He played football, and had a lot of concussions. He seemed like a nice guy whom had a loose thought, and acted on it.
In the air he seemed odd. At times he wanted to land. Other times he wanted to just fly around. He did a barrel roll. He wanted to see the Orca who pushed it's dead baby around the bay. I was hoping for a good ending.
A guy I know said the tech is so good you let your guard down.
He said there are days on 101 around 4:30 when he puts his sunglasses on and closes his eyes. He knows he taking a calculated risk. He's in bumper to bumper traffic.
He also said their were times he let the car drive home, with one eye open because he was tired.
With tech that good, I can see where drivers let their guard down compared to a guy in a old truck with a clutch. A vehicle he knows inside and out. A vehicle that needs his constant attention because of the sketchy alignment done years ago. Plus--he just can't afford a fender bender, or worse an ever increasing frantic fine. Hell--the stress of the old car might keep him more alert? Kinda like being in the woods when you know it's your wits, or a bear might tear you apart?
A vehicle he can drive as well and as effortlessly as a pro marathon runner can run. A vehicle that needs as little attention as his legs when walking. Because he knows it inside and out, he knows how the sketchy alignment affects handling at low speeds and at high speeds.
I was going to say "aw well as he can walk", but then I remembered that many American's are not good walkers.
nice that you brought up fender-benders, though. That old truck, probably doesn't matter if the fender bends a little more. VS cost to repair the tesla if it gets a ding...
On familiar routes with nothing unusual going on, I also can let my guard down. But you do get alerts if not paying attention and will get kicked out of the beta after 5 or 6 of those. I have had 2 of those alerts in the course of the 6-7 months I have been on the beta.
Your examples suggest the opposite, all of those people could very much afford to take the moral high ground. Let's not excuse people's greed by pretending that they would otherwise starve.
I don't think there a mechanic out there who doesn't make doesn't accidentally break the integrity of those flimsy AC lines weekly. They are thin walled pipes, and connected with tiny green O-rings.
There are no standards on how many pieces of thin walled pipe a vechicle can use. It's usually a spiders nest of hoses.
You need to change you blower motor, or do anything that involves the dash, radiator, you are taking a calculated risk. Most mechanics might have a recovery system, but it's usually in the corner of the shop covered in dust.
It might help if the federal government standardized parts for the AC system?
I'm very careful, but the last time I changed my blower I borrowed a recovery system, but still made a mistake, and released all the gas. I was going to recharge it, but the generic evaporator core outlet to an ac line was 1" short. I had to go genetic because I couldn't find OEM.
And no don't make a mechanic's life harder with a bunch of regulations. They are already over regulated, and it's a hard job.
I've noticed not much difference in price in the small blocks (The blocks that fit in your hand. I'm to lazy to look up the weight.) are sometimes more expensive than grated, or sliced.
I'm pretty sure the companies know most of us do not want 5 lbs of cheese in our fridge, so they jack up the smaller blocks?
While I'm here, I try to buy my spices, including dehydrated onion, at Costco quantities. Most restaurants use the same, but get better pricing through Sysco type companies.
Some Costco's sell yeast blocks which last a long time refrigerated.
If you are lucky, you can find high gluten bread flour there too. It's much cheaper than the better bread flours (King Arthur, etc.) at the supermarket.
The one thing I disagree with is bottled lime/lemon juice. After it's opened once, it tastes nothing close to a fresh lemon/lime.
They needed workers. They hired Frank Loyd Wright to build huge buildings to house workers arriving mainly from the south.
The huge apartments went up very quickly.
There were few regulations. I imagine it was like the way China puts up huge projects.
After the war, a lot of the workforce moved on to greener pastures. America used to have a lot of good blue collar jobs.
The apartments are now used as Section 8 housing.
Jump ahead to today. The town of Sausalito didn't like looking at low income Anchor-Outs. They didn't mind when Paul Allen moored in then same spot for months though on his mega-yacht. The town basically hired some dig bat who was related to a town council member to spit out a study on the dangers these Anchor-outs are doing to the Ell grass in Richardson bay. The town used that "cooked" study to confiscate boats, and crush them. The low income people basically went from boat dwellers to living in tents in Dunphy Park. I'm sorry about my tone, but I don't like it when authorities abuse their power, especially when it comes to the low income.
I had a neighborhood cat that wanted to live with me. He introduced himself while I was working on my truck. He would literally watch me work on my truck. He was always looking on right behind me, even when under the truck. (maybe because mice sometimes hide in vechicles?)
Anyway for months he would leave a dead mouse on the house mat.
I felt sorry for him, and let him stay in the utility room, and showed him how to use a dog door. (I would have kept him, but he ended up having a home. He lived in a 8 million dollar mansion, and was feed fresh Salmon, he hated the dog.)
