K at February 10, 2025 11:22 AM (/HDaX)

Heh.

Watched an old werewolf movie with Oliver Reed this weekend. I don't get "Svengoolie" - more depressing than funny. Am I missing something?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 10, 2025 11:25 AM (LxER7)

109 96 Remember Samantha Power?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RTsLa)

Fugly....really fugly.
Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (Yj6Os)

Like John Kerry fucked a baseball mitt and then they botched the abortion.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 11:26 AM (VoAdT)

110 Or little old ladies who never drive further than across town to the grocery store.
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Learned something new the other day.
Seems luxury cars are considered " milely" if they have say, 40k at 4 years.
"But that's lower than the 12k per year average"
Yes, but luxury cars are no longer what you remember-- they're not supposed to be daily drivers, cars that go to 200k easily; they now have the same lower quality as regular cars so buyers will go new rather than the likely repair expense.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2025 11:26 AM (suJJy)

111 Did Oliver Reed ever play any emotion other than surly?

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

112 111 Did Oliver Reed ever play any emotion other than surly?
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

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Dyspeptic?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2025 11:27 AM (hY4dx)

113 We were right outside a dance club. People came out to watch, and one asked me, "is that your car?"

I said, "It *was* . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025
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Heh, I can see myself in the same situation and answering just as you did.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025

***
We were lucky beyond that. This was long before cell phones; we had no way to call a taxi without hunting for a pay phone. Fortunately her mother and her date were passing and saw us, so we got a ride home.

To replace it I bought my most disliked car, the '84 Ford Escort. The Eighties were great in a lot of ways for me, but car-wise, not so much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:27 AM (J2vNu)

114 Heavy metal, black and silver...

Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult at February 10, 2025 11:28 AM (ufFY8)

115 Watched an old werewolf movie with Oliver Reed this weekend. I don't get "Svengoolie" - more depressing than funny. Am I missing something?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

What's depressing about it? It's got rubber chickens, for crying out loud. And that hot redhead who plays the sax with the guy on the piano.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

116 Fugly....really fugly.
Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (Yj6Os)

I've seen pics of her when she was in her 20s or so. She was nice looking but selling your soul to satan does have a price.

Posted by: Time for a new nick. Certified dangerous radical and Trump cultist!Ketchup goes on hotdogs! at February 10, 2025 11:28 AM (89Sog)

117 Did Oliver Reed ever play any emotion other than surly?

In Gladiator, he was describing his days in the Colosseum, and his face lit up. I thought it was a fantastic performance.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

118 Did Oliver Reed ever play any emotion other than surly?
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025

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Dyspeptic?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2025

***
Ferocious!

Posted by: Curse of the Werewolf at February 10, 2025 11:28 AM (J2vNu)

119 57
‘ there were approximately 97,721 electric vehicles in Israel,’

You’re right. That is a lot cars not to have a single fire.
Just out of curiosity, how many volts would a typical Israeli plug in supply?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2025 11:29 AM (jbnUc)

120 What's depressing about it? It's got rubber chickens, for crying out loud. And that hot redhead who plays the sax with the guy on the piano.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

That's the thing. I get what it's supposed to be, it just doesn't deliver for me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 10, 2025 11:29 AM (LxER7)

121 109 96 Remember Samantha Power?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RTsLa)

Fugly....really fugly.
Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (Yj6Os)

Like John Kerry fucked a baseball mitt and then they botched the abortion.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 11:26 AM (VoAdT)

*considers*

8.5

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:30 AM (bss/y)

122 113

We were lucky beyond that. This was long before cell phones; we had no way to call a taxi without hunting for a pay phone. Fortunately her mother and her date were passing and saw us, so we got a ride home.

To replace it I bought my most disliked car, the '84 Ford Escort. The Eighties were great in a lot of ways for me, but car-wise, not so much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:27 AM (J2vNu)

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Brings to mind the '85 Ford Tempo I had.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 11:30 AM (LPS7w)

123 Had a Jr High science teacher who showed what dropping pure sodium into distilled water in a large beeker did. Floated around hissing for a couple seconds until the substance the sodium had been stored in, and then BANG. Actually cracked the breaker. Couldn't do that today because of "safety"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2025 11:30 AM (KXtU1)

124 "51 Propaganda for EVs has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with keeping the non-elite from having access to private personal transportation...access the elite will of course still enjoy.

Ordinary people have to subsidize an entire industry for a product that has zero natural demand all for the benefit of their betters.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:14 AM (PzXaK)"

The "betters" don't want them either except as a third or fourth car. This has all been about banning private vehicle ownership for the plebs from the start and the normies are starting to understand.

The left has a fundamental misunderstanding about real violence. They think the pinnacle of violence is achieved by convincing the disenfranchised, excitable, and sociopathic that the leash is off and all is permissible for the duration of a crisis. But there is an entire plane that exists a level above, that you reach when a lot of boring people have decided that examples need to be made.

Messing with people's families, currency, utilities, arms, and vehicles is a pretty robust slate of "Fuck Around" to segue into "Finding Out"

Posted by: heya at February 10, 2025 11:30 AM (P9xGM)

125 Watched an old werewolf movie with Oliver Reed this weekend. I don't get "Svengoolie" - more depressing than funny. Am I missing something?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
*
What's depressing about it? It's got rubber chickens, for crying out loud. And that hot redhead who plays the sax with the guy on the piano.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025

***
His humor is corny, yes, but he *knows it is*, and that is part of the joke. HIs cohort Nostalgiaferatoo always makes me laugh out loud. I can't explain it, but he does. And Gwengoolie, the black-haired siren, is hot too.

Posted by: Curse of the Werewolf at February 10, 2025 11:30 AM (J2vNu)

126 President Johnson did exactly that while driving Doris Kearns Goodwin around his ranch, she documented it in her book: https://tinyurl.com/4j4ub5rv

Posted by: beckster at February 10, 2025 11:31 AM (NLtte)

127 @111 I don't think drunk is an emotion

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2025 11:31 AM (KXtU1)

128 Pardoned Criminal Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Threatens Class-Action Lawsuit of All Americans Against Trump Administration and Elon Musk Over Alleged Data Breach

1. Prior to Jan. 20, 2025, how many times has the US government suffered a data breach?
2. What percentage of US citizens, prior to Jan. 20, 2025, haven't had their data compromised multiple times?
3. Since Jan. 20, 2025, what citizen data has been compromised by DOGE?
4. Fuck off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2025 11:32 AM (ExV1e)

129 Watched an old werewolf movie with Oliver Reed this weekend. I don't get "Svengoolie" - more depressing than funny. Am I missing something?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

I've watched him a few times and no, the humor doesn't work for me either. Too bad, he has some cool movies.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 10, 2025 11:32 AM (/HDaX)

130 127 @111 I don't think drunk is an emotion
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2025 11:31 AM (KXtU1)

lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:32 AM (bss/y)

131 Did Oliver Reed ever play any emotion other than surly?
Posted by: Bulg

Pretty much played himself in Oliver! (and everything else).

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:32 AM (WXNFJ)

132 California's green revolution is wiping out endangered species with heavy metals. The EPA recommends the threatened creatures sleep with one eye open.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 10, 2025 11:32 AM (2ap+5)

133 You’re right. That is a lot cars not to have a single fire.
Just out of curiosity, how many volts would a typical Israeli plug in supply?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2025 11:29 AM (jbnUc)
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I have no idea how many EV fires there were in Israel to date. Grok can't find data on that, either.

I don't have an EV. I'm unfamiliar with their recharge systems here or anywhere else.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2025 11:33 AM (KTCHq)

134 One quibble Buck. I would not call the prius hybrid battery packs 'small'. Family has owned two and neither ever caught fire. But they do have quite a bit of lithium battery pack for the boosted MPG.

I'll go out on a limb and say that since the lithium batteries on them are only charged from excess power when the gas engine is running or from the wheels when braking they are less prone to catch fire than any vehicle that requires fast charging. Still when we have a sensible energy policy and fuel is available and not $$ a pure ICE vehicle is better.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 10, 2025 11:33 AM (CKOCg)

135 130 127 @111 I don't think drunk is an emotion

++++

It's more of a lifestyle.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at February 10, 2025 11:33 AM (dg+HA)

136 I see the Atlantic has gotten on the "Musk is going to steal everyone's SS checks!" bandwagon.

One thing I found funny though - they noted a bad actor with access to the treasury system could just funnel money to whoever they wanted and it would be very hard to find it.

Ok. Yep. That's the whole damn point of why Trump/Musk are doing this. Because we've had bad actors running all these systems for 4 or more years funneling money to each other.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2025 11:33 AM (t0Rmr)

137 To replace it I bought my most disliked car, the '84 Ford Escort. The Eighties were great in a lot of ways for me, but car-wise, not so much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025

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Brings to mind the '85 Ford Tempo I had.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025

***
Yeah. I wanted a *new* and *American* car after the bad experience with the vintage Volvo. An Escort was all I could afford. It was underpowered -- going up a hill, it helped to turn off the A/C -- and stranded me with at least one repair every year of the six I owned it. When I could I went to Oldsmobile, then Mercedes, then Buick, and haven't looked back.

I should have gone pre-owned Buick or Olds, or Cadillac, a lot sooner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:34 AM (J2vNu)

138 Trump this morning:

"Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years. I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard. We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards. We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!"

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 10, 2025 11:34 AM (V6W16)

139 Remember Samantha Power?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RTsLa)

Fugly....really fugly.
Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (Yj6Os)

You know what I'm gonna say.

Posted by: Austin Powers at February 10, 2025 11:34 AM (Aqu9a)

140 Danes launch bid to 'buy California' (since Gov Newsom has done everything possible to lower the price) and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump's Greenland threats
Posted by: SMOD

No give backs once you realize that pig in a poke you bought.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 11:34 AM (QDum0)

141 @128 All of DOGE's auditing references EINs (Employer Identification Numbers), not SSNs. Of course I don't know if all the "non-profits" they are looking at have one.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 11:34 AM (LPS7w)

142 Cary Grant's most successful, long-lived marriage was to Betsy Drake. They were happy together and on the same wavelength. Then he made the movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and screwed up his life. Epic rack though, I suppose....

Posted by: Don't Be This Guy at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (G5+As)

143 TJM I already know it is, the government funds all kinds of Leftist causes

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (fwDg9)

144 I dare Raskin to actually go out and get signatures for his class action. That would amuse me to no end because I don't think it would work out quite the way he expects.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)

145 3 We are ruled by fools
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2025 11:01 AM (zjgNU)

Fools tend to be the ones in charge because they are typically the loudest, brashest, most seemingly confident ones in the room. And people routinely conflate this with competence. That's how these people end up in charge of work projects, corporate departments, land in the C-suite, or run the government. Life is high school and it never changes.

