Perhaps you're the sort of person who doubts your own persuasiveness; who fears you'll never be able to inspire fond dreams in the hearts of investors; you feel you'll never meet the money people who could turn a hair-brained scheme into a into a jaw-dropping reality just by signing a big check.

Well, there's a sucker born ever minute, so have faith! See this twitter thread, and take a look at the video.

Pre-pandemic, CNN reported the losses were @200 million. It's here.

…Fear, not fears. This is spinning out of control.

Twitter—

• A small way to be kind to yourself.

• A touching monument to the repugnance of small-minded government.

Ah, yer gonna hate yourself for being hasty. "Who fears" is correct, as the "who" is singular...

On topic, comparison to animals should be carefully observed.

Nobody is shouting "#metoo" at the doe when a buck wants some. In fact, no animal, human or not, gets to pretend things when living is a daily struggle.
Bambi's not shrill about her pronouns while evading predators in search of food.

Fuck, you're right. (Well, it's early here, half-awake for FP1 from Spielberg)…

But how dare you mock our carbon cousins with your problematic, unsustainable fake news of inequity.

• Here's a very pretty boy.

• In the 1960's, this car put the ass of an AMC Pacer behind the front of a Bricklin. Apparently it wasn't a big seller.

In the 1960's, this car put the ass of an AMC Pacer behind the front of a Bricklin. Apparently it wasn't a big seller. ~ Crid at June 25, 2021 4:34 AM

Personally, I think it looks more like the ass-end of an AMC Gremlin. I tried looking it up, but most of the detailed write-ups seem to be in Russian.

The NSU referenced in the text was a West German automaker acquired by Volkswagen in 1969 and merged with another automaker to form Audi.

In the real world, of course, nobody drives Sport Utility Vehicles in the forest, because when you have paid upwards of $40,000 for a transportation investment, the last thing you want is squirrels pooping on it. No, if you want a practical “off-road” vehicle, you get yourself a 1973 American Motors Gremlin, which combines the advantage of not being worth worrying about with the advantage of being so ugly that poisonous snakes flee from it in terror. ~ Dave Barry

This, just in case you think Dave is joking.

This article talks about the worsening drought in the West. Later in the article, the subject of hydroelectric power generation comes up:

Drought is also dimming hydro-electric power across the region. Power capacity at the Hoover Dam dropped about 25%, and California is seeing the lowest levels of hydro-electric output in more than five years. Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona might approach minimum levels beyond which it produces no power, and California’s Lake Oroville could get so shallow it won’t produce power in August and September.

I know what we should do, let's put even more pressure on the system with a 100% electric car mandate. Yeah, that'll work.

You're right, all I could remember was the vague 70's mental association AMC = Nightmare."

Similarly the GMC Vega sucked as much as a Pinto, if perhaps not as murderously… Offered one or the other, it would be hard to choose.

Similarly the GMC Vega sucked as much as a Pinto, if perhaps not as murderously… Offered one or the other, it would be hard to choose. ~ Crid at June 25, 2021 7:35 AM

True. However, a Pinto wagon once got me out of an accident that I think the lighter Vega would not have.

A women raced her car across a busy street trying to get from a convenience store to the shopping center across the street. She emerged racing across, without checking traffic, from behind a truck parked at the curb. I was moving at speed up the street she was racing across.

With a newly-minted driver's license and what to do in a skid still fresh in my mind, I steered away, counter-steered into the resulting skid and the Pinto responded perfectly. Ugly cars, but I'll always have a slight fondness for the wagon version.

I had a '72 Vega. I've driven a '73 Pinto wagon, and I think the Pinto was lighter. Gotta look it up.

The Vega was a car made by people who did not like cars.
It contained something called an "engine", made by people who did not like engines.
The engine was attached to something called a "transmission", made by people who did not like cars, engines or transmissions. I had it replaced once, the mechanic claiming that there was no way any part of it was either functional or repairable.
Despite being modeled on the 1970-1/2 Camaro, the Vega was handicapped mightily. Rather than install the Pontiac 2.5L I4 or the 3.8L Buick V-6 (dreaming here!), people with official titles decided to put an aluminum-bore 2.3L I-4 in the car - without even balancing it.
Mine vibrated so hard the *carburetor* came loose.
GM wanted everyone to know how much they hated the Vega, so they didn't even wash the cutting oil off the body before painting it, which meant that you could often watch them rust in the showroom.
But the car had immense potential, and after several hours of applying Loctite™ and assorted glues, and tinkering with the engine, I got the top speed up from 88 to about 112.
(This was when going fast wasn't mass murder.)
I put a pair of 12" speakers in the back - for the 8-track player! - and off I went. Vegas are some of the most comfortable cars on the planet to drive, and I wish they'd put 'em back on the road with errors corrected.

The Vega was a car made by people who did not like cars. ~ Radwaste at June 25, 2021 9:00 AM

From the late '70s until only recently, I feel like American cars were built be companies run by people who didn't drive them - and built by people who only drove them for the sake of pride.

That's probably why pick-ups and SUVs are the vehicles of choice in this country.

With a newly-minted driver's license and what to do in a skid still fresh in my mind, I steered away, counter-steered into the resulting skid and the Pinto responded perfectly. Ugly cars, but I'll always have a slight fondness for the wagon version.

That was meant as flattery, to be clear.

> The Vega was a car made by people
> who did not like cars…
> …The engine was attached to something
> called a "transmission", made by

DOOD…

Okay, okay! Dial it down already, we feel your pain.

In those years, I inherited my preacher Grandaddy's Dodge Swinger. I'd like to tell you about all the tail that came my way from driving that thing, which finally — while securely parked — succumbed to a passing drunk driver in the 80's. It laughed at the legendary snowstorms of 1977 and '78.

I would LIKE TO TELL YOU about ALL the tail....

I have a friend who thinks the 70s was this weird conglomeration of hippies and disco.

Seeing a wood-paneled Pinto wagon hauling a bunch of Lutherans to a Sunday dinner, complete with Jell-o salads and flared polyester pantsuits, would cruelly end her fantasy.

So I just smile and say "Yes, that's right, the Summer of Love people were huge fans of Disco Inferno, and everyone drove Jag convertibles".

Why be cruel, y'know?

"In those years, I inherited my preacher Grandaddy's Dodge Swinger."

Ahh, that's the source of your eloquence!

I don't think that's been improved upon, actually. Although I would sully that one with some mods, that's exactly the street car I would base a build on - but I wouldn't touch the body. The Dodge Direct Connection catalog has wonderful things in it!