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I like nice tool box's but this is a little much for even me. That's about 60 to 80K or more in tool storage there.
But hey, if he can afford it more power to him I say.
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The F-35 cockpit replaces traditional mechanical dials and physical switches with a digital touchscreen interface.
Panoramic Cockpit Display (PCD) is a large 20-by-8-inch touchscreen that runs across the main instrument panel. Pilots can customize it to display radar, targeting, weapon status, GPS and flight data.
Why would the USAF be okay with this? Don't they know screens are not intuitive, distracting, and hard to use in motion? Someone forgot to tell them. Plus it'll make the interior dated in a few years!
In reality, screens are the best way to interface with a computer, which is at the heart of every modern car, jet, boat, or train. Touch is the most natural way to interact with it. Even toddlers can use a tablet.
What about becoming obsolete? If this screen is enough to operate an F35 today, it'll be enough to operate it in 10 years. You can also add and improve functionality with updates.
At some point, the whole platform will be obsolete. Same goes for cars. The display simply becomes part of it's character. The real problem is cheap carmakers who refuse to use a decent, responsive unit. Many are obsolete from factory, even today.
The anti-screen crowd is wrong, and offers no solution as an alternative. "Use your phone" just means a smaller screen that isn't integrated. Imagine if pilots had to connect their iPhones after they buckled in.
Whether you're entering coordinates, changing settings, or picking a playlist, there's not actually a better or easier way. If it's good enough for an F35 running missions under enemy fire, it's good enough for your commute or trip to Vegas.
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@grok indulging Jason Lee (pic)
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🚨: Scientists have successfully grown a fully functioning human Kidney, capable of filtering blood and producing urine.
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The Cat 3408. A V8 with 18 liters and 1,099 cubic inches.
Cat built the 3406 for the highway. Then they built the 3408, a V8 with more cubic inches and a bad attitude. Every driver who had one swears there was nothing like the sound of it pulling a hill.
There was just one problem. You’d be lucky to see 4.5 miles per gallon. It was a great engine but a terrible way to make money.
No Jake brake either. Instead, Cat gave it the "Brakesaver" which was a hydraulic retarder a lot like a torque converter, but it weighed about as much as your trailer.
Some got into trucks but most of them ended up in boats and bulldozers.
Nobody ever bought a 3408 to save money. They bought it because it was a 3408.
Anyone ever had one or ran one??
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"Reused tin, nothing is level, but heck it's mine!" - Travis T.
What do you guys think?
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So today's shop topic was "Cotter Pins" or "Splints" as they are called in German.
So, I wonder if anyone out there can settle an argument at the shop. Which is correct? A or B?
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EV tires wear out twice as fast.
At least that’s what social media comments say, from people that have never owned one.
British Gas reported getting 40,000 miles from its electric van tyres, compared with 15,000 from its previous diesel vans.
That doesn’t mean every EV’s tires will last twice as long, but it does prove that not all EV tires wear faster.
Real-world evidence beats myths every time.
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Mechanic tip:
Don't overlook a bad battery as a possible cause of multiple problems on todays vehicles.
Modern vehicles are far more sensitive to voltage fluctuations than older ones were, and a battery at 80 percent capacity can cause all kinds of like throwing fault codes across multiple unrelated systems simultaneously.
The battery is no longer just a starting device. It is the foundation that the entire electrical system runs on, and when it starts degrading, the effects spread in directions that seem completely unrelated.
As cold weather approaches and if you battery is three years or more older, it might be a good idea to get it checked
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The case for low-carbon bamboo fuel starts at $2.75 a gallon.
The fastest-growing plant on Earth can be turned into biocrude with almost no waste.
A new study finds it emits 26 times less carbon than petroleum diesel.
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In highschool in 1992, I wrote a paper about the coming of a high-speed rail line in California.
That was 34 years ago. Today, there is NO real high-speed rail in the USA.
From 2008 to 2026, China has built more than 50,000 kilometers of high-speed rail.
