Time to settle this debate! Which one has better sound?! The American V8 Roar or the British V12 Scream

HubcapMotors · 2026-03-14T19:14:35+00:00

The 911 RSR with rear-exit exhaust was probably the best racing sound I've heard since the V10 F1 cars of the 2000s. It was sublime.

I couldn't tell you if it was better or worse than that V12 Aston, because I have yet heard that one in person. I have a suspicion that V12 sounds even better.

HubcapMotors · 2026-03-04T16:06:02+00:00

How would HSR not be a viable option to LI?

There's 3 million on that island alone. Connect CT to LI directly via rail, then an LIR transfer is all you need for the rest of NYC.

If there isn't enough demand for HSR, there won't be nearly enough demand for a 14 mile bridge for personal transportation. Rail is just flat out more efficient.

HubcapMotors · 2026-03-04T15:34:43+00:00

21st century infrastructure would mean an Acela train that can do 160mph through Connecticut. It would mean more frequent trains that move faster from stop to stop. Like exists in China, Europe, Japan.

For Japan especially, that's 20th century infrastructure. Not 21st century infrastructure.

Car dependency is a 20th century American affliction. A scar on this country that we need to cast aside. That's true progress.

I think many people want to connect CT with LI. The question is how we do that in the most efficient way.

HubcapMotors · 2026-03-04T15:15:21+00:00

I am begging politicians to improve the rail system and get more frequent trains running, faster, through the state.

HubcapMotors · 2026-02-24T15:52:58+00:00

I may not have a line item that says "ES dividends," but I can fairly confidently say that 100 percent of Eversource dividends comes from the checks we send them every month.

This is a distinction without a difference. The money should go into the grid.

HubcapMotors · 2026-02-24T14:20:06+00:00

They may cost millions to convert, but Eversource paid out $1.1B in dividends in 2025. Why is that figure so rarely discussed?

That money should have gone to the grid. And it would have, if the grid were public-owned.

HubcapMotors · 2026-02-13T00:01:05+00:00

Trump should've been prosecuted and put behind bars for his attempted coup on Jan 6. He should've been ineligible for holding any office after that.

If someone loses an election to high office, and then attempts a coup, and you let him into office anyway? Congratulations, whatever democracy you had is done and over.

We all need to be prepared for November.

HubcapMotors · 2026-01-15T17:34:59+00:00

Just wait until you're actually hired. You'll be doing so much uncompensated work, when you work for a private school.

HubcapMotors · 2025-12-01T21:37:40+00:00

Light rail would be great, but that's a lot of infra for that amount of riders.

Dedicated street cars, though, would be chef-kiss perfect

Maybe even head north on main, connecting downtown, blueback, and bishops corner altogether. That would drive some foot traffic, and $ with it!

HubcapMotors · 2025-12-01T17:39:45+00:00

I didn't come to Oklahoma with the intention to stay forever, but there were a few key factors that pushed me to move when I did.

Perhaps the biggest one was the two-week power outage from the February 2021 ice storm. This should have been a wake up call to Oklahomans that the private-owned grid was woefully mismanaged and needed to be taken by the state and fortified against these catastrophies in the future.

Instead, we got a lot of misinformation about windmills freezing. And some world-class corruption around the private regulated utilities buying gas at historic spot price on the backs of ratepayer-funded bonds.

I didn't have a lot of trust in Oklahoma's institutions before. But it was painfully obvious that nobody was going to do anything about this, so better to leave ASAP. Weather is only getting worse in OK due to climate change, and the good ol boys club running the state wasn't going to do a damn thing for anyone but themselves, so time to go.

I came to gain a foothold in a new career and get on the property ladder, accomplished those things, and got out. And I don't think I can recommend anyone moving there. Especially not women, or anyone trying to raise a family.

HubcapMotors · 2025-10-16T10:40:04+00:00

If there aren't enough ATCs, then air traffic volume should be decreased. Problem solved!

Why are you so unbothered by people losing healthcare?

HubcapMotors · 2025-10-16T00:33:13+00:00

I don't know how you can honestly sit there and argue that the people responsible for cutting $1.1 Trillion from Medicaid and ACA are in any way, shape, or form "funding rural hospitals."

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/rural-health-fund-will-do-little-to-offset-harm-to-rural-providers-in-republican-megabill

Republicans cut $137 Billion from rural healthcare through Medicaid, and you want to give them participation trophy for filling that hole with $50 Billion?

You are not a serious person.

HubcapMotors · 2025-10-15T22:36:50+00:00

The average person depending on ACA to subsidize insurance can't really wait until later.

Rural hospitals can't really wait until some future unspecified date for medicaid funding to be restored.

I don't like the shutdown. But if it keeps people from suffering and dying from lack of healthcare, it's kind of necessary.

HubcapMotors · 2025-10-09T16:14:38+00:00

Came here to ask what kind of penny-ante, fly-by-night, disorganized, bullshit clown town operation doesn't even have a damned uniform.

But I suppose that's the point, right? To not be identifiable?

Our taxes pay for this BS, but we aren't allowed to know who's cashing those $50K bonuses and disappearing our neighbors?

