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It sounds crazy till an HOA decides to pull a hold my beer moment.

We’re really going to have to wait to see who was pilot in command at the time of the accident. It could have been the captain or the first officer. They switch off duties alot, so either of those 2 could have been controlling the aircraft at the time of accident. The ATC transcript only tells the story of the…

4th gear: It doesn’t take a genius to figure what would happen if California was allowed to do thier own thing with regareds to the EPA. Other states would ask for the same waver, but instead take things the other direction with less controls over pollution. Depending on which party controls things at the time its…

Given how much we know international travel increases carbon emissions should we really be encouraging people to travel internationally at all? The one thing this pandemic has done is cut down on green house gases drastically and a lot of that reduction is coming from the reduction of travel. It has also proven that we…

They are not the same knot they function differently and are not even close to the same tie. A hangman’s knot is a slip knot meaning the more you pull the tighter the loop gets after the knot is set. A kreh loop is a non-slipnot which means the loop does not get any tighter after it has been set . A kreh loop starts…

It really depends if this loop is a slipknot or a non-slipknot. A true noose would be a slipknot. There is a common fishing knot called a kreh loop that as already been posted in these comments that looks noose like but is a non-slipknot. I have seen that same type of knot used before to create loops in ropes before.…

There were a lot of people towards the late 90s screaming that the DMCA was a bad law and needed to be reevaluated before it was ratified, but no one either cared or refused to listen to their concerns. Instead the only talking point that most people heard was that Napster was evil and the people using it were nothing…

Some people are buying cars or at least attempting to right now. I know several people that work at dealerships in Texas and Minnesota. They have stated while traffic of new car buyers are down they do get huge bursts of people every few days or so wanting to buy to the point where every sales associate is busy all…

It’s really hard to take 1 less transatlantic flight per year when that number is already at zero. It sounds like the gizmo offices provide nice perks with lots of vacation time, but for everyone I know and myself included no one really has enough time off to take even 1 transatlantic a year much less multiple. Most…

While the statistics on SUVs are true, the Macan is an SUV in name only. It’s about the same size as the average CUV or hatch and only about 3in taller than a mini cooper countryman. I could see going after SUVs had this been an excursion, but Macans are just about the same size as the average CUV or hatch.  

If your getting shift denied messages with the auto c7 transmission it means you are either going into why too high of a gear or way too low of a gear. With my c7 zo6 it lets me shift all the way down to 2nd at 60mph and I can shift to 5th while doing 30mph.

While we absolutely need better gun control to make it much harder for the wrong people to get guns. We also need to look into what is the root cause for this. My personal biggest fear is that we finally get gun control to the point where we don’t have mass shootings every other day, but the people that want to hurt…

I don’t think a lot of it is a choice, most of it comes down to economics. 9 times out of 10 living outside the major city is just cheaper than being inside the limits.

The funny part is that’s more fuel efficient than a 737-800 by a factor of 9 almost 10. On a flight from JFK to SFO is about 2580 miles and takes about 5.5 hour to complete going 470 mph which is close to ground cruising speed for a 737-800. Assuming there is no wind, and with climb out and descent averaged in a…

I don’t really see how threatening to ban gasoline engines is such a good negotiating tactic. Let’s say for instance you go through with that. Sure you just directly hurt just about every automotive manufacturer with the exception of Tesla, but you also just directly purged every single job from your state that deals…

Fuel cut offs don’t work on runaway diesels. You can shut off the fuel, but if the engine starts to burn the engine oil instead there’s noway to stop it but to shut off airflow. Which in this case they had those devices on the engine but the exploding turbo disabled that system.

Truthfully it really didn’t, while air travel was around before WWII it was a very niche way of getting around at that point. The planes were very small and not too reliable. Just getting across the pacific at that time via air was still at week to 2 week journey due to all the fueling stops and forced maintenance for…

“The biggest cost factor initially when the current GT-R was being introduced was initial maintenance costs. People were not prepared for the exorbitantcosts of for example replacement carbon ceramic brakes, which on a GT-R there were some cases back in ~’09 of people paying in the $7K-$9K range. Something with the…

These are bicycles not cars they are far more less complex and pretty straight forward to repair. Unless the bike has a bent frame it can almost always be fixed back up for far less money then even the cheapest new bike. Even the bent frame bikes could had have a use as a donor for parts for the other bikes.