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@davepl1968 God I love EFI.

Do you know what this is? Growing up in the -40 winters, Dad drove a '68 GMC with a manual choke on the dash as pictured. Every crisp winter morning, we'd unplug the block heater, fight with the unbendably cold extension cord, and then remove the Zenith TV blanket from the windshield that he had placed there the night before to prevent frost buildup. Easier than scraping. When it was time to start the truck, you'd pump the accelerator twice to prime the carb. Then you'd pull the choke all the way out with your left hand to set it full rich. Then you'd reach and crank the engine with the key, and as soon as it fired, you had to bump in the choke just a little way, lest you "choke" it too much and it stalls. Getting the perfect amount was a function of ambient temperature, humidity, and experience. What you're actually doing is restricting air entry with a mechanical flap over the carb. This causes it to pull more fuel from the metering system and run richer, which is required when the engine is still cold. Fancier trucks used bitmetal springs to automate the choke, but few things worked better than a manual setup when it absolutely, positively had to start.

@Howlingmutant0 Could be worse, I never got a dollar out of my uncle.

I swear to god if I show up to this job and it’s just some guy who makes me jerk him off again…

@spikesguides My first job was in manufacturing and our biggest customer was a major US CNC manufacturer. We were one of the biggest sheet metal shops on the west coast. They made us compete with Chinese plants until our margins were gone and we had to close shop.

These boots explain why America is collapsing. No, seriously. Stay with me. First off the boots. I am terribly disappointed in what Under Armor is calling Valsetz these days. For comparison on the left is the pair of Valsetz I've had for over 10 years. They're full of holes, have no tread, and they've hiked more miles than I count. I've loved them dearly but entropy claims us all one day and it's their time to go. I figured I'd buy a new set of Valsetz since I saw they still exist. I looked at the listing on Amazon and thought they looked weird but that I'd give them a shot anyway since my last pair treated me well. They arrived and I'm disappointed. The build quality feels cheap. The externals have less reinforcement and the little that is there has less stitching, meaning it's likely to break sooner. The internals have a much cheaper memory foam inside and are noticeably less plush. Finally the toe box is bigger for some reason, they're at least a half inch longer in the toe than the other pair, they fit more like a 10.5 than a 10. I can't comment on wearing them too much as I've only done some basic breaking in, less than a week's worth of wear but they definitely aren't fantastic so far. Overall, I'm disappointed to see my favorite pair of boots be reduced to slop. But that's the entire country at this point. Over the last decade we've seen the US reduced to an economic zone to plunder. The identity of "an American" is now as fluid and shifting as the spring breeze. As a result, every company has focused on chasing profits in the shorter and shorter run. Companies are worried about the profits this quarter, nevermind next or the one after. That's because they don't see a long term future here. The goal is to get the profits now, consumer be damned. They're a wallet to plunder and nothing else. Multinational conglomerates, billionaires, and foreign nations have plundered this country and are killing it so they can move onto the next host after this one dies. Nobody is chasing profits tomorrow because they won't be here. The boots don't need to be good, they just need to trick the consumer into buying them because profits get announced in a few weeks anyway and there's still some brand goodwill to destroy. This didn't happen overnight. It happened imperceptibly over time through taxation, economic policy, immigration policy, corporate culture, and greater cultural psyops. The entire system reinvented itself to serve itself at the behest of everyone else. "The purpose of the system is what it does." And in this case the system extracts capital, returns little value, and moves capital out of the country forever. Money never comes in and it only goes out. The United States is not dying. It is being killed. The perpetrators are the same ones promising to help you. They are the ENTIRE political class, the entire corporate class, and anyone who has either a dual citizenship or a home in a foreign nation. It's not just a pair of boots. It's an entire nation. Our nation.

@FICMBondTrader Turning the frogs gay was just a metaphor.

This is because of the massive amount of female birth control in the water system Our waste plants from the 1960s can’t filter out synthetic estrogen from the water So it runs back into the tap system and makes dudes gay and girls look 25 at 18

@WeinerBarf420 With twice the psychological trauma.

Hey "join the trades" people just wanted to let you know a welder makes about 2 dollars more an hour in my area than a social worker

@james_xond I was a teen in the 2000s. It was a great balance. Texting and instant messaging were a thing, but not one's entire life.

People who were teenagers before social media existed, how did you survive being bored without scrolling on your phone for hours?

@Thepeoplesfool @CrusaderWatch It's a huge financial risk if you don't have a plan.

