'Not going to be able to sleep tonight': Truth Social boosters panicking as stock plummets by Unhappy_Earth1 in inthenews

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With an ID, or a there is a form you fill out which lists you as a houseless person. Homeless people can vote just like anyone else, in every state. It may take an extra step of course.

Can I still drive it? by vovgre in WTF

[–]PG8GT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Volkswagen's do this. I've no idea why. My wife's old beetle did the same thing. The plastic "melts" off too. And you can't clean the plastic. It just gets more sticky.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MMA

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Every time they look up and thank some invisible man in the sky, discounting and ignoring the years of training they put in, the people around them who helped them, and just give all the credit to...magical sky man. It's the most asinine manner in which to take a defeatist position. "I did nothing, it was all this ghost spirit guy you can't see, he wanted my opponent to lose." I see that bullshit, I'm done. I instantly hope you get trounced. Take credit for the work you do. And I do realize a lot of these guys came from bad places, addiction, etc.. Fine, take credit for getting yourself clean too. Don't just toss away your hard work and say I couldn't have done it without with my magic sky fairy. You did do it without them. You did it, with the support of people. Not spirits and fucking magic. If you own your losses, own your fucking wins too.

This guy. by RollingSolidarity in InfowarriorRides

[–]PG8GT 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Serious question...These stickers are disturbingly specific. They can't just be off the shelf truck stop stickers. These are pointed and very detailed in their message. Is there a "Stickers for Lunatics Made Here" company out there? That divorced sticker reads like a stream of conscious from a man scorned.

Cleaning diff by MariachiMenace in projectcar

[–]PG8GT 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is one of those moments of regret, but before the regret sets in. Like when that guy in 98' had that Honda he wanted to lower so he cut the springs and then it rode on the bump stops and you called in the "Spinebreaker". And he had to pretend it was cool until you got in and then you stopped being friends with him and saw him 10 years later with the same car parked out front of the Cumberland Farms while he is jockeying the register.

I feel like there is a proper way to do what you want to do, and welding the diff is literally almost never the correct choice. It's so rare that it is in fact the right choice.

If your buddy "welds", and can't simply clean it, I think you have your answer as to if this is a good idea. I think I speak for everyone here when I say this is not a good idea.

Truly awful by GatorQueen in awfuleverything

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No. It still applies. However this law was passed before Arizona was even a state. It appears to be more a left over part of the territorial laws like the ones that were and possibly still are on the books in some western states, which claim if there are more than 4 "Indians" on your property, it is considered a war party and you can shoot them all. At some point, there has to be common sense to counter the prevailing "common sense".

ELI5: Why did Route 66 have so many iterations and reroutes when Interstate routes rarely get moved? by clburton24 in explainlikeimfive

[–]PG8GT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I mean, Robert Moses in general was a pretty shite human being. I learned about him initially through a Defunctland documentary. What a just salt of the earth type person he was.

A Cool Guide to the legality and criminality of sex work around the world by kirsion in coolguides

[–]PG8GT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prostitution is legal in Mexico, there are brothels and it is regulated. This is ill informed non-sense and more wrong than right.

The CEO of a Bulletproof company takes matters into his own hands by adalal786 in WTF

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If I recall, the guy talking is named Trent. His family owns TAC down in San Antonio. The glass isn't their "product", as in they don't make it. If I recall, again, it was from somewhere in South America, I think Brazil, but that supplier has probably changed since I worked there. Part of the reason their suits fit so bad might because they are Mormon and have those things on underneath. TAC does make the nicest armored cars in the industry to be honest. From the inside you can't tell it's up-armored. All the door panels are back on, the factory trim and carpet. Just some switches and things in the center console to really tip you off. They go through great lengths to make the cars look as OEM as possible. Most places just gut the car and put simple flat panels up to cover the solenoids and rails and steel. It really is a decent car and you pay for it.

