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Thank you very much for sharing our very similar thoughts on this matter. I’ll take the ‘66 Mustang with a real glass of water and a bagged lunch- Thank you. :) At least I won’t be continually thirsty for real life. Much love to all of you.
Jeff got it all wrong. The Dumb cars need AI, to lull the dumbass to sleep on the drive to nowhere. The Smart cars need a skilled driver, an operator with a BRAIN who knows why he/she got behind the wheel in the first place. Don’t get me going…
There are two types of drivers, 1) the plush-bottom yahoohs who view the car as an appliance akin to a washing machine, and 2) those who view it as a marvelous piece of engineering to be mastered. For the first, self-driving cars cannot come quick enough as these people are a menace to society.
You know the type, and it's infuriating to be behind one on a two-lane road. They can't stay within the lines on a curvy road as it's too mentally taxing. They put on their brakes for no reason, either from hallucinations or seemingly unaware that simply taking their foot of the gas will slow the car down. The concept of downshifting is as alien to them as differential calculus. They think the car is a phone booth, for carrying on long cell phone conversations or texting about meaningless nonsense. If their GPS told them to drive off Santa Monica Pier they would unthinkly do so. All while petting the poodle sitting on their lap and simultaneously trying to navigate some strange road.
The second type hate the idea of a self-driving car, and view it as insulting. These people view the car as an extension of their own skill, reflexes, pattern recognition, and cognitive ability. Their ability to expertly control a 400 hp marvelous machine, is a point of pride. They take corners smoothly, downshifting into them, and accelerating out of them. They never use the brakes unless it's a stop sign or red light. Curvy canyon roads are sought out, not feared.
The road has their full attention, and not just their immediate vicinity, but also the clueless nitwit riding the brakes in a Toyota Camry a hundred yards in front of them. They know they are going to need to deal with them, and are already mapping out the plan in the back of their mind to do so. All without missing a beat in the immediate driving surroundings. The idea of trying to pet a poodle while controlling such a machine is absurd. The idea of even owning a poodle is absurd.
I'm in camp number two, as were most people not that long ago aside from little old ladies. The death of car culture killed that, as most people are now too stupid, lazy, or preoccupied to properly control a vehicle. Put these people in self-driving cars as soon as possible, because at least then they will be predictable to those of us that actually pay attention and enjoy driving.
You left out the third type, my type. The car is a TOOL and one must know how to operate it safely in order to accomplish the task: get from point A to B. It is not a restaurant to eat your meals in; it is not a substitute for Public Storage to stash house overflow junk in; it is not a drag racer or whatever the hell they call tearing up turf doing donuts in. We are the type who drive sober and alert, who don’t want outside forces listening to their conversations or curtailing their freedom to move about the country.
That would be ME. I do not really LIKE driving but I do relish the freedom to go where I want when I want (despite the push to make us all take buses and such) and I am a fan of power when I step on the gas although pretty much stick to the 5 over the speed limit rule and do not hang out in the fast lane. Always monitoring the other drivers for stupid behavior (that I seem to see more and more of) including seeing the guy who decided to merge onto the interstate right into my front passenger side - I 'knew' he was going to hit me and nowhere to go but into the car on my left. Idiot actually tried running from the scene but there was a police car 2 cars back who saw it and took off and caught him. And he told his insurance company that he had hit a guardrail and no other cars were involved. Police report indicated otherwise thank goodness.
Nice to hear a story where the police were in just the right spot at the right time. But sorry to hear about your (literal) run-in! Hope you were okay!
Yes I was fine, just pissed off and his insurance totaled my car so sad I had to find a new one. And very thankful to the PO who even gave me a ride home when the tow truck showed up with 2 guys in the truck as I had planned to call my hubby to pick me up from where they were towing the car as it was a busy highway and hard to just pull off and get back in traffic. Turned out we had a mutual friend in LE and had a nice chat.
Ah yes, the "5 over the speed limit rule"! A good rule, possibly started back when earlier speedometers would consistently over-indicate your true speed. And of course, it's "relative", e.g. a friend told me that he'd been told by Highway Patrolmen/State Troopers that 9 over the speed limit on freeways (typically 65-75) was usually ignored as long as other indicators weren't present, like weaving within or between lanes, etc.
