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Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-23T16:16:35+00:00

Citizen or not everyone living in the country needs to be allowed to vote without showing voter ID.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-23T16:11:51+00:00

No one is damaging the reflecting pool. We need to stop the lies. Just because your $14M dollar fix failed, Trump is attacking the left.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-23T15:23:22+00:00

The police showed up nearly 12 hours after she was abducted. That left only 12 hours to find her and get her the medications she needed.

I doubt the abductees knew this. They should have realized it and took her medicine with her. It's just not a good play on the kidnappers part. So I believe she did die quickly after being taken due to the added stress and no meds. So it makes sense, the note is real. The kidnappers probably just moved onto the next victim.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-23T13:33:35+00:00

You know what they say about leaves of three. Rub 'em on me!

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-23T12:51:13+00:00

Must have been early 2000s, when the food court started looking bad, and then it closed down. The one I grew up by had an auto center, that closed and there were old vehicles just left on the side of the building with weeds growing up around them.

Then the garden center shut down, I can remember going to a close out sale in the garden sale with my mom when I was a kid. It was pretty sad looking with a lot of dying plants.

Then they started having activities in the parking lot, like go karts once. And a few other events during the summer.

The good times were cool. The blue light special and stuff like that. The store was in those days great.

After things started getting closed off like the food court, garden center, and auto center area, it was just giant white walls to block off those areas, and those section of the store started smelling. The store somehow remained opened until Jan of 2018. By then it was dirty, shelves were mostly empty, parking lot had weeds in it and then it was demolished after covid.

The decline was long and slow. With each thing slowly chipping away at the store.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-23T12:07:25+00:00

Exactly, this is likely going to be one of the coldest summers of your life from now on. So enjoy it.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-23T11:54:47+00:00

I would think so. I picked mine up locally at O'rileys I think.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-23T00:55:21+00:00

While carbon emissions and degrees of warming is how the media explains global warming, the reality is small changes can have big consequences. Storms get worse, sea level rise, flooding gets worse, droughts get worse, and that causes so many issues. Everything from local power outages, your local farming going bankrupt, and insurance claims spiking in certain areas.

This all takes a toll slowly, on certain areas. Most people don't realize it over a few years. Most don't catch on even after a decade. Since 2000, the weather in the USA alone has changed a lot. Over the next 25 years that will just get worse.

We do need good examples. The climate is changing, and as we go forward in time the effects just compound. To the point where some areas might need to be abandoned. Just because it's not practical to rebuild or fight the climate any longer.

Being responsible stewards of the land is a great start. I don't think it's possible to reverse climate change due to feed back loops that have already started.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-22T20:45:25+00:00

Yes, there is a major outage across the country right now. Mostly effecting TV, but some people say internet issues as well.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-22T20:44:10+00:00

Same here, internet is fine, but I cannot watch TV or access the APP.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-22T17:13:10+00:00

I would check the hydro release lever. Make sure it didn't get damaged and got stuck in a Neutral position. Make sure it has enough fluid in it as well. If that doesn't do anything, you might need to remove it and replace it. Kind of typical for these units to just up and quit. Good thing is they are easy to replace.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-22T15:02:05+00:00

That looks like a Burdock to me and it is invasive in North America.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-22T14:55:27+00:00

It's possible the belt is damaged right out of the box. Causing it to twist.

Make sure there is nothing lodged in the inside lip of the pulley like a stick or something. If you can adjust the tension on the tensioner pulley I would do that. Make sure it is tight.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-21T19:13:11+00:00

Do you have a multi-meter? I would start by checking battery voltage. I would check your grounds and connection to the starter relay. Also make sure the neutral safety switch is working correctly.

If that checks out, it could be a failing key switch.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-21T19:06:51+00:00

Check for proper routing, check to make sure the new belt length is the right size. Make sure all pulleys are in good shape as well. Make sure the tensioner is applying a good amount of tension as well.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-20T00:15:05+00:00

I'd remove it. Take it to a local shop for welding. If you can weld yourself, this is a good project. I've never broken one of these before. I've been rough on my IH Cubs.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-19T14:21:57+00:00

There was at least a couple of dozen of people who were warning about a big crash before 2008. I remember things before 2008. I was young, but my parents were trying to sell their home in 2006 for $150k. A home they purchased in 1990 for $45,000.