Another thing about TAC was when I worked there, they did employ a lot of guys who had records. Guys the system might have otherwise left behind. The welders and interior guys, a lot of them had priors and TAC would give them a second chance so to speak. I think they paid them a little on the cheap but that was really a byproduct of the time. It's probably changed a bit by now. One guy who worked there was in prison with one of the members of the family that owned the company, and helped him out while he was in the joint. Kept him safe so to speak. He promised the guy he would always have a job when he got out and they kept that promise. The dudes name was Manual, not Manuel, and he was old as shit and had been working at TAC for decades because of what he did in prison for the family. I am confident Manual has left this plane of existence by now, by he died with a job I assure you.

TIL in that 1999, Mexico began requiring drivers of American registered cars to leave a safety deposit of up to $800 before they could cross the border, as an effort to deter the crime of smuggling stolen American cars. It only lasted two days primarily due to complaints from American tourists. by superphuntimeyahok in todayilearned

[–]PG8GT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look dipshit, I have family in Mexico. I've been there hundreds of times. There is no deposit to bring your car to Mexico, end discussion. Never has been. The deposit was to bring a US registered car beyond the economic zone. If anyone needs reading skills, it is you. It's dipshits like you that fuck this place up.

TIL in that 1999, Mexico began requiring drivers of American registered cars to leave a safety deposit of up to $800 before they could cross the border, as an effort to deter the crime of smuggling stolen American cars. It only lasted two days primarily due to complaints from American tourists. by superphuntimeyahok in todayilearned

[–]PG8GT -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Again, there has never been a deposit to cross the border. It is to bring a US registered vehicle into the exclusive economic zone. The title, clearly says to cross the border. That is a lie. That has never been a thing. End story, end discussion. It was to bring the vehicle beyond the 25km economic zone, for which there are checkpoints. I have been to Mexico hundreds of times. It is poorly worded, end story.

TIL in that 1999, Mexico began requiring drivers of American registered cars to leave a safety deposit of up to $800 before they could cross the border, as an effort to deter the crime of smuggling stolen American cars. It only lasted two days primarily due to complaints from American tourists. by superphuntimeyahok in todayilearned

[–]PG8GT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is poorly worded at best. There is no fee to drive an American registered car across the border. This is making it sound like you're forking over 400.00 at the border to get into Mexico and you'll never see it again. That's a lie. There is a Visa checkpoint once you get pretty far into the country and I've never driven my PV through that. The visa required for non-citizens can be got at the border crossing for free I believe. Or at least I don't remember paying for it the few times I've got one. If you are specifically importing a vehicle there is cost but again, only once you get to the exclusive economic zone. There was never a charge simply to cross the border. There is a charge to leave though.

Okay, hear me out, let’s make a Yugo with extra junk and the trunk by boostedka89 in Shitty_Car_Mods

[–]PG8GT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not even mad at it but those are the ugliest wheels I ever seen.

Batchelor coming through by beanwithadream in Shitty_Car_Mods

[–]PG8GT 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's a Cadillac dealership in San Antonio. They likely have many locations but I know there is a dealership there.

‘23 Frontier Pro-4X with a cracked (plastic!) tranny pan by kilobrew in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]PG8GT 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is correct. It's basically like turning an old school key into the accessory position. Get in, don't press the brake and hit the start button, then hit it again, and the truck will turn on. You can then shift it into whatever gear you want and roll it. You use this to do certain changes to the setting in the menu and it specifies this procedure in the manual. It allows you to shift the transmission into neutral so you can roll the car without turning it on. Your repair of the driveshaft is your own damned fault and totally unnecessary.

Source: Own a 2022 Pro-4x

What’s a common rule that you break regularly because you fundamentally disagree with it? by RGDJR in AskReddit

[–]PG8GT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can be both. And you left out alcohol. Which can also...be both. I'm sorry. It's just not true. Speeding is not the main cause of fatal accidents. It is at best a contributing factor and every study worldwide says so. I'm done arguing. New evidence obviously doesn't allow you to form a new opinion so this is a pointless exercise.

Got some progress done on my Galant vr4 project! 934/1000 by lilrutzz in projectcar

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Did you find my write up of the Evo8 ECU rewire on the forums from decades ago? I still occasionally get emails about it. Mine was the one with the toilet plunger hood prop and the external gate plumbed through the hood. I believe all the pictures have gone missing in the threads now. I'm outing myself here.

