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.

Of course I’m out of town when a Pantera shows up!

Yep, I continue to regret selling the unicorn. Sigh.

My current work laptop is a an MBP. Was hoping for Apple Silicon to see how fast it is, but alas it's an i7.

So I've been SSH'ing into a cloudtop, but I just took delivery of a new workstation that I will start using instead...it's necessary for the test board I received - reflashing the BIOS, uploading software, etc. But I can still remote into it.

I love my two monitor setup too, with two 32" on my desk.

@Qaaaaa said in I'm sorry, you can still get what in 2022?!?!:

@UpCreekwithShitPaddle Ah, Car and Driver. The list of wagons:

1. Subaru Outback (this is a crossover)
2. Audi A4 Allroad (this is a crossover)
3. Volvo V60 (wagon!)
4. Audi A6 Allroad (this is a crossover)
5. MB E-Class All Terrain (this is a crossover)
6. Volvo V90 Cross Country (this is a crossover)
7. Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo (also a wagon!)
8. Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo (this is a crossover)

Those are all wagons for sure.

Also, Porsche Taycan GTS Sport Turismo.

@davesaddiction said in Uncle Joe, gaffe machine:

@bison78

He's "street smart", knows how to bully people to get his way, and is a master at controlling the news cycle. He must have some level of intelligence, but he clearly thinks he's way smarter than he is, and puts his "gut feelings" above the ideas and opinions of pretty much anyone else.

and I find the sheer number of people who buy into his bullshit to be rather infuriating and depressing.

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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.