I know a lot of my fellow Americans are EXTREMELY arrogant, but it is WAY past time we acknowledged that we should be learning from China about economics...
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The breakdown of the IPCC’s 65th Plenary Session in Addis Ababa is a lot more than a routine conflict over report schedules.
It is a fundamental rupture in global climate diplomacy - a signal that the long-standing 'political consensus' governing climate policy on the world stage has frayed beyond easy repair. It opens up a new rupture between the BRICS bloc and the West.
On the surface, the dispute centers on timing. Smaller nations were demanding that the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) be finalised by 2028 to align with the United Nations’ next Paris Agreement Global Stocktake.
But this is entirely about self-interest and keeping millions flowing into their economies from gullible nations like Australia. These transfers are money none of them should be receiving in the first place, given that long-term ocean dynamics do not support their extreme sea-level panic.
Without fresh, updated metrics locked in by 2028, these island nations lose their primary leverage to demand ever-expanding climate finance. Their push for more aggressive emissions targets from high-emitting economies remains code for even more Western cash transfers.
Pushing back firmly against this deadline is a BRICS coalition, led notably by Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and India. While framing their opposition around maintaining 'scientific rigor', the tactical delay serves a clear economic purpose: postponing AR7 past 2028 effectively neutralises the Global Stocktake.
It also buys key industrial economies a multi-year buffer against fulfilling costly, legally binding international promises.
Crucially, this tactical shift coincides with a broader scientific re-evaluation. For years, policy mandates relied on extreme high-emissions pathways - such as RCP8.5 and SSP5-8.5 established in the 2011 modeling framework - to project catastrophic warming scenarios of 5°C or more. This generated the core 'Code Red' media alarm that has driven climate policy for decades.
As mainstream science increasingly recognises, these extreme scenarios are implausible. The urgency used to demand free financial handouts has lost its primary catalyst. Consequently, the IPCC administration is rushing to lock in interim targets before the scientific world completely shifts.
This dynamic highlights a stark geopolitical reality. Rapid energy transitions have imposed severe industrial, economic, and grid-stability burdens across Western economies.
The escalation in Western climate disruption directly benefits the expanding BRICS alignment. China, in particular, dominates global supply chains for critical minerals, solar manufacturing and refining capacity, while continuing to fortify its domestic energy resilience.
A strategic climate gridlock limits Western policy enforcement while bolstering the industrial leverage of the Global South and the BRICS bloc.
The collapse in Addis Ababa further lays bare the confusion within the IPCC itself. As discussions drag on past scheduled deadlines, smaller, lower-budget delegations were forced to leave due to fixed travel arrangements. Forcing a vote in their absence may have destroyed the pompous principle of inclusivity. IPCC Chair Jim Skea was ultimately forced to suspend the entire session.
The IPCC has scheduled a new emergency session for 1–3 December 2026 looking for a compromise on the AR7 work plan and budget. If there is no consensus, the administrative and scientific backbone that has directed global climate policy for three decades faces fresh structural paralysis.
Jason Lee Thompson retweeted
888 Ich muss das jetzt einfach mal loswerden.
Weil ich es nicht mehr ertragen kann, wie wir alle für dumm verkauft werden.
Warum hat Putin die Ukraine angegriffen ?
Ich sag euch, warum ICH persönlich glaube, dass es passiert ist:
Wegen der aggressiven Osterweiterung der NATO.
Seit Jahren. Seit JAHRZEHNTEN rückt die NATO immer weiter an Russland heran.
Immer ein Stück mehr.
Immer ein gebrochenes Versprechen mehr.
Und wir sollen alle so tun, als wäre das völlig normal ?
Als hätte das keine Konsequenzen ?
Denkt doch mal an die Kuba-Krise 1962
Was erzählt man uns ?
