Ahhh, that paid for car smell. Haven't had a car payment in the last 40 years.

That I can no longer trust General Motors Trucks.
I have always driven Cheverolet Trucks. Except for a few Datsuns, and Nissans, they have been my go to truck brand.
I just recently sold my 2006 Silverado to my trucking company, so I could give it to my best driver, as transportation to and from work. My personal driver is a 1968 C10, with a 327 V8. My Company truck, is a 2018 Z71 Piece of crap. At 78K the ABS module went out, costing roughly $1800, and at 85K the transmission shelled, costing my company another $6500. I started reading up, and find that both these problems are well known by GM. So I have learned my lesson the hard way. From now on, I am strictly buying late 1980s through early 2000s for my company trucks. I can rebuild the entire drive trains, and be dollars ahead, than putting drivers in newer pieces of ****.
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I'm on my second RAM 1500. The 2018 was the ecodiesel... 2 EGR issues inside 25k miles and was told no permanent fix in place. Sold it to Carmax.

Got my current with the Hemi. So far so good. *fingers crossed*

Yeah, those Hemi motors run good. I have just decided to rebuild older trucks, for company trucks. Less bells and whistles, translates to less to go wrong. If it has good drive train, blows hot and cold air, and has a good stereo, that is all I care about.

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I had a Chevy Silverado 1500 I bought new in the early 2000's. 2006? I swear that thing was built on a Monday the day after the Superbowl by a bunch of hungover workers because I had nothing but problems with it.

It had a handful of recalls and some known problems that didn't make them problem enough to classify as a recall (they called it a service advisory or something like that). Engine issues, brake issues, power steering issues, clutch issues tranny issues (had to get the tranny rebuilt around 60k). Other than the recalls, those fixes were all out of pocket. I never drove it hard or had anything that I towed or used it for plowing. 30 min daily commute to work and back, run around town errands, trips to Home Depot for home fix up supplies, camping trips, ski trips. Try driving the Kancamagus Highway in the NH White Mountains coming home from a ski trip with no power steering - that's some white knuckling scary bad fun.

All of the problems happened after the warranty expired but under 100k miles.

I was so pissed at the thing. I finally got rid of it around 80k miles, I think, for a trade in. I took a kick in the shorts on that too because it wouldn't shift into 4WD which was the last straw. I determined that I had three choices: give it a ghost ride off a cliff, have a party and sell tickets for $10 per swing of a sledge hammer to beat the thing to a pulp or trade it in and get something for it.

I made an oath that I will NEVER buy any Chevy or GMC vehicle again. To this date I have upheld that oath and I don't plan on breaking that oath.

I digress, this is not knowledge recently acquired. I classify it as experience - something acquired AFTER you needed it.

From 1945 to 1980 the U.S. recorded 30 broken arrows which is a missing nuclear bomb. Thats almost once per yr. average. After 1980, records were no longer made public.
Also several fruits and vegetables are man made and do not exist naturally like corn, broccoli, tomatoes, oranges, etc.

Starlink has launched 5,420 satellites into orbit since May 2019, and plans to launch 6,500 more.

https://heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT 

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Long time gone, welcome back.

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Ditto. Don't be a stranger.

blinkies and beepies on a flyspeck of an island...missed ya!

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I'm working 56 hours overtime in an 80 hour pay period!

I might retire next year when I turn 70!
There may be a bardominium in my future.


And newly acquired info: Linux Mint has a Debian Edition.

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Good to see you man..!! 🤣

Yeah, man... don't work so hard. Need to enjoy life.

Is a bardominium just a barndominium with a very large bar ? Good to see you again.

Hmmmm... a BarNdominium with a Bardominium... brilliant!

The world's highest mileage car is a Volvo P1800 with 3.2 million miles on it.

"For all the focus on China, Japan is actually the top holder of U.S. sovereign debt, with a total of $1.1 trillion." (WSJ)

and that figure will go higher when Shohei Ohtani picks his next team...

Having genuine knock off wheels on my corvette has caused some confusion. It appears that the spinner marked "left" goes on the right side (passenger side) and the spinner marked "right" goes on the left (drivers side).