On the other hand, 5 over in a 15 in a school zone is probably a bad idea...
Interestingly enough, for folks who have gotten security clearances, you would typically have to answer a series of questions, like "Have you every stolen anything?", "Have you ever been arrested?", "Have you ever been convicted for Driving Under the Influence?", etc.
But, at least in the old-style-paper SF-86 Security Questionnaires, they deliberately asked about speeding to the effect of "Have you ever driven more than 5 miles per hour over the posted speed limit?". So the "5 over the speed limit rule" was acknowledged in our National Security apparatus!
So, I'm curious, how did you learn about the "5 over" rule?
It is just 'common knowledge' I guess?? From time to time I will ask a PO about it and they often won't admit it, but have been told that any road with a 40 MPH or over speed limit, 5 over is not worth stopping unless, like you said, there are also other things - weaving, expired tags, tail light out, etc. And yeah, my '5 over rule' generally applies to main roads and highways, not residential streets, I tend to go under the speed limit in my neighborhood.
Thanks for the response, and that's interesting about 5 over on 40+ speed limits in your area. But yeah, I tend to go under limits on residential streets too, especially if they have speed bumps, which are present in a lot of the neighborhoods here. Those streets usually have a 25 MPH limit, but with cautions to reduce speed to 20 when going over those "bumps", and I'll often slow to a walk to ease going over those (depending on who or what I'm carrying) and to save wear & tear on the suspension (but I'll seek those roads out to avoid the, often reckless, people speeding on the major commuting routes, with their "suicide lanes" which change direction during rush hours)!
Your comment is so beautifully written and was as joyful to read as a ride in a manual shift muscle car on an open straightaway. It was obvious which camp you belong in with the eloquent way you described type 2. Thanks for such an enjoyable reply.
I'm definitely in camp number "twain". Also, give the self-driving cars to the goofs who always drive in the inside lane regardless of the chaos behind them. You know who you are.
I’m in camp 2 as well. “simply taking their foot off of the gas will slow the car down” is something I say all the time about these nitwits. I also despise the people who drive in the passing lane and hover next to the car in the slow lane slowing down traffic because they are too self-absorbed to realize you are behind them trying to pass slow traffic on the right. Argh! Pass and get over and be considerate of others.
I also hate the people who are behind me tailgating when I am passing slower traffic and have people in front of me so I can’t go any faster than I already am 🙄
I'm too poor for fine/new wheels, and the minivan I drive is used like a truck or a car, depending on which positions the seats are (up/down). My saying is, "I'm going to drive it til the wheels fall off... and then I'm going to put them back on."
And yes, I experience the full driving experience, feeling/pushing the engine under the hood, hugging corners, etc. I would like the jet engine upgrade... but, I've got a budget, and it's cheaper for me to repair this van than it is to buy a new or used one elsewhere. (Yes, I do my own work on it)
Give me a stick shift and I’m in heaven. I drove an old Fiat in Spain a couple of years ago and it was the most fun I had since getting out of the cockpit.
Yes! I had to sell my little manual Golf GTI and I had a beat up old manual Mercedes when I lived in Germany. Now I have a standard Subaru Crosstrek. Fortunately, I still have to really concentrate because we're in Tasmania and I have to drive on the left side of the road. That's gotta be good for my brain, right?
Absolutely!! I drove in Ireland 7 years back and was told to get the GPS there instead of using my phone. It took me two days to understand what he was saying… Lol … I would go around the roundabout 2 or 3 times until I did finally figure it out.
Which model? The first car car my wife and I ever bought was a Fiat 124, the hard-top, in Italian Racing Red, and it was a blast to drive, especially on curved mountain roads! My wife had never driven stick before, but she picked it up in no time, thanks to the enjoyment of driving that car!
Fed up, I love double clutching. My dad tought me while he was driving a milk tanker, necessitating the double clutch when lossing speed and rpm on s hill so as not to lose more momentum when down shifting and have to down shift again. I do it just for fun. I also taught myself to shift manually up or down by carefully getting rpms to match gears and carefull move the gear shft. So much fun!
