US kinda sucks when it comes to municipal level government and that’s the key to most successful socialized healthcare.

No they don’t. 

Marianne is just trying to out-boomer Biden for some of those sweet elderly voters. 

It allows them to streamline the manufacturing process way down skipping multiple stages regular car parts go through, so yeah. And they already had the R&D and production setup done so scaling it up isn’t that big of a task.

They shot the panels with 9mm and they did alright, it’s not regular stainless steel, but cold rolled ‘ultra hard’ alloy they first developed for the Starship. I don’t think they meant it as the truck being any kind of properly bulletproof, just extremely tough for a 40k vehicle. Primary reason for that toughness is…

They are trying to build an unibody truck that gets body-on-frame type of performance, that’s why they need those big sail pillars to give the body the same rigidity traditional trucks get from the frame. On the plus side you get roomier cabin and better ground clearance, on the downside you have to put your toolbox…

The frunk looks like it should fit a decent size toolbox and those sail pillars have storage compartments too. They are also really essential for that impressive towing capacity, they are trying to get body-on-frame performance from an unibody truck to get roomier cabin, better ground clearance and all other…

There’s storage space behind those bedside panels and the frunk looks reasonable enough. It’s still a prototype, I’m sure they are going to change lots of stuff before production starts. 

There’s still lots of ifs, but if the final stats, off-road performance and build quality hit the marks it could be really something game changing. There’s all the finnish winter stuff of course especially if you don’t keep it in a warm garage, I would probably want a solid bed cover for winters etc, but I think it…

I feel bad about Albon and Bottas, but Honda 1-2 and Kimi got 4th place in the alfa? I’m happy with that. 

Quite the opposite. The way arctic sea used to be it was uneconomical for them to try to keep most harbors running through the winters, but as there’s less multiyear ice it’s becoming more feasible. As is drilling for oil and gas, the reason why that asymmetric icebreaker is drifting is to make a path for wide oil and…

Hey, Finland still has Voima from 1954 in limited use, though she did get a pretty extensive refit 78-79. Antiquated things aren’t necessarily obsolete. 

More modern icebreakers have usually have azimuths or azipods for more control and maneuverability. And sometimes also drifting. Prepare for Initial D music.

14 seconds faster in quali, 11.5 in the race, or thereabouts 15% as I wrote. About the same difference F1 has over F2. Bottas beat Vettel and got the pole with just 0.012 seconds, Verstappen was 0.055 seconds behind Vettel. Three drivers, three cars, three engines. I would call that competitive.

15% more speed means way more stress on suspension and all other parts, the cars are designed for tracks that meet clear standards. COTA sadly reflected how poor general the state of infrastructure is in United States.

Indycar is way closer to Formula 2 than 1, comparisons are silly when F1 is so much more competitive and speeds are so much greater.

Bumpy ass rally course that perfectly demonstrates the embarrassing state of US infrastructure you mean? 

KrAZ-214? Finland never got those and I think only pioneers had KrAZ-255s by the time I did my conscription. Little googling revealed that the pioneers got rid of the last Krazes just seven years ago. Loads of Zils in different roles still, damn things never die. 

Reminds me of tank maintenance Zil-131 trucks we had, just sans all the soviet charm.

How about you have a national firearm registry so guns wouldn’t end up in criminal hands in such large numbers, background checks on all gun buyers, maybe some kind of licence you need to renew every five years for purchasing self loaders firing cartridges with over 800 joules of muzzle energy that has you have short c…