Posted by: World is dominated by dumb, loud, cocky people at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (mEkvo)

146 1. Prior to Jan. 20, 2025, how many times has the US government suffered a data breach?
2. What percentage of US citizens, prior to Jan. 20, 2025, haven't had their data compromised multiple times?
3. Since Jan. 20, 2025, what citizen data has been compromised by DOGE?
4. F*** off.
No seriously, f*** the f*** off!

Finished it for you.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

147 Were all chemistry teachers in the 70s and 80s crazy?

Ours got caught banging a student, the school slut; got 3 years.
Replaced by an angry lesbian.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2025 11:36 AM (suJJy)

148 The new improved electric and battery chair.
Fumes. Heat. Juice.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2025 11:36 AM (rPxEz)

149 I just got the worst Valentine's ad I've ever seen on another site:

"You're single on Valentine's Day and don't need a man to treat yourself to Oprah's favorite charcuterie board!"

which is accompanied by a picture of a woman doing that libtard mouth wide open pose

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2025 11:36 AM (t0Rmr)

150 All of DOGE's auditing references EINs (Employer Identification Numbers), not SSNs. Of course I don't know if all the "non-profits" they are looking at have one.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 11:34 AM (LPS7w)
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If Non profits employ people, they've got an EIN.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 11:37 AM (tT6L1)

151 To replace it I bought my most disliked car, the '84 Ford Escort. The Eighties were great in a lot of ways for me, but car-wise, not so much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025

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Brings to mind the '85 Ford Tempo I had.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025

My first car: 1984 Olds Cutlass Ciera. It was a piece of shit. Cost $400 in '92. Leaked oil like a sieve. The paint was screwed up. Black with red cloth (bright) interior. Bench seats. If it got below 20 degrees you had to stick a screwdriver in the clutch plate in order to start it.

I loved it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:37 AM (bss/y)

152 142 Cary Grant's most successful, long-lived marriage was to Betsy Drake. They were happy together and on the same wavelength. Then he made the movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and screwed up his life. Epic rack though, I suppose....
Posted by: Don't Be This Guy at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (G5+As)

That's the only thing I've ever seen Werner Klemperer in other than Hogan's Heroes.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 10, 2025 11:37 AM (LxER7)

153 Were all chemistry teachers in the 70s and 80s crazy?
*
Ours got caught banging a student, the school slut; got 3 years.
Replaced by an angry lesbian.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2025

***
My chem teacher in '69-70 was probably close to retirement age, but he had a dry wit and made the subject fascinating. To my mind, anyhow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:38 AM (J2vNu)

154 Ok. Yep. That's the whole damn point of why Trump/Musk are doing this. Because we've had bad actors running all these systems for 4 or more years funneling money to each other.

Apparently the new Dem strategy is to demand that Musk "slow down". Obviously, they're hoping to mire him in the same swamp that has swallowed everyone else, while not adopting the electorally lethal strategy of defending WFA. I assume neither Trump nor Musk are stupid enough to buy this.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:38 AM (xCA6C)

155 The plug-in hybrids are a religious totem. Liberals like to wax on about sending electricity back to the grid.

Posted by: MikeN at February 10, 2025 11:38 AM (HVZOH)

156 Cary Grant's most successful, long-lived marriage was to Betsy Drake. They were happy together and on the same wavelength. Then he made the movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and screwed up his life. Epic rack though, I suppose....
Posted by: Don't Be This Guy at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (G5+As)

I was brainless in the presence of the spicy Italian epic rack.

Posted by: Cary Grant at February 10, 2025 11:38 AM (Aqu9a)

157 Did Robert DeNiro ever play anything other than Tense.

Posted by: eleven at February 10, 2025 11:39 AM (fV+MH)

158 A well equipped Camry has more “luxury” in it today than a BMW or Mercedes from 20 years ago.

Generic cars such as a Camry have leather heated and cooled seats, great stereos, sunroof, power everything, 360 degree cameras, parking sensors, etc. These were once reserved for luxury brands. The line between luxury and non luxury is hard to define now.

There’s really no justification for spending $100K on a luxury brand because the $40K Camry 90% of the luxury. Other than showing off the badge of course.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 10, 2025 11:39 AM (2xLsW)

159 In my day we had to paint fiery looking flames on our cars and it was cool!

Posted by: 1950's Rodder Guy at February 10, 2025 11:39 AM (mEei8)

160 Fools tend to be the ones in charge because they are typically the loudest, brashest, most seemingly confident ones in the room. And people routinely conflate this with competence. That's how these people end up in charge of work projects, corporate departments, land in the C-suite, or run the government. Life is high school and it never changes.
Posted by: World is dominated by dumb, loud, cocky people

Reminds me of that exchange between Dorothy and the Scarecrow in TWOO. After the Scarecrow tells her that he doesn't have a brain, Dorothy asks "How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?" And the Scarecrow replies, "I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

161 133
‘ I don't have an EV. I'm unfamiliar with their recharge systems here or anywhere else.’

Thank you anyway. I didn’t mean to give you a project to work on. You just had me curious.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2025 11:39 AM (jbnUc)

162 Apparently the new Dem strategy is to demand that Musk "slow down". Obviously, they're hoping to mire him in the same swamp that has swallowed everyone else, while not adopting the electorally lethal strategy of defending WFA. I assume neither Trump nor Musk are stupid enough to buy this.

The rump GOPe, however, will almost certainly try it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

163 Pardoned Criminal Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Threatens Class-Action Lawsuit of All Americans Against Trump Administration and Elon Musk Over Alleged Data Breach

1. Prior to Jan. 20, 2025, how many times has the US government suffered a data breach?
2. What percentage of US citizens, prior to Jan. 20, 2025, haven't had their data compromised multiple times?
3. Since Jan. 20, 2025, what citizen data has been compromised by DOGE?
4. Fuck off.
Posted by: I used to have a different

2.9 billion records, including Social Security numbers, stolen in data hack:

The hacking group USDoD claimed it had allegedly stolen personal records of 2.9 billion people from National Public Data, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, reported by Bloomberg Law. The breach was believed to have happened in or around April, according to the lawsuit.

https://tinyurl.com/4annr9vd

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 11:39 AM (QDum0)

164 Seeing at Legalinsurrection.com one halftime performer got on top of the car and pulled out a Palestinian flag. Was taken out pretty quickly

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2025 11:40 AM (fwDg9)

165 155 The plug-in hybrids are a religious totem. Liberals like to wax on about sending electricity back to the grid.
Posted by: MikeN at February 10, 2025 11:38 AM (HVZOH)

They are a fetish for people who do not understand or care to large scale systems. Where does the power come from? There's always power. They cannot conceive that far more power and materials go into making these things than their utility. They work. And they make them feel good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:40 AM (bss/y)

166 I also saw one of those amphibicars as a kid, in Scituate MA harbor.
For an out of the way place, Scituate got a lot odd shit. Saw one of those turbo engine cars on Front street back in early sixties.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 10, 2025 11:40 AM (4780s)

167 President Johnson did exactly that while driving Doris Kearns Goodwin around his ranch, she documented it in her book:
Posted by: beckste

Are we sure Goodwin experienced it or just lifted the story from someone else?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:40 AM (WXNFJ)

168 Fun fact: Due to California's ridiculous rules regarding vehicle efficiency standards, the only Jeep Wranglers that Stellantis dealers are allowed to have on site, on the lot are the 4xe's that nobody really wants.
And because several other states follow Commiefornia's stupid vehicle rules such as my own, the only Jeeps we can get without special ordering one - are the 4xe's.

F*ck you California.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 10, 2025 11:41 AM (mSUDc)

169 Electric Pressure Washer...got one?...like it?...will it clean my patio/driveway?

Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:41 AM (Yj6Os)

170 Jordan Mailata, the giant rugby convert hailing from Australia, drew plenty of cheers Down Under on Sunday as he spoke of his “crazy, crazy journey so far” after making history by becoming the first Australian to claim a Super Bowl victory.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025 11:41 AM (RHGPo)

171 I mean.

Sophia Loren, tho.

Posted by: eleven at February 10, 2025 11:41 AM (fV+MH)

172 >>Apparently the new Dem strategy is to demand that Musk "slow down".

That message was delivered last week. It's already this week and Musk is far past it. Try harder next time.

Posted by: Roy at February 10, 2025 11:41 AM (z+ik4)

173 Fools tend to be the ones in charge because they are typically the loudest, brashest, most seemingly confident ones in the room
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No it's mainly because they know how to kiss ass and be yes men which is 80% of how you advance in government and management

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 11:41 AM (H7qcR)

174 I loved HS chemistry. Even took it one year in college. I even enjoyed balancing chemical equations.

If I would've gone into any STEM field, it would've been chemistry.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

175 Cary Grant's most successful, long-lived marriage was to Betsy Drake. They were happy together and on the same wavelength. Then he made the movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and screwed up his life. Epic rack though, I suppose....
Posted by: Don't Be This Guy at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (G5+As)
*
That's the only thing I've ever seen Werner Klemperer in other than Hogan's Heroes.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 10, 2025

***
Klemperer played a villain, an over-ambitious foreign premier, in the episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ("The Project Strigas Affair") which also starred Willima Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. He played a sympathetic bar owner in a Have Gun -- Will Travel, a private detective in a Perry Mason, and starred as Adolf Eichmann in a '61 pic about his career and his capture by the Israelis in 1960. (John Banner, "Schultz," was also in that one, playing it straight as well.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:42 AM (J2vNu)

176 Chrysler has always had style and some exceptional design features such as its engines. If one was interested in style of the moment or extreme performance Chrysler products were a definite option.
If one was interested in longevity or durability take a pass.
I assume no more of Stellantis. Jeeps were very much the same except their stellar achievement was off road ability which was contested possibly only by Toyota.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 11:42 AM (8TQpF)

177 The sax chick on Svengoolie is the piano players daughter. I think she is in a group called Two Natalies and Wood (something like that).

Yeah, Gwengoolie is a looker. Her regular job is/ was a cast member at Universal in CA, I think. She does pinup type stuff too.

Svengoolie has been around for decades, and the new peeps are probably part of a transition when he finally decides to retire.

The corniness is part of the kink.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 10, 2025 11:42 AM (ufFY8)

178 I don't get "Svengoolie" - more depressing than funny. Am I missing something?
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I agree--its not good.

