McGriddle is trash. That fake sweet syrup flavor is horrific. McMuffins of all stripes continue to be a far superior product.

♪ ♫ Ah, breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck

A modern gasoline ICE is ~20-25% thermally efficient (that is, they extract 20-25% of the possible “work” from the gasoline and the rest is discarded as waste heat). Turbodiesels can get up near 40%. A decades-old, dirty-ass coal plant can get to around 60%, some of the very modern LNG plants can get to 80%. The…

When are the diesel generators used? My guess is that its surge capacity only . Can you imagine what kind of a load 98 EV’s charging would take? Even if we assume a relatively slow charging rate of 100 KW you are talking about 10 MEGAWATTS of power. Allow me to illustrate 10 megawatts of solar.

Well, yeah. Tesla Fanbois seem to think that electricity comes from the air or something. Elon’s got them convinced that there is no impact from their EVs.

Is there like a tally somewhere of how many times Elon has been caught talking out of his ass?

Burning man got gentrified. Not sure people even try to pretend it’s anything but an excuse to have sandy drug sex.

Yes, that’s part of why Burning Man was kicked off the Playa after the total destruction of 1996. Burn scars everywhere.

The subtext of Burning Man has never been “leave no trace.” It has always been “Who gives a fuck about this place, I wanna do fun shit in the desert.”

Oh a communist, huh? 

On the list of things Burning Man is about, environmental causes don’t even crack the top 10. This is because the top 10 things are all drugs, Instagram clout, sex, different drugs, and the various combination and permutations thereof.

Burning Man is pretty much the ultimate in douche-bro gatherings, based on the couple people I know who are devotees.

It was fucked before the trip, let’s be realistic. 

We love to take our 700+ horsepower $100k trucks to festivals about self-reliance and being kind to our earth mother or some such, don’t we folks. 

Ignorant non-western living person here but aren’t desert salt flats easy to damage and hard to repair? 

That RV is fucked. Shitty aluminum frame, stapled together interior panels, press-fit water lines... The modern RV industry builds shit that barely lasts 10 years when the units are treated well. This just bent or broke a bunch of stuff. 

As someone who has rented their RV in the past, I would not be fine with this. Esepcially since the step is down, and there’s a good chance there is unseen damage. These things built like shit, and the unseen damage to the seams and structure are what will fuck you. I actually specifically blocked out burning man week…

My neighbor had one that couldn’t make it up his steep driveway without taking a run at it. Had the hood decal and everything.

Good ol’ flip flop.

Wow, I had no ideal the two nations harbored that type of tension.

My first thought was “Nope, never.” Then I read the description. If that car has done over 200,000, then it’s solid and cared for. NP.