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Somehow...I think Id prefer the barbaric events at the Colosseum than anything Springer, Ricki Lake and Geraldo ever did. Lets not forget early Oprah too. Sheer disgust I have for that kind of television. Seems crazy right? That Id prefer seeing Christians eaten alive by lions, Gladiators brawling to death... Springer and his ilk...a precursor to the shytty, seedy world of the world wide web we have today. I did have several chuckles though, at the cameo appearance he did parodying himself and his show on Austin Powers. In summary. I prefer murder and genocide over greed. Weird how I phrase it but in my mind...it all makes sense!

Warped brakes and dash? The phoque???!!! On the warped dashes though, Ive heard that the Grand Am and Alero along with the F-Bodies had issues like that in extreme heat places like Arizona. Shytty!!! Gasket failures... On GM engines....,yeah... Not a surprise. The 3.4 was one of those engines that would have gasket failures. I thankfully didnt have that. Maybe the other owner that bought my car at trade in...

Tell me more. coupe or sedan? Ecotec 4 or V6? Manual? colour? What was wrong with yours? I had the 3.4. Traded it in for a 2005 Impala SS when the first kid arrived. It had 116 000 miles. I didnt have any problems with it. Well... I changed the front left and right bearings once each. Blame it on GM or blame Montreal's shytty pot holed roads or a bit of both. The car served me well over all. And I wasnt gentle with it.

Survivor or HNIC? I missed 1 potentially exciting game and 1 interesting period in another game over my wife's and daughter's insistance that I watch freakin' Survivor with them. Never say never...but Im NEVER missing NHL playoff hockey again. (unless the 2 most important women in my life dont give me a freakin' choice)

RIP Harry Belafonte

Nice house! But Im thinking... "that is a lot of snow to clear in the winter time..."

What is more interesting is that most of these companies are internet and/or computer tech related to which it would seem that old ways of doing business in an office would be obsolete for them... Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Salesforce, Snap, Twitter, Uber Phoque Amazon. Phoque Salesforce Phoque Snap and EPSECIALLY Phoque Meta Twitter and Uber!!! I dont particularly care for Google either, I think they are corrupt with user's personal info and stuff, but at least Google is a search engine that actually searches and gives info. We should be afraid of Google because of the sheer amount of information it carries so phoque them too!!! Apple...I got no mean words for them...other than Ill blame them for the state of addiction all of the world is for smart phone usage...

my bad about Raine. I know you have had 2 of your precious little doggys pass on, I just didnt realize the names. Glad to hear about Raine still being with you alive and well. Just kidding about the car. Although I can feel the frustration you had with the Merc through your post I feel kinda good about the joke I did on it BECAUSE you seem to be frustrated by it. Id feel bad though, somewhat, if you had told me it had great memories for you so Im glad I didnt put my foot in my mouth.

I loved the pic NOT because of your cute doggy, RIP. But because of these 3 lovely words: PS: Love the doggy pic too though...

Ill agree with your post. And having 4000-5000 lbs sedans and 7000-9000 lbs SUVs is more detrimental than we actually realize. From accidents involving compact ICE CUVs (approx 3500 lbs or less) and EV CUVs (aprox 5000lbs or more) ... To huge heavy EVs that collide with one another. The destruction is not nearly enough talked about. Our roads going forward. All that weight in an all EV world will certainly have an impact on road maintenance. Also...think about all the bridges that exist in the world and how fast their life spans will be cut short due to the fact that EVs are AT LEAST 50% heavier than the ICE counterparts that they will replace and that bridges were designed to accomodate the less heavier ICE cars. Parking lots are to be included in this discussion. If proper maintenenance and more frequent maintenance is not done (and calculate how much THAT will cost the tax payer or the owner of the parking lots), now imagine parking lots and bridges collapsing and the devastation that comes with that... Charging times is one thing. But battery tech needs to improve in density to allow for less heavy batteries that equate to similar ranges as their ICE-V counterparts. Putting more battery and increasing weight is NOT an answer. Telling people to be content with less battery with less range is not an answer either to keep weight down. Battery density will improve eventually. But THAT is what we need to focus on. Battery density to allow for better weight vehicles.

I got another RECALL for the Ford Fusion... I have honestly forgot how many that would be. Its got to be 12 by now. Its been too long Ford...I have wondered where and when would the next one come. Brake fluid may leak from one or both front brake flexible hoses and brake pedal travel will increase and brake action will require more effort with a reductionof rate of deceleration over time increasing the risk of an accident... FoMoCo is ramping up for replacement parts and will inform me when I can go and get my car fixed... 10 years old this Fusion platform is and Ford CONTINUES to dump money into it... GREAT JOB Ford!!! AWESOME way to be...profitable.

Connectivity is not of my concern. I dont think Id be using the smart phone type features of Apple car play or Snapdragon or whatever... My concern is of the privacy thing. And how somebody, whoever that somebody might be, that may have access to my personal info or my persoanl whereabouts or whatever whether through hacking or the OEM itself trying to sell me user fees for heated seats or whatever. Trackability of anykind, whether its literal tracking of where my car is (good thing concerning theft...) or trackability of what I do with my car and its features and how often I use these features like its Facebook or Youtube algorithm...is what I fear for the future not just for cars, but ANYTHING doing with our internet consumption connectivity going forward with humanity. So...my FIRST sentence is FALSE and YEAH!!! I have MAJOR concerns with this kind of shyte. I honestly wish we could go back to the simpler times...regarding dashboards and pushbuttons and lack of electronic gizmo distractions. Some of those electronic gizmo distractions are necessary. Some of them are an evolution of our day to day life evolution and I get all that. But I feel we have swung waaaay out of the middle of where our fantasy world resides and where are real lives should be... Again...NOT just with cars, but in EVERY aspect of our lives.