And I still would have more willingly sat thru 20 minutes of THAT as a "halftime show" than whatever that garbage was yesterday!

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2025 11:43 AM (TN0g+)

179 Apparently the new Dem strategy is to demand that Musk "slow down".
--
Recall they only wanted "two weeks" to investigate the claims against Kavanagh?

And, of course, who can forget the "two weeks to flatten the curve?"

Fuck them.
Double the Doge staff.
Triple it.
Then hire a fourth staff to start back at the 1st audits.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2025 11:43 AM (suJJy)

180 152
‘ That's the only thing I've ever seen Werner Klemperer in other than Hogan's Heroes.’

He was in Judgment at Nuremberg.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (jbnUc)

181 Don't take your amphibious car into the ocean.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (Wg6v7)

182 OK, crap car time?

My college roommate had an Oldsmobile Achieva or the "Underachieva" as he called it.

Cool guy though - whenever anyone needed a car he'd just flip them the keys no questions asked. Of course, after they'd driven the Underachieva they wouldn't ask him again.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (PzXaK)

183
I thought that was Matthew Lesko, not Bill Nye.
Posted by: Bulg

Lesko the riddler

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (63Dwl)

184 Due to California's ridiculous rules regarding vehicle efficiency standards, the only Jeep Wranglers that Stellantis dealers are allowed to have on site, on the lot are the 4xe's that nobody really wants.

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This sounds too retarded even by cali standards. And it is. Just checked and there are a bazillion non hybrid wranglers for sale in California.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (2xLsW)

185 Are we sure Goodwin experienced it or just lifted the story from someone else?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:40 AM (WXNFJ)

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She heard it from Claudine Gay, who heard it from F. Joe Biden, who heard it from Niel Kinnock.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (BrnhP)

186 The sax chick on Svengoolie is the piano players daughter. I think she is in a group called Two Natalies and Wood (something like that).

Two Natalies and Non-Floating Wood would make a bitchin band name.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (QDum0)

187 Haven't read, but then not looking at Leftist Propaganda, no one thinks the judge who single handling trying to stop Elon has a leg to stand on.

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (fwDg9)

188 No give backs once you realize that pig in a poke you bought.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 11:34 AM (QDum0)

I wonder if the Danes would be open to a trade. They get the parts of Commiefornia that didn't vote for DJT - and we get all of Greenland.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (mSUDc)

189 And the core of the left's argument here is...interesting.

Ignore for a moment their continuous 4 year claim that if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from an investigation.

Their argument is that it is completely out of line to believe that there is ANY fraud in the current US federal payment system, AND, that auditing it will lead to money being stolen.

While A and B aren't exactly in opposition, a system so easy to steal from would almost certainly have ridiculous amounts of fraud in it...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (t0Rmr)

190 Don't take your amphibious car into the ocean.

Especially if you're near Normandy.

Posted by: Swimming tanks at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

191 'Pick a target, freeze it in place.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (bss/y)

192 "Don't take your amphibious car into the ocean.
Posted by: Pudinhead "

Is that a dare?

Posted by: eleven at February 10, 2025 11:45 AM (fV+MH)

193 I like Svenjolly. It's a good band.

-Elaine Benes.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:45 AM (PzXaK)

194 Haven't read, but then not looking at Leftist Propaganda, no one thinks the judge who single handling trying to stop Elon has a leg to stand on.

I think they are correct, but this is still a battle we have to have.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:46 AM (xCA6C)

195 Then he made the movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and screwed up his life.
Posted by: Don't Be This Guy

"But Honey, it was Sophia Loren!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:46 AM (WXNFJ)

196 I would love to have an Amphicar! If you want to ride in one, head over to the dreaded Disney World they have them at Disney Springs.

Posted by: GatorGirl at February 10, 2025 11:46 AM (2xjRH)

197 Haven't read, but then not looking at Leftist Propaganda, no one thinks the judge who single handling trying to stop Elon has a leg to stand on.

Well, does he have a real Constitutional argument? No. But the left is expecting enough members of the SC will agree with him even though he doesn't.

Everything is always about power for the left. It doesn't matter how you win, just whether you do or not

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2025 11:46 AM (t0Rmr)

198 "But Honey, it was Sophia Loren!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:46 AM (WXNFJ)

That always works.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:46 AM (bss/y)

199 Then he made the movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and screwed up his life.
Posted by: Don't Be This Guy

"But Honey, it was Sophia Loren!!"

And Freebird was playing!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (xCA6C)

200 Don't take your amphibious car into the ocean.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 10, 2025 11:44 AM (Wg6v7)

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A woman without a man is like an amphibious car without an ocean.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (56fwx)

201 169 Electric Pressure Washer...got one?...like it?...will it clean my patio/driveway?
Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:41 AM (Yj6Os)

Neighbor has one to clean his brick walkway and his deck. For cleaning, it works just great.

If you want to strip paint/rust then you need a 3000psi gas pressure washer. I used one to completely strip my garage floor paint when I first bought my house. Probably need to do that again soon as the epoxy floor paint has seen better days in there.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (mSUDc)

202 I wonder if the Danes would be open to a trade. They get the parts of Commiefornia that didn't vote for DJT - and we get all of Greenland.
Posted by: Defenestratus

They buy it and then realize they're on the hook for $150 billion in unfunded/underfunded CALPERS liabilities.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (QDum0)

203 EV's are proof people with means are stupid and like buying crap so they can parade in front of other folks and think those other folks give a rat's ass what they drive.

It's all about, me, me, me. Please, look at me! I am so pretty! Love me! Want me!

Posted by: Silvio at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (y7KuV)

204 I wonder how the traffic was in DC this morning now that government workers, those whose departments haven't already been closed, had to report to their office today.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (LkLld)

205 My mother's favorite movie star was probably Clark Gable. I hazard this guess because she loved David Janssen as The Fugitive, and always said how much he resembled Gable. But she did venture an opinion once that she found Werner Klemperer (during the Heroes series) attractive *despite* his near-baldness.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (J2vNu)

206 Electric Pressure Washer...got one?...like it?...will it clean my patio/driveway?

Yes... kind of (I mean, it's just a tool)... probably. Get the surface washer attachment. Cleaning a driveway 4 inches at a time sucks.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 10, 2025 11:48 AM (/y8xj)

207 Everything is always about power for the left. It doesn't matter how you win, just whether you do or not
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2025 11:46 AM (t0Rmr)
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I once told someone "just because SCOTUS deems something Constitutional doesn't make it so."

Naturally, the response I got back was, "yes it does!"

Sigh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 11:48 AM (tT6L1)

208 >>>>Apparently the new Dem strategy is to demand that Musk "slow down". Obviously, they're hoping to mire him in the same swamp that has swallowed everyone else, while not adopting the electorally lethal strategy of defending WFA. I assume neither Trump nor Musk are stupid enough to buy this.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Quote:
"They're moving faster than we can't think"

As the famous umpire said, YOU'RE OUT!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 11:48 AM (8TQpF)

209 If I would've gone into any STEM field, it would've been chemistry.
Posted by: Bulg

Organic Chemistry absolutely kicked my ass.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (WXNFJ)

210 I once told someone "just because SCOTUS deems something Constitutional doesn't make it so."

Naturally, the response I got back was, "yes it does!"

Sigh.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 11:48 AM (tT6L1)

Dredd Scott.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (bss/y)

211 207 I once told someone "just because SCOTUS deems something Constitutional doesn't make it so."

Naturally, the response I got back was, "yes it does!"

Sigh.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 11:48 AM (tT6L1)

========

"So...the Fugitive Slave Act..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

212 I once told someone "just because SCOTUS deems something Constitutional doesn't make it so."

Naturally, the response I got back was, "yes it does!"

Sigh.

Ah, then you favor Dred Scott.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (xCA6C)

213 204 I wonder how the traffic was in DC this morning now that government workers, those whose departments haven't already been closed, had to report to their office today.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (LkLld)

Hasn't come into full effect yet, but is likely to roll out over the next few weeks. Different agencies have different deadlines all over the place.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (LxER7)

214 Can you feel the love?

Wajahat Ali@WajahatAli
Trash ass Chiefs with Christian nationalist kicker and Trump loving Mahomes family kicked into the dirt by the Eagles who come from a city with a big Black population during a Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar and a super Black halftime show all in front of Trump. Love it.

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Until this moment, I never considered the Superbowl a black v. white thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

215 209 If I would've gone into any STEM field, it would've been chemistry.
Posted by: Bulg

Organic Chemistry absolutely kicked my ass.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (WXNFJ)

Organic separates the sheep from the goats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (bss/y)

216 The sax chick on Svengoolie is the piano players daughter. I think she is in a group called Two Natalies and Wood (something like that).
*
Two Natalies and Non-Floating Wood would make a bitchin band name.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025

***
What is her name on Svengoolie, "Ineeda X. Orcist" or something like that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (J2vNu)

217 Then he made the movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and screwed up his life.
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"But Honey, it was Sophia Loren!!"

That logic just made total sense to every guy here.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (/y8xj)

218 Organic separates the sheep from the goats.

I say nay nay.

Posted by: P Chem at February 10, 2025 11:50 AM (xCA6C)

219 I wonder how the traffic was in DC this morning now that government workers, those whose departments haven't already been closed, had to report to their office today.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (LkLld)

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Monday traffic here tends to be fairly light ever since COVID. Real test will be Tuesday-Thursday, though with our OMG 0.5 INCHES OF SNOW HOLY FOOOK forecast for tomorrow, I think most people will stay home and pretend to work anyway.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:51 AM (PzXaK)

220 "I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard"

What is the Board of Visitors?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2025 11:51 AM (42Vb+)

221 Speaking of EV's...

Yesterday morning we got a bit of snow up here in Maine . Ryan Hall Y'all said we got 12.5" but thats BS. It drifted a lot but I think it ended up being about 5" total.

Anyways... our private road gets plowed by a plow service instead of the town and as such, its usually not plowed ... immaculately. Neighbor got back from his ski house up in the mountains with his F150 Conflagration and proceeded to get stuck on the road coming up the hill. I drove down past him in my H1, rolled my window down, turned off the clackity clack 6.5 IDI and asked him if he wanted me to pull him up the hill. I guess this was an indignity he couldn't endure so he declined and I went on my way.

Eventually he made it up, I wasn't around to see how he did it though.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 10, 2025 11:51 AM (mSUDc)

222 I say nay nay.
Posted by: P Chem at February 10, 2025 11:50 AM (xCA6C)

P-Chem machine guns the survivors.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:52 AM (bss/y)

223 >>Trash ass Chiefs with Christian nationalist kicker and Trump loving Mahomes family kicked into the dirt by the Eagles who come from a city with a big Black population during a Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar and a super Black halftime show all in front of Trump. Love it.

