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Spork

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Haha, you got me curious. I got to "rhinoceros sperm" and then headed back. It's not a term I've ever heard, that's for sure. @Spork what's her opinion on the car overall?
:rofl: She actually liked the car. Kept turning off the traction control and spinning the tires. The video was right up there with Lightbrite, I believe one one of the dash shots it said like 270 miles for the charge so range is decent. I just can't get over $40k sticker price for a Hyundai where the gas version (front wheel drive) starts at $21k. At 30mpg and gas at $5/gallon you could drive 114,000 miles on the price difference.
 

Stephen

Who Dares Wins
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I'm not making any claims but I'm about a 1/4 through this adventure and I find it definitely shareable and interesting:

You're seriously suggesting that the war in Ukraine is fake?
 

Hickey

Burn-barrel enthusiast
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We are absolutely being hammered with propaganda from many different sides. Every time you see a story about a guy saying a tearful goodbye to his young family, as he's about to go off and fight the bad guys... That's meant to exude feelings from you. It's meant to make you feel OK about getting involved in another war. Ask yourself how those scenes are filmed and how it's set up for maximum drama for the viewer.
 

Stephen

Who Dares Wins
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Are you retarded or just unable to read? I seriously didn't think all that mask wearing would cause that much oxygen deprivation to your brain.

The conflict is real, but obviously there's a major propaganda element as well. Good god man...
Oh, personal attacks! So adult, so ALPHA BRO! Of course there is propaganda, this is a war. The fact that you are surprised by it and think that it is part of some vast hoodwink is surprising, but I guess it shouldn't be. Titanic and all that...

And of course Zelensky was an actor. If you had been paying attention to Ukraine before two weeks ago you'd know this was a major talking point when he was running for office and when he was elected. And if that means he's a puppet, well he's doing a pretty convincing job! I mean, he's managed to pull the wool over the eyes of everyone from Ariana Huffington to Ben Shapiro and everyone in between. So the Judeo-Space Laser wielding lizard men have managed to galvanize the entire political spectrum into believing him. That's some pretty good acting!

You keep being you, Shane. Your posts are always good for a laugh. 👍
 

Cody

Random Quote Generator
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For what it's worth, I agree that it shouldn't be surprising that the media is trying to elicit an emotional response from it's consumers.... Because that's what they are supposed to do.

That's not even marketing 101. It's like marketing .001

The laser jokes aren't funny. Real people's lives are being impacted by this laser group. Just wait a couple more weeks, you'll see.
 

TRD270

Emptying Pockets Again
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I do find it also ironic that the same people who are most opposed to higher pay also complain the most about social programs for low wage workers.
Okay now that i'm not at my second job I can compose a better thought. Also like Jeeper my family didn't have crap growing up. My father drove a clapped out Toyota corolla that would make Fred Flinstones car look like it had solid floors, my mom had a beater hand me down as well. We didn't have special things just happy to have a meal and a place to sleep. When my sister and I got a little older my mother was able to get a job which was great because we had a little extra income and as a bonus she was a food rep so we got some free food. Both my parents worked hard to provide. They NEVER took a welfare check. Hard work paid off for both and little more money came in. Education wasn't a priority instilled in my life growing up neither parent has a degree hell my mom doesn't even have a high school diploma. I wanted to be a diesel mechanic but we didn't have the money to pay for an education. Guess what I did, went in the military to get that money. Didn't ask for someone else to pay for it, didn't rack up thousands in debt and ask for it to be forgiven, I earned my money.

Fast forward in my life, I wanted to improve myself and wanted a different career. What did I do? No I didn't ask the government for a handout, no I didn't go on welfare. I worked overtime, saved my pennies and earned my flight certificates in less than a year working a full time job as a police officer. I still have no school debt, I sold everything of value I owned, worked more overtime and worked HARD to improve my situation and pay for that $75,000 worth the education on my own. I didn't come out of flight school expecting to make $400,000 the first year. Not like this entitled generation that wants free school and come out and earn CEO wages. I went to a $12hr flight instruction job. Did a good job there by working hard and earned an assistant chief position by WORKING HARD. Worked another job in Hawaii, took a $25hr paycut to go gain valuable experience. How did I do that, well it was a goal of mine so I saved money knowing I couldn't survive off the salary of the job I wanted. I didn't show up and expect the .gov to take care of me on my poverty wages. I'm still not making great money, however it will pay off in the future when I do land that nice airline job. But I had no expectation of having that wage straight out of schooling it must be earned from experience and effort.

Yes i'm opposed to socialism and social programs. Let's look at California, it should be the richest most prosperous state in the Union. Agriculture, business, ports what doesn't California have? But why is California one of the most highest taxed most oppressed states in the country. Paying millions of people to do nothing thats why.

I also heard on the radio that the power grid couldn't actually even support only 10% of people going to electric cars. anyone have facts on that?
My thoughts exactly, how taxed is our power grid already in the summer. Now you want to charge cars? Ohh and where does our power come from here, ohh yeah coal..... super clean EV power. Solar is great and all but several months of the year solar isn't a great option in our region.
It will be interesting to see what happens in California over the next few years. They've banned generators recently. This is another hammer in the nail for an Owner/operator truck driver in California.
Some counties have also already banned any new gas stations from being built
 

Herzog

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For what it's worth, I agree that it shouldn't be surprising that the media is trying to elicit an emotional response from it's consumers.... Because that's what they are supposed to do.

That's not even marketing 101. It's like marketing .001
This is about more than money / customers of media. It’s manufactured consent. We just watched it happen over the last 2 years of Covid and now it’s the same thing just different venue.

The media giants are all part of the same club and societies. This is demonstrable. The mind precedes all and their job is to make up your mind before you do.
 

Cody

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The media giants are all part of the same club and societies. This is demonstrable. The mind precedes all and their job is to make up your mind before you do.
Soooo, it's business as usual, only with billions of extra data points and the processing power to directly target the weaponized data to the poeple that are most likely to want to believe it.
 

glockman

I hate Jeep trucks
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The omnibus bill has $728 billion for Department of Defense. $32 billion increase from 2021!!! The bastards don't even play good cop bad cop anymore. It's just bad cop, worse cop. Can we go back to the R's loving defense and war and the D's loving welfare and social safety nets. At least then they had to fight each other to straight hand money to their buddies. Now they are all on the same side just raping the shit out of the tax payers!:mad:

EDIT: For perspective, there are 31.5 million seconds in a year. They INCREASED the DoD budget by $1000 per second this year.
 
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