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  1. 1 hour ago, jakee said:

    Brilliant story from the UK this morning of an MP embezzling campaign funds to pay off ‘some bad people’.

    Story goes: MP meets man on dating app, goes to man’s flat for a party. MP meets second man at party, moves on to his flat. MP is seen coming a mile off by man’s flat mates, who accuse him of throwing up all over the place and hold him captive until he pays them £6.5k for the ‘damage’. MP doesn’t have the money, and decides that getting his campaign manager to steal it from the office would be a much better solution than calling the police. Genius.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/17/tory-mp-loses-whip-after-claims-he-used-party-funds-to-pay-bad-people

    I heard this on the radio.

    "Escape Captors?!" though? That has a ring of "the dog ate my homework" about it.

  2. 19 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

    "Cause I said so" is not an effective form of education,

    And it's my job to go submit FOIA and requests to DHS/DOD to support your position . . .

    ummm. Not so much.   

    Plus NONE of the things he's said actually contest that masks, even just cloth ones, are effective at reducing transmission rates.
    Feels like this one is another political animal trying to distort actual facts. 

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  4. Absolutely mind blown by some of the coverage around the stabbing in Australia recently with online commenters from the US trying to turn this into a reason why Australia should relax its gun laws when it's the exact opposite.

    (Man with knife attacked a bunch of people, killing 6. Australian police woman shot and killed him)

    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/15/australia/australia-sydney-mall-attacker-targeted-women-victims-intl-hnk/index.html

  10. 10 hours ago, billvon said:

    But why let facts ruin a perfectly good . . . . SNL quality rant.

    Scarlett Johanssen nailed her to the wall in the post SOTU sendup. Very well done indeed.

  11. 8 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

    4 Wheeled Unmodified ICE vehicles that can do that are pretty rare and very expensive

    Fixed it for you. Just about any motorbike you can think of can run sub 12.
    Some very cheap ones can run sub 10. Car drivers usually can't really conceive just how fast bikes are. 

    Incidentally M4s and M5s can run sub 12 as well - i wouldn't group them in the rare/very expensive category - not cheap though, sure.

  14. 15 hours ago, billvon said:

    They do indeed, and are better than ever at it.  Nowadays it's called tuning, and involves (among other things) reprogramming the ECU to remove manufacturer limits.

    It's worth noting that older hotrodders not only have no idea how to do this, they scoff at the idea that software could make a car faster.

    Quick introduction to this:

    https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/ecu-and-efi-101-a-beginners-guide-to-performance-tuning/

    I've just put a new map on my mx5 (miata) engine in my lotus 7 replica that has liberated about 25HP. Crazy how easy it is, and on a car weighing less than half a tonne, that makes quite a difference

     

  15. 3 hours ago, billvon said:

    Trump supporters have just declared a "holy war" on Taylor Swift.

     

    She is the best example of living rent free in their heads - it would be funny if it wasn't so weird.

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  16. 3 minutes ago, ryoder said:

    I realized the engine was in the rear!

    Huh thats weird.
    Althogh I have been trying to work out how I could fit a tesla motor in the rear and the batteries under the hood...

     

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    5 minutes ago, ryoder said:

    Caterham 7?

    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.
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  18. 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.

     

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  19. 1 hour ago, tkhayes said:

    U.S. Electricity Grid & Markets | US EPA - 14 is false.  not only false, but PATENTLY false.  I am not going to banter back and forth with you again when i have already.

    how about this.... READ MY POSTS that replied to yours when you made a claim and I shot the flying fuck out of them.....

    Half of your claims do not actually matter - nitpicky points (again and again and again like a broken record) and have little to do with making an argument against EVs.  more tire wear?  Seriously?  You are actually using that as an argument against EVs?  I missed your posts about tire wear regarding truckers and 4 wheel drives and your ongoing continuous assaults against them because, well, you know..... tire wear!

    it's no wonder no one takes you seriously - but here you are, regurgitating again.  Every reference that you posted from whatever site it was that was against EVs, I found articles on the same site PROMOTING EVs.

    And you have yet to acknowledge a single stat or reference that I posted for any sort of validity and acknowledge that the articles/stats/data even exist.

    I mute the trolls so I'm not responding to brent directly, but the "Equivalent ICE vehicle" thing is an interesting one.
    My right hand man at work has an EV. Its a cheap family hatchback that does 0-60 faster than most supercars. There isn't an equivalent ICE car. For similar money, most ICE cars 0-60 times are measured in days.

  20. 33 minutes ago, ryoder said:

    The only people eligible to vote in the Iowa caucus were registered Republicans. They constitute just 34.5% of eligible voters. In a general election the other 2/3 of the electorate will be eligible to vote.

    Yeah no I get that - but I'm not seeing the passion (from the other side of the pond admittedly) in the US electorate to KEEP trump out, as much as there was to get him out the first time round. For most of the western world, that's a bit of a worry. I hope I'm wrong on that and D turnout will be good.

  21. 15 hours ago, ryoder said:

    Some statistics from the Iowa Caucus.

    Source: https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/ia

    Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/15/us/elections/results-iowa-caucus.html

    So just 7.8% of GOP-registered voters chose Trump, and they account for 2.7% of Iowa registered voters.

     

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    The point is - if this is who turns out for the election because they care the most and are most riled up, Trump is gonna win.
    I REALLY hope for the US sake, thats not the case.

  24. 3 minutes ago, billvon said:

    First off there's not much difference in IQ.  Most studies show a less than 10 point difference between democrats and republicans, with the average being around 4 point difference

    As an average, that seems quite significant?!

  25. 10 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

    There's no car more expensive than a 'cheap Porsche' (or other expensive exotic).

    Very true. Man it’s fast though, and effortless. I’ve built my own lotus 7 replica with plenty of power that’s as fast as anything else (within reason, multi million dollar hypercars aside) burning dinosaur juice, and this blows it into the weeds without making any fuss.

    I think I’ll pass this time round, frankly just don’t need it and certainly don’t need the servicing costs.