Is there a major city in the US without a large black population? And Mahomes is black.

And black is not capitalized.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2025 11:52 AM (LkLld)

224 Cary Grant's most successful, long-lived marriage was to Betsy Drake. They were happy together and on the same wavelength. Then he made the movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and screwed up his life. Epic rack though, I suppose....

Posted by: Don't Be This Guy at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (G5+As)

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Read Dyan Cannon's autobiography a few years ago; Cary indulged in regular LSD trips with Timothy Leary "supervising."

He kept insisting that Dyan try it -- and she finally gave in ... once. She had such a nightmarish "trip" (that literally gave her nightmares afterwards) that she refused to ever get near the stuff again ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (BrnhP)

225 >>>Owners have also been advised to avoid charging their batteries for the time being.

lol, time for a massive class action.

Posted by: Bond Parrot at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (i24o9)

226 I got yer Hamiltonian right here!

*grabs crotch*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (bss/y)

227 The E-L-G-S-E-S fans are the "Palestinians" of the National Felons League.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (dg+HA)

228 I once told someone "just because SCOTUS deems something Constitutional doesn't make it so."

Naturally, the response I got back was, "yes it does!

This is another core difference between the right and left.

For the right words mean things. And no one can change what those words mean.

For the left its power. The people with the power will determine what things mean though their is the caveat that only leftwing people with power are legitimate.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (t0Rmr)

229 Monday traffic here tends to be fairly light ever since COVID. Real test will be Tuesday-Thursday, though with our OMG 0.5 INCHES OF SNOW HOLY FOOOK forecast for tomorrow, I think most people will stay home and pretend to work anyway.

They're now calling for 4-6" by Wednesday morning. It's an apocalypse, I tells ya.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (xCA6C)

230 173 Fools tend to be the ones in charge because they are typically the loudest, brashest, most seemingly confident ones in the room
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No it's mainly because they know how to kiss ass and be yes men which is 80% of how you advance in government and management
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 11:41 AM (H7qcR)

They aren't mutually exclusive especially if you look at the smaller scale group dynamics. That's where it often starts and the loudest dickhead ends up de facto leader. This gets attention from the higher ups and results in advancement. "Boy that Brody is a real go-getter!" Weaseling and ass-kissing go hand in hand with it, sure.

Posted by: World is dominated by dumb, loud, cocky people at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (mEkvo)

231 You'd think that Musk and the Autists (saw them open for Floyd back in 1999) would be able to release a program that would only allow employee laptops to work when directly connected to the government network in their buildings. Not in the office, then no access for you.

Posted by: Roy at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (z+ik4)

232 Hasn't come into full effect yet, but is likely to roll out over the next few weeks. Different agencies have different deadlines all over the place.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
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The courts may say this or that but when the checks don't come in the mail or the bi-weekly bank transfer doesn't happen. They'll get the hint. For funzies he could stop payroll for a couple of weeks and then call a meeting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (8TQpF)

233 "I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard"

To be replaced by the "Pear of Anguish" if there is any justice.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (WXNFJ)

234 If the Dems don't have the facts, they argue the procedure. If they don't have the procedure scream fascism, Nazism etc. If that doesn't work, make it real personal. If making it personal doesn't work, violence.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2025 11:54 AM (KXtU1)

235 Natalie Scharf plays the saxophone as "Anita X. Orcist"

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 10, 2025 11:54 AM (ufFY8)

236 >Did Robert DeNiro ever play anything other than Tense.

There is a comedy skit "making of Heat" where Pacino just chews up the scenery while Deniro gives away nothing at all. They did not seem to be in the same movie.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 10, 2025 11:54 AM (lEahz)

237 I suspect if KC had one it would have been an obvious slap against Trump because of Swift.

Heads I win. Tails, you lose.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:54 AM (bss/y)

238 Now imagine an EV fire in a parking garage...close to the Emergency Exit.

Bonus Round: an EV fire in a parking garage's 'Preferred Parking' area reserved for EVs...

...because the building's owner wants Virtue Signal.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at February 10, 2025 11:54 AM (XjTSo)

239 Read Dyan Cannon's autobiography a few years ago; Cary indulged in regular LSD trips with Timothy Leary "supervising."

He kept insisting that Dyan try it -- and she finally gave in ... once. She had such a nightmarish "trip" (that literally gave her nightmares afterwards) that she refused to ever get near the stuff again ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025

***
Of all Cary's marriages, that was the only one to produce a child -- actress Jennifer Grant, who resembles Dyan Cannon quite a bit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:54 AM (J2vNu)

240 >>> it was a 2024 Jeep grand Cherokee plug in hybrid.

Good news, it was still under warranty.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2025 11:54 AM (/lPRQ)

241 Organic separates the sheep from the goats.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM

Maybe I'm abnormal....I enjoyed Orgo.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 11:55 AM (+QlJh)

242 Until this moment, I never considered the Superbowl a black v. white thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

Didn't Colin Kaepernick teach you anything? NFL is asshoe.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2025 11:55 AM (i24o9)

243 Organic separates the sheep from the goats.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (bss/y)

Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell

Posted by: And the gravedigger puts on the foreceps at February 10, 2025 11:55 AM (mEkvo)

244 They're now calling for 4-6" by Wednesday morning. It's an apocalypse, I tells ya.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (xCA6C)

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It's a good thing I stocked up on ammo this weekend. NoVA gets crazy when the household milk supply is interrupted for 12 hours.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:55 AM (PzXaK)

245 For the left its power. The people with the power will determine what things mean though their is the caveat that only leftwing people with power are legitimate.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2025 11:53 AM (t0Rmr)

THIS is a very good observation. Just because a majority say something or believe in it, does not make it right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:56 AM (bss/y)

246 It's all about, me, me, me. Please, look at me! I am so pretty! Love me! Want me!
Posted by: Silvio at February 10, 2025 11:47 AM (y7KuV)

This is clearly indicated by the fact that nearly every EV has a vehicle-wide "lightbar" in the front which makes it indistinguishably an EV even in the dark.

It's something to be seen in. A rolling virtue signal. The fact that Tesla sales are tanking now is proof positive that it was never about saving the environment to these people - it was always signaling to others that you are a "good person" and "conscientious". Can't be those things if you buy a car from DJT's henchman's company now can you? I've literally heard an air-brained broad at my gym talking about how she was going to buy a Tesla but then didn't "because Elon went crazy".

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 10, 2025 11:56 AM (mSUDc)

247 What is the Board of Visitors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

They are advisory boards for the various service academies.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2025 11:56 AM (WXNFJ)

248 > I wonder how the traffic was in DC this morning now that government workers, those whose departments haven't already been closed, had to report to their office today.
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Back in the late 80's and early 90's when I lived in the "greater capitol city metro area" and commuted from both MD and NoVA... traffic sucked large dog balls every weekday. Even at 0530 it was bumper to bumper crawling up I-95 from Woodbridge.

I got to know many, many obscure backroads to get into Alexandria, VA back then. Didn't save much time, but at least I was moving.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2025 11:56 AM (Q4IgG)

249 Natalie Scharf is the saxophonist chick's name.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

250 Maybe I'm abnormal....I enjoyed Orgo.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 11:55 AM (+QlJh)

I did too. Had a great Professor for it. Mr Hollingsworth.

BUT, it was a great separator.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:57 AM (bss/y)

251 For funzies he could stop payroll for a couple of weeks

We "fixed the glitch".

Posted by: Bob #1 at February 10, 2025 11:57 AM (ufFY8)

252 I'm not concerned about the battery thing. The mandates are over.
The batteries will continue to some extent and manufacturing and installation will improve along with a method of fire extinction.
There's money to be made there. Coming up with a cheap foam & delivery system is retirement to your favorite island.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 11:57 AM (8TQpF)

253 Good news, it was still under warranty.

"Oh, but you have to read here in paragraph 143, section B, subsection iv(a), where there's an exclusion for fires that occur between the hours of 8:00 PM and 6:00 AM on odd-numbered weekdays. Eastern standard time."

Posted by: Oddbob at February 10, 2025 11:57 AM (/y8xj)

254 But she did venture an opinion once that she found Werner Klemperer (during the Heroes series) attractive *despite* his near-baldness.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Chicks dig a uniform and a monocle. Try it!

Posted by: Warby Parker at February 10, 2025 11:58 AM (G5+As)

255 Natalie Scharf plays the saxophone as "Anita X. Orcist"

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 10, 2025

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"Anita," that was it.

And Svengoolie's original song each episode, riffing on the movie of the week, is always a highlight. Plus he delivers trivia about the making of the current movie (gleaned mostly from the Trivia section of IMDb, I guess).

He's a class act. Years ago he mispronounced the disfiguring condition that actor Rondo Hatton had as "acro-me-GALL-ee," and when he found out that was wrong, he devoted a minute of a succeeding show to an apology and a correction ("acro-MEG-a-lee").

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

256 Back in the late 80's and early 90's when I lived in the "greater capitol city metro area" and commuted from both MD and NoVA... traffic sucked large dog balls every weekday. Even at 0530 it was bumper to bumper crawling up I-95 from Woodbridge.

I got to know many, many obscure backroads to get into Alexandria, VA back then. Didn't save much time, but at least I was moving.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2025 11:56 AM (Q4IgG)

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Every time I take 95 it's always face-to-ass because the express lanes are invariably going the opposite direction.

I had to rely on the GW parkway to get into DC proper for work, because of the axiom "Taking 66 anywhere will always be a mistake." It was still crap traffic but at least it was purty.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 10, 2025 11:59 AM (PzXaK)

257 Trash ass Chiefs with Christian nationalist kicker and Trump loving Mahomes family kicked into the dirt by the Eagles who come from a city with a big Black population during a Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar and a super Black halftime show all in front of Trump. Love it.
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Black men elected Trump and rejected Kamala. Love it.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 12:00 PM (H7qcR)

258 243 Posted by: And the gravedigger puts on the foreceps

this implies the existence of aftceps.

Posted by: anachronda at February 10, 2025 12:00 PM (oY6Yp)

259 Interesting a battery storage facility would be allowed to be built so close to estuary. I guess California was not concerned about any consequences. Funny what Cali cares about, but we knew it’ was all about the climate religion.

Posted by: Paisley at February 10, 2025 12:00 PM (ny1NG)

260 Dirty energy.
Going to use that at least three times today.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:00 PM (W/lyH)

261 All the features. Heated and cooled seats.

"Is it getting a bit warm in here, or is it just me??..."

