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John Hascall
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batteries can charge up at night when energy costs are lower”   This is, of course, not universally true.  Our electric utility does not vary price by time of day.

Almost (5.9 for the TTV-6, 5.3 for the Hybrid)

The most popular vehicle in America has more than 350 HP (F-150).

Some fairly sweet rides https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-year-in-cars-1962/  but the year I went to Kindergarten was far better: https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-year-in-cars-1967/

Luckily we had somebody automate this for Iowa ( https://www.brady-software.com/vaccine-hunter ). It got both my wife and I fully vaccinated already and we snagged appointments for both our kids yesterday (Monday), the first day that Iowa opened up to all 16 and older.

9/3 & 10/2 offer much more control. The (idiotic) idea behind holding the bottom of the wheel is the (extremely remote) chance that the air bag will go off and hit your hands/arms.

Ford already has the best model name: Thunderbolt

Best car song that doesn’t have the car in the title: Fun, Fun, Fun.

Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far for this!

JFC, renaming this school would be like spitting into a hurricane, just nuke the whole f—-ing town from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Why do the Dakota’s have to be their own states? Why isn’t Wyoming part of Idaho? Why isn’t Vermont part of NY?  And so on.

45 of states were admitted before the first US car dealership existed.

Interesting.  My ‘67 Cougar had dual circuits, so I assume the ‘67 Mustang must have as well.  Should make for a relatively easy retrofit.

whoever she is, her golf swing is terrible

When I was 15 I wanted to buy some guy’s sweet ‘67 Z28 ($600) but my dad was not down with that.

My ‘67 Mercury solved that problem by putting the gas filler behind the (hinged) license plate.

So we need make our decisions based on individuals. Fine. You can forgo proper safety protocols like wearing a mask if you are willing to sign a contract to be last in line for the vaccine.

Congressional districts would be redrawn by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.”

The Burroughs B4900 had dynamic branch prediction 15 years before the PPC 750 (implemented by dynamically rewriting the branch instruction to one of 4 variants which encoded the taken/not-taken likelihood).

When you only look at the top 100 grossing films you are conflating “do these films not get made” with “do these films get made, but not attract an audience”.  And the solution to those questions are very different.