Some cats are better at this trick than others...
I'm below the poverty line. Well below. I pull down $5-8k a year and have no college diploma to speak of. I have engaged in free higher education where and when possible. I have managed to scrape together money here and there in order to enroll in vocational education programs such as Master Gardener and Bee Keeping.
Must have made my assertion the wrong way if you think I'm insisting my lifestyle could work for every single poor person out there. Most would consider the way I live to be patently ridiculous.
Three years ago I quit one of my jobs to do it and actually came out ahead financially. Last year I worked holiday help while the garden was off-season to make back even more money. That isn't even counting the long-term financial benefits of being healthier because of it, thus negating the need for a lot of…
I live so far below the poverty line that my quickest way to riches would be to keep going down till I pop out the other side. If I collected unemployment it would more than double my income. I eat like a king. Less than $500 a year funds my gardening and preserving effort that is so productive I am able to give the…
Most of the time, but not always. Example:
Huh, crazy. That's some straight up Smokey Yunick-grade cheating right there. The scrutineers must not have corner-weighted the cars during the weigh-in. If they did, they would have noticed a colossal discrepancy in the weight balance.
Whether or not he was a real guy is utterly meaningless in this context. The hypocritical assholes in question believe that he was. Their entire religion is based almost exclusively on his supposed teachings and various derivatives thereof. They are still heartless dickbags in the face of the many, many, many messages…
I am completely aware of the phenomenon and, as I probably don't need to point out, find it utterly repugnant.
"Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
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WHAT!? You mean people say they have certain values, but when it comes to their actions they often embody completely different values. You shock me sir!
Man, that's good to know. Glad she has SOME normalcy about her. Being an activist is hard, she should have at least small parts of her life where she can just be average.
When I read that description I immediately thought "Snoop" and will not be dissuaded. I'm not crazy about his music, there's much better hip-hop out there, but I just can't help but love the guy. This little anecdote about him makes me like him all the more. There's just something incredibly endearing about demanding…
Right. Good prices, absolutely. However, if pushrod V8s couldn't deliver the power/torque/packaging that FD competitors needed then they wouldn't use them at all, no matter how cheap. Price is certainly a factor, but any time you read about an FD car build with a pushrod V8 you will hear its builder singing the…
Kojima is absolutely on point with that one. It's amazing how quickly 500 bhp has gone from competitive, to hopelessly inadequate in FD. The formula of smallblock chevy engine plus Nissan S-chassis is quickly becoming the de-facto method for building a good drift car, and for damn good reason. Ten years ago, everyone…
It's what happens when you aren't allowed to drink :\
Adding DOHC might not add tons of weight, maybe 35-45 pounds, but it absolutely would add tons of size. The SBC is an unbelievably compact engine, packing more displacement into less exterior volume than any other modern engine architecture in existence. Here's a 6.2 liter LS engine alongside a 4.0 liter Lexus DOHC V8:
I really, really wish I could make myself feel any kind of shock/surprise/anger about this story. Sadly, growing up in a Catholic school in a smallish Midwestern town has inoculated me against the fact that this is still, very frequently, The Way Things Work.