[Ralph Nader] Ask yourself: why is it that there’s never been a meaningful, impactful, or challenging exposé written by a car journalist?

When you live somewhere that is below freezing for several months straight, you don’t really get a choice. If it’s zero degrees for a month straight and you get a lone day where it’s 20, you take advantage of that so you can get the salt cleaned off the underside.

Quite often, the design engineer absolutely has the authority to ratify design choices. But they forget it because they are by nature truth sayers. So when the bean counters ask if corners can be cut, designers often comply even though it is well within their power to not.

Same, I’m in industrial systems sales. The real curveball was aluminum pipe. Holy hell has aluminum pipe taken a hit. Take 4" Sch.10 6061-T6 pipe for example. In the past, this was an item there were miles of pipe in stock at every supplier. It was dirt cheap too.

First Gear: Elon made this WAY to complicated. To get Biden to say Tesla, all he needed was one thing.

I use pop rivets a lot, have for many years. I have an ancient Marson tool, you can get replacement jaws for them which is the only thing that really wears out and only then if I use a lot of stainless steel rivets.

Same

It bums me out that I had to cancel one of my regular Youtubers over this.

Oh that sounds like a decent scenario where the dust ends up going places you REALLY don’t want it to because you think you’re in the clear.

We actually drank to that very thing last night. Lovely irony.

Delicious that their trip to Ottawa to force the Liberal party leader to resign resulted in the Conservative party leader losing their job.

Hang out with Nazis? Then you’re a Nazi.

Show me a modern vehicle with under 300HP that doesn’t get at close to double that mpg or better. A Ford Transit 350 gets a 16mpg combined rating and it just as tall if not taller than this thing.

IMHO, the changes you’re describing might happen in the short term but the siren song of saving $$$ will be too strong to ignore long term. 5 years down the road: “Can’t we save 3% getting this from China?”  “Yes, but we’re paying a little extra to reduce risk of a supply chain disruption.” “The pandemic was FIVE…

The downside of the cost of labor going up in China the fact that China is now outsourcing to Africa, and that means China’s predatory infrastructure investments.  

That’s really not it in its entirety. The convoy has been very vocal about ending all covid mandates. Masks, vaccinations, restrictions programs. The border issue has been explained many times - the US won’t let them in so their protest is moot.

Can you even imagine the response if this was indigenous or really any non-white group pulling this?  Blockading the capitol city and making demands?!  They’d have been labeled terrorists and been met with a full military response before they could get within 1000 miles of Ottowa.

Nah, Canada is exactly like the US. We just hide some of the negative aspects better because we’re smaller, less impactful on the world stage and have, somehow, developed a reputation of being polite, discreet, pleasant people with moderate politics and opinions.

Please my American friends, please understand that this is a purely political series of events. The Freedom Convoy organizer is the head of the Maverick Party, an upstart political party without a toe-hold on the realities of how governance in Canada actually works. The Maverick party has its roots in the Wexit…

Usually when people think about Canada, they typically think about the culture around some of the big Canadian cities. But like the US, life is a bit different when you get out into the country. An example is Listowel, which isn’t even that far out in the country compared to other towns. The show Letterkenny is based…