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Post by aquaduct on Apr 24, 2024 19:38:51 GMT -5
A '71 Javelin? Shit, I'd love to see that.
Dad made his career with AMC.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 24, 2024 11:24:44 GMT -5
(This one's for Peter) Oh, heck yes!
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 22, 2024 11:25:06 GMT -5
"White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent"? Is that somehow different than, "White alone percent"? The larger number includes whites who identify as Hispanic/Latino. The smaller number does not. I've never asked my born in Mexico brother-in-law how he identifies but if you met him on the street he would not strike you as Mexican. So is it kind of like gender these days?
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 22, 2024 7:56:46 GMT -5
"Globularist"? Is that a word? Tis now. Does it mean someone that's proficient in hocking loogies?
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 21, 2024 20:16:19 GMT -5
"White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent"?
Is that somehow different than, "White alone percent"?
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Mars
Apr 21, 2024 20:10:11 GMT -5
Post by aquaduct on Apr 21, 2024 20:10:11 GMT -5
"Globularist"?
Is that a word?
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 19, 2024 19:05:53 GMT -5
We opened for them about a decade ago. Nice guys, every one.
RIP.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 19, 2024 19:02:20 GMT -5
...and it's not me! I thought this was hilarious. I would reproduce in full, but copyright, etc. Some asshole is signing your name to stupid lettersA legal letter of noteSHAUN USHER In November of 1974, an attorney named Dale Cox wrote to his favourite American football club, the Cleveland Browns, and informed them that a number of the team’s fans were regularly throwing paper aeroplanes in the stadium—a potentially “dangerous” activity that could, he warned, cause “serious eye injury” to innocent fans such as himself. His letter can be read below, along with the now legendary reply he soon received from the club’s legal department. news.lettersofnote.com/p/very-truly-yoursThat's flat out awesome.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 18, 2024 17:23:42 GMT -5
How can we trust anyone who can spell "felicitations"?
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USPS
Apr 18, 2024 11:55:37 GMT -5
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Dub and epaul like this
Post by aquaduct on Apr 18, 2024 11:55:37 GMT -5
Speaking of electric vehicles for package delivery. Our Amazon delivery truck for our area is now an all electric Rivian vehicle. I believe these are suppose to have a 150 mile range. So I think the statement that electric vehicles aren't good for package delivery is inaccurate. I think it is probably more that the electric vehicles the "post office is planning for" are not good for packages. I would be curious to know how those are working out for Amazon though. Do they need to constrain routes to be within range, or plan for recharging during the day? On first glance I'd say you're probably right. 150 miles is a healthy range for limited distribution centrally charged driving. However, I'd suggest that there are probably some caveats to that. The first is that advertised range estimates, particularly for such politically charged things as EVs, are usually pretty generous if not bordering on outright fraudulent. The second is that range in an EV suffers if it's cold. Bad winter weather could make them largely useless. And finally, an EV's inherent weakness is the relative inability to do work in the physics sense of the word. In other words, the heavier the load the vehicle is carrying, the faster the battery dies. Now, I suspect Amazon probably has a handle on that. The USPS as a highly political organization might not have given it the same thought investment.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 15, 2024 19:31:19 GMT -5
I've never read the New York Times but I did watch the movie "Mr. Jones".
That was a hell of a flick with a quite disturbing portrayal of the NYT. Highly recommended (but be prepared beforehand, it isn't a children's movie).
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 12, 2024 19:15:55 GMT -5
Love that song.
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NPR
Apr 11, 2024 11:43:31 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 11, 2024 11:43:31 GMT -5
Before this is completely derailed on the sidetrack of bias, the larger point he has made in the article is that in all the cases he cited, NPR got the stories wrong. Unapologetically. But I've always known that.
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NPR
Apr 11, 2024 11:42:21 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 11, 2024 11:42:21 GMT -5
I get all the news I need from my phone. Right now it says it's likely to start raining before I head home, the freeway is accident free, the Tigers are a game and a half out in the American League Central, and the Red Wings are a point out of the last wildcard spot in their division.
Oh, and Blackberry Smoke's drummer died about a week and a half ago.
