When your entire design and production strategy is to stay 10 years behind everyone else, to have the time to refine the same features for reliability, you’re going to make a solid reputation of being reliable.

Cool trick, but they could just combine the alternator and starter into the same function. As in some Auto-Start/Stop capable vehicles and Hybrid vehicles.

These are OK, but I tend to keep away from buying more plastic stuff unless I really have to.

These are OK, but I tend to keep away from buying more plastic stuff unless I really have to.

Ok, for contrary to what’s being presented above, the baselayer isn’t an insulating layer. It’s only job is to wick away moisture from your body giving you a buffer between your first insulating mid-layer to allow airflow so you don’t freeze in your own sweat, it’s not meant to be removable in whatever insulation…

Ok, for contrary to what’s being presented above, the baselayer isn’t an insulating layer. It’s only job is to wick…

Neither do I. 😉

Length vs Girth argument. 🤷‍♂️

Standing water, not flowing water. At that location it freezes in place anything that happens. Also the high alkalinity of the soil from dissolved minerals makes it particular resistant to settling. Think Mono Lake and the Tufas.

Just FYI, they also dig huge ditches for Burning man to run utilities annually. They also go in to remove the ditches and back fill them at the end of every event. Then BLM inspects and has the ditch crew fix anything that doesn’t meet expectations.

I mean, I don’t go exploring in the wilderness armed with only bear spray. I have a shotgun w/ Brenneke Black Magic Magnum 12 GA Slugs.

Well they’re also the kind of people that believe in metrics but too lazy to actually collect them and run an analysis and accept the narrative that they give. Kinda funny since they’re working for businesses that are data driven.

I’m progressive too. I dream of a Star Trek like world where there’s no famine, cancer and similar endemic illnesses are all but eradicated, everyone can take art degrees if they want, and people can also be explorers or scientists, not get shamed for being super into cute cat videos and/or being weebs, and take a…

I mean, we’ve been in a new cold war for a while.

I prefer this interpretation.

You know what, how about a friend?

#FIFY

I had to lol at the 420 years. “the [years are] so high”

iono, a couple of years ago we were getting lunch at five guys in sunnyvale after a very muddy 3600 mile round trip (san jose, nevada, salt lake, wyoming/colorado <via original oregon trail>, arizona, nevada) to see the eclipse in 2017.