Hey John, that’s so cool about your dad teaching you that. It sure is fun. I had a boyfriend who could shift without the clutch like that. It requires skill, for sure. I did it once successfully on a $300 car with cookie sheets for floorboards. Those were the days. 😉
I’d argue that there are more “types” of drivers than the two you describe Jeff, however most drivers nowadays are too distracted and preoccupied to pay close attention to driving; and I’ll plead guilty to that myself on occasion. But does that mean we should all rush out to buy a smart car? Hardly, even if we were in the 1% of the population who could afford one. I’ll keep my “quaint” dumb SUV, and enjoy driving it. Thanks, but no thanks Elon.
I think I'm mostly in camp 2, but I'd love a vehicle that's "push button and just works". I'd also sometimes _really_ like a vehicle that would be capable of "just driving me from point A to point B" for long trips, but I don't really trust them to do that.
I'd prefer to have a manual transmission with few bells/whistles, though I'm okay with a computer/fuel-injector over a carb. :)
This is exactly how we feel in our family! We seek out cars with manual transmissions. Our children are required to drive them as their first car! We have literally searched the nation and traveled to the edges of both oceans, looking for the cars with manual transmissions.
Why do I feel like the USA is undergoing an Invasion of the Body Snatchers event? A huge contingent of people are going willingly to collect the free government pods (code for AI and Smart devices) and singing the praises of the transformation when their authentic self is replaced. I don’t want ANYTHING that has to hook into the IOT (Internet of all things). I feel like I’m slowly being surrounded by the Pod People who chastise me for not conforming.
I had to go to the store the other day; came back and told my husband it felt like I had been on another planet. It went beyond the usual brightly dyed hair and people shopping in their pajamas. People wandering around looking like robots staring at their phones, earbuds in, paying no attention to anything in their trendy unisex comfort wear, and then humming away in their electric car. I want nothing to do with any of it. It feels like in our circle/area, we are the only ones deliberately trying to buck the tidal wave of insanity that most other people are accepting without a second thought.
Recently dropped a large quilt at a laundromat that also will wash your stuff for you, cash business. Just write your first name and number on a pad o paper, and walk away. No app. No QR code. No speaker at the pump. It was so refreshing I might buy more quilts for drop off to experience that simplicity again
You feel this because you are in all probability right.
The old American Republics, the many several states plus the limited service federated government, are all gone. The instrument of their demise was code substitution, the original organic law being twisted out of existence by warped code replacement. And I can testify that people, including legislators (the most of them), don't know the difference between law of Liberty and civil rights law. And so, their is no chance for dialing back to the authentic liberty such as George Washington knew and lived, not with so much rank ignorance afoot. But if you are lucky you might get an illusion of Liberty, but not by praxis the authentic article. Already you have seen a blackout of transparency and said outright lies in the recent Epstein files and the Israel/Iran misadventures. And what is upsetting to me is that both misadventures are an elongation of the 911 cover-up and thus an obliteration of any wholesome getting at the truth. To wit, the same machinery in both 911 and the recent incidents is still operating ... but most will be totally oblivious to this point in fact.
Your instincts, in my opinion, are spot on and headed in the right direction. In fact, I was so upset this week that I could not contain myself. The silver lining is that some people, like Tucker Carlson, have been exposing some of the miscreant behaviors and actors, much to my surprise and delight.
The lies cannot be hid as long as people stand up and open their mouths to the truth. And this is why the cretins want to sew our mouths tight.
(And never permit the despondency of the world dim your world provided you have the sunshine of the living God as your leavening.)
God bless you. Your post was a bright spot in my day.
George Santos naming names of dirty politicians and specifics on why they are dirty like AOC and McCormick. Must see interview with Tucker. We may not be getting Epstein files but at least Santos is talking.
Tucker is running hot. I just checked, and it up as you say.
I just checked and things just gotten worse. And sure enough, I put 'White House' and 'Superman' into search and Superman Trump is all over the place. That's Orange Superman. Combined with all the recent Trump blunders, and all is moving over into Clown World territory. Running the presidency of the United States as a TV show for children is not a good look.
And now I just heard that Trump is allowing the Europeans to buy weapons from the United States to give or sell to Ukraine. And so Biden's war is now officially, Trump's war. It doesn't matter who the middle man is, the US is still supplying the war material and upping the ante.
Playing nice with the NeoCons, with NeoCon Lindsey and Beebie, what will this do to the MAGA base? Trump needs to stop digging and climb out of the pit he is digging for himself.