Oh, again, OJ's dead.
What else do I need to know?
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NPR
Apr 10, 2024 7:47:15 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 10, 2024 7:47:15 GMT -5
I don't want to subscribe. So I can't read it. I don't subscribe. Didn't stop me.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 5, 2024 7:55:10 GMT -5
The factory I've been working in for the last year and a half had a horrendous safety record when I got here (I work on a contract and was warned before I arrived). The place runs these massive extrusion machines that turn 3 inch diameter pipe into 1 inch diameter pipe with very thin walls.
Somewhere along the way (before I got here) somebody in management had decided to disable the safety guards. That had caused about 9 people to get sucked into the machines and lose various arms, hands, and fingers.
After a month or so, one of those young ladies was assigned to work with me while she convalesced.
One day while walking down the hall with her I had her stop and get the phone number for OSHA off the poster outside the lunchroom.
A few weeks later OSHA raided the place. It was expensive.
Haven't had another kid maimed since.
Probably the most good this job has contributed to anyone.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 4, 2024 15:56:13 GMT -5
Good morning. I missed this yesterday, but April 3 is the anniversary of the launch of the Pony Express, founded in 1860. I have always liked this recruiting poster: "Orphans preferred"
I think $25 per week must have been very high wages at that time. Unfortunately for the career minded, the job only lasted a few months. Unfortunately for the career minded, it's a lifetime gig.
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Sheesh.
Apr 4, 2024 15:52:17 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 4, 2024 15:52:17 GMT -5
As a mailman observer I would guess that fewer than 10% of American's cars are kept in garages. Certainly not in our neighborhood. Most houses here don't have garages, and if they do they're used as rec rooms or places to store motorcycles.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 3, 2024 21:37:26 GMT -5
My wife’s Prius has 280,000 miles on it and we are committed to getting it to 300K. By turning it over we would be negating all the $ we save in gas. The best automotive economy is keeping your car. Absolutely. Wife and I figured that out 14 years ago. What matters is assets. Even more so when the income gets thin. My F150 is at 121,000 miles and counting. Enthusiast magazines seem to think the Coyote engine is good for half a million miles. Going to keep it until I'm buried in it.
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Sheesh.
Apr 3, 2024 20:29:19 GMT -5
Post by aquaduct on Apr 3, 2024 20:29:19 GMT -5
Do understand there are "online physicists" armed with decades old faux arguments developed and strewn wide by conservative, oil-funded think tanks, think tanks working overtime weaving half-truths and total nonsense, arguments a junior high physics instructor with only two classes under his belt would be embarrassed to make. Most certainly you would not ever hear a real physicist confusing somethings percentage of the whole with the effect that thing can exert upon the whole. A germ, an hydrogen atom, an easily excited gas molecule bouncing wildly off other tiny molecules, such tiny things the lot of them. And talk about the thermodynamics of a blanket over a rock to debunk the Greenhouse Theory? It is dumb analogy, but if pursued, pursue it correctly and recognize that the rock is not the source of the rock's heat, the sun is. And if the sun heats the rock, a blanket over that rock come evening will help hold/store the heat it gained from the sun's radiation. Outside of Facebook, the science behind the Greenhouse Theory is not in dispute. The arguments against global warming are not with the science, but with the conclusions drawn. There are fair arguments over the degree of, the effects of, the result of... bottom line, arguments over actions to be taken or not taken and the resulting cost of actions is taken or not taken (and an argument coming up strong on the inside rail, it's too late/beyond our ability to do anything, so carry on and hope for something other than the worst. Hmmmm..... "oil funded think tanks"? Is that an anything like the NRDC and the state of Massachusetts suing to change the meaning of the Clean Air Act to include CO2, a non-pollutant, as a regulatable "pollutant" rather than just going about it the old-fashioned way- getting 218 votes in the House and 60 votes in the Senate? Are you absolutely sure you want to discuss who's lying? Particularly given the craven nature of those cowards? Over 40 years no less? And maybe the destruction of America's manufacturing infrastructure at the hands of these creeps who insist on back dooring crap that won't stand up in the light of day? Are you dead sure before you endorse that crime?
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