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I hear the new texacatalyst is extremely light. So light it may just blow away in a light breeze....

So textron's huge announcement is a way late to the party 850 class (that nobody is going to be riding this season) when the competition has had turbo two strokes and 900's in customers hands? Hope for the sake of the fans that are dying to drop $20K on this sled that wont be on snow for over a year don't get fucked by first year engine design. A big problem for textron is they are dropping this me-too sled on consumers that are already battered by record high prices and interest rates. If the snow this winter is total shit it really won't matter how big the hype is.

Maybe big news means it's a new 2 stroke designed by yamaha. That would be big news. Another cat engine just means more disappointment for everyone except dumstad.

900 - 901 whatever it takes. Hopefully it is shipping in 2025 so that all the bugs are finally worked out by 2030.

It's not that simple and not enough info for anyone here to give meaningful advice. You need to understand what exactly is the rate of return on the pension based on not taking the lump sum vs taking it. My wife, and nearly everyone else I know with a pension these days, usually has an option to cash out and that cash number changes each year. In my wife's specific case even with their best offer she would have to make returns above the historical market average with that cash to get ahead so it's better for her not to cash out yet. I'm not suggesting this is the best option for you just that you need to look at the actual annual return you need to make on that money including any tax situation you may have. 4-5% interest rates on savings accounts will evaporate immediately once the fed lowers interest rates. The longest guaranteed rate CD I have seen is 4 or 5 years and around 4.5% right now. Five years is far too short a timeframe for anyone not actually well into retirement. For my parents both 83 years old right now, they are just fine with a 4 or 5 year CD but this is not really a good option for someone still waiting to retire. The market is the only way to achieve long term returns that will exceed that of most pensions over time. How you invest in the market is personal based on your own risk tolerance and timeline.

If it was in the UK a few days ago it is now anywhere in the world someone from the UK infected with it flew to the day after it was actually there. And how in the fuck does anyone know where it now is and isn't? The virus is not contained anymore now than it was when it mysteriously escaped the lab years ago. It is still everywhere and in a constant state of mutation anywhere it exists, which is anywhere on the planet where infected people have lived. I'm just glad that for now my personal experience has been that the first time I had it was the worst by a mile and it took me 3 months to kick. The second time it was about 2 weeks and not that bad at all, just a cold. This time it has hung in there a bit longer but the symptoms have been extremely mild and I did not even take anything for them. The worst part was losing taste and smell for a couple of weeks and I'm over that. It's no coincidence that the fear machine is ramping up to full blast, just in time for shot season to begin.

For what it's worth I just finished getting over the latest covid bug going around here. Last time I had it was 18 months ago. This time was by far the least bothersome symptoms but it was different. It took me 4 weeks to fully kick it but that's largely because this is the first time I lost both sense of smell and taste and it took awhile to get both of those back. Sense of taste came back first then smell. I still don't quite have that back completely though and it does seem to come and go which is just weird. My immune system should be good to go for the covid season ahead and definitely not getting the clot shot.

I test rode a sidewinder at my dealer in 2019 before spring ordering my 20'. One issue for not ordering was the pricing that year. A tcat was $13,500 with basically no warranty or the sidewinder was $16,500 with a 4 year warranty. The price difference was just dumb for basically the same machine. I had no plans to modify it and no desire for 250HP+ for where we ride. In the end it came down to chassis and ride. One rider in our group took the test ride in Eagle River. He said the ride is now very similar to doo and poo taking into account the 600. If the partnership continues and they find a way to make a catawinder I will be very interested in test riding and it being a candidate to replace my 20'.

My vote is for a yamaha turbo in the catalyst but not sure how that's possible. The engine area looks really compact so they would have to modify to fit.

I don't get it either. Ride as fast as you want if under control and nobody is coming. Meaning slow the fuck down for ten seconds when someone is coming down the trail at your or if you are coming up on a blind corner and cannot see the other side. Nearly every single near miss we had this year would not have happened. The other one is those following in groups think it's a green light to ride the wrong side of the trail. I realize it's tempting and for some it is the only way they can try to keep up to ricky racer out in front that is going balls to the wall all day. If you cannot see down the trail or around corners even if following stay right and slow down. Otherwise ride as fast as you fucking want to.

