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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gm-recalls-600-000-suvs-174423704.html
Global warming - an urgent problem requiring radical solution (no politics or religion)
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playerafar wrote:
festers-siesta wrote:
lfPatriotGames wrote:
Billy-bingo wrote:
Facts and figures mean nothing to someone who "thinks" they know. Especially when supported by information from a friend of a cousin's neighbor.
For whatever reason a lot of people put their full faith and trust in the internet. If AI says it, it must be true. I don't feel that way. I prefer firsthand experience or knowledge. Because believe it or not, some things on the internet are not true.
What makes you think I, or anyone who rebutts your opinion, relies on the internet?
the f-ester account and the Billy-bingo account disappeared completely?
Not the posts.
That quoted post was a Billy-bingo post. The bingo/siesta account was created April 17th.
Its a name change.
The f-ester account was closed April 17th.
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somebody claiming he comes here to get his 'daily dose of stupid' needs to constantly run off plus keep changing his account name.
No 'direct accusation' by me though.
Nah. Not you Karen.
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festers-siesta wrote:
In my opinionated opinion based on my singular experience:
1. people who eat carrots wake up each day and get online for advice on how to live while people who eat meat just do what feels good.
2. meat eaters and truck owners are generally happier than carrot eating Prius drivers.
3. some people do dumb things and agonize over it. Others just laugh more.
Want proof?
Go to a health food (?) store and watch people read the tiny labels and fill their little baskets will all the "right" ingredients for a healthy life.
Then go to a tractor pull and watch the people drink beer, eat barbecued meat and laugh all day long.
Yeah dumb.
The best thing I learned moving out of a big city and into the country was that my sphincter unclenched.
That's an awful lot to put on carrots. Wasn't stew with giant gullet-blocking chunks of meat, potatoes and carrots the mainstay of many a rural American household? I certainly remember eating enough of it to decide I never wanted stew as an adult...
Stereotypes change over time. When I was little, chicken was considered a girly diet meat, unless it was fried, of course. But you still get that with turkey a little bit. Many guys will roll their eyes if their girlfriend orders a lean turkey sandwich.
Trucks and meat do not make a man. In fact, the ability to leave behind the safe male stereotypes that guys hide in is good indicator of a mature man who is finally confident enough not to care what other people perceive about them. If you get what you like and eat it, great. If you stand around the tailgate of a pickup sharing BBQ grilling tips with drinking PBRs with a huddle of other men while all the women are across the yard, and both groups are only seemingly happy this way, then not so great. Bro culture is inherently dysfunctional.
I have carrots in my fridge, along with beef and chicken and (currently) a 12lb ham in my freezer.
Beef stew/brisket is still alive and well in rural America. Like most food considered ethnic it's roots ( no carrot pun) lie in what the poorer farmers ate.
Tough meat cooked for hours and cheap, plentiful, easy to grow root crops. (taters and carrots) Cooked together in a thick onion and lard gravy.. yum.
It's not the carrots I blame for the health food folks not having fun. It's the use of carrots, etc. as weapons to use against people with more relaxed attitudes toward food and life in general.
Trucks and meat don't make a man. They make a man happy.
I spent a good share of my life as a diet aware, city dwelling, frugal, community conscious, law abiding citizen any neighborhood would be proud to call a member.
I spent those years laughing at the bumpkins in the country just knowing they had no education and no clue how to live life properly.
Screw all that.
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mpaetz wrote:
European governments tested the XL1 and got the 261 mpg result. The way the American government runs those tests is different, and it is likely the result here would have been about 209 mpg.
One good reason it would be different is that US gallons are 0.83 Imperial gallons. But we don't really use gallons here in recent decades - we switched to liters 30 years back!
Still, a Chevy Volt or a Smartcar or other small EVs are a better choice for those who can't manage a $160,000 sticker price (probably much more were it to be made today).
Indeed.
Let's hear it for bacon!
from Elroch....."Could be a magnet for grafitti? Ideal if it is white". well you called THAT shot. 
