surreal1272

Oh come on! You dug that ridiculous hole! Why stop now? Why the hesitation to hold states like Texas to the same standard as you apply to California? You claim CA folks are just a bunch of “whiny brats” and then act like you had your “gotcha” moment about secession while ignoring the fact that red states were doing it long before Cali.

And out of those four redundant articles, name on state legislator or politician that actually sponsored a bill for secession like Texas did. Also, consider the fact that a dozen red states already beat California to the punch in 2008 and 2012. 2020, for reference, https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/529926-texas-gop-chair-appears-to-suggest-secession-after-scotus-rejects 2012 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/states-petition-to-secede-from-union/ https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/11/13/white-house-flooded-with-secession-petitions-after-obama-re-election Plenty of others like that but, unlike yourself, I'll save you the redundancy. Point being, two things. One, if you're going to criticize California like that, then you have to include all those red states and especially that hellhole known as Texas which leads to point two which is clearly that the red states were producing snowflakes (or "whiny brats", if you will) eight years before California, all because a black democrat was in office. Pot, meet kettle. SHALL I GO ON?

8500lbs carrying capacity, not towing capacity. That rate has steadily gone down in the last fifty years for the top one percent. Baffling you don't seem to see the issue there. By your logic, where do you put the pin at the bottom?

You understand that doesn’t change my point at all right? Just skip over the fact that fifty years ago, that same 1% paid even more (without so many of the current loopholes) and many folks claim that’s when this country was so “great”. Point being that the top 1% rarely ever actually pay their “fair share” these days so we can just drop the semantics quite honestly.

No. It is still your assessment because you only used one measure to make your determination. You cannot make a statement about taxes and rich without acknowledging the many loopholes the rich use to sidestep that 27%. That is a statement of fact. Not really. I don’t get the same tax loopholes that say, Jeff Bezos, gets. It’s just that simple. “Evil corporations” engage in self preservation of their own industries, the rest of us be damned. It’s not even a debatable point. Feel free to use Wal-Mart as an example.

Damn those Audi EVs and their electrical problems (which has been said for the last forty years or so but sure, let’s just think it’s an “EV” problem).

(Looks for the part where states like California actively tried to secede from the union in 2016 and finds nothing, unlike Texas today). And if certain folks hate CA so much, let’s just imagine what happens when you cut out the fifth largest economy in the world and then they stop sending their massive tax dollars to the feds to support all the other states. For all of California’s flaws, nothing beats the whining coming from certain subsections of the country. That’s all I’ll say about that because god forbid even a hint of politics show up before the resident whiner here starts complaining. The many loopholes in the current tax system would disagree with your assessment. That’s why certain folks only paid $750 just a few years back.

Then I had a dyslexic moment. Got Rivian crossed with Nikola. Sure me. It would probably help if you’d stop cherry picking a piece of someone’s comment so as to remove all doubt as to what you speak. That’s a tactic reserved for the news, not such a cerebral person as yourself. Be better.

Which was always doomed because why would GM invest in another company's pickup when they have their own plans for their models. Meanwhile, more American jobs, this time in Arizona where it's sorely needed. https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2020/12/01/lucid-motors-factory-az-completed-manufacturing-begin-2021/6407567002/

There were some dog engines from them during those years. For every Hemi, there was the garbage 3.7L. For every SRT-8, there was a 2.7L holdover from the 1990s. My old 3.5L Magnum was a decent engine but should have had more than 250HP and sure as hell deserved better than that garbage four speed. While mine ran well, I know of others that had a host of issues with the Trannies. So hit or miss.

Yes. Daimler did it absolutely no favors with the cheap plastic slabs inside the car and cheap plastic bits all about.

Wagon of the brain now. Saw this on Craigslist. 2007 SRT-8 with only 67K miles on it and in pristine condition. The down side, of course, was the $22K asking price but still, dark blue on a SRT-8 is hard to find. Only 140 of those in that color.

As an owner of one now (yes, I consider my Flex to be a wagon lol) and one in the past, I approve of this post lol.

You can never go wrong with a good Stihl chainsaw.

That is one of the main reasons why I moved to a small town a couple of months ago (would have been back in the Spring but COVID slowed the renovation on my home). It's a town of just over 15,000 yet less than an hour to at least four mid-size cities like Raleigh and Greensboro. Nice round-a-bout around the courthouse kind of town that has seen a nice revival over the last few years. Some nice Home-Brew bars and independent coffee shops and a local hardware store that I frequent often. It's not perfect, by any means, but it is a FAAAAR cry from the previous seven years in Phoenix metro. Strip mall hell.

The number of recalls does not equal reliability or relate to a "lot of" repairs (There are exceptions to every rule of course). Thought this was common knowledge when GM and Ford were recalling cars left and right not even a decade ago (and still do for the most part). That's what their supporters were saying anyway.

No doubt a good diesel truck has its uses but most of the jack wagons in Arizona never use them for their intended purpose, like pulling and hauling heavy loads. It's just something to compensate for that small D energy and making a lot of engine because "Murica!". Because Gary Larson is a genius!

They won't because not every county does yearly emissions tests and most have figured out how to remove the offending equipment before taking it to an inspection station. Ironic considering most those same folks subscribe to the "law and order" mantra, just not when comes to their diesel burning piles of s***.

Arizona was full of those modified piles of garbage. I do not miss that rolling soot laden non-sense.

Besides the fact that part of your assessment is subjective (example, I knew three people in Arizona that owned Teslas and not ONE complained about it not being quiet or luxurious enough which, again, is a subjective term), its statements like No.2 that have me laughing because its the same argument that the anti-EV crowd likes to use while ignoring the fact that you cannot fill up your ICE auto at home while you eat, sleep, enjoy time with your family. In addition, regarding No.3, there are now other EV options in the luxury game so singling out Tesla doesn't really accomplish much there.

Thought you were against speaking politics here (and yes, saying things like "but what would you expect when they have a far leftist parent company." is very much political)? Blu doesn't work for the oil industry but he sure acts like he has lifetime stock in it lol.

You would be correct. When you have to blow the dust off of a VHS tape and find a VCR to see their “glory days”, that says all I need to know about that team.

Yet those awful Lions currently have a better record than the most overrated sports franchise in the history of sports. Regardless, Patricia had to go.

Okay. That clarifies that. My last one was hard wired with a lithium battery backup. Ran for six years before I moved back to NC. One thing to consider is the maker of said smoke detector and who sources their batteries. Thing is that all of that irrelevant because EV batteries will have a unified standard applied (if not already) unlike smoke detector batteries. There will be more reliable and consistent references and guides for this. Smoke detector batteries will not be subject to the same standards. Your one example doesn't mean there is a widespread issue either without more research.

Random power outages (or surges) over the course of the 79 months (you stated), will 100% affect that battery. Thats one way to kill a battery prematurely. And Porsche dialing back that battery range (from their marketing range) is no different than companies that dial back MPGs for the same reason. Just my opinion though.