“All my friends moved away and don’t talk to me anymore, it must be them!”

You’re probably just kind of a prick. We’ve got plenty of friends with kids, who (pre-pandemic) still spent time with us on a regular basis.

To be fair, often the engineer knew about it and made it as good as they could, but the program manager/person with the money told them it was good enough.

Ferrari has a long wait list for these one of one cars. I don’t think the owner was considering the pandemic when they ordered the car a couple years ago. And sure, it costs the same as a bunch of PPE. Of course the issue with PPE right now is supply constrained, not specifically the ability to pay for it.

My limited experience with dealer surveys is that, either in person or by email, I am told that nothing but the top rating is considered satisfactory. IMHO, this renders the survey meaningless, so I just ignore them.

Brazing is often used where you don’t want to raise the temp of the base metals to the point where you drastically alter their properties or when you want to join two dissimilar metals.

That’s the severed head of the missing Troy city inspector.

The Adventures of the Inflated and Plated.

These saved my life in 1990. A drunk driver trying to make an offramp sent me into them at ~50mph in a flimsy Rabbit GTI. It was the ONE time in my life I was driving without a seatbelt. We were all seriously bruised up but fine.

Hello darkness my old friend...

I think you’re framing this irresponsibly. It’s more like he got the job, was like hey something’s up, talked to the correct authorities and got the company to fix it, and now that it’s obviously awkward he’s going to go get a new job. 

Hard to be sneaky with a tow truck.

Allow me...

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I agree that it sounds good on paper, but the end result hurts my brain trying to put it together.

A/C compressors are like vampires, you have to invite them in to your home.

Cats always drag stuff you don’t want into your house.

The first law of thermodynamics would like to have a word with you.

I touched it, and both rocker panels immediately disintegrated.

I’m now banned from Vietnam. 

11 thousand foot-pounds for 11 minutes at 11 miles range, when towing 11 thousand pounds of trailer weight. Followed by 11 hours at a charging station.