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The Cybertruck wont do jack to stop Tesla's slip in market share. It wont even help in maintaining it either. Too many EVs from different manufacturers are going to hit the market like a bullet train. Many model EVs that are fresher and newer and most importantly, shinier then ANYTHING Tesla has got in its inventory INCLUDING the Cybertruck. The Cybertruck is old news by now despite it going on sale and delivered last month or two ago. LOL. The Silverado EV also just went on sale. The F150 EV has been on sale for some time. The Cybertruck has got too many established competitors (Ford and GM) in the truck market even if EV for the Cybertruck to mean anything to anybody. And guess what? The RAM EV is not available just yet. Just wait until THAT model goes on sale. Seriously...you actually think Tesla will make a dent in truck sales? The conservative anti-EV people hate anything EV. Chevy, Ford and Dodge will have a phoquing hard time to convince these people to buy into them. And these folk are HARDCORE Detroit consumers. They wont buy Tesla. They HATE Tesla. LOL. If they WILL buy an EV truck, it WILL be from their favorite brand. But you will have to pry their internal combustion truck from their cold dead hands before that happens. But it will be an EV truck from Detroit. Not from California. The Cybertruck wont even make Tesla Model S-3-X-Y owners budge. Oh...some will bite, but Tesla's shine is not nearly as bright as it once was. ESPCIALLY when Ford, GM, Stellantis and others have JOINED forces to USE Tesla's supercharger network. LOL. THAT partnership goes both ways. It solidifies Tesla as THE premier electricity provider and perhaps enhance their EV image...BUT...when Tesla has over riped fruit on their kitchen table and Elon's mouth just molds the fruit away people will buy elsewhere. When the EV charger issue for everybody else has now been rectified by them using Tesla chargers, now people have less worry for charging their non-Tesla EV. Telsa had an almost unsurmountable grip on EV market share just a short 5 years ago. But now...too many competitors are fighting for possession and their EV tech is just as good as Tesla's. But with shinier newer vehicles. The moron allowed for his competiton to catch up to him. He not only dropped the football, he fumbled it and we dont quite know just yet if Tesla recoverd the ball, or if the opposing teams have possession... Sure, there will be plenty of automakers that wont make it. But that also INCLUDES Tesla. Tesla DESPERATLEY needs 2nd gens of the S-3-X-Y line up. What Tesla does NOT need is a Roadster 2.0 or a Cybertruck. Those were needed 3 years ago. Those would have solidified Tesla dominance. Those never came. X and Mars were more important to him. LOL When all of the automotive world has shifted their excitement for hybrid old guard sportscars...you just know Tesla has lost their shine just a little bit...

Well...it just proves that Mercedes-Benz EVs are engineered not to flame up uncontrollably. Im surelike you, dont think the other EV manufacurers are not willfully trying to BBQ their drivers either, but my concerns about this are slightly dissipated knowing that at least with not only Mercedes, but with other EVs as well, that an EV wont just go up in flames when in a collision. A collision that is at least calculated. Calculated as in accounted for in a controlled collision. Ill be cautious about collisions that havent been engineered. Because sometimes collisions dont exactly happen like in the tests they do. Same goes for internal combustion engines. The thing is, a battery fire seems to be more intense and harder to put out. And water just doesnt cut it. And those two things are what concerns me. And this is what I originally meant by 'elephant in the room'. Mercedes just proved that a collision is not enough short the batteries to ignite and cause a fire. Mercedes proved with this test that batteries can and are protected just as well as gasoline is in a gas tank in a car.

Id like to show you that I can retract certain opinions that I hold. This is regarding the issue I had with battery fires especial in instances of accidents. I said that battery fires maybe a huge problem that maybe kinda nobody wants to talk about. I said that there are not enough EVs getting into accidents to actually say that there is no issue for EV battery fires. I said that battery fires could be a huge concern. Your assesment of this situation is correct, Id say! You said calmly that there is no issue... Mercedes Benz proves that their EVs at least and their batteries, are safe in accidents.

I was watching that. It was pretty good. I enjoyed it. Was sad that it wasnt continued. Kinda like in the 1980s... Discontinued abruptly. At least in the original 80s version, there was a 2nd or 3rd season but ended shortly thereafter when that hybrid baby came along. It grew up (fast) I remember as a pre-teen or teen but then the show was canceled... Something like that. The reboot didnt last a season. I enjoyed the two part made for TV movie that spawn the TV series the most. I remember enjoying the 1st season a lot but then the subsequent stories and seasons (those were off and on again as well before being canned for good) were cheesiest. I mean, the whole V thing was cheesy, but it was good cheese. The last episodes of V were not as good is what Im trying to say. The reboot was not cheesy at all. If I rememer correctly, it followed the story beats of the original, but were nicely acted. It was a more grounded production. An interesting outlook on it, the movie Independance Day starring Will Smith in 1996 was EXACTLY the TV movie V for the first 40 or so minutes. The way the ships come into the Earth's atmosphere. The way the ships line up on top of chosen Earth cities. Is all the same. Up until the White House was blown up. In the TV series V, the aliens come down to earth to introduce themselves while sneakily disguising their intentions and their actual reptilian appearance. The movie Independance Day, we get to know the true intentions of the aliens when they destroy the chosen locations. And this is where the two movies separate.