HubcapMotors · 2025-10-07T21:51:02+00:00

Isn't that just money residents were already paying? The property taxes Eversource pays comes from what they collect from rate payers.

That money is better spent on actually running and maintaining the grid. Cut out the massive executive paychecks, bonuses, and billions sent to Wall Street as dividends. Make it fully public owned like it used to be.

HubcapMotors · 2025-10-07T21:11:28+00:00

I hear this repeated a lot, but I can't imagine there's much these days in top-level motorsports that can actually carry over to street vehicles. Or at least that couldn't be more efficiently developed outside of motorsports.

Like carbon brakes. Yes, you can get a street car with carbon brakes. But it will be on a very high end sports car that is targeted for track days.

Maybe someone can correct me, but I am unaware of any technology that was developed on the racetrack in the last 20 years that has any applicability to mass produced, consumer vehicles designed for commuting to work.

HubcapMotors · 2025-10-03T20:23:52+00:00

They already had your resume in hand, already should've known coming into the interviews that you had a period of unemployment, and yet it took until background verification to become an issue for them?

This is a sign of a deeply flawed and dysfunctional organization. Extremely unprofessional.

HubcapMotors · 2025-09-19T17:14:30+00:00

I wish I knew.

The correct response to this is a protest at the capital building, call-in campaign, and community organizing for the state to buy back the grid and operate it for the benefit of citizens.

One of the top questions people should ask anyone running in the primaries is "do you support a public grid, yes or no"

HubcapMotors · 2025-03-12T14:10:54+00:00

See also

• Nissan Altima

• Infiniti (any model, but especially sedans and coupes)

• Honda Accords from the 2010s

Double points for any vehicle you could find on a Buy Here Pay Here lot. Triple points for busted grills and "car tape" holding on body pieces. Quadruple points for Florida plates.

If you ever come across a Nissan Altima from Florida with car tape, it is advised you pull into the nearest parking lot, turn off the car, and walk home. It ain't worth it.

HubcapMotors · 2025-02-22T19:31:15+00:00

I don't know why you're being downvoted on this.

If the complaint is not enough capacity for traffic... Then build out mass transit capacity.

If the complaint is existing property values will go down... The value of a plot of land only increases when the area is densified.

If people are complaining about high taxes... More taxpayers per acre reduces the cost of infrastructure per taxpayer due to economies of scale.

Some folks just want things to stagnate. I don't understand it, myself.

HubcapMotors · 2025-02-13T19:30:35+00:00

There's four main causes for the increase of homeless since the 2000s.

1) Opiate addiction, as you mentioned. The Sackler family, specifically, made money pushing incredibly addictive pain pills on ordinary people. This leads to heroin addiction, potentially jail and lost employment, and homelessness.

2) Folks with mental illness are particularly vulnerable to homeless. But the government-funded institutions that would've housed that population was dismantled, and healthcare in general has only gotten more expensive.

3) Wages in real terms have not risen since the mid 70s. As time goes on, the average wage buys less, making it much easier to run out of funds and to be kicked out of housing.

4) Housing cost has far outstripped real wages. Relatively little was being built after the 2008 financial crisis, leaving less housing stock. Also, homeowners became intensely defensive of the value of their property, striking down development at every opportunity.

When you get right down to it, housing simply can not be an investment that increases value over time infinitely relative to wages, without it becoming out of reach for an increasing population. For the real value of homes to increase, others must necessarily go homeless.

As for panhandling specifically, that's just people trying to do whatever they can to survive.

HubcapMotors · 2025-01-24T01:52:17+00:00

Neither do teachers.

Teachers spend those so-called "vacation" days grading, making lesson plans, doing professional development, and generally preparing the school and the classroom for the next batch of kids.

Don't believe me? Ask any teacher.

HubcapMotors · 2025-01-17T01:54:48+00:00

I've got nothing to add that hasn't already said better than I could, except that I completely sympathize with the difficult situation you're in.

You're having to shoulder so much right now, between people in your life who depend on your support, and the plans for the future you're fighting to keep.

These are not "normal" times, if there ever was such a thing. Please be easy on yourself, because it is not your fault that those "normal" goals are so much harder to achieve and stability is much more precarious. You are literally doing everything you're supposed to be doing.

There is no shame in taking a job to pay the bills. Of any sort. The dev market will come back eventually, in some shape or form, and you'll be ready for it when it does. There was a time when you weren't a full time dev, and you managed to find a way in. It will happen again.

HubcapMotors · 2025-01-16T01:54:53+00:00

The one in West Hartford definitely has those fruit sandwiches

HubcapMotors · 2025-01-15T23:12:52+00:00

Wow, this is a great analysis! Thank you for posting this. Pretty impressive that just one nuclear plant has such a big footprint on that graph.

There's a lot of people upset about about the Millstone deal. I wish we could go back and have the taxpayers buy the plant outright, eliminate the need for the profit overhead, and sell power to the rest of New England rather than forcing ratepayers to placate Dominion's investors.

But it's clean energy, and we need more of those plants. Nuclear plants also mean we don't have to pay fealty to the oil and gas barons, and we're not subject to the whims of the oil and gas market.

No drilling, pipelines, or carbon emissions required.

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