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  1. We have an update: It was carrying 8 million loose dimes or $800,000 which would weigh 39,996 pounds.
  2. ALVORD, Texas - Crews are working to clean up a truckload of dimes that spilled onto U.S. Highway 287 in Wise County. What we know: The Alvord Fire Department confirmed the dimes spilled from an 18-wheeler that overturned on Hwy. 287 near Alvord High School early Tuesday morning. The highway has been shut down since then so that crews can recover all the loose change. Images from SKY 4 showed some workers scooping up piles of dirt and coins with a shovel. Other workers used a vacuum cleaner to suck up the coins. One person appeared to be picking up dimes by hand. What we don't know: It’s not yet clear why the 18-wheeler was carrying so many loose dimes. The cause of the crash is still unknown. There’s no timeline for when the highway will reopen. The Source: The information in this story comes from the Alvord Fire Department and SKY 4 video.
  3. I haven't seen him sleep in a while!
  4. Consider building a berm around the area to divert runoff.
  5. They must have a massive stockpile of shampoo and conditioner in Seattle.
  6. COCAINE!!!
  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2uMBGTppfg&ab_channel=SlateAuto
  8. RPM

    2025 NFL Draft

    B/R is saying nobody should pick him now.
  9. RPM

    2025 NFL Draft

    He'll be #1 of the Arlington Cockgobblers or whatever the fuck they're called. Stoops will groom him.
  10. Just watched it. Very, very good.
  11. RPM

