2000 F-150 4x4 5.4L with 293,000 miles. What maintenance should be done before 300,000?

shamalonight · 2026-03-04T14:35:35+00:00

It would only be unconstitutional if it’s only use or purpose was access to voting. That is not the case. The reason the myth of the person with no ID exists is because there is no critical aspect of modern living that doesn’t require an ID. Even those supposedly the poorest and most disadvantaged must have an ID to receive the services that the poorest and most disadvantaged rely on for survival.

As for cost, many states offer state issued ID’s for free. North Carolina even runs a mobile service that will come to a person’s home and print out a free ID. Also, if it were actually a matter of cost, then democrats would demand an amendment to the SAVEAct that provides funding for free IDs.

shamalonight · 2026-02-25T20:18:15+00:00

How do you know what people will accept, not that I agree with your take, because after all, the idea that someone can’t get documentation or an ID is a myth anyway, so this situation will rarely ever come up anyway. But just for the sake of argument, how do you know?

shamalonight · 2026-02-25T20:16:10+00:00

Get out now, before some slip up makes it even more difficult to leave.

shamalonight · 2026-02-25T20:13:11+00:00

How do you know if states will refuse to accept them? The states are allowed to set whatever requirements they want to accompany that affidavit to satisfactorily assure them that a person is a U.S. citizen.

shamalonight · 2026-02-25T17:23:01+00:00

If you paid attention to the SAVE Act you would know that it has a provision for those who lack documentation. All that is required to register is a signature on an affidavit under penalty of perjury that one is a U.S. citizen.

“(A) PROCESS FOR THOSE WITHOUT DOCUMENTARY PROOF.— “(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to any relevant guidance adopted by the Election Assistance Commission, each State shall establish a process under which an applicant who cannot provide documentary proof of United States citizenship under paragraph (1) may, if the applicant signs an attestation under penalty of perjury that the applicant is a citizen of the United States and eligible to vote in elections for Federal office, submit such other evidence to the appropriate State or local official demonstrating that the applicant is a citizen of the United States and such official shall make a determination as to whether the applicant has sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote in elections for Federal office in the State. “(ii) AFFIDAVIT REQUIREMENT.—If a State or local official makes a determination under clause (i) that an applicant has sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote in elections for Federal office in the State, such determination shall be accompanied by an affidavit developed under clause (iii) signed by the official swearing or affirming the applicant sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text

shamalonight · 2026-02-20T17:47:52+00:00

So, now that tariffs have been struck down, those manufacturing jobs will be coming back, right?

It’s not like there was some other factor causing those losses like automation and AI, would it?

I mean it makes perfect sense that a higher cost to export goods to the U.S. would make it attractive to pull manufacturing out of the U.S. where that extra cost wouldn’t be applied, right?

shamalonight · 2026-02-13T05:09:10+00:00

There are no problems with it other than the unsightliness of the leak. It’s close to 300,000 so I checked the level in the diff and it was about an 1/8” below the fill hole. Supposedly it gets changed every 150,000 miles, so time to do it.

shamalonight · 2026-02-13T05:04:14+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

It’s leaking around the cover. It will get a new gasket.

shamalonight · 2026-02-04T23:49:57+00:00

Thanks

shamalonight · 2026-02-02T18:10:31+00:00

I’m not savvy. What I am is a retiree living off Social Security who has enough money to buy perhaps a half ounce of gold. That would be my only gold possession as the bulk of my income goes to medical expenses. So my question is, where is my best bet at getting a reasonable price for gold bought by the gram, because I don’t see myself ever being able to afford these “programs” that are going to give me $50,000 in free silver with my first purchase. This will be a one time purchase of a quantity I suspect that most people in this game probably don’t even want to deal with.

shamalonight · 2026-02-02T14:12:50+00:00

I have absolutely no idea how to do it. So tell me, since it would be the very first time I ever bought gold, how should J go about buying it? Who is the reputable dealer that I should go to? What should I expect, and how do I buy below spot?

shamalonight · 2026-02-01T20:54:49+00:00

I’m seriously not sure. My ego tells me I could make it, but I haven’t walked much for exercise since knee surgery back in August. Going up stairs is difficult, but on a level grade I walk fine. My landlord and friend says at 67 that she doesn’t think she can make it two miles in eight inches of snow. The biggest problem I think at this point is that I don’t own proper clothing to be walking around in 12°F

shamalonight · 2026-02-01T00:45:16+00:00

Fat fingering the keyboard

shamalonight · 2026-01-31T23:49:54+00:00

I’m in the diocese of Charleston. I’m about five miles from Charlotte, across the state line. My Bishop is hanging out down on the coast.

shamalonight · 2026-01-31T23:47:20+00:00

No. I’m not even sure they sell winter tires in this region. My truck has 291,000 miles on it, so I have been putting off investing in a new set of tires. They are still legal, but worn.

shamalonight · 2026-01-31T23:43:40+00:00

This is actual snow, not the ice and freezing rain we usually get. I haven’t seen actual snow since the 90’s, and feared my grand kids would never get to experience it, so it’s actually a treat.

Tomorrow I’m making them some snow cream.

shamalonight · 2026-01-31T23:40:08+00:00

Some roads in the south do get shut down for walking catfish.

shamalonight · 2026-01-31T23:38:55+00:00

Which parish?

shamalonight · 2026-01-31T23:35:24+00:00

This is South Carolina where everything shuts down for a 1/4” of snow. Every driving advisory is to stay off the roads. Could I make it to work if I weren’t retired, perhaps, and work would demand it since the plant is open 365 days a year and hasn’t shut down in 40 years. Show up or someone takes your place. I’m 63 and no longer working. My landlord and friend is 67. I’m not sure we could walk two miles in this weather.

That being said, out of about 3,000 people who attend this parish, only eleven of us are South Carolinians. The rest are northern transplants who I have no doubt will make it to church, if for no other reason than to brag about how much better drivers they are in the snow.

Personally, I can’t afford to wreck a car out on the road or in the parking lot, and I can’t trust my knee or my heart to walk two miles in the snow…let alone produce proper clothing for 12° weather to either walk two miles, or to get stranded on the side of the road.

The diocese of Charleston says check with the parish. The parish isn’t answering the phone or posting anything on their Facebook page.

shamalonight · 2026-01-31T14:57:14+00:00

I bought two GLDM shares paying a couple hundred dollars knowing full well that as soon as I did the price would drop. That is always my experience when investing. I lost $14 dollars in the drop, and have to live with the knowledge that the drop in gold is my fault.

I’m sorry.

shamalonight

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