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  1. Me, over here absolutely STEAMING at the lack of ZF/WABCO parts. Did you go with what was standard position in a lot of cases, or do more pickin' and choosin'? (Joking, obvi. Early congrats on the new truck)
  2. Added a 5-piece to my order on a whim on Wednesday. They are not very good. Nor were they warmed all the way through. Needed more time in the microwave.
  3. Steam systems are common in the States, too, at least in cities in which I've lived. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system and https://detroitthermal.com/.
  4. Not to derail too much, but it was ahead of it's time as a CUV, even if it was ugly AF. If you squint, you see the silhouette of every third car on the road nowadays. Back on topic, though, between the tax credit ending and the shell games between Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and xAI, I am hopeful the Musk charade can end in the next year or two.
  5. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/europe/poland-scramble-jets-russian-drone-reports-intl-hnk-ml Uh, are we about to have a bunch of modern hussars fucking Russia up?
  6. @Bodhi, love to see it, seriously! I'll reach out if I'm in Denver for recommendations, if for nothing else, since I've never been. [Postscript on mine, since I never followed up. I ended up getting an offer in early October last year and starting November 11th and am thriving in my not-quite-new role. Through applying AI as you and I described, I made a ton of progress but it ended up being old-fashioned networking. I contacted an old classmate of mine, who put me in touch with a well-connected friend of his, who put me in touch with the General Counsel of where I work now. They'd been looking to fill the role for almost a year but were being picky, as was I with my interviews, and it worked out. I should have also added that my ex-wife and I had a tacit understanding that we were getting divorced after I went back to work and we could walk away alimony/child support free on both sides, so the pressure was there, too.]
  7. Holy shit, it's a drink. I thought it was a cup of canned green beans or okra the first time around!
  8. Actually laughed out loud.
  9. Because it's the second time it came up between your buddy and someone's kid. Believe me, I was married to a black woman for almost two decades, so she would definitely identify it. And I'm a big buzzcutted white dude who carries myself with a military bearing. Whities have no problem being open with me. Been recruited to militia-type organizations a shitload of times throughout Michigan. Snowmobiler bars, dives, bonfires, all kinds of places. Lots of conspiracy theories, lots of horseshit, not a ton of racism.
  10. Of course. I tried to use two paragraphs in my post to delineate, talking about the bubble of A2 in the first paragraph and the rest of the state in the second paragraph. Coulda been clearer, I suppose.
  11. That would totally be one of the yahoos that comes in from the hinterlands just to be a dick. Perfect example.
  12. I didn't say that the first time, but eyeroll at both of these posts. I live in Ann Arbor and haven't seen a confederate flag in years, except for a couple times when some yahoo with a lifted truck tries to make a point. And my ex-wife is black/kids mixed, it's something she/they or I would have noticed and talked about. Not but 3(?) in the 6 years I've lived here, and all of us are out and about quite a bit. Now, downriver, the Howell area, and West Michigan can be racist AF. Most of the state outside of that is pretty rural and "everyone leave me alone and stay away," which includes minorities, people from downstate, people from out of state, gubmint people, etc. I wouldn't categorize that as racist, just misanthropic. To label it as racist or the area as racist is just ignorant armchair quarterbacking (or basing on small sample size anecdote) from distance.
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