Yup. Pretty much that.

You dont have to be such a Debbie Downer... There is no reason for it.

You too, can enjoy what you enjoy... Subjective. remember...YOU are the one to judge. Sure. But that is the reality of...ARENA rock. You know...the rock-n-roll OF the 1960s all the way to the early 1990s. Started by the likes of THE Rolling Stones in the 1960s and perfected by all sorts of bands in the 1970s like Pink Floyd and Kiss and was THE standard in the 1980s. Bud, that would be almost 30 years of rockers rockin' in venues like that. And you kinda missed the point. Those types of venues were NOT about the accoustics... Pink Floyd, well, one member started loathing himself and the band and life and the band broke up because of that. And yes. YOU do you. NOBODY told you to do otherwise. But you got to understand, KISS and The Rolling Stones do well in huge venues. The artist you chose to highlight to us is NOT Arena rock. She wont do well in that environment. Guess what though. Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis jr. wont either. Please put some percpective in what you wanna whine about. And it would be YOUR choice to do so. I too, enjoy that. But yet again, a big blockbuster of a movie was meant to be enjoyed in a movie theatre. Shawshank Redemption, which I saw in the movie theatre, was more enjoyed by me at home in MY home theatre environment. But ALL blockbuster movies, you name them, from ALL Star Wars movies to James Bond to Arnold action movies to everything that has to deal with huge production costs and special effects are better enjoyed IN a movie theatre. You could choose to say that you would prefer your home, your choice, your freedoms, but please dont put your prefernces on me. Because THAT is exactly what you are trying to do. Poo pooing huge production movies and Arena rock performances with legendary groups perhaps performing for the very last time is not a very open minded kind of thinking. Your choice your freedoms. Im guessing you were NEVER the type to enjoy all that to begin with. Still subjective... Like I said...it seems to me you NEVER enjoyed that to begin with...

Its nice to see the trusted PIT maneuver, or any variant form of, outside of the USA with the same American problems plaguing other countries. Maybe the shytty arrogance of Eurotrash snobbiness will dissipate when THEIR societal problems make OUR headlines and pop culture, music and movies in general will talk about THEIR inequalities and lowlife individuals... Now...I CAN be down with some comparisons of which police car has the best PIT maneuver capabilites. That Audi in the video or the legendary 1990s B Body Caprice and last gen Fox body Ford Crown Vic. I put my money on the American cop cars.

All Im hearing...is that you are not really a Rolling Stones fan and would rather see what your personal tastes are in concert. Which is fine. Like you said, Personal choice as I would rather see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrinkley and old @ 80 live in the cement block named Olympic Stadium in Montreal who Pink Floyd famously wrote a hugely famous song about than watch a young, perky vibrant Keiki Matsui. Nothing wrong with that either. But I wrote it like that because you seem dismissive of what I said earlier When legendary performers such as The Rolling Stones, Kiss, Def Leppard, AC/DC and many others, chalk up Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams too, when they do a concert, and their vocals or performance falls short of expectations, even kind of like Vince Neil of Motley Crue or Axl Rose of Guns and Roses, really, it does not matter. At THAT point its NOT aboutn the show. Its about seeing them one last time before they are gone. Vince Neil and Axl Rose may not be legends, and therefore your assesment IS correct about them retiring. And when I say gone, I really mean dead. Tina Turner, Tony Bennett... Even Tony didnt sound as good when old as when he was young... Its REALLY about seeing them ONE. LAST. TIME. But the conversation is NOT about those people. Its about The Rolling Stones. ANY concert with them IS worth it. They bare STILL on top of their game. And it IS worth seeing them beofre THEY are gone. And THAT is not a personal choice IF you are a fan. ITS a bloody fact. IF you are a fan. If you are NOT a fan, you will say stuff like: but at least you course corrected somewhat... And at least you have acknowledged that you are an odd duck concerning these things.

Yes. Passed my theory test and the actual driving test on both of my first tries. In Quebec, there are three parts to the theory exam and... nobody gets 100% because as soon as you get to the minimum passing grade, off you go to the next part. I forget what the percentage is per part, I think its 75%. So if there are 20 questions per part, one needs to answer 15 questions right. As soon as one answers 15 right, off to the next part. If one gets 6 answers wrong. Bye Bye. One could answer 15 correct answers in a row and one could get 6 answers wrong in a row. On my first two parts, I got no answers wrong. On the third part, I answered everything correct in a row and just needed 1 more, but then I got 4 or 5 wrong in a row and the sweats started going. But I got the following answer right and the thoeory part done with. My driving test was a breeze. I think my wife past on her 1st tries. My daughter as well. She got her driver's license just before the summer started and past both on her 1st tries. My son just started doing his driver's ed. Hopefully he too, will be like his sister and parents.

