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Voodoo

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  1. See the same here. Add in rv's and trailers. Worst part IMO, is government spending in the last few years has much to blame for it and now we find ourselves powerless to control the inevitable. The piggy bank is empty and the ability to stimulate the markets isn't there. We are on track, to next year pay roughly %15 of our federal tax in interest alone, or 55 Billion dollars. I put that figure at roughly $3000 per taxpayer.
  2. I can see where this may have some validity. Trump is his own worst enemy when it comes to public relations. All he needs to do is keep his mouth shut and out of jail for 6 months. R Run on the "I'm not Joe Biden" platform and he'd have support across many demographics.
  3. TMTG's current valuation of approximately $5 billion is equivalent to about 1,220 times the loss-making company's revenue in 2023 of $4.1 million. 1,220 times the annual revenue. This in no way makes any kind of financial sense and is a legal pyramid scheme. Best be one of the first ones out...last one out turn off the lights please.
  4. The Karens of Canada would never allow that ad here.
  5. Yet Ontario announced yesterday a deal with Honda, for a battery plant. It's set to be twice the size as the deal with VW, which is set to cost the taxpayer 16 billion. FYI, Ontario isn't swimming in a big pool of extra money. We have a 10 billion dollar deficit adding on to the 400 billion dollar debt. It's madness upon craziness after lunacy.
  6. That's cheap compared to a drink at a Jay's or Leaf's game. $20 is the kinda the going rate per tall boy.
  7. I can only imagine the urine to water ratio in that general area is quite high.
  8. I put a new 9.9 Yammy 2 smoke on an old alcan tinny, that I could damn near lift with one hand. It was scary lol.
  9. Gold! I love to send these to the brother in law. I used to think he was smart. A smart person would have picked a different team to cheer for decades ago.
  10. I've had my data stolen from various breeches at banks, I think I have had free monitoring for 5 ish years. As stated above, for Canadians, Borrowell offers completely free credit reports online. I look weekly despite the free monitoring. My lack of a monthly payment, mortgage, car, sled etc, impacts to the negative.
  11. For sure. The 8 year warranty should offer piece of mind but the potential is there. Many of the newer gasser engines being squeezed hard for horsepower and efficiency are problematic and the warranty is no where near the Tesla battery. Plus one for Tesla. I'd own one if I could justify another vehicle....and would not expect my friends an neighbor to pick up part of the cost. That's my only issue with all things green, the grift.
  12. No more than Biden. It's the same up here...it all depends on whose ox is getting gored, but Trudeau has brought his A game to division.
  13. They needed a study? Anyone who has owned a higher end Krautmobile could have answered this for them. It is surprising how close the lower number manufacturers are. I am slightly confused though at the 10 year numbers. I find it difficult to believe the Tesla at 10 years does not need a battery. That would throw them much closer to the high end of the spectrum IMO.
  14. You appear to have a classic pull yourself up reality. My dad worked like a dog through the 70’s and 80’s while mom stayed home to raise 3 kids. All the heartaches of up and down economies. My parents still have a mortgage. Any pension dad should have had evaporated when the company he worked for went bankrupt. I too learned that hard work was where it was at. First job at 13 on local farms, dish washer, maintenance and bar tender at a motel/restaurant 15 miles away. When dad lost his job as an engineer at the place that also lost his pension money, he was fortunate to have made a good friend who came from Germany. This friend came from Germany in the 70’s and started a company manufacturing control systems, much of it in the nuclear industry. Dad’s knowledge of the electric heating industry and engineering for same did well, and his friend branched his business to deliver to the clients dad had in in with. It came about the work load was too much, so the entire electric heating production needed to be outsourced. It was offered to me. My wife and I had just bought our first house but we took the gamble. There was a high demand for quality air handlers, many of such went to remote locations. They had to work, well, without maintenance, ultra reliably. That’s our hallmark. Everything was designed and built in house. Most of what we built is still running, reliably, decades later. Quality parts, professional build. Today much of what we did is now low bidder, get past the warranty stuff. Few but the long involved can see the benefit of quality vs price. We’ve got generator testing, load banks at Canada’s major banks, government server locations, that run decades with minimal repairs. The competition made units for half the cost, but would need major refits or replacement at 5 years. It’s a tougher sell in todays throw away society. We all were working 7 days a week, seemingly for years. It was just me, my wife and my dad. There was no one else to blame, get money from, if things went south. We did a quote for a 2 MW load bank, TD tower at Younge and Dundas, Toronto. 