Sure, but if I’m not fan of the band why would I wear their tee shirt, if you know what I mean?

I sorta feel like Musk is synonymous with Tesla to a degree that if I’m driving a car with a “T” badge on it, people are going to assume I’m one of the faithful. It’s the equivalent of putting one of those Christian fish on your car; you’re sending a message about your beliefs.

It really is one of the all-time ugliest steering wheels.

I’m honestly not sure where you take something like this. I have a E250 extended-body camper van. It’s 79 inches wide and 19 feet long. It’s very close to the maximum size for a lot of the backcountry areas I camp in.

I would love to know how much this thing weighs.
I have a camper van that weighs 6,800 pounds and has maybe 150 horsepower. As a friend of mine put it, “it sort of ambles up hills.” I suspect this thing is in a similar power-to-weight ratio class. Offroad camper builds are usually lucky to come in under 10,000 pounds…

People like that are a big reason why I won’t buy a Tesla. No other car company requires me to buy into its CEO’s cult of personality in this way. I don’t know ANY of the CEO of Honda’s political opinions, and if he expressed some he wouldn’t expect Honda buyers to dive in front of him to protect him from criticism.

I’m glad you were able to be proactive.
Every so often you hear about employees who are killed when management tells them they aren’t allowed to leave.

Halon stops fires on a chemical level, so it’s actually possible for it to work without displacing all the oxygen. CO2 and other inert gas systems *do* require oxygen displacement to function.
Back in the day the sales guys for the Halon systems used to have enclosed booths at trade shows where they’d light a…

I feel like it should work like this:
- Does this job require human labor?
- If the answer is yes, it must pay enough to sustain a human.
You wouldn’t buy a truck and then try to run it with insufficient oil or fuel.

And the entry-level trucking companies, the ones who will actually train you, are the most exploitative of them all. Trucking’s become like the military, an employer of last resort for people who have no other options. Right now a lot of people suddenly have other options.

You leave out the other side of the equation, which is that people living near ports had far higher rates of respiratory problems than people elsewhere, due to the pollution from all those old trucks.

The way I saw someone put it once is “’inflation’ is just another word for corporations protecting their profit margins.”

Once he noticed people were recording video of him, it was all over. The urge to show off took hold.

The ego of the rider is directly proportional to the displacement of the engine, in my experience.

In some states you don’t need a motorcycle endorsement to ride a trike, so it’s possible to just jump on the thing with no training whatsoever.

I bet a wrecked Zero motorcycle would be a great, relatively inexpensive starting point for a Sandrail project. There was a guy who put the motor, controller, etc from a Zero with busted forks into a 1930s rat rod and it looked like a total hoot.

I should really get plugs and an inflator for my camper van. It has a spare mounted on the rear door, but jacking up 6,800 pounds of van on uneven terrain to swap it has never sounded that appealing. It’d also be useful for my motorcycle trailer, which has rims that are a pain to dismount. (The axle is pre-WWII and…

Personally, I choose to hate him because he endorses Texas’s regressive social policies. I mean, there are other reasons too, but that’s the main one.

The delivery from Home Depot must’ve been late.

The guy I really associate that with is Madman Muntz. ;)