some have had bad experiences in military service, mostly screwed over by recruiter promises or politically motivated changes either during service or reduction of veterans benefits.

still signing up is that “write a blank check to the country” takes a bit more courage than those who never even attempt to put themselves in any situation where it benefits others. Making near “holy” status of the “poor” or “never employed in any way their entire adult life” is more problematic.

naw, not nearly as good as the “beat someone about their injured legs” schtick from college frat days. Good times!

biggest problem isn’t the manufacturers standards.

I worry about anyone who trusts the *manufacturer*’s claims without having a production vehicle to actually test, and using the manufacturer’s “confirmation” as if it meant something special.

change the Party label and the Media would be going on and on gushing about “international cooperation” and how good this is for the World.

oh hell. I had this for the NES back in the day. Got it cheap because I had a machine that had no trouble with non-approved NES cartridges running. The game rental store (remember those?) got too many complaints about it not working-the company didn’t have approval from Big N or something at the time.

the 6L in the Pontiac GTO is just plastic covering over plugs and injectors to “prettify” the bay. No sound deadening, and no difference in sound except for creating a weird rattle when one isn’t snapped down correctly.

it’s like some perfect storm of bullshit. Inexperience, political posturing, insufficient training, inadequate understanding of the local situation, fingerpointing, coverup, more political posturing, reactionism, defensiveness, and not a single good thing to result.

it’d be worth it if there was some sorta provenance with it. Like designed and built by a famous rat rod designer in the 60's or owned by someone cool and famous, or featured in a movie people actually watched.

putting two new engine blocks and two seats of heads into an AT Subaru Baja Turbo. And being told on the second one, essentially “ well our stuff is just crap that can fail at any time so thats why we only warranty for a year”. Basically a dealer making me eat $2500 on labor after a just over a year old block (and…

and the cheap dealerships are already snaffling up anything they can flip. If it goes cheap, it’s because the Fly By Night dealers have already rejected it.

f**k yeah! would DD.

get on the internet. Bombarded by bad news, rattled by racism, harassed by hatred.

the bigger question: “why are we NOT buzzed so early this morning?”

my brother in law has a ‘vette of similar vintage that he was sold “a pig in a poke” on. the “easy to fix” engine code is gonna need new injectors, and head work as well. But his is white and with more dings. Bet that’ll show up on the SF CL soon enough

still say send all them illegal imports here. I’m in a Sanctuary City after all.

aha! terrorists linked to the dreaded Al-Kehal!

I’d be more worried about why ad slinging platforms that replicate other near identical services are valued much higher.

maybe China needs to stop using NK as it’s antagonistic catspaw and providing them with assistance in their missile systems?