I own a 2003 International school bus with a DT466e. Not mechanical, obviously, but it only has 39K miles on it after a rebuild - built like a brick chicken house, as they say.

FYI the Navistar DT466 was mechanically injected until 1995.

Tires are another problem. One thing that makes me laugh about the recent Mad Max movies is that all the vehicles have brand-new knobby tires (IIRC the original Mad Max had a lot of properly fucked-up old tires). Since those movies are mostly practical effects, they needed good tires for safety but it’s totally unrealistic for a post-apocalyptic world. In reality they’d use old tires until they exploded - like most of the world today.

Refining gasoline is unlikely enough in these scenarios, but they’d have no way of sourcing the rubber for new tires, let alone the capacity to manufacture them.

Lol check out modern bikes with electric shifters.

Or that you wouldn’t last a year without your statin.

I know some very smart people from Iowa. They left.

I just realized the irony of Zion Williamson playing basketball for the New Orleans Pelicans.

My favorite is “{country} furious”.

At least he would never wear a white Batman costume. Maybe.

Or alternatively, it’s called “we were all fired by some obnoxious teenagers”.

Shedcostumetotinklaphobia

Time to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

I don’t buy this explanation for one second.

Why would the demands have even been written up in the first place if they hadn’t intended to send them?

Why has no one organized cyber warfare against your regime?

I mean … the US government (the NSA specifically) can basically read anybody’s electronic communications and let themselves into any networked device younger than 25 years old. If there were to be any kind of successful resistance to this administration, it couldn’t be “cyber” in any way.

When you make an assumption, you make an ass out of u and mption.

Right tool for the right job.

Shit, I meant to add drones to the list.

When the 2nd Amendment was written, a bunch of (trained) dudes with muskets represented the pinnacle of military power (at least if there wasn’t any artillery around, even back then). So the 2nd Amendment gave the people the right to possess sufficient military power to counter the federal government. Today, having a closet full of peashooters means absolutely fucking nothing to a government with armored vehicles, tanks, helicopters, airplanes, cruise missiles, drones, intercontinental missiles and nukes at their disposal. The idea that the 2nd Amendment represents an antidote to a tyrannical federal government is just as much of a fantasy for the Left as it always has been for the Right.

It should be “the land of the free and the former home of the brave”.

Better or worse than rape-via-twitter? Better, I guess.