Police tried to remove media covering their Ameriklan Idol removal:

I still wish I’d kept my 7.3L F250 XLT Super Duty. Power windows locks and AC, everything else manual. transmission, transfer case, hubs.

Yes, I have no firsthand experience, only anecdotal second-hand, so not particularly meaningful. I mostly included that disclaimer since my experience with Kawasaki and Honda has been great, and I had no basis to assert that KTM would be similar.

It’s all “big trucker cosplay,” which is funny, because the trucking industry is starved for drivers. Just go be one. :)

I’m not sure $20K is best priced. The africa twin (which does have less power at 95 vs 150) is $15-$17K. The KTM 890 aventure is $13K.

Having said that, the pan america does seem a lot better than many (including me) expected. At equal cost I’d be tempted, but I’d still value reliability of the Japanese brands (not…

And Mark Shutteworth, another of the poor single-digit (or slightly sub-1.0) billionaires.

My ‘96 ZX-11D (ZZR-1100 elsewhere) felt perfect in the amount of power, which I think was 160HP or so at the crank. My ZX14R feels ridiculously overpowered, but I think being 20 years older is as much a factor as the 40HP bump to 200HP.

I drove a green volare wagon with slant-6 and 3 speed manual column shift. No AC, crank windows. It was the most low-spec car I’ve ever driven. It was fine though for appliance level motoring.

Fun fact*: It’s not legal for US roads without the identification lights, as it is over 80 inches wide.

Indoctrination they supposedly hate as a concept starts before that: What percentage of public schools have students recite the Pledge of Allegiance? The congress does it.

Oshkosh Defense JLTV. The utility configuration is a gem:

“school resource officers” need to cease existing. If there is a genuine need for a police officer, they’re only a phone call away. But that phone call should be exceeding rare, as the range of their intervention skills are limited, with a toolbox of taser, gun, or restraints.

black smoke, especially correlated with load and accelerator position (it’s not a “throttle” in a diesel :), is definitely fuel not oil.

Note that driving even an empty bus requires a CDL with passenger endorsement. This answers a question about school buses, but the answer makes it clear it applies to all:
(sigh... kinja. here is a manual DIY url since a link didn’t work):

Youtube offered autogenerated captions in spanish, with no way to suggest trying Portuguese instead, then translating into english. So perhaps the first observer didn’t really say “God flare me!”

I’m a quarter mile from a hospital helipad, and depending on wind, they sometimes pass right over my house. I like helicopters anyway, but I am mindful that the sound means someone is having a way worse day than I am.

Exactly right. If his objection is that there shouldn’t be more federal holidays, swap Juneteenth for a different one. Columbus day absolutely needs to be renamed, whether it remains a federal holiday as Indigenous Peoples’ Day or not.

That would be a good photoshop!

Isn’t the right horsepower level defined by the use case, not by HP/torque levels of the competition?

This argues the point raised by others: The livewire is too expensive for their target market.