There have been videos over the last 20 years explaining the tech that has been developed and the evolution but this recent one is not a bad summary. But I'm not here trying to prove that the REV transformed the sport all the proof that is needed is at long last cat finally has a true rider forward design. It very well may be the best on snow and it should be. I hope it is. Poo bit the bullet, paid the royalties and launched what many say is a better riding chassis than Doo many years ago now. I put in my wish list of what I want in the future from Catextron. Now they just have to deliver.

If these deep dive video's were from Poo or Doo blowing about their chassis', engines, and suspensions the cat fanatics would be pissing all over them calling bullshit on any of the claimed extra special engineering. Shit, this chassis should have the best of everything when cat has had at least 2 decades to perfect something to compete or beat the REV. How about we wait and see what happens when they actually get into the hands of the owners and get some hard miles on them? How about wait and see when a version is available with a performance engine?

I don't ride with a single cat diehard anymore that would say anything other than cats best engines were/are made by Suzuki and Yamaha. None of them would throw down their own hard earned cash for an 800 flame thrower. Yes, doo and poo have had plenty of problems over the past couple decades with their 800/840/850s but beyond initial design changes there are far fewer issues spread across tens of thousands more sleds. More importantly none of these issues kept their buyers from buying them. This is something catextron will have to do a shit ton of work on just to get their own fans to purchase if/when their next engine hits the snow in the new chassis.

Fuck, not this again.

This is the way bloated Fortune 500's have been reducing white collar work force forever but I guess to some it's new. In this case less than 10% of GM's bloated staff took the offer. 1 month pay for every year plus cobra is pretty standard fare and nothing earth shattering. So you've worked there 20 years and you get 20 months pay with health insurance. BFD for 20 years of your life. What mostly happens is that anyone that was planning to leave anyway saw it as a nice going away bonus or an opportunity to earn double while at their new job. Anyone not already planning to leave that could easily land another job would now take it. It's just another way to get rid of good talent. l had good friends that I worked with for years that went out and landed as good or better replacement jobs and then after the waiting period came back for better pay and better positions a year or two later. Same thing will happen at GM. The only way to get rid of the shit is to lay their assess off.

You're asking him to have some basic common sense. Not possible and proven daily.

I have no data on Florida but I do for Texas. My brother cools about 4000 square feet. His electric bills in TX now average $800 in the summer months with his highest being $925 last July. With geothermal heat in WI heating 4800 sq. ft. the largest electric bill I ever had over the past decade was $375. That was a January that had over two weeks of sub-zero which rarely happens. Normal average is $250 per month for heating in the winter and $150 in the summer when cooling. His electric bills are just insane down there.

The democrats won the "non-partisan" election for judge. Which is ok only to the degree that the entire abortion issue needs to go away and is the last thing this state, or nation, needs to be preoccupied with. As a nation we have an economy on the brink of collapse, a banking system that is on the brink of collapse but lets focus on something that should never have become an issue in the first place. Taking away any rights of citizens in this day and age is just fucked up. In other WI election news. The republican won the election for the 8th senate district giving the republicans a super majority in the senate. They now have the power to remove officials that are put up for impeachment by the assembly. That means, theoretically anyway, that if judges are found to be embroiled in partisan decision making they can be impeached (including the newly elected judge) and the state senate can remove them from office. The governor has no power to stop it. Really the only positive outcome of this state election was that all three questions that should have been voted yes to were by a majority of WI residents.

Yeah, it's fucking ridiculous times we live in and evidenced everyday even on this tiny sledding forum. Zero fucking common sense at all anymore. I agree, trump has had his day and he's not getting elected to even his local school board but to think trump is the countries problem right now is just beyond fucked up and a clown circus to keep the dumbocrat base focused on something other than all the other shit that is going on that really should be the topic of dicussion. We have a president that is so senile his only coherent thoughts, when not medicated out of his brainless head, is when is the ice cream being served. But it's only trump that is unfit for office.

