I left the stability of an established DoD aerospace firm today. I spent over a dozen years there.

But I've never been so anxious to start a new gig before. I'll be joining an exciting new venture...in the automotive industry.

It's going to be a LOT of work, as any such new venture has its challenges. If it doesn't work in the long run, it will still be amazing experience that could springboard me to working for major automakers. I'm just looking forward to do something I've always wanted to do, in an industry I never thought I'd get to be a part of.

Wish me luck, Oppo.

Let’s see if it shows up before 2023.

F-350 Lariat
6.7L
Rapid Red w/black interior
Lariat Sport and Tremor packages
Moonroof
And a few other things I’m forgetting..

Clarkson, Hammond and May should make accounts on the hyphen.

You're not wrong.

Everyone happy with this ruling better be willing to adopt an unwanted child, and pay for all the medical care to get the woman through pregnancy. And pay for her housing if her parents throw her out. And the therapy. Etc etc etc

Otherwise they'll only be proving the Conservative hypocrisy pointed out by Carlin many decades go.

...and houndstooth seats. And a ducktail spoiler. And Fuchs style wheels.

I think I want this more than a GT3.

I shudder to think of the cost of these with ADM's..

Good Lord this is schmexy

Moving from SoCal to the Greater Seattle Area was one of the worst experiences ever. We had the absolute worst moving company.

But, it's over now. We're here, our stuff is here, and we're settling into our temporary home while the house in SoCal sells. Due to the craziness of the market we decided to clear out and move ahead of time..being within minutes of the areas where we want to buy will make a decision much easier to make than trying to close two escrows at once WHILE moving such a huge distance.

The move was worth it. We love it so much here, and I'm still loving my new job, which is exciting stuff. It'll be awesome to some day see UI in cars that have been developed with tools I'm helping to create.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to do some [Un]necessary wagon shopping. Audi killing their ICE's means I want to start hoarding them.

Furthermore it really grinds my gears when I see shit on Twitter along the lines of "The President automatically gets a clearance, and his cleared even after he is no longer President."

NO and NO.

The President gets access to classified info BECAUSE he is the president. That privilege expires upon leaving office.

Secondly, just because you have (for example) a Top Secret clearance DOES NOT give you immediate access to anything categorized as Top Secret. There is still a "need to know" basis. You are only granted access to Top Secret information IF you have the clearance AND it is pertinent to your job.

SCI (Sensitive Compartmentalized Information) is even more stringent. Once you get Top Secret, you have to apply for SCI, and the owner of the information will grant access if they want, and more often than not this requires an even more in depth background check than Top Secret, including lie detector tests. It can take over a year of investigation to get TS or TS/SCI.

Trump does not have a clearance. Not for Top Secret, sure as hell not for TS/SCI. And he sure as shit does not have a need to know for anything in those documents. Doubly so for nuclear information.

I'm tired of people defending this shit or ignoring that it's happened. Trump spent all of his presidency accusing others of treason, yet he blatantly commits it and all the right fucking says is "But Her Emails blah blah blah Hunter Biden's Laptop blah blah blah".

Enough. Enough of him already. Toss him in a deep hole or send him back to his handlers.

I'll be wasting a lot of time on this.

Pickup trucks. All of them.

DD F250
Truck F350
Burn F150

@AMGtech said in What is a fuel system cleaning service and how is it performed? Is it a scam?:

Otherwise I probably wouldn't bother unless your engine is notorious for carbon build up issues.

How would this compare in effectiveness to, say, walnut blasting (as the RS4 needs for its notoriously horrible CB problem)?

@amoore100 and the Cayenne Turbo GT.

@WBizarre if you need a stupid fast three row, the Escalade V has this beat and is faaaaar better looking.

Imagine paying $160k for something that looks like a trash can.

@FractalFootwork lovely 992 as well.

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4 looks like a 1JZ-GTE VVTi

@ibRAD high end equipment, very efficient, and lots of air filtration for a big house. This is also a HCOL area.

Also, the GR is more expensive than I recalled for some reason. This work will be about $30k total. water heater is gonna be expensive because extra work needs to be done just to be able to use it.

@MidEngine

@MidEngine said in ME returns to regular shitposting:

I swapped out the battery in the Cayman (pivoted to an AGM) and when I started it up, all hell broke loose with all kinds of error codes until I drove it for a bit. All's well.

Yeah, that was my experience with the same swap!

The Bolt Creek fire is a bit further from us of course, but it still did a number on the asthmatic lungs in this household.

I accepted a bid for furnace replacement coupled with a heat pump, and one for a new hot water heater. Almost enough to buy a new GR Corolla all said and done. Also had to have emergency septic system repairs done to the tune of $5k.

I love this house but I'm ready to be done with giant bills.

My parents almost always had at least one Merc in the garage:

A history:

W115 240D
W123 200E
W124 260E
W220 500E
W211 E320CDI

Currently they have a GLC 300 and a W212 E350 4Matic wagon.

They've also had other interesting cars here and there, such as a Volvo 240DL wagon, VW Rabbit, first-gen Celica, and a Peugeot 504 diesel wagon.

I've never owned a merc, but certain models do get my attention from time to time..perhaps the biggest influence it had in general was an affinity for European cars, particularly German.