Elroch has been posting these same solutions for YRS..... (also, disregard the blue line in the 2nd paragraph about giant snails invading New York) 
Lions and tigers and giant snails oh my!
playerafar
the 'bingo' character stumbles very badly -
so who shows up immediately?
that's right.
fester. With yet another account name.
Will he 'threaten to leave' again?
And - there'll be arguments over what an 'ad hominem' is?
Behind bingo and fester though - the 'smooth' guy trying to tell people whether they can use AI or not and whether they can mention it or not.
He's still trolling about that. Can't help himself.
How did I miss this from our resident Karen?
Here's a flash for you.
In nine plus years I've had a dozen accounts and twice as many names. Most were some form of either 'history' or 'fester'.
Early on I mostly played chess. Then I found the forums and began slowly losing brain cells.
But in all that time no one but you obsessed about it. I never hid who I was. If you knew, good. If you didn't you'd soon figure it out.
Here's a heads up. I am waiting for the site to reopen an old account I have forgotten the password for and no longer have wifi so changed emails.
If and when they open it I will close this one too.
Not to worry. I'll send you a personal note so you can be first to reveal the clues. I know that will make you happy.
By the way, are you really Optomissy or do you just share a room in the asylum?
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I don't know anything about old accounts or what your history is @festers-siesta or whatever you're calling yourself. But I've had pleasant, respectful conversations with @playerafar, talks that I value because they were respectful and they had meaning. All I've gotten from you is a block, disrespect for my faith and worldview, and some personal attacks on my character and life choices. So I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but to it's pretty clear who the troll is, who the "Karen" is, who's objective is to trigger other people and who's trying to have a meaningful conversation about an important issue.
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Didn't read your post fester.
You and D need to 'get a room' maybe.
Advice not ad hominem:
If the two of you realize you're not in the military anymore and that you don't have any authority here - then maybe you'd stop letting so many things bother you - like Optimissed does.
(Side note - O was right about D. I didn't see it. O 'got the attention'.)
IPG is a much better poster than either of you.
So is Lola.
theeldest1 wrote:
I don't know anything about old accounts or what your history is @festers-siesta or whatever you're calling yourself. But I've had pleasant, respectful conversations with @playerafar, talks that I value because they were respectful and they had meaning. All I've gotten from you is a block, disrespect for my faith and worldview, and some personal attacks on my character and life choices. So I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but to it's pretty clear who the troll is, who the "Karen" is, who's objective is to trigger other people and who's trying to have a meaningful conversation about an important issue.
Your sensitivity about be disallowed from posting your religious beliefs is fogging your memory.
You blocked me. That prevents me from blocking you. I simply told you I would do so if you persisted to keep the thread unlocked.
I did not disrespect you or anything about you. You're just upset I mentioned your home schooling lacking some important social abilities, like you're exhibiting here.
Your complaint about not being allowed to proselytize here is best taken up with site management not me.
Lemme see, so if the Omega car could 100mpg, and the XL1 got about the same... so the point is that the XL1 is a better car since you also have the electric option on top of the 100mpg diesel option. So then the only question is, is having the battery/electric components an advantage, or a disadvantage?
When hybrids are running on their internal combustion engine the battery is being charged, so the total mileage is far superior. Even if the Omega Car and the VW XL1 get the same mpg with the diesel engine, the VW can actually go 260 miles using just one gallon of fuel.
Just looking at the two cars the Omega seems a lot more practical. And apparently, it's also a lot cheaper to build, own, and maintain. I don't know about the overall advantages or disadvantages of hybrids, but one of the reasons the Omega was built was simplicity. It does not have nearly the complexity of the XL1 which probably explains the cost issue. It is interesting that both are Volkswagen diesel powered though.
IPG - the Omega appears to be like a motorcycle with windows.
And the mileage figures on the XL-1 are misleading.
A much bigger thing is the worldwide prevalence of diesel fuel.
And you're right to bring up about diesel.