Gubments always get their money. Texas has no state income tax. I pay $9K a year property taxes here in WI while my brother pays $15K a year on a home with the same taxable value. While $6K difference does not make up for the state income taxes I pay it does get more than made up for in the 8.25% sales tax he pays for everything he buys vs 5.5% here. Add in the fact that it's hotter than hell there, water is an issue, electricity is fucking off the charts expensive (his electric bills for AC from May to October run $800 a month) and the fact that californians fleeing their completely fucked up dumbocratic state makes it one of the last places I would voluntarily move to. I spend enough time there for business that I am happy to leave when finished.

Poll: Even 70% Of Independents Think Trump Indictment Is Politically Motivated By Tim Meads • Mar 31, 2023 DailyWire.com • Facebook Twitter Mail (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) How are Americans feeling about former President Donald Trump's indictment? Well, now that it has actually happened, we have yet to see new data answering that question. However, a Quinnipiac University poll that was released Wednesday showed that the vast majority of both Republicans and independents believed that a potential indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is “politically motivated.” “Republicans (93 – 5 percent) and independents (70 – 26 percent) think the Manhattan District Attorney’s case is mainly motivated by politics, while Democrats (66 – 29 percent) think the case is mainly motivated by the law,” Quinnipiac announced in a press release. Per Quinnipiac, that means that 62% of all Americans “think the Manhattan District Attorney’s case involving former President Donald Trump is mainly motivated by politics, while 32 percent think the case is mainly motivated by the law.” Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of Democrats believe that Bragg’s investigation is due to concern about upholding the rule of law. Curiously, that same poll finds that a majority of both Democrats and independents believe that if Trump is charged, it should disqualify him from seeking higher office. Many have speculated that a Trump indictment would coalesce the Republican Party primary voters around Trump, in support of a perceived political prisoner. There have yet to be any definitive polls proving that, though in wake of the actual announcement Thursday popular pundits such as Glenn Beck of The Blaze indicated the move made them more supportive of Trump. “Donald Trump is not even a person anymore,” Beck said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “He is a symbol of the average everyday guy that keeps getting screwed, every single time.” Beck did not go as far as to say that Trump would win the 2024 election, but he did offer a theory as to how that could happen. “I don’t know if Donald Trump is the winner or not,” Beck said. “But I will tell you this: You’re not going to stop a hundred million people. This country is in shambles, and there’s going to be a hundred million people that will walk on broken glass and through fire to vote for someone other than this corrupt banana republic administration.”

Not easy answers for dipshits with zero common sense.

Because our economy is not setup to account for robots replacing working wage earning humans in the millions. The issue is a lot of people can be directly replaced only with an AI based service - no robot needed - and huge swaths of humans are suddenly unemployed. This is not going to be gradual it will be nearly instantaneous which is why there is cause for alarm. If you are an employer competing in a market and your competitor can lay off an entire staff of humans just by signing up for a service everyone would have to do the same in order to stay competitive. It would be a tidal wave of layoff's.

Says the dipshit that brought up racing 600's.

In the near term it's not really advanced AI weapons that is concern, although it will become one, it is the huge and immediate economic impact that will be felt by millions of workers that are suddenly replaced by AI systems. One simple example are paralegals and those that write and transcribe legal documents all day. Tedious work but it pays well and it was stated that something like 300,000 paralegals could be out of a job in an instant. Literally millions of office staff that receive calls and provide phone based support to customers could easily be replaced by the technology and the list is pretty long. Going to be a bit before we see robots performing precise manual tasks but once it's there the impact will be swift and real for people trying to earn a living and support their families. Why I think a 6 month pause is stupid is because this technology should have been far more tightly controlled years ago. Like any technology that is a threat to not only our economy but the world economy it should be treated just like any military tech that you don't want in the hands of evil bastards except our own government is full of evil bastards these days. It's clear that the train has already left the station and now these same people responsible are suddenly in crisis mode. More should have been done long before we ever got to this point.