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Cajun

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  1. Gotcha FF.

    I'm probably way off on my assessment, but in the end, it'll do what I need it to do.

    Certainly pummels my previous beater Suburban.  2WD pos.

  2. I guess this would be scientists "owning" AOC...

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    Climate scientists refute 12-year deadline to curb global warming

    12 years isn't a deadline, and climate change isn't a cliff we fall off — it's a slope we slide down," said Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at NASA. "We don't have 12 years to prevent climate change — we have no time.  It's already here. And even under a business-as-usual scenario, the world isn't going to end in exactly twelve years."  

    • In reference to Ocasio-Cortez's comments, Marvel said: "She's right that decisions we make in the next decade will determine how bad climate change gets — we can't prevent bad things, but we have the power to avoid the worst-case scenario."

    Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, told Axios that the idea that there is only a finite amount of time to fix climate change is the wrong way to look at the problem. She summed up the IPCC's 1.5-degree report this way: "Every action matters. Every bit of warming matters. Every year matters. Every choice matters."

    • Hayhoe says she worries that deadlines will make people treat climate change more cavalierly to start, since 12 years can seem like a long time.

    https://www.axios.com/climate-change-scientists-comment-ocasio-cortez-12-year-deadline-c4ba1f99-bc76-42ac-8b93-e4eaa926938d.html

    Distilling a complex issue into a eye catching bumper sticker that catches attention, but isn't at all what is going to happen doesn't lend much credibility.

     

  3. I'm not following FF.

    I towed my boat with a friend's 6.0 and it wasn't bad at all, but bringing it up the ramp & out of the water this 5.4 is better.  It's a lower rev, steadier pull that feels more "down low".  Maybe power was the wrong word.  It definitely doesn't have the get up and go on the roadways that my buddy's does

    Again, perhaps my terminology is flawed.  Probably should have said I like the torque curve better.

  4. On 1/5/2019 at 6:40 PM, Buzzrock said:

     

     


    I actually really like that piece and have tried to learn it to no avail.

     

    Such an intriquite bit.  Nigel and Reiner playing off each other, the serious tone, the intrigue, etc.

    But what really brings it all together, imo, is Nigel chewing that gum like a cow in the pasture working on its cud.

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  5. Speaking of influences, I've always been fascinated by the whole Beatles/Floyd/Abbey Road convergence.  Bumping around reading different articles and such I ran across this.  Pretty cool...

     

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  6. 10 hours ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

    This is a great perception versus reality post.  I don't come into CR often, but I'm guessing that I could rewind 8 years and find the same post from conservatives about Obama's 2nd term.

    I'd ask what has actually changed that makes things so bad?  I see the the liberals on my facebook feed moaning like the world will end tomorrow, but I can still get good health insurance the same way I always did (through work), my job hasn't changed and my industry is healthy and growing, we're not in any more wars than under the last administration and arguably moving toward less.  My taxes might have changed a little bit hard to notice, you can still get all the abortions you want, illegal aliens can easily come to the U.S. and stay as long as they want, and racial disharmony still exists like is has for decades and centuries.  There is still no wall.

    Yeah, America elected an idiot to the Oval.  He says a lot of stupid shit.  But thanks to the miracle of our system of government, he can't get anything done, so his impact is muted - so aside from the people who are predisposed to thinking the other side is horrible and listening to the harpies on TV and twitter yelling all day, I don't see much real life impact that would cause someone to leave.  Imagined impact, sure.  Potential future like maybe if Trump magically got everything he wanted and the US turned into dystopia...uhh, I guess, but that's pretty unlikely.  

    Unless you're trying to just exit the whole us vs. them shouting match by going to Norway where there is leftist hegemony?  I found it easier to just stop reading facebook as much.

    Spot. Fucking. On.

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

     


    and yet, no one gave a shit about it until a year ago when it became a thing for who knows what fucking reason.

     

    To say no one had a name/label for it until about a yr ago = correct.

    To say no one gave a shit until a yr ago = incorrect.

    It's been grating for a long, long time.

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