Der böse Russe wollte Raketen auf Kuba stationieren, 90 Meilen vor Florida
Was man uns VERSCHWEIGT:
Die Amerikaner haben ZUERST angefangen
1961 haben die USA atomare Jupiter-Mittelstreckenraketen in der TÜRKEI stationiert
Direkt an der Grenze zur Sowjetunion
Moskau in 10 Minuten erreichbar
Erst DANN hat die Sowjetunion gesagt:
Wenn ihr eure Raketen vor unsere Tür stellt, stellen wir unsere vor eure - auf Kuba
Die Raketen auf Kuba waren eine ANTWORT
Und wie wurde die Krise gelöst ?
Mit einem Deal: Beide ziehen ihre Raketen zurück
Die USA aus der Türkei, die Sowjets aus Kuba
Die USA haben seit 1999 die NATO 7 Mal nach Osten erweitert.
Aegis-Raketen in Polen und Rumänien, die man in 2 Minuten von Abwehr auf Angriff umrüsten kann.
Und dann sollte auch noch die Ukraine dazu kommen.
NATO-Truppen, NATO-Raketen direkt an der 2000 km langen Grenze zu Russland.
Was glaubt ihr denn, wie Russland reagieren soll ?
So wie die USA 1962 reagiert haben
Das war für die Amerikaner damals eine existenzielle rote Linie - völlig zu Recht
Und für Russland ist die Ukraine heute genau diese rote Linie
Und dann sagen alle: "Aber die Staaten wollten doch freiwillig zur NATO"
Wirklich ?
Schaut euch Victoria Nuland an
30 Jahre US-Spitzendiplomatin, zuständig für Europa.
Sie selbst hat 2013 gesagt, die USA haben über 5 Milliarden Dollar in die "Demokratieförderung" der Ukraine gesteckt.
2014 wurde ihr Telefonat geleakt, wo sie "Fuck the EU" sagt und bespricht, wer nach dem Maidan-Putsch in die neue ukrainische Regierung kommt. "Jazenjuk ist der Mann" - und er wurde es
Das war kein freiwilliges Begehren, das war ein von Washington gekaufter Putsch
Klar, könnt ihr mich jetzt wieder als Kremlhure beleidigen.
Macht nur. Ich war mein halbes Leben Offizier.
Ich weiß, wovon ich rede, wenn es um Raketenreichweiten und rote Linien geht.
Und redet endlich über das MASSAKER IM DONBASS
Seit 2014
Seit 2014 werden im Donbass Russen massakriert.
Von der eigenen ukrainischen Armee und vom Asow-Bataillon
Über 14.000 Tote, die meisten davon Zivilisten, Frauen, Kinder, alte Menschen, die dort seit Generationen leben.
Luhansk, Donezk - 8 Jahre lang Artilleriebeschuss auf Wohngebiete, auf Schulen, auf Kindergärten.
Täglicher Terror. Wo war da euer Aufschrei ?
Wo war da eure Solidarität ?
Kein orf-Brennpunkt, keine Lichterkette, nichts
Die Menschen dort haben 2014 in einem Referendum gesagt, wir wollen nicht mehr zu Kiew gehören, und die Antwort war: Panzer und Bomben
Und dann wundert ihr euch, warum Putin sagt, er muss die russische Bevölkerung dort schützen ?
Was hättet ihr denn gemacht, wenn eure eigenen Leute 8 Jahre lang massakriert werden und keiner hinschaut ?
Und dann die wichtigste Frage:
WEM NÜTZT DIESER KRIEG EIGENTLICH ?
Schaut auf die FAKTEN:
Rheinmetall: Vor dem Krieg Aktie bei ca. 90 Euro.
Heute über 500 Euro
Rekordgewinne in Milliardenhöhe.
Und wer verdient daran ?
BlackRock
Einer der größten Anteilseigner bei Rheinmetall, über 5% direkt, gleichzeitig bei Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman drin.
Friedrich Merz war jahrelang Aufsichtsratschef von BlackRock Deutschland. Zufall ?
Wir zahlen mit unseren Steuern die Waffen, Ukrainer und Russen zahlen mit ihrem Leben, und BlackRock, Rheinmetall und Leute wie Sigmar Gabriel schreiben Rekorddividenden.


