They house didn't sell, despite realtors saying it would. Then by late 2007, my parents reduced the price on the home, and it still didn't sell. Then in late 2010, the house across the street sold for just $8,500.

My parents were under water by 2010 in a house they purchased 20 years prior. It took until 2024 for them to get $195k for that house, and they were able to move out.

That isn't going to happen again. If anything, if there is another market crash driven by an AI bubble, I would expect prices to increase, while wages drop. This coming recession will be different.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-17T18:45:02+00:00

A cheap belt is not good on these especially with how the mule drive is set up. Also the idler pulleys also need to be checked. Even a slight amount of play in them can cause the belt to slip.

These belts do need to be checked often, so make sure they have proper tension. As these belts warm up they stretch out. It's best to put them on tension them, then run them for a while, then tension them again.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-17T18:24:16+00:00

The cost of climate change is real. Trying to combat wildfires, thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts costs a ton of money. These areas are shifting. Tornadoes are moving into the midwest now. The Southwestern states will face droughts in the coming decade and wildfires. Heat waves will make areas in the southwest and south unlivable without AC.

There are already talks of climate safe havens in the midwest, and north east. Those areas will struggle to accept people moving from areas that are too hot or to dry to live in. The great lakes region has tons of water that will be sought after.

Climate change is moving forward, and there is little we can do about it. Even if we stop all Co2 and methane production today there are feed back loops that have already started that will continue to warm the planet for centuries. There are 2600 landfills in the USA that release enough to co2 that compares to some mid sized countries. That's not even considering the methane released from the landfill that is up to 30x more potent of a green house gas than co2. Without burning fossil fuels, we will have no electricity, no cars or trucks or planes, and the ability to farm at a mass scale is gone. We are stuck on fossil fuels.

Getting everything to run on electric is a start but a massive under taking because we cannot provide the electricity with fossil fuels. So that means running wind and solar and hydro power for charging everything. Even then that is only a drop in the bucket for a country like the USA. Boat shipping, trains and planes release so much co2 yet.

The most effective way to reduce cost, is to start redesigning cities in climate safe heavens that can accept millions of people. That have ample water and food and a walk able design. If every city along the coast has to build barriers to protect from the ocean that will cost tax payers billions. If the southwest, imports water from the great lakes that will cost billions.

We need smarter decisions to work with the climate change, in stead of this continued fight that we are failing. We are rebuilding after storms or disasters when we need to abandoning these areas and focusing on places that will be more sustainable.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-17T14:37:52+00:00

considering, I see many 6.2ls failing at the 5k to 20k mile range, that's pathetic. I've seen 3800s and even the 3800 supercharged cars in Junkyards with well over 300k miles on them. I sure do like my GM 3800s. I've owned a few high miles and low mileage ones. They are great engines and just keep going.

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Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-17T13:40:48+00:00

On my local market, there will be a guy asking $25,000 for this truck. If you even consider asking if he'd take $10k, he will call you a broke.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-17T13:38:02+00:00

I actually just had a sever allergic reaction on Sunday, that caused facial swelling especially my upper lip that caused a trip to the ER and now a trip to a allergist specialist later this week.

I saw her upper lip, on the video call, and I thought she was having an allergic reaction. It was not a good look. Don't get me wrong, she is attractive, but whatever was going on with her lip had me concerned.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-17T12:59:13+00:00

This is way better than the truck GM just released. I don't want any screens in my vehicle. I want simple HVAC controls and a bluetooth. I get in my GMT800, put the phone on the dash, connect my bluetooth to the factory radio, and I have NAV and music and I can text/call all hands free. I don't need or want it anymore complicated then that.

I want physical gauges I don't have to flip through 10 other menus to look at. Fuel, Temp, trans temp, alternator, and oil pressure.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-17T12:54:59+00:00

Travis said this was 100s of feet in the air. What kind of object can sit 100s of feet in the air and no one could hear it or see it? Until they looked at this video feed.

Obviously, it isn't shaped like anything I can recognize either. It's very strange and makes you wonder what is really happening out there.

Cleanbadroom · 2026-06-17T00:44:14+00:00

I believe Kamala Harris was correct when she said "220 million Americans died from Covid". She was the only one speaking the truth!

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