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For whatever reason, the format won't let me put text below the pic, so I get to double post. There have been claims that EVs are so heavy they destroy the roads. Well, my Bolt goes 3500#. Which is about 200# more than the 928 pictured above. And about 2200# LESS than the Cayenne it replaced. I've received my electric bill for December. My utility's website allows me to see the previous 2 years of bills. My electric use for any given month varies very little year to year. So I've got a good baseline, and can make a decent estimate of what charging the car is costing me (I have only charged at home so far). $35-$40 per month. Compare that with ~15mpg (premium) in the Cayenne. I was paying ~$150/month for gas in the winter when I only drove that (928 & motorcycle get put away in the winter).

I think I've said it before - I think cars are going to be like watches eventually. The every day ones will be cheap, capable, and electric (quartz casio equivalent) And the expensive ones for collectors will be objectively worse in almost every way but have more emotion associated. I have built this thing - its all sorts of fun but my next proper everyday car will be electric.

Even if they were "full fit", but inside the allowed sizes, that's not supposed to happen.I know the rigger who packed it and I'm willing to bet that the canopies are the correct size, the loop was the correct length and treated with silicon. Now, you can say that the picture doesn't represent "a real life scenario" because the person on the picture doesn't wear the legstraps. To which I would answer, I'll never jump a rig where the reserve deployment depends on how tight you have your legstraps.

Martin Luther King was perhaps the most woke civil rights leader in American history. He brought visibility to the discrimination and oppression that black people in the US faced, and risked his life (and ultimately lost it) to try to change that. Hopefully his legacy will live on, and will be expressed by confronting the remaining injustices that black people face, and the injustices that other minorities (gay, trans, disabled, immigrants) face here as well.

I doubt that his legacy is really almost done. I hope that what we are seeing happen, which provides much of the "dark energy" that Trump is channeling, is a convulsive last gasp of the old attitudes that were so inflamed by Obama's election. I sometimes wonder how much people's values can really change as they age. If you were raised immersed in racist ideals, can you really leave those behind or do people just learn how to disguise it? Anyway I think fewer and fewer people have grown up surrounded by Jim Crow values, although I know there is still some of that in circulation. Real change takes generations.

Similar - not a caterham though, they are waaaay too expensive for a toy. This is much more self build by a company called MK - its a miata 1.8 engine and running gear running about 160bhp on an aftermarket ECU.

I'm there. I got the Bolt back in November. My 'fun' car is this;

Please jump: Spectre. With slider one size larger (ask PD). Dacron lines (they stretch, which makes a HUGE difference in case of hard opening).

This is the only magazine I re-read.

For a well read super smart guy you sure can blast out the occasional boner. Rape is not the province of would be Lothario's, it is an act of power exertion. Check into it.

Rape has nothing to do with sexual desire and being "hard-up." It's a crime of power and domination. That's why (sadly) 70 year olds are raped fairly regularly. And even if that WAS the case, and it was just because he was attracted to her, since he could not tell Carroll from his own wife in a picture - she was obviously his type. So it's OK that he raped her? Turns out that half a dozen women came forward to confirm what she said. But of course they weren't heard. Did you ever think when you were young you'd be supporting a rapist and pussy-grabber for president? Is that sort of a "well, he's bad but the other guy is worse" thing? Or are you more of the "ignore the truth to support my agenda" type?

Best magazine there ever was. Too bad USPA hasn’t ever made anything even 25% as good

This is an interesting thread, because it points out how males and females are still viewed differently.

Once, several years ago, my wife asked me this question. I instinctually, instantly deleted that section of my memory and I think that was the best decision for everybody involved.