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 10, 2025 12:00 PM (wtvvX)

262 Until this moment, I never considered the Superbowl a black v. white thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

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Once math, literacy, The Sun cancer, virtue, et. al. became "racist" (a black v. white thing) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:00 PM (BrnhP)

263 "Wah, wah, wah, my boss is evaluating my work!"

NEW: Former Twitter executive says Musk made her print out code & stand in a line to justify her existence, says it's "insulting" that DOGE 'children' like Big Balls are doing the same in the federal gov.

What's insulting is that haircut.

"Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."

Still, she's very fine looking. I like her haircut.

https://is.gd/Dtnb3r

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 12:01 PM (xCA6C)

264 THIS is a very good observation. Just because a majority say something or believe in it, does not make it right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:56 AM (bss/y)

Which is the ethos of the Left until they get a majority at which time it's screw you we're the ones who matter and might makes right.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 12:01 PM (H7qcR)

265 @57

>>Market Share: By the end of 2023, EVs represented about 18.6% of new car sales in Israel.

Per the interwebs, there are 4.1 million cars in Israel, 97k EV's represents less than 3pct of the total vehicles.

EV's got a long, long way to go to catch up.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2025 12:01 PM (XV/Pl)

266 Until this moment, I never considered the Superbowl a black v. white thing.
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It's called class warfare.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (H7qcR)

267 Christianity Canadian style.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
Canadian reverend and LGBT activist Brent Hawkes says Christians referring to Jesus Christ as “savior” is offensive to other religions.
Even Canada’s churches suck. Wow.
“I would hope that someday this church would see the possibility of changing that word [savior] because it it is a stumbling block for so many…'
'How do we explain that phrase to Muslims and to Jews and to Hindus?'

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We could just call him "that dude."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (L/fGl)

268 Dirty energy.
Going to use that at least three times today.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:00 PM (W/lyH)

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I'm envisioning an AI-created Patrick Swayze sequel to "Dirty Dancing."

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (BrnhP)

269 Until this moment, I never considered the Superbowl a black v. white thing.
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The halftime show felt like that it had become a black v white thing.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (TN0g+)

270 243 Posted by: And the gravedigger puts on the foreceps

this implies the existence of aftceps.
Posted by: anachronda at February 10, 2025 12:00 PM (oY6Yp)

Portceps, bowceps, sternceps, biceps, triceps, arceps HARD!

Posted by: Rousing inspiration at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (mEkvo)

271 >>>While traditional Prius-type hybrids are a great advancement in gasoline-powered automotive technologies, plug-in EV hybrids are little more than clunky, complicated novelties for which there are much better ICE or pure EV options.

I have a friend who has a fleet of these, from RAV4 to minivan. They are OK, good mileage, but they sound like a space car.

And I cannot get past the sound like metal grinding on metal, which I assume is a product of the CVT.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (i24o9)

272 You'd think that Musk and the Autists (saw them open for Floyd back in 1999) would be able to release a program that would only allow employee laptops to work when directly connected to the government network in their buildings. Not in the office, then no access for you.
Posted by: Roy

He can. Our laptops can distinguish between "inside the firewall" and outside. Two factor authentication for outside.

Be easy enough to just say, "no access for you!"

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (QDum0)

273 109 96 Remember Samantha Power?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RTsLa)

Fugly....really fugly.
Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2025 11:23 AM (Yj6Os)

Like John Kerry fucked a baseball mitt and then they botched the abortion.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 11:26 AM (VoAdT)

I spit out my damned coffee!! :O)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (wtvvX)

274 "Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."

What's insulting is that they are doing this shit with other people's money and do not have an answer beyond 'I am credentialed and experienced in graft!'

Fuck you, sweetcheeks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (bss/y)

275 All the features. Heated and cooled seats.
*
"Is it getting a bit warm in here, or is it just me??..."
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 10, 2025 1

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My LaCrosse has those. More than once in hot weather I've engaged the heating, only to think a minute later, "Why are my thighs stinging? Oh!" And the cooled seat option makes me think the back of my pants and shirt are wet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

276 266 Until this moment, I never considered the Superbowl a black v. white thing.
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It's called class warfare.
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (H7qcR)

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Class warfare didn't work.

They changed to race warfare.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

277 >> The mandates are over.

They’re still subsidized. And have the mandated credits from ICE manufacturers to EV manufacturers actually ceased?

>> The batteries will continue to some extent and manufacturing and installation will improve along with a method of fire extinction.

But why continue this dangerous, inefficient mess at all?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (FC8SQ)

278 Which is the ethos of the Left until they get a majority at which time it's screw you we're the ones who matter and might makes right.
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 12:01 PM (H7qcR)

Exactly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (bss/y)

279 "Sure, my results suck, but I've been in this job for decades. I demand respect."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

280 275 All the features. Heated and cooled seats.
*
"Is it getting a bit warm in here, or is it just me??..."
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 10, 2025 1

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My LaCrosse has those. More than once in hot weather I've engaged the heating, only to think a minute later, "Why are my thighs stinging? Oh!" And the cooled seat option makes me think the back of my pants and shirt are wet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

Our CR-V has heated seats. We love 'em in winter. Never been in a car with cooled seats though.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 10, 2025 12:04 PM (wtvvX)

281 Class warfare didn't work.

They changed to race warfare.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

Nah what do you think the gender and sexuality stuff is and the 99 vs 1% etc

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 12:04 PM (H7qcR)

282 That amphibious car was featured in "The President's Analyst," which probably not incidentally was made during the LBJ administration.

Posted by: Hyman Roth at February 10, 2025 12:04 PM (wzAuc)

283 Per the interwebs, there are 4.1 million cars in Israel, 97k EV's represents less than 3pct of the total vehicles.

EV's got a long, long way to go to catch up.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2025 12:01 PM (XV/Pl)
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I can only tell you from my visual experience, city and highway driving, that I am seeing more than 3 EVs per 100 cars. Seems more like 10% give or take.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2025 12:04 PM (KTCHq)

284
Christianity Canadian style.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
Canadian reverend and LGBT activist Brent Hawkes says Christians referring to Jesus Christ as “savior” is offensive to other religions.
Even Canada’s churches suck. Wow.
“I would hope that someday this church would see the possibility of changing that word [savior] because it it is a stumbling block for so many…'
'How do we explain that phrase to Muslims and to Jews and to Hindus?'

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We could just call him "that dude."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (L/fGl)

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Old & Busted: JC (Jesus Christ).
New Hotness: JL (Jeff Lebowski).

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:05 PM (BrnhP)

285 BUT, it was a great separator.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 11:57 AM

Yes, it was.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 12:05 PM (+QlJh)

286 "Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."

Still, she's very fine looking. I like her haircut.

https://is.gd/Dtnb3r
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 12:01 PM (xCA6C)
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I see she's being interviewed by Jen Psaki on a show with dozens of viewers.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 12:05 PM (tT6L1)

287 'How do we explain that phrase to Muslims and to Jews and to Hindus?'

Uhhhhh, the BIBLE??!?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 10, 2025 12:05 PM (wtvvX)

288 I was Hyman Roth.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 10, 2025 12:05 PM (wzAuc)

289
>> The batteries will continue to some extent and manufacturing and installation will improve along with a method of fire extinction.

But why continue this dangerous, inefficient mess at all?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (FC8SQ)
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There is going to have to be a next generation EV battery that doesn't depend on Lithium Ion batteries.

No one likes splodey cars!

Posted by: WisRich at February 10, 2025 12:06 PM (G0vdT)

290 I just realized I'm going to miss the Ramirez political cartoons that he did on Biden. The flies buzzing around Biden's backside were just awesome.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:06 PM (W/lyH)

291 My LaCrosse has those. More than once in hot weather I've engaged the heating, only to think a minute later, "Why are my thighs stinging? Oh!" And the cooled seat option makes me think the back of my pants and shirt are wet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025
*
Our CR-V has heated seats. We love 'em in winter. Never been in a car with cooled seats though.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 10, 2025

***
I'll admit, reluctantly, that I've used the heated seat on rare cold occasions, like right after the Snow Surprise of last month. But, you know, I'm usually wearing clothes when I'm in my car, and a coat if it's cold enough for a heated seat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:06 PM (J2vNu)

292 281 Nah what do you think the gender and sexuality stuff is and the 99 vs 1% etc
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 12:04 PM (H7qcR)

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Joe Mannix has detailed this a few times.

Class warfare fell apart in the 80s. That was why the "studies" departments started to flourish under the new ideas of intersectionality.

Class warfare failed because communism sucked and failed to actually deliver on any of its promises of greater wealth through scientific governance, and by the 80s, it was hard to argue otherwise even in the left.

So, class was out. Any other way of dividing populations was in. Class, gender, whatever. They're still dividing, but class stopped being potent in like, the 1930s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

293 Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."

So, what is it exactly you'd say you do here?

Posted by: Bob Musk at February 10, 2025 12:07 PM (mEkvo)

294 157 Did Robert DeNiro ever play anything other than Tense.

well, there was harry tuttle. travel light, in and out quick. dodging central services.

Posted by: anachronda at February 10, 2025 12:07 PM (oY6Yp)

295 "Wah, wah, wah, my boss is evaluating my work!"

NEW: Former Twitter executive says Musk made her print out code & stand in a line to justify her existence, says it's "insulting" that DOGE 'children' like Big Balls are doing the same in the federal gov.

What's insulting is that haircut.

"Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."

Still, she's very fine looking. I like her haircut.

https://is.gd/Dtnb3r
Posted by: Archimedes

Why am I hearing that as, "they sold our company and now the dirty jap* owners want to know what it is that I do?"

(* it could be any new owner actually)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 12:07 PM (QDum0)

296 Good morning!

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at February 10, 2025 12:07 PM (86StK)

297 Reverend Hawkes isn't.

Obviously doesn't believe in the God of the Bible, else he'd heed the "stricter judgment" admonition about not all of us striving to become teachers.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 12:07 PM (tT6L1)

298 Board of Visitors

The academy boards are tasked with inquiring into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods, and other matters relating to the schools.

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2025 12:08 PM (AOsQT)

299 Christianity Canadian style.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
Canadian reverend and LGBT activist Brent Hawkes says Christians referring to Jesus Christ as “savior” is offensive to other religions.
Even Canada’s churches suck. Wow.
“I would hope that someday this church would see the possibility of changing that word [savior] because it it is a stumbling block for so many…'
'How do we explain that phrase to Muslims and to Jews and to Hindus?'