@CrusaderWatch Because it raises your earning potential.

Bears repeating a million times over: If you're under the age of ~35 and not obviously a mouth breathing retard, literally every adult figure in your life told you over and over again to go to college. Your parents, your teachers, your guidance counselors, everyone.

@CrusaderWatch I got accepted to a UC undeclared in 2008 (no idea what I wanted to do). I pitched the idea of going to my local city college (a great school) then transferring. To mom, that was not an option. Neither was simply working.

@nw_wolfrunner The stacks of old magazine subscriptions.

If you've ever helped empty out a boomers garage you know "we were just smart with our money and didn't buy tons of bullshit" is a bald faced lie.

@SlowMescalero @JohnathonPriest @paleonormie It was a huge mistake not putting the 4g63t in them.

@JohnathonPriest @paleonormie ughhhhh they should have just kept making Starions until the tooling broke

Postmodernism was seeded by the CIA but not for the reason you think, they did it at the behest of business interests to create an “artistic” movement where you could hand creative decisions to the marketing department with plausible deniability

@revenant_MMXX This is a huge thing in the firearms community with older guys too. "I got mine, so I'll sit on my ass while everyone else who probably shares my worldview just has it worse and worse."

There's no house you could buy today in any place people actually want to live that would have a mortgage payment this low. Absolutely no way. This is just an abstracted version of "just buy a shack in the middle of nowhere" because that's what you'd have to do now

@revenant_MMXX The only upside is the estate sales. I've found some incredible deals in the upper class parts of town.

When my Boomer relatives started dying, my parents had to rent dumpsters to get rid of all the junk they had cluttering their homes. Many items were actually new-in-box, fancy cooking pans, tons of stuff that was purchased and never even used. There's your "generational wealth"

@kimby_gonz266 @revenant_MMXX Boomers also created the culture of giving way too many unnecessary Christmas presents. Most of the shit goes straight in a drawer.

@revenant_MMXX Or they were decades of Xmas gifts

@cpttimtracy @ClownWorld A car meet with *too* many cars. I want off this rock.

@ClownWorld he hosted the event and lot was full and police told him no more cars or he gets shut down. So he was trying to tell people no more entry but no one listened. That’s the story. He should’ve just bought cones and blocked off the entrance. Dude is off base dragging his kid around.

Father of the year award winner 🤦‍♂️

@jarvis_best I'm so happy I was a kid in the 90s, it was the golden era of basketball.

The beginning of the end in my book was 2006. The Mavericks were the better team and won the first two games, but a young Dwayne Wade decided he could careen out of control and fall into a group of guys and go to the line every time. The Heat won 4 straight and the NBA has sucked ever since.

@elaadeliahu Where are the fucking police to arrest people for defacing public property?

Anti ICE agitators outside Delaney Hall immigration center in NJ begin digging up large bricks to add to their blockade wall

@denomic @samtayyari @SawyerMerritt My roommates are gonna get me rims for Christmas.

@samtayyari @SawyerMerritt We can install a CB radio to talk to other car-beds #iykyk

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce. • Starting price: $640,000 • Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive • Range: 280 miles (expected EPA) • Peak charging speed: 350kW • 122 kWh battery • 1,050 horsepower • 0-60mph: 2.4s • 800v • Four-door four-seater • Four electric motors • OLED screens • Weight: 4,982 lbs • Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm • Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car. • Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels • The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered • 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:

@JarvisAeneas Too bad Twitter is blocked in China, because they're the ones that need to hear it.

I’m starting to think that I’m the only right-winger on this platform who believes that climate change is a real phenomenon. Not saying it hasn’t been exaggerated in the media, but I just don’t see how you can wholesale reject it.

@9mmsmg Modern automatics are better in basically every way, but manuals will always be so much more fun to me.

Controversial, but I have no desire for a manual transmission. I can't outshift my cars automatic transmission. I can pretend I can, but my car is much better at shifting than me. It makes high speed police chase fantasies way less cool and fun in my head, but my transmission is still better than me. If i had a car just for the track, it''d be fun. For day to day? It's simply just annoying.

@marikatff I've been here 4 years. Thought it was beautiful at the start, but swedish culture has driven me to the point of hating it and I can't wait to go home to the US. Swedes are stiff, boring, and all basically do a different version of the same thing for summer.

it’s insane to me that most people haven’t experienced a real swedish summer because to me, it feels like Peak Life. makes me curious about all the things other people consider essential to being alive that i haven’t experienced