The spot and description appear to be the outlet guide vanes for the fan nozzle, which is the “bypass” part of the compressor stage in a high bypass turbofan engine. They don’t spin, they just straighten air coming out to make it less turbulent.

I dunno. The husbands response to the accident was slobbing Elon’s knob rather than demanding change. Maybe that’s just rich people hating each other though.

So like everyone was saying: The problem with EV’s is affordability with the added spice of Toyota’s PR department since they missed the bus.

Sure they are. The Sprint models and Ti’s start in the same $45k-ish territory as similar model Acura’s, Infinity’s, 4 series sedans. That’s less than the average new car price these days.

The biggest issues are:

Want to be friends?

Alfa Romeo Giulia’s particularly the Quadrifoglios. They usually come an a great color (Verde Fangio metallic, Misano blue metallic, and Alfa Rosso specifically), they sound great, and the five hole wheels are just the chef’s kiss.

The paper starts off with this gem:

The paper starts off with this gem:

I’m reading the paper that was cited and holy hell does it read like an 18th century phrenology “study.” I can see why this dipshit was drawn to it.

He and Trump aren’t even pretending that they don’t believe in the Great Replacement theory at this point.

The $35k Equinox is pretty affordable with the tax credit. It looks like the 3rd quarter numbers came out yesterday and they moved 10k of them. Which is a lot more than I thought they would at this point.

So this year we’ve spent 12.5-ish% of, in 2024 dollars ($11.2 billion in 2008 is $16.4 billion today), a GM bail out to subsidize the cost of EV’s.

Overall I’ve had good luck with 2 of the 3 Nissan dealerships I’ve ever dealt with. The 3rd pissed me off so badly I won’t ever do business with any dealership bearing the dealers name though.

Considering how ass the software tends to be for cars, especially once you get away from the lower level parts, that doesn’t surprise me at all.

All credit to Meegul and Alansh42 in the ArsTechnica comment section:

Just call up Red Bull and send them the Felix Baumgartner suits. I bet they could even get Red Bull to televise it and sell enough advertising that NASA could launch the mothballed-due-to-budget-cuts VIPER lander.

On ERJ’s and all the unmanned stuff I worked on it was standard procedure to draw down the pressure after jacking but before removal of the hub nut. In general, if the tire went off while you were changing it, the hub attachment would hold the split rim together. It would suck but it probably wouldn’t kill you.

1. The complete absence of anything interesting in the $30k to $35k tier.

You can mitigate it by allowing adaptive headlights in the US.