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We could just call him "that dude."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM

Reminds me of an episode of Yes, Prime Minister where they're trying to find a new Archbishop of Canterbury.

PM finally says "So what you're saying is that the ideal candidate is a cross between a socialite and a socialist?"

Yes, Prime Minster....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 12:08 PM (+QlJh)

300 @283

>>I can only tell you from my visual experience, city and highway driving, that I am seeing more than 3 EVs per 100 cars. Seems more like 10% give or take.

It really depends on where you go, in LA EV's are pretty much everywhere, and not so much in other places, and while you might see a 4Runner on the road, the 4Runner might as well be the official vehicle of Colorado.

Unless the numbers are wrong, EV's are not that prevalent or popular with the general car buying public.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2025 12:09 PM (XV/Pl)

301 282 That amphibious car was featured in "The President's Analyst," which probably not incidentally was made during the LBJ administration.

there as an amphicar down the street from where i lived when we were stationed in munich. 5-year-old me was fascinated.

Posted by: anachronda at February 10, 2025 12:09 PM (oY6Yp)

302 I'll admit, reluctantly, that I've used the heated seat on rare cold occasions, like right after the Snow Surprise of last month. But, you know, I'm usually wearing clothes when I'm in my car, and a coat if it's cold enough for a heated seat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You know you're old when you look forward to heated seats for your back instead of just being cold.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 12:09 PM (QDum0)

303 You do not seem to get the whole 'Christianity' thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:09 PM (bss/y)

304 Canadian reverend and LGBT activist Brent Hawkes says Christians referring to Jesus Christ as “savior” is offensive to other religions.

Something tells me this faggot is in the wrong business.

Posted by: J.C. at February 10, 2025 12:09 PM (y7KuV)

305 Anyone else see the irony of Hawkes calling our Savior a "stumbling block?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 12:09 PM (tT6L1)

306 You know you're old when you look forward to heated seats for your back instead of just being cold.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 12:09 PM (QDum0)

LOL. This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:10 PM (bss/y)

307 We could just call him "that dude."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

I would except " Cultural Marxist "

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2025 12:10 PM (fwDg9)

308 "Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."

Still, she's very fine looking. I like her haircut.

https://is.gd/Dtnb3r
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2025 12:01 PM (xCA6C)
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Silly twit.
Try being told by your employer you can leave now, or stay for three months and train your replacement who will be paid less and barely speaks English.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:10 PM (W/lyH)

309 O Chem is tough because of the fast pace and amount of memorization required, also because it is full of Premed grade grubbers for which it is the classic weed out class. I found PChem to be easier as it is more conceptual and less memorizing, as long as you can do the math. PChem was also more fun because few Premeds take it.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 10, 2025 12:10 PM (1Au9i)

310 You know you're old when you look forward to heated seats for your back instead of just being cold.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025 12:09 PM

Truth.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 12:10 PM (+QlJh)

311 294 157 Did Robert DeNiro ever play anything other than Tense.

well, there was harry tuttle. travel light, in and out quick. dodging central services.
Posted by: anachronda

And always carry the prerequisite form "27b/6" if you need your air ducts maintained.

Posted by: Rex B at February 10, 2025 12:10 PM (mEei8)

312 So, class was out. Any other way of dividing populations was in. Class, gender, whatever. They're still dividing, but class stopped being potent in like, the 1930s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Stalin encouraged the race stuff. It's why Paul Robson and a number of other black performers/intellectuals went to live in the Soviet Union. Many of them, of course, were killed and never came back, which left Robson very disillusioned. Still, he never renounced his commieness.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

313 Of all Cary's marriages, that was the only one to produce a child -- actress Jennifer Grant, who resembles Dyan Cannon quite a bit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 11:54 AM (J2vNu)

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Indeed, I met her standing in line for a movie as an undergrad at Stanford.

Beautiful.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:11 PM (BrnhP)

314 Heated seats and grips are bomb-diggity features on the hog. Don't really need 'em as often here in Cowtown but when I do, MAN are they nice to have. I have seen a cooled seat as well but I just can bring myself to spend 1200 bucks for one.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 10, 2025 12:11 PM (luW68)

315 C105- ~500people
C341 (Organic I)- ~400 people
P-Chem and Inorganic- ~40 people (in each class)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:12 PM (bss/y)

316 279 "Sure, my results suck, but I've been in this job for decades. I demand respect."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)
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That describes many government workers to a T, also covers many managers and administrators at public universities.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 12:12 PM (LPS7w)

317 314 Heated seats and grips are bomb-diggity features on the hog. Don't really need 'em as often here in Cowtown but when I do, MAN are they nice to have. I have seen a cooled seat as well but I just can bring myself to spend 1200 bucks for one.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 10, 2025 12:11 PM (luW6

I wish I had a heated steering wheel. I have a pair of carhartt mittens I love, but it feels awkward as hell to work the gear shift.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:13 PM (bss/y)

318 Indeed, I met her standing in line for a movie as an undergrad at Stanford.
Beautiful.
Posted by: ShainS

Unfortunately, she does not appear to have inherited her mother's rack.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

319 Class warfare failed because communism sucked and failed to actually deliver on any of its promises of greater wealth through scientific governance, and by the 80s, it was hard to argue otherwise even in the left.

So, class was out. Any other way of dividing populations was in. Class, gender, whatever. They're still dividing, but class stopped being potent in like, the 1930s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

The commies also did a hard turn into the environmentalist movement. We still have class divisions but not the way the Marxists break down class. It's more a neo-feudalist society with a credentialed quasi-aristocratic class in charge, and the rest of us are serfs who get to own nothing and rent everything from Lord Blackrock.

Posted by: The "elites" always get theirs at February 10, 2025 12:13 PM (mEkvo)

320 Somebody need their seat warmed up?

Posted by: Sulu at February 10, 2025 12:14 PM (i0F8b)

321 Is just like all those imams sitting around saying they need to dab it down a shade with all that Aloha Snackbar stuff because they have to consider how everyone else will take it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 12:14 PM (VoAdT)

322 Heated seats and grips are bomb-diggity features on the hog. Don't really need 'em as often here in Cowtown but when I do, MAN are they nice to have. I have seen a cooled seat as well but I just can bring myself to spend 1200 bucks for one.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 10, 2025 12:11 PM (luW6

My F-150 has it all. It's 22 degrees outside and it's pure joy to remote start, wait a few, and then get into a warm cab with heated seats and a warm steering wheel. And in the summer, the AC on and cool seats.
Hey! I'm over 29 and I've earned it.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:14 PM (W/lyH)

323 President Lyndon Johnson famously had an Amphicar at his Texas ranch, and it’s alleged that he liked to take guests on a spin around the ranch, then give them a scare by claiming his brakes had failed as he drove into a lake.

Didn’t Sen. McCollub’s sister run her Tesla in a Texas farm pond couple years ago?

Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2025 12:14 PM (jgmnb)

324 On Hybrids -
Post Katrina with spike in gas price, me driving a smallish SUV for commuting, and wife wanting her own car we looked into getting an economy car for me to commute in.
Long story short, relative to price of a then economy car (small engine $10-12k) the payback period for a hybrid was, checking calcs... Fucking never. Literally. 50-100 years on gas alone.

Then hybrids were an option on mid-level cars, so instead of looking $10-12k for a commuter it was $30-35k. $20k on the front end is/was a lifetime supply of gas.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/lPRQ)

325 319 The commies also did a hard turn into the environmentalist movement. We still have class divisions but not the way the Marxists break down class. It's more a neo-feudalist society with a credentialed quasi-aristocratic class in charge, and the rest of us are serfs who get to own nothing and rent everything from Lord Blackrock.
Posted by: The "elites" always get theirs at February 10, 2025 12:13 PM (mEkvo)

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I've never had too much problem with the socialist critique of Europe in the 19th century.

It was their solutions that made no fucking sense and were massively dangerous to the world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

326 Reverend Hawkes isn't.

-
Irreverent Hawkes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:15 PM (L/fGl)

327 Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:13 PM (bss/y)

The wife's car has a heated steering wheel and heated seats. I use the heated seats regularly in the summer after golf.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 10, 2025 12:15 PM (luW68)

328 "Trump Orders Treasury Secretary to Stop Minting Pennies"

My jar of pennies will be worth more due to the new scarcity?

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at February 10, 2025 12:15 PM (86StK)

329 I'll admit, reluctantly, that I've used the heated seat on rare cold occasions, like right after the Snow Surprise of last month. But, you know, I'm usually wearing clothes when I'm in my car, and a coat if it's cold enough for a heated seat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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You know you're old when you look forward to heated seats for your back instead of just being cold.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2025

***
Not there yet. Though I have used a heating pad at home when I've had an actual sore back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:16 PM (J2vNu)

330 we had a car a while back which had heated seats. On cold days I'd turn on the heater for my wife before she got in the car, which made her happy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 12:16 PM (tT6L1)

331 I get into my truck at 5:30AM and it's negative fuck you degrees out for my hour and a half commute, I'm turning that bun toaster on and giving precisely 0.0 fucks what anyone wants to say about it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 12:16 PM (VoAdT)

332 The wife's car has a heated steering wheel and heated seats. I use the heated seats regularly in the summer after golf.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 10, 2025 12:15 PM (luW6

Nothing like heated seats (as rick said above) for lower back ache. Except when you have to get out of the car.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

333 The wife's car has a heated steering wheel and heated seats. I use the heated seats regularly in the summer after golf.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 10, 2025

***
The Buick has the heated wheel. I tested it once, found it worked, and forgot about it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:16 PM (J2vNu)

334 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:02 PM (L/fG

He is a clergyman in the Metropolitan Community Church which has affirmed gay clergy for a very long time. They are an extremely "progressive" church along the lines of Unitarians. I guess this particular minister has progressed beyond the need for a Savior.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2025 12:17 PM (42Vb+)

335 I never used remote start, but I sure turnt the butt-warmer on this morning.

Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2025 12:17 PM (jgmnb)

336 How do we explain that phrase to Muslims and to Jews and to Hindus?'

With GASSSSS

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 10, 2025 12:17 PM (1Y10s)

337 Not there yet. Though I have used a heating pad at home when I've had an actual sore back.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:16 PM (J2vNu)

Pppfffftttt.
You kids today! Sore back!!?? Hell, you don't know sore back until you've lifted a hundred bales of hay up onto the trailer.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)

338 To all Federal employees, the USA is $36 trillion in debt. Your work had a hand in that. So I wouldn’t complain if someone asks WTF you do.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (JrNCN)

339 "Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."
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It's only insulting if you don't know what you're doing. It's only insulting if you're not on top of your job. It's a conversation if you are on top of your job and know what you're doing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (8TQpF)