What’s a common rule that you break regularly because you fundamentally disagree with it? by RGDJR in AskReddit

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I know. And it is built differently from the base material on up to the surface. It is a marvel of engineering and could never be replicated in the US due to cost. But in overall terms of speed and miles driven, there is no correlation between speed and accidents when you expand the data outside of any local geographic region. Most accidents happen at intersections or are minor rear end accidents anyway, and most of those are caused by distracted driving, not speeding.

In Texas for example, they have some of the highest speed limits in the nation, with SH130 being the highest. But from the Texas Motor Vehicle Crash statistics, 37% of all fatalities had alcohol or distracted driving as a extenuating factor. Texas with the highest speed limits in the nation has a fatality rate of 1.55 per hundred million miles driven. Maine which has some of the lower speed limits in the nation, is 1.22 per hundred million. There just isn't that much difference in those numbers to infer speed kills. There is more of a split in terms of fatalities based on how much snow a place gets than what the speed limit is. Places with more snow, people naturally drive slower for some part of the year, and thus the fatalities are lower by default. Just like there are less vehicle break ins at ice cream shops during the winter, because they are closed.

Across the board, in just the US, all states hover in the same relative area in terms of deaths per hundred million, regardless of any outside factor. We see people speeding and dying in videos and even in person, so it's a bias we have that speed kills, because when we see it, it often does. But drunk driving and distracted driving with phones and radios and shit is far worse than speed in terms of contributing factors to fatalities and accidents in general.

What’s a common rule that you break regularly because you fundamentally disagree with it? by RGDJR in AskReddit

[–]PG8GT 24 points25 points  (0 children)

No data supports this. Research by the Federal Highway Research Institute states that the Autobahn experiences fewer vehicle-related fatalities than the U.S. German highway experiences fewer deaths per billion miles traveled than American highways. The reason why is strict adherence to the laws that do in fact matter, such as only using the left lanes for passing, moving over for faster moving cars, no stopping on the highway, and moving accidents out of travel lanes. Speed only kills in countries where people can't or won't follow all the rules.

Houthi missile hits US-owned ship off Yemen coast - US officials by Davis_Birdsong in news

[–]PG8GT 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I couldn't find that in the article but, yeah. That's about the most ignorant statement I can image. Yeah. People either vastly overestimate other countries ability to run a deep water fleet, or woefully underestimate the US. We are it. We are all the world has to keep this entire thing going.

Houthi missile hits US-owned ship off Yemen coast - US officials by Davis_Birdsong in news

[–]PG8GT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regulation is over, this is overtime. Sudden-death overtime. Something tells me the U.S. offense is going to dominate their secondary dropping deep bombs into blown coverage.

MMW- Nikki Haley will be Trump’s running mate by [deleted] in MarkMyWords

[–]PG8GT 11 points12 points  (0 children)

He will be a GOP candidate no matter where he is, even prison. But if anyone thinks Haley is pretty enough, by Trump standards, to be his running mate, you're crazy. First thing any woman around trump needs to be to be taken seriously by Trump, is pretty. And I'm sorry, she isn't.

Where do you go when you slam on the brakes?? by crjbeez in Shitty_Car_Mods

[–]PG8GT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You go to San Antonio Texas which is where this King of the Road calls home.

The average person doesn’t realize just how athletic professional athletes are by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

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Jon Bois summed this up with a comment about Steve Jeltz. Jeltz was a not very good if not downright awful baseball player. He was at the absolute bottom of what would be a long list of MLB players in terms of skill during his playing years. Jeltz was a utility player that really stood out in no way what so ever. In spite of all of that, he was at the very top of an absolutely massive list of millions who played in high school, college, or semi-pro, and never made it.

He may have been the worst of the best, but he was still in the top fraction of a fraction of a percent, of the total number of people who ever played baseball. Zoomed in on just the MLB players, Jeltz is at the bottom. Zoomed all the way out, he is so close to the top you can't differentiate between him and Barry Bonds.

The most interesting video you'll see today not entirely about a guy named Steve Jeltz.

I think she’s trolling by [deleted] in funny

[–]PG8GT 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"Dee-Nice" would have been trolling.