I found all that out later. I couldn't let him in the house 24/7 because of allergies.
He would sneak in and bring on mice. The mice were so quiet, I didn't even notice them until he arrived.
I found out later he was going to multiple houses daily, and we all spoiled him.
He did want to live with me, but finally gave up.
I think some wild animal got him though. The wealthy family that owned him was devistated. People on that Neighborhood social site condemned the family for not keeping him indoors, but they didn't know he liked his freedom.
He lived a full life, but killed a lot of rodents. Which didn't bother me at the time. Well it kinda did, but rats I just can't live with.
I used to believe all cats should be kept indoors, but once certain cats are used to freedom it's painful to watch them suffer mentally by being inside. I learned where the Tom Cat phrase came from by knowing him.
Call then up, and ask for one to review. It would look good on their part if they gave you one. This is the first home robotic gizmo that caught my attention.
This devise has a lot of potential uses. I bet we will see these in resturants.
2. Why did prices for pretty much everything go up the week, or two, after the media started talking about the war, supply chain problems, and government spending?
Prices were pretty steady during Covid, at least on food, and gas, and most consumer products, except building materials, and appliances.
I personally think corporations used the war, and Covid, to raise prices seemingly overnight. My Chevron station went from $4.29 to $6.25 in a day.
These companies made record profits during Covid, but poof in a couple of weeks just blew up their pricing?
I think they used found a few good excuses to raise prices; and they all fell in line.
Kinda like my $5.49 rebate on my $800/yr. insurance policy at the beginning of Covid. Mercury by the way, and they used to be fair.
Yea, I was uncomfortable with Powell throwing money at the stock market, and buying all those mortgage backed securities, when housing and the stock market thrived during Covid. His response was, 'I kept my agreement with the financial sector.'
So it looks like an overreaction, but the prices are going to be correlated with future expectations, not with prices obtainable right now. Price jumped now because the whole supply chain for X predicted the price on the market will raise soon. Since the revenue pays for future production, this makes sense - what you pay now pays for what you buy again in a month.
Recreational Vechile occupants do pay direct, and indirect taxes.
1. It's not cheap to park a RV anywhere. Pretty much every road is off limits to overnight parking. Those fines are very pricy too. (Watch Something about Schmidt.)
2. Living out of an RV is a pain. Stuff breaks down, and I don't know of one public street, or parking lot, that allows the owner to repair their disabled vechicle.
3. They get horrid gas mileage, and their are state/federal taxes on gas. Registration, Insurance. Plus because they are on the road, they are more likely to get one of those ever increasing traffic tickets. A parking ticket in SF is 80.00. Crazy! (Neusome has a bill on his desk that would do away with late fees on parking tickets. I hope he signs it.)
4. RV-ing is fine, but they pay in indirect ways.
5. I worked with a guy who tried to live cheap in a small camper truck. Every other night he would get a knock, and flashlight shined into his eyes. It was always, "move along, or I will ticket you!". He tried the shower thing at 24 hour Whatever gym. Once the manager figured he was just using the showers, he was told he needed to workout. (Yea--I can't believe how petty some people are.). We worked construction, and the last thing he needed was a workout before 7:00 am.
Another guy I knew tried the RV lifestyle. He too was harrsssed by cops. Cops would tell him straight up he was not breaking any laws, but if he didn't move along he would get another ticket. Oh yea, the next sentance I'm about to write still gets my blood pressure up. One night my friend was sound asleep on a rural county road. He tried to hide. He knew the drill. He did have a 25 lb dog. This cop pounded on the side of his camper. He opened the door, and the dog growled. The officer took out his side arm and shot the dog. I have so little respect for some of these cops.
The last time I looked at what it would cost to park/sleep in a private RV park it was $79 a night.
This is in the Bay Area though.
Their is a pilot program in the Bay Area for low income RV'ers. I believe it's near the bay? It basically a lot that RV'ers can park for free. It's only available to county residents though.
My point is uless you have money, that whole RV lifestyle can be a nightmare.
Walmart used to let RVers park overnight. I have a feeling that privilege is gone. America the great? Our biggest concern is finding a place to sleep.
Off topic, but the one thing Russia did well under Communism is build apartments. I didn't realize just how many units they built until I saw pictures of Ukraine.
Audio of incident.
He played football, and had a lot of concussions. He seemed like a nice guy whom had a loose thought, and acted on it.
In the air he seemed odd. At times he wanted to land. Other times he wanted to just fly around. He did a barrel roll. He wanted to see the Orca who pushed it's dead baby around the bay. I was hoping for a good ending.