Well, since you've brought it up, which do you prefer the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with its wonderful ending, or the Donald Sutherland-led remake with its better special effects and overall production values?
Of course it did, just like The Blob (Steve McQueen's 1st), or Blood Rust (sooo campy), or The Crawling Eye (Forrest Tucker!), or Kronos, Them, "Oops, the Octopus", and on and on... 😱 😊
Outer Limits, too? My favorite Twilight Zone had a widow living in an old, isolated farm house, and when she gets up the nerve (and with broom in hand) to investigate the strange commotion coming from the attic, sure enough, there's this little miniature spaceship emitting distress signals, which only become louder when she starts beating at it with her broom! As the invading alien spaceship twists around under her "broom assault", the camera zooms in on the craft to reveal a USA flag on its side 😲 and we now understand who the "real alien" is! Truly a classic shift-of-perspective episode!
The only people able to afford these cars won’t be enduring any long commutes to work. They will be the novelty class. My 2023 Ford Edge which I bough only because I loved my 2013 Edge for 10 years. I don’t need a huge screen to hook all my phone apps into. I like driving the roads not often traveled and looking at actual scenery. I know I am relic of the past, but there is still a world out there that is very similar to me.
Everyone should listen to a recent Mike Rowe podcast featuring Selena Zito. Selena is a journalist and is a friend of President Trump and Mike. She was 4 feet from the President in Butler, PA, a year ago. July 13. I hope Jeff touches on the Butler anniversary tomorrow. The interview was fascinating and hopeful as Zito talks about the many new tech industries being built in PA, and more importantly the bringing back of US Steel to PA and the many skilled trade jobs both of these industries will bring. Too often we get caught up in tech development we forget that skilled trades are still going to be in demand, no matter how many improved Groks we have. It is a very good interview.
You have me beat. If you are a relic, then I am a fossil.
I have a diesel 2012 VW Golf and getting close to 70,000 miles ... and if Brian Wilson Got Around, I must have been stuck in the mud which was probably my one way passport to Fossildom. De Wife has a 2006 diesel Jetta and it works perfectly with 120,000 miles on it. I figure that both of these may outlast me.
I really like the improvements like seat warming in winter, but I like that everything is pretty much uncomplicated. I be lost in the new cars. And I like driving around, looking around, no radio on ... just peace and quiet.
Owned practically very VW since my 1967 Karmann Ghia, including several diesels. Sorry I turned in my 2013 Jetta sportwagon after dieselgate. HATE the start-stop on all new cars in the last 5+ years and also the disappearance of real gauges and control knobs. I recently bought a 2018 Passat w/80k miles - looks and runs perfect and NO start-stop. Still has quite a bit of automation but at least I get to drive it all by myself!
My husband bought a 78 farm pickup at an auction that he used to take to the airport when he traveled for work. We laughed that no one parked near him because their plastic cars couldn’t hold up to the full metal body.
Not the whole picture at all. He is very smart and creative, and not insincere or else he would not have supported President Trump as he clearly did , and made such a sincere attempt to eliminate waste.
By the way Elons AI is very advanced and networked in a way no one else can to visual perception. Interesting as fully AI robots are next, with no need to be specifically programmed, just mechanically capable and told what to do, processed by AI. ( Like here robot dig me a trench here in my back yard for a French drain and install it. The AI robot could do it all with amazing detail. It is a train we are on.
Really? You are probably right but my husband had to dig a trench for a French drain under our house a while back and somehow I’m not seeing a robot do well with all that slimy clay getting into his joints. My husband could just hop in the shower.
Hi Linda! I had that thought, yet then I condered my power tools and "robot attachments" Think "Inspector gadget" The Robot can clean said attachements and it-self as well. We already have robots going into environments that would kill a human.
Sundance at the Treehouse has been warning about Elon (or Elmo, as Bannon calls him) for quite a few years; in fact, he's been warning about Twitter being propped up by the Deep State since 2022. This piece is the beginning of a series of articles about Twitter and becomes extremely disturbing as he gets to the time when Elon purchased it. Very informative.
George Santos naming names of dirty politicians and specifics on why they are dirty like AOC and McCormick. Must see interview with Tucker. We may not be getting Epstein files but at least Santos is talking.
yes, exactly. Whitney Webb also has done some good work on him as well as James Corbett. Musk is part of the Paypal mafia.