I understand what you are saying, and when the time has come to retire, the time has time to retire. And I agree. But...sometimes, even if the time has cime to retire, its still enjoyable to see the magic of the artist perform even though the show maybe lacking. The legend of said artist suprasses the actual show. That is the appreciation. With the Stones, Jagger and Richards have still got the goods to deliver a great show, but...even they arent spring chickens anymore, the fact that at 80 they still give a show, THAT in itself is worth the price of admission. To see the Stones ONE. LAST. TIME.

Me too. Especially for GM and Ford. I think its a 'no shyte Sherlock' decision to have an Amercian driver. I am expecting American drivers. Im also wanting them to be beasts and therefore worlds best to kick some Eurotrash ass. And If you look at Corvette Racing, there was always at least one American driver on the team so not only feasible to have a world beater American driver, but expected as the Corvette Team HAS had MANY Americans driving and winning. OK...quickly on top of my head, Garcia, Gavin and Magnussen were NOT American, and Fellows as a Canadian, WERE the cream of the top and gave Corvettes the checkered flag, but with the same breath, O'Connel, Taylor and Milner, 'Mericans, were just as great as the other guys I mentioned. So yeah...COOL. Too bad Jacques Villeneuve maybe to old to drive for Cadillac. Then I would have REALLY been excited. Im sure Andretti Racing will assemble a great racing team regarding pilots. American or otherwise.

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Damn right! Hard copy. Will ALWAYS be yours. I dont buy music anymore, but I do buy movies. DVDs baby!!!! Bummer about the Covid. That shyte really screwed us over in many ways... I think they will tour again. Nothing is stopping them. Jagger is 80 and Richards is 79 and STILL going on strong. Daaaaaayum! But at least you saw them if by some chance they wont tour again. But they do have this new album and they are really old school. Im am posituve they will tour again. Was that the only time you saw them? I remember when they came to Montreal in '89 with their Steel Wheels album. The WHOLE city was buzzin' before AND after. I bought that CD. Ive got their 40 Licks 2 CD best hits and several cassettes of their classic albums bought used in thrift shops. I enjoy most of their music and I listen to them constantly to this day. Although the Steel Wheels album has been looong forgotten on my part... +1 This is another fantastic singer/musician that is over the hill so to speak! Its great to see ALL of them still contributing music for the world to listen to. Because when they are gone, sadly, there wont be much music left to talk about enthusiastically....

That was a nice gift. Family is always good to see. Hopefully the wifey got you something (click sound) real niiice that you'll remember. Wink Wink

We have discussed this on the power units and we both have the same sentiment about Cadillac using Alpine engines. We differ on what auto group to call them. Nissan... I wont go Nissan. I barely want to go Renault. Id rather use Apine. Yeah...Alpine sounds better. And this would be the main reason why it sucks for Cadillac to be using a power unit OTHER than their own... But yeah. They are IN!!! 2 years, right? On using Alpine units. Hopefully Cadillac and Andretti dont fudge that up and learn the ins and outs of F1 racing and when the Alpine deal is done, they DOMINATE from the get go. Because I WILL be holding the Andretti/Cadillac team to HIGHER standards JUST because they would prefer to use another engine builder's units... Id be willing to cut them some slack if they used their own. NOT this way. Just to be clear though, if the Andretti/cadillac team loses because of driving talent rather than power unit failure, I will be more forgiving. BUT...if after the 2 years is up and the Andretti/Cadillac cars lack in performance and reliability, I WILL call then out on it.

Montreal City Hall

I aint brand snob or anything, but for MY final ride only Lincoln or Cadillac will do.

meh... Ive heard that wrastlin' is fake...

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If I was homeless and not living in California, Id find myself a way to GET to California. No better place, weather wise, to be homeless than in California. Make the best out of a very dire situation. Need to take a bath? The Pacific is just right there. Salt water is better than no water. Need to go to the bathroom? The Pacific is just right there. Salt water is better than no toilet paper And the benefit with that is that salt water actually cleanses the pee pee and the bum bum just right. No need to worry about inclimate weather in the extreme cold category. The sun during the summer might be unbearable, but there are trees around for shade I presume. During the rainy season, THAT would be not good, and in some parts of LA there are mud slides, so there is that. But places like Mawn-treeawl or Deee-troy-it, rain and mud is infinitely better than frost bitten winds and snow and ice for half a year. I have compiled lots of words to say so little about a very sad reality. Not funny, but I am being serious. Greetings from Montreal, just a few miles away to the North. Cheers to ya with a Long Island iced Tea!