340 The Buick has the heated wheel. I tested it once, found it worked, and forgot about it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:16 PM (J2vNu)

You live in a fucking tropical swamp. Of course you forgot about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (bss/y)

341 I never used remote start, but I sure turnt the butt-warmer on this morning.
Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2025 12:17 PM

I'm waiting for RI Red to chime in here...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (+QlJh)

342 we had a car a while back which had heated seats. On cold days I'd turn on the heater for my wife before she got in the car, which made her happy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025

***
Miss Linda turns her seat on if it's 65 out.

On the other hand, since I lost some fat by improving my diet, I sometimes get cold sooner than she does.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (J2vNu)

343 This is what the MCC believes:

https://insidemcc.org/about-mcc/what-we-believe/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2025 12:19 PM (42Vb+)

344 Hmmmm, what would happen to pennies.
Recall, just used until they disappear?

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2025 12:19 PM (fwDg9)

345 Someone should point out to Hawkes he can explain our Savior to Muslims as his LGBGDNHEOS butt is tossed off a tall building.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 12:19 PM (tT6L1)

346 My daughter just bought a car with cooled seats. It has the effect of making you feel like you pissed your pants and the urine is no longer warm. Once you get used to it though it is pretty nice.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 10, 2025 12:19 PM (1FWWQ)

347 It's only insulting if you don't know what you're doing. It's only insulting if you're not on top of your job. It's a conversation if you are on top of your job and know what you're doing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (8TQpF)

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An opportunity to impress and ask for a raise if you're really good.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:19 PM (BrnhP)

348 I get into my truck at 5:30AM and it's negative fuck you degrees out for my hour and a half commute, I'm turning that bun toaster on and giving precisely 0.0 fucks what anyone wants to say about it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 12:16 PM (VoAdT)

What's a commute?

Posted by: Federal workers everywhere at February 10, 2025 12:19 PM (W/lyH)

349 I don't think buying an EV is normal 'virtue signaling' as much as dragging you dick across others faces.

It's one thing for relatively well-to-do to buy an expensive sports car, it's another to get an economically unsound vehicle with huge government subsidies so you can bragg on saving the environment while other people's grandkids pay the tax bill. If they really knew the economics it is pissing on people while them it's a gentle sping rain.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (/lPRQ)

350 It's only insulting if you don't know what you're doing. It's only insulting if you're not on top of your job. It's a conversation if you are on top of your job and know what you're doing.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (8TQpF)

This is something I have tried to explain to people. Audits are only scary if you suck. You know when you should have been putting in max effort? BEFORE there was an audit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (bss/y)

351 C105- ~500people
C341 (Organic I)- ~400 people
P-Chem and Inorganic- ~40 people (in each class)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:12 PM

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Yep, it was great to be rid of all the Bio majors in P-chem and inorganic.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (1Au9i)

352 What's a commute?
Posted by: Federal workers everywhere at February 10, 2025 12:19 PM (W/lyH)
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Last I heard, you'll be free from commuting and a paycheck in pretty short order.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (tT6L1)

353 When I was in my Volkswagen air cooled days, the couple I had with gas heaters were appreciated in Ohio winters. Sold one to a friend and he decided to defeat the timer so it would run all the time. He goes into the bar, has a few or five, and goes out to his warm car. The exhaust off the heater, coming out in the passenger front fender, caught the tire on fire.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (gm9Sb)

354 Nickels are the new pennies.

Posted by: eleven at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (fV+MH)

355 Danes launch bid to 'buy California' (since Gov Newsom has done everything possible to lower the price) and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump's Greenland threats
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

Offer them Puerto Rico as a counter offer

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (D7oie)

356 He is a clergyman in the Metropolitan Community Church which has affirmed gay clergy for a very long time. They are an extremely "progressive" church along the lines of Unitarians. I guess this particular minister has progressed beyond the need for a Savior.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2025 12:17 PM (42Vb+)
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Remember, in the progressive mindset THEY are the saviors we all need.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2025 12:21 PM (7fElN)

357 1st World Problem.

Deplorable Nurse @gypsynurse14
I told a joke on Zoom and no one laughed…
It turns out I’m not even remotely funny.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

358 The wife's car has a heated steering wheel and heated seats. I use the heated seats regularly in the summer after golf.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 10, 2025

Maybe slow down the backswing?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:22 PM (W/lyH)

359 Offer them Puerto Rico as a counter offer
Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (D7oie)

More like a poison pill

Posted by: Broke, dysfunctional...both PR and CA at February 10, 2025 12:22 PM (mEkvo)

360 Deplorable Nurse @gypsynurse14
I told a joke on Zoom and no one laughed…
It turns out I’m not even remotely funny.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:22 PM (bss/y)

361 Danes launch bid to 'buy California' (since Gov Newsom has done everything possible to lower the price) and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump's Greenland threats
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025

***
Sounds like a deal to me

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:22 PM (J2vNu)

362 Nickels are the new pennies.

Posted by: eleven at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (fV+MH)

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F. Joe's Legacy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM (BrnhP)

363 I once had a black car with a black interior. That thing was unbearable over 40 degrees, without the AC.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM (77rzZ)

364 My mini cooper has a heated steering wheel, which is super important in gulf coast Alabama! I did use it and the heated seats in our rogue snowstorm, but yesterday I had the top down.

Posted by: Piper at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM (pZEOD)

365 alarmingly high concentrations of heavy metals at a nearby estuary

----
Are we talking Ozzy solo career, or Iron Maiden, or what?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM (y9ksN)

366 Deplorable Nurse @gypsynurse14
I told a joke on Zoom and no one laughed…
It turns out I’m not even remotely funny.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

*golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:22 PM

I had to read that twice. Obviously I need moar coffee.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM (+QlJh)

367 355 Danes launch bid to 'buy California' (since Gov Newsom has done everything possible to lower the price) and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump's Greenland threats
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2025 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

Offer them Puerto Rico as a counter offer
Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2025 12:20 PM (D7oie)

Shut up, Kindl. Yes, a trade for California is perfect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM (bss/y)

368 He is a clergyman in the Metropolitan Community Church which has affirmed gay clergy for a very long time. They are an extremely "progressive" church along the lines of Unitarians. I guess this particular minister has progressed beyond the need for a Savior.
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Once you've crossed-out/voided enough chunks of the Bible, why wouldn't you just sleep in on Sunday mornings rather than going to the trouble of playing "church"?

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM (TN0g+)

369 My F-150 has it all. It's 22 degrees outside and it's pure joy to remote start, wait a few, and then get into a warm cab with heated seats and a warm steering wheel. And in the summer, the AC on and cool seats.
Hey! I'm over 29 and I've earned it.
Posted by: Diogenes
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I used to run out to the car, start it and turn the heater on, then come back in and finish my coffee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 12:24 PM (8TQpF)

370 This is what the MCC believes

"...and integrate sexuality and spirituality"

They might want to review Paul's comments in 1 Thessalonians 4.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 10, 2025 12:25 PM (mvkCn)

371 Deplorable Nurse @gypsynurse14
I told a joke on Zoom and no one laughed…
It turns out I’m not even remotely funny.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

*golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:22 PM

I had to read that twice. Obviously I need moar coffee.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM (+QlJh)
***

I've already sent it to three people. They aren't laughing either. I guess some people can tell a joke, and some can't.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:25 PM (W/lyH)

372 I've been throwing pennies in the trash for years. Drives my wife, a CPA, nuts.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2025 12:25 PM (Y1sOo)

373 I like heated seats, especially with the top down in colder weather. I had ventilated seats. Wasn't a big fan. They made a racket and didn't do much too cool my ass. Plus, in a convertible the tiny vent holes tended to collect dust and air particulates.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 10, 2025 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

374 An opportunity to impress and ask for a raise if you're really good.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:19 PM (BrnhP)

Being really good at your job doesn't get you a raise or promotion. Sucking up to the right people gets you the raise/promotion. Being really good at your job makes you indispensable in your current position and thus unpromotable.

Posted by: Go boating with the SVP - RAISE! at February 10, 2025 12:25 PM (mEkvo)

375 I have a coworker who ran over a bit of displaced asphalt with her Tesla. Immediately, the dashboard started throwing warnings at her as the car went into limp mode. She managed to get home and called her local dealership to figure out how to get it fixed. The guy on the other end of the line told her to get the car out of the garage and park it away from any structures or vehicles. Scared the crap out of her. Managed to subsequently get the car fixed -- to the tune of $28,000 -- but definitely took the bloom off the rose.

Posted by: red speck at February 10, 2025 12:25 PM (oylnX)

376 "Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."
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It's only insulting if you don't know what you're doing. It's only insulting if you're not on top of your job. It's a conversation if you are on top of your job and know what you're doing.
Posted by: Braenyard
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And you are explaining it to a 'child'.
Keep that in mind. A 'child' with a lot of pull, but a child nonetheless.

If you cannot explain your job to a child there my be some issues there.*

*Doctor's during / after Kung-Flu Freakout - We are following 'protocols'....Umm. yeah. Kind of like a flowchart..

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2025 12:26 PM (/lPRQ)

377 I once had a radiator hose spring a massive leak after I'd started the car and left it to warm up on a 20 below morning. Car didn't even come close to overheating.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 12:26 PM (tT6L1)

378 I once had a black car with a black interior. That thing was unbearable over 40 degrees, without the AC.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2025

***
Exactly why I like light-colored interiors. Plus they seem larger inside. And as for black interiors not showing dirt? Panda feathers. Unless you work in a coal mine, the greyish dirt shows against black leather, vinyl, or velour.

I did sit in a vintage Mercedes 250SL from 1967 or so once. It had a dark silver exterior over a *chocolate brown* interior, and that color was oddly attractive. Or maybe I was just hungry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:26 PM (J2vNu)

379 Deplorable Nurse @gypsynurse14
I told a joke on Zoom and no one laughed…
It turns out I’m not even remotely funny.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

---------------

Jeffrey Toobin OTOH is remotely jerky.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:26 PM (BrnhP)

380 They laughed at me when I said I'd be a comedian.

Nobody's laughing now!

Posted by: eleven at February 10, 2025 12:26 PM (fV+MH)

381 I'm unaware of many mainstream hybrids that can utilize this technology to enhance performance other than simply extend range or provide some sort of virtue signaling.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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We had a KIA Optima that utilized this tech. It got 40+ mpg on Interstate travel and had some get up and go for passing. After ten years it finally succumbed to the ultimate fate of most cars in PA by hitting multiple deer at once.