16 week build time. They fucked the dog until the end of February, the following year. They kept coming back with revisions, changes, which we did..always telling them it’s 16 weeks after approval. They finally came forward with a purchase order. Mid March. This has gone on 2 years. Yep, we are on it. 4 weeks later the emails start to fly. This unit needs to be lifted to the roof of the TD tower on May 24. 6 weeks after start. I come back to them, not possible. This thing will eventually be the size of a 10x20 sea can and 10 tons. Needs ESA approval and testing. They come back to me, it has to lift on that date, whatever you need to make it happen we will be good with. Shutting down Younge and Dundas for a crane lift is costly…like 250k. I spend a couple days with the production teams and come up with a plan. We can spend all of our time building the frame, getting the load bank, motors and blowers in place. It can then lift and we finish it on the roof. Be an extra 60k on my end. They apparently appreciate and approve. The day comes, it lifts. It’s a Sunday. Monday comes and I get an email. A list of deficiencies and threats. Tuesday I slide down to the job site. Downtown Toronto. I can’t even get my truck into the underground parking, let alone the trailer I need for parts and tools….oh, and it’s a union site. Can’t start before 7 and must be gone by 2:30. Thankfully the guys I had doing the work were union. No fault on the union guys in my circle of people, they were excellent. I bet my house on this job. We got it done, or I’d be living in a van by the river
  15. Was he vaxxed? In the proximity of a 5G tower? Low on testosterone?
  16. Sure. Just a random place to set yourself on fire....as people do... It's such a frequent occurrence, it was bound to happen....in front of the courthouse that has the Orange devil. LMFAO
  17. Quite possible. I find it extremely difficult to believe many in the media would not be on this like a pitbull on a poodle. I'm willing to wait this one out. Get it first, but first get it right is a rare bird on FSCE.
  18. Our dope receives the same treatment. In 8 years, he has destroyed the hopes and dreams of at least one, possibly two generations.
  19. Company I work for tried switching an asphalt plant from diesel fired heat to hydrogen. Heating asphalt takes a massive amount of heat. They went through tens of thousands of gallons of diesel a day There was a hydrogen filling station 30 miles away, so they bought a trailer to bring it in. The problem was the heat generated in compressing the hydrogen to a liquid. When it reverts to a gas it demands the heat it lost in the change of state. When the demand came for the hydrogen, the decanter they had to decompress the hydrogen was quickly overwhelmed, even in the summer heat. They really needed a decanter that could effectively reheat the hydrogen. Toyota is not a stupid company. They will figure it out. Perhaps they use the energy generated by wind and solar to heat the hydrogen, maybe use the already decompressed hydrogen to heat the incoming supply. A visual representation of this can be seen in the space shuttle boosters on the Columbia. Anyone who owns an air compressor can see how this happens. If the air gets compressed and used immediately, it’s hot Use that air tomorrow and it’s cold. Trust the science!!
  20. Very sad, but its first degree murder, period. He should spend the rest of his days in jail.
  21. Defamation is easy to avoid. Don't lie and make shit up.
  22. I live in Ontario and have watched the rental market. Big landlords have good legal teams. I personally don't care what happens to them, maybe I should. The bigger issue is what happens to the mom and pop landlords who get a professional tenant. It is so hard to evict a tenant who doesn't pay rent, sometimes for years, few want to get into the rental game. I could easily rent out a room or two, even bring in modular housing and all that entails. Cost me hundreds of thousands, but would bring good homes on the market. Without the the ability to collect rent, how would that make sense.
  23. Smartest thing I've seen you say....but there is still a housing shortage.
  24. I own 4 GM's. Front hubs are chronic. 3 of the four all take the same hub. 1500 series AWD vans, same as a 4x4 pickup truck. I now buy in bulk. The cheapest shit I can find. Air hammer. One of the best tools I ever bought. Has yet to fail getting a hub out, without heat.
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