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Comment Re: Wrong approach (Score 1) 68

Ford is a real mixed bag, I'm not a superfan by any means, or even a fan frankly. I've bought two Ford pickups and regretted them both. But I also got frankly some of the worst examples, one of them was supposed to have been worked on and it turned out it was rebuilt incorrectly and the other was a 7.3 IDI with a turbo and I didn't know about their weak blocks at the time. But I also had a V6 Aero Bird which was a shockingly good car, and have only respect for the 80s F150 with the 300ci straight six even though I'd rather have a '60s Chevy with a 292.

The F150 Lightning also isn't a good enough truck for what they charged for it. Ford was banking on a larger supply of suckers. I'd love to own one, but I'm sure not shopping in that market segment. Ford also didn't plan to ever offer the Lightning I wanted, a tradesman model with the big battery.

Comment Re:This is how democracy dies (Score 1) 88

Cool beans.

Do go on, are you a European Holocaust denier?

Fuck no.

Here is my point. Europeans are living in a glass house, and throwing bricks at their mortal enemy.

If you want to believe that Europe is teh zenith of sophistication and the most peaceful people on earth. Then I. fully support your hatred and superiority. Until. then every time you hypocrites do your thing, like turd throwing monkeys, I'll be happy to point it out. Especially when you and your ilk try to change every conversation into some anti-US rant. At that point, I'm happy to troll ya. Tit for tat, mygood man.

Comment Re: Wrong approach (Score 3, Informative) 68

The cybertruck is pure shit. It is the least reliable Tesla by a wide margin, and Tesla was recently named the least reliable vehicle in America.

The lightning might be a vehicle without a business case, but it's a major revision from the normal f-series, down to having independent rear suspension. The f150 is also the most popular vehicle on the planet. While Ford has had some massive failures in it like the 3 valve 5.4, you're still barking up the wrong tree here

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 1) 64

What the MAHA people don't do is read papers. I do.

E.G. Here's a train of thought:

1) A long time ago, in the UK, a study showed a significant correlation between Parkinson's and exposure to insecticides.

2) More recently, a study showed lectins from wheat forming a ring around the vagus nerve and traveling up it to the Parkinson's site in the brain where biosimilarity between the lectins and tissues in the brain set up the autoimmune reaction that is part of Parkinson's. This wasn't a dodgy correlation study, they took photographs.

3) 99+% of the insecticides modern human's encounter are the "natural" insecticides in plants.

Conclusion : I'm suspicious of wheat and not for the usual reasons.

Parkinson's and Parkinsonism have a lot of causes. If a person is exposed to any chemical that has defatting or nerve harming properties, like TCE, or various insecticides, they are at risk.

The way to avoid - or mitigate against this is to just limit exposure. A co worker ended up with Parkinsonism because he used a lot of hexane that was in contact cement for mounting photos without ventilation. Avoiding all exposure is probably impossible.

Comment "Nuclear device" (Score 0) 59

Look, I know "nuclear device" is correctly generic, so that RTGs and things like them, legitimately count. But let's be serious: right around the very same time this real stuff happened, some really great fake stuff happened too: the movie Goldfinger.

And once you've watched Goldfinger, "nuclear device" is just a euphemism for a bomb. So don't go calling RTGs "nuclear devices," please.

Comment Re:democracy in action, from a consensus governmen (Score 1) 88

As a parent, I can tell you fail to account for many parenting situations, for instance if schools prescribe MS Office, there's no way to keep your kids clean. Same with social media. However, due to a restriction on anything Meta for under 16 my kids got no requests to get onto WhatsApp.

If your kids are amongst the few who don't have social media, they're the odd ones out. If no one is supposed to have social media in there age group, it all gets easy.

Then we are running face first into horrible damage, and you use Microsoft to say it is just how it is. Microsoft is the glue th the only solution Bullying is okay, little kids getting exposure to seriously advanced sexual situations, and destroying their lives, and we have no choice at all because Microsoft, so it's all okay, Let them at it. There are agents of chaos and anarchy that love you, you not only enable it but you say it must happen.

Comment Re:This is how democracy dies (Score 0) 88

You're probably one of these types who thinks that most of the EU is an authoritarian hellhole, and that the US ranks way at the top in most world freedom indices. (Narrator: it does not.)

Fresh meat!

Do go on, are you a European Holocaust denier? Tell me all about. Fact is, America ain't all that, But acting like Europe is the cradle and aspect of civilization - when History shows you are capable of and have visited the most horrific crimes against humanity is just beyond the pale.

I love talking to you Europe uber alles types. I take it they don't go over European History, where you had a genocide in teh 1990's. Then again, people who like that sort of thing probably maliciously project to deflect that you actually like European history, and are aching for your next round.

One thing we do in the US is face our crimes. You embrace yours.

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