    Getting old sucks

    Go for full lens replacement. What's the worst that could happen?
  12. Who fucks the Stork?
  13. I don't see it replacing an F-150, but it could be useful as a grocery getter or farm work.
  14. Meet the Slate Truck, a sub-$20,000 (after federal incentives) electric vehicle that enters production next year. It only seats two yet has a bed big enough to hold a sheet of plywood. It only does 150 miles on a charge, only comes in gray, and the only way to listen to music while driving is if you bring along your phone and a Bluetooth speaker. It is the bare minimum of what a modern car can be, and yet it’s taken three years of development to get to this point. But this is more than bargain-basement motoring. Slate is presenting its truck as minimalist design with DIY purpose, an attempt to not just go cheap but to create a new category of vehicle with a huge focus on personalization. That design also enables a low-cost approach to manufacturing that has caught the eye of major investors, reportedly including Jeff Bezos. It’s been engineered and will be manufactured in America, but is this extreme simplification too much for American consumers? If you haven’t seen the leaks and the reports of weirdly wrapped trucks hiding in plain sight, the Slate Truck is the first product from Michigan-based Slate Auto. Think “American kei truck” and you’re not far off. It’s a machine designed to be extremely basic, extremely customizable, and extremely affordable. Those are not your typical design goals, but then the Slate Truck isn’t the fruit of your typical design process. What is a little less commonly known is just how expensive it is to paint those cars. Creating a facility that can reliably, quickly, and cleanly lay down a quality coat of color on automotive body parts is a complicated task. By eliminating paint, and thus eliminating the paint shop, Slate’s manufacturing process is massively simplified. So, too, the lack of metal body parts. “We have no paint shop, we have no stamping,” says Jeremy Snyder, Slate’s chief commercial officer who formerly led Tesla’s global business efforts. Vehicle factories tend to have high ceilings to make room for the multiple-story stamping machines that form metal body parts. Injection molding of plastic is far easier and cheaper to do in limited spaces — spaces like the factory that Slate has purchased for its manufacturing, reportedly near Indiana. “The vehicle is designed, engineered, and manufactured in the US, with the majority of our supply chain based in the US,” Snyder says. The simplification goes simpler still. Slate will make just one vehicle, in just one trim, in just one color, with everything from bigger battery packs to SUV upgrade kits added on later. “Because we only produce one vehicle in the factory with zero options, we’ve moved all of the complexity out of the factory,” Snyder says. While most buyers will rightly fixate on the cost of the truck, the bigger story here might just be this radically simplified approach to manufacturing. “From the very beginning, our business model has been such that we reach cash flow positivity very shortly after start of production. And so from an investment standpoint, we are far less cash-reliant than any other EV startup that has ever existed, as far as I know,” Snyder says. “At start of production, we will have coverage across the country for servicing your vehicle,” Snyder says. Snyder declined to say who will provide the service, but it seems reasonable to expect something along the lines of a Midas, Monro, Meineke, or perhaps some other nationwide service chain that begins with the letter M. And finally, how can you buy one? It should come as no surprise that Slate will follow Tesla’s footsteps by offering direct sales. No nationwide network of dealerships is planned. Instead, a limited set of pickup centers will pop up as needed based on preorder data. Or, if you don’t mind paying a little more, home delivery will be available. Preorders cost just $50 on Slate’s site, and deliveries are expected to start in late 2026. Slate hasn’t said exactly how much the truck will cost, only that it’ll be less than $20,000 after federal incentives — assuming those incentives are still in place in 18 months’ time. The bigger question, though, is whether consumers will actually be into such a simplified vision of what a car can be. The Slate Truck is a rolling rejection of the current, bloated state of American motoring, but it’s consumer demand that’s driven the market down this dark alley. Are those consumers ready for a rolling digital detox?
  15. Haven't watched that episode (but I did read it in the story) so I'll give the benefit of the doubt. I kinda remember living through the real thing and former WFAA reporter Don Harris getting ambushed at the airstrip.
  16. It turns out Bill Hader has been drinking the Kool-Aid. Variety has learned exclusively that Hader and Daniel Zelman are currently developing an HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the infamous events at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, a.k.a. Jonestown. According to an individual with knowledge of the project, Hader is being eyed to potentially star in the show as well. Hader is co-writing with Zelman, with both serving as co-showrunners and executive producers. Hader would also direct should the project move forward. News of the series comes not long after a Jonestown movie served as a central plot point in an episode of the critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ series “The Studio.” Neither Martin Scorsese nor Steve Buscemi are involved in the HBO project at this time. Jones founded the Peoples Temple in the 1950s and established what became known as Jonestown in the 1970s in the nation of Guyana. Jonestown came to international attention when over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, including Jones, died in a mass murder-suicide at Jones’ direction in 1978. Jones and Jonestown have been the subject of intense media attention ever since. Multiple books and documentaries have been released, while Powers Boothe starred as Jones in the two-part CBS miniseries “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones” in 1980. “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan was also developing a Jonestown series at HBO beginning in 2016, but the project did not move forward. Hader as Jim Jones? Oh Yeah!
  17. I'll take "Weak People with Shitty Contractors" for $1000, Alex.
  18. A 36-year-old woman was fatally shot at a far north Fort Worth shooting range Tuesday, April 22, officials said. Fort Worth police were called to Shoot Smart at 10305 N. Freeway at 11 a.m. The 911 caller described the shooting as accidental, according to the call sheet. The indoor shooting range is off Interstate 35W in the Alliance area. The woman died at Shoot Smart, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner. Police said the shooting was self-inflicted, but didn’t give any more details. The Medical Examiner will determine the woman’s cause of death after an autopsy. A 26-year-old man died at the same shooting range Dec. 30. His death was initially reported as an accident, but the Medical Examiner later ruled it as a suicide. Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article304871241.html#storylink=cpy Might want to go with a different marketing strategy.
  19. Well it came down like a cow pissing off a tall cliff on to a flat rock in Wiseco. Got home a few minutes ago and the culvert under my driveway was blocked creating a smallish lake that was spreading on the highway. It was at least chest deep in the ditch and the road leans my way so it was only getting larger. Grabbed a sharpshooter and fished around a few times until it unclogged. Looked like I opened a dam coming out the other end. Watching the whirlpool was satisfying until I remembered it was still raining and I was getting soaked.
  20. The second coming of cool. LULZ
  21. RPM

    Below Deck

    You'll wear what Bravo says you wear and say what Bravo says, Master Thespian.
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