Posted by: Cosda at February 10, 2025 12:26 PM (E/7rO)

382 Pppfffftttt.
You kids today! Sore back!!?? Hell, you don't know sore back until you've lifted a hundred bales of hay up onto the trailer.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)
Toted 30 squares of shingles up a 24 ft extension ladder.

Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2025 12:27 PM (jgmnb)

383 These "children" are all old enough to be drafted.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2025 12:27 PM (VoAdT)

384 So, class was out. Any other way of dividing populations was in. Class, gender, whatever. They're still dividing, but class stopped being potent in like, the 1930s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 10, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

This is a language breakdown between us. Class warfare refers to dividing into groups or "classes" and pitting them against one another. It doesn't have to be actual classes.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2025 12:27 PM (H7qcR)

385 alarmingly high concentrations of heavy metals at a nearby estuary

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Are we talking Ozzy solo career, or Iron Maiden, or what?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2025 12:23 PM

Obviously, Nickleback.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 10, 2025 12:27 PM (a3Q+t)

386 335 I never used remote start, but I sure turnt the butt-warmer on this morning.
Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2025 12:17 PM (jgmnb)
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I can't live without my remote start.

Posted by: WisRich at February 10, 2025 12:28 PM (G0vdT)

387 Noodus ace: Trump vs. Taylor

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:28 PM (J2vNu)

388 Pppfffftttt.
You kids today! Sore back!!?? Hell, you don't know sore back until you've lifted a hundred bales of hay up onto the trailer.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)
Toted 30 squares of shingles up a 24 ft extension ladder.
Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2025 12:27 PM (jgmnb)

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Welder during the day and moving furniture evenings and weekends.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 10, 2025 12:28 PM (tT6L1)

389 Ewok's up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2025 12:28 PM (+QlJh)

390 Managed to subsequently get the car fixed -- to the tune of $28,000 -- but definitely took the bloom off the rose.
Posted by: red speck
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No warranty?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 12:28 PM (8TQpF)

391 354 Nickels are the new pennies.

think of how much money we could save if the gummint bought our unused pennies for two cents apiece instead of spending three cents to mint new ones!

Posted by: anachronda at February 10, 2025 12:29 PM (oY6Yp)

392 Unusual Monster Truck race.

https://is.gd/dB2Rnm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 10, 2025 12:29 PM (L/fGl)

393 237 square bales loaded, unloaded and stacked.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2025 12:29 PM (8TQpF)

394 Being really good at your job doesn't get you a raise or promotion. Sucking up to the right people gets you the raise/promotion. Being really good at your job makes you indispensable in your current position and thus unpromotable.

Posted by: Go boating with the SVP - RAISE! at February 10, 2025 12:25 PM (mEkvo)

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There is truth to this; the only way I used to get raises was quitting and getting rehired elsewhere for more money (software developer).

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop The #WINNING, I gotta GET OFF! at February 10, 2025 12:29 PM (BrnhP)

395 375 I have a coworker who ran over a bit of displaced asphalt with her Tesla. Immediately, the dashboard started throwing warnings at her as the car went into limp mode. She managed to get home and called her local dealership to figure out how to get it fixed. The guy on the other end of the line told her to get the car out of the garage and park it away from any structures or vehicles. Scared the crap out of her. Managed to subsequently get the car fixed -- to the tune of $28,000 -- but definitely took the bloom off the rose.
Posted by: red speck at February 10, 2025 12:25 PM (oylnX)
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Wow, $28,000.

Posted by: WisRich at February 10, 2025 12:30 PM (G0vdT)

396 380 They laughed at me when I said I'd be a comedian.

Nobody's laughing now!
Posted by: eleven at February 10, 2025 12:26 PM (fV+MH)

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Sounds like something Steven Wright would say.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 12:30 PM (LPS7w)

397 391 354 Nickels are the new pennies.

think of how much money we could save if the gummint bought our unused pennies for two cents apiece instead of spending three cents to mint new ones!
Posted by: anachronda at February 10, 2025 12:29 PM (oY6Yp)

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Is a zinc penny really worth 3 cents?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 12:31 PM (LPS7w)

398 I did sit in a vintage Mercedes 250SL from 1967 or so once. It had a dark silver exterior over a *chocolate brown* interior, and that color was oddly attractive. Or maybe I was just hungry.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2025 12:26 PM (J2vNu)

I always loved the Magnum PI color combo (Red exterior with brown or saddle interior.) I saw a '97 Boxster with that color combination when I was looking for a new car in 2007. I lusted for it. The analytical/money side won out. But damn, it was beautiful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2025 12:32 PM (bss/y)

399 Being really good at your job doesn't get you a raise or promotion. Sucking up to the right people gets you the raise/promotion. Being really good at your job makes you indispensable in your current position and thus unpromotable.
Posted by: Go boating with the SVP - RAISE!

Seen that first hand.
Where I am it's like a caste system between production and management. Management doesn't need to know shit about the product so long as competent people who what they are doing. Once upper caste they will protect their own to the ends of the earth.

Unfortunately management will be the only ones left under drastic cuts so the only visible outcome will be fewer employees and smaller budgets. Unless they just fire everybody from top-down ... SESs, GS-15, GS-14...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2025 12:34 PM (/lPRQ)

400 399 Being really good at your job doesn't get you a raise or promotion. Sucking up to the right people gets you the raise/promotion. Being really good at your job makes you indispensable in your current position and thus unpromotable.
Posted by: Go boating with the SVP - RAISE!

Seen that first hand.
Where I am it's like a caste system between production and management. Management doesn't need to know shit about the product so long as competent people who what they are doing. Once upper caste they will protect their own to the ends of the earth.

Unfortunately management will be the only ones left under drastic cuts so the only visible outcome will be fewer employees and smaller budgets. Unless they just fire everybody from top-down ... SESs, GS-15, GS-14...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2025 12:34 PM (/lPRQ)

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You can't ask for pay raises within your job rating/classification? Indispensable can also mean your worth more to someone else.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 12:37 PM (LPS7w)

401 And meanwhile we have a Dept. of Transportation and a NTSB and all sorts of agencies that are supposed to look our for the people's safety when it comes to our roads and what we allow on them.

It seems those regulators are much more worried about carbon and melanin and hormonal imbalances than lithium's potential kinetic reaction to water all compactly contained in a speeding chemical bomb that firefighters won't even come near when they, unexpectedly, go off.

A more intelligent people might come to the conclusion that perhaps the bureaucrats of the regulatory state aren't really there to them safe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2025 12:37 PM (6ydKt)

402 Managed to subsequently get the car fixed -- to the tune of $28,000 -- but definitely took the bloom off the rose.

How is it 'fixed'? Sounds to me like they just re-armed it.

Posted by: t-bird at February 10, 2025 12:42 PM (KBQMF)

403 Life is high school and it never changes.
Posted by: World is dominated by dumb, loud, cocky people at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (mEkvo)

Millenial rock at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxI_euTX4A

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2025 12:43 PM (FCbAQ)

404 403 Life is high school and it never changes.
Posted by: World is dominated by dumb, loud, cocky people at February 10, 2025 11:35 AM (mEkvo)

Millenial rock at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxI_euTX4A
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2025 12:43 PM (FCbAQ)

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Is this an alternate universe, fat Blink 182?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2025 12:47 PM (LPS7w)

405 Drove a hybrid Lexus RX350 recently. Didn't like it. The regenerative braking at city speeds just doesn't allow you to coast up to a light. I let up on the gas and I start slowing down immediately, you have to keep you foot on the gas, but for slow movement you're trying to play with really small throttle angles on the gas pedal so its easy enough to over gas what you want to do, or you have to 'run up' then let off and if you misjudged the deceleration from the regen brake your hitting the real brakes harder than you wanted to in the first place. Plus it was overtly heavy to drive in steering the ICE version is snappy and precise in steering.
Definitely didn't keep it in the garage, just in case of battery issues.

Posted by: Janir at February 10, 2025 12:59 PM (JtW2J)

406 Moss Landing is only a few miles from where I live.
Good surf spots around there, lots of seals and whiteys too.

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2025 12:59 PM (v0R5T)

407 289
>> The batteries will continue to some extent and manufacturing and installation will improve along with a method of fire extinction.

But why continue this dangerous, inefficient mess at all?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 10, 2025 12:03 PM (FC8SQ)
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There is going to have to be a next generation EV battery that doesn't depend on Lithium Ion batteries.

No one likes splodey cars!

THIS! I was telling my husband, there is going to be some new tech that will be better. Unfortunately
Most seem to think this EV way is the only way.

Posted by: Paisley at February 10, 2025 01:00 PM (ny1NG)

408 Hybrid is a very vague term when it comes to different companies. It's like the way late 70s motorcycles had wildly differing approaches to rear suspension.

The Toyota approach is to have the IC engine solely drive the generator charging the battery. The wheels are driven by electric motors. In my 2017 Prius V (formerly the largest Prius but since discontinued in favor of the hybrid RAV 4 after it sank in what that market segment really wanted size-wise) I can select an EV mode that is good for about 20 miles at best. My situation is such that the only time I've ever used it was by default when I was unexpectedly running on fumes. My home is too far from most things to get any value from that range. Not really, I could probably save a few bucks a month using it but it require me to make the conscious choice when setting out and it just doesn't happen.

My brother has the Prius plug-in hybrid model. It isn't especially different under the hood. It just has a bigger battery and a charge port. Not great EV range but at least double my Prius. Since he works from home in Simi Valley, CA, he says he only needs to put gas in about every three weeks of day to day travel.

Posted by: Epobirs at February 10, 2025 01:15 PM (/0z9K)

409 #407

There hasn't been a genuinely new battery chemistry in over century. Newer battery types are refinements of stuff first tried a very long time ago but lacking practicality under the limitations of the era.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on battery breakthroughs that aren't simply improved versions of the existing products.

Posted by: Epobirs at February 10, 2025 01:18 PM (/0z9K)

410 Saw one of those water-land cars cross the Ohio River as a kid before a Reds game. I didn't see any fuss about it and it did just pull onto the old steamboat landing on the bank there and drive off.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2025 01:28 PM (n7h9X)

411 there was a barber shop nearby mom used to take me to for a princeton. the shop was named for the owners two amphicars, "the yankee clipper."

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2025 03:45 PM (6+aIJ)

412 How big is the Carbon Footprint of this all?!

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 10, 2025 04:21 PM (wGqjj)

413 I think the admin of this web site is actually working hard in support of his web site, since here every data is quality based
data.

Posted by: lose money at February 10, 2025 07:19 PM (BaZIG)

414 Outstanding!

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