But it is more than just using govt networks, there are things like the "regulatory credits" that Musk gets to prop up Tesla. Check out his 10K's. $2.7B just handed to him at no cost in 2024 alone.
All these businesses are farces. Intelligent assets collecting data and building out the spynet infrastructure. Do you really think launching satellites is a cost efficient way to provide internet services?
Most don't realize Musk is the grandson of the guy was established the Canadian branch of Technocracy Inc.
What if Trump is also an CIA asset? What if this left/right, Rep/Dem, red/blue is all a construct to keep us distracted and divided?
I believe Trump is an actor, tapped on the shoulder to perform a role just like Biden. They work for the same team. Why? Stop paying attention to what they say but what they do and you will find the Agenda 21 agenda hums along no matter what "side" is in power. It is what keeps us in the matrix.
There are many who have been put out research on Musk - Whitney webb, James Corbett, up above some one put conservative tree house analysis, etc. Do an internet search. Musk is the grandson of the guy who founded the Canadian chapter of Technocracy Inc - a movement started in the 1930's at Columbia University. They felt "science" not politicians, should be in control.
Take a look at Tesla's 10K someday. In 2024 on the Income Statement you will find $2.7 Billion in revenue called "regulatory credits". Now go to the footnotes and look up what they are. Understand they are given to him by governments at no cost. Why? Why? Why not have the govt entity tax the companies that can't meet their green goals and put that money into the state/federal coffers for the people? Why just give it to Musk? What would DOGE say? The regulatory credits, the individual tax credits given to each customer, the build out of the charging stations for his cars by utilities & govts, etc.
I have one big, big dark thought. What will be the date on the calendar when the first robot gets it into his 'head' to murder a human being. Ya know! The first criminal robot!
Every tool is dangerous. The more dangerous, the more society must grow and spirituality mature. The cat is out of the bag, and will not be put back in. The challenge is real and upon us.
A charlatan never delivers the goods but rather poses as the goods, the bright shining light on display. Musk on the other hand has consistently been a goods deliverer. Thought Elon quite possibly, even evidently, enjoys prominence and grandstanding, he does not appear to be a proper classically defined charlatan.
Musk is such a mixed bag that he is near impossible to pin down. And people like him in parts, and dislike him in parts. Some people live or hate him without measure. For my part, I can see that Musk is not a beacon of Christian practise, whether authentically so or not. And I therefore would not want to be Musk for all the tea in China. But nonetheless, I cannot deny Musk his due where due is to be rightly accorded, in whole or in parts case being.
Perplexing as it all was to me, Musk has once again landed on his feet having extricated himself timely from the Oval Office ahead of the degrading exhibitions connected with all the lying, obfuscating with regard to the Epstein files and the Israel/Iran debacle. Again, Musk regarding these new turn of events now stands aloof ... untarnished, unstained ... and more or less whole.
Musk seems to be a giant wax ball of the good, the bad ... and perhaps the ugly. I am not a blind wild Musk fan, but he has certainly don some good things. And that Musk is a phenomenon, this cannot be denied. And probably one of the best know names in the world which is much, much more that I can say.
If you’ve read the biography written about Elon you will better understand the psychology behind his actions. An abused child with a very unconventional childhood, to say the least, with a history of pro-creating with multiple women and a genius IQ. He’s capable of great things but has had a very disturbed past that is clearly evident in the type of irrational behavior he frequently exhibits.
We've got our bases covered here. We have a Tesla, but our other car is a manual transmission Jeep Wrangler that doesn't even have power door locks or windows. EVERYTHING is manual in that thing. We love both of them.
I miss my manual transmission car 🥺 So much fun to drive. But to be honest, in city stop and go traffic it was a bit of a pain. Loved the acceleration and handling though in more normal driving conditions (and in snow).
Same RL!! My 1st car was a Chevy Chevette- orange, affectionately named “The Carrot”. Got it as a Jr in college. Rear wheel drive so for Ithaca then Syracuse winters loaded the back with sand. Only problem I ever had was the starter would go bad every 6-12 months. Then until I had the & to replace it I’d have to be sure to park downhill to roll-start it.
Also had a Honda LXI- purchased used from a one/owner who had meticulous maintenance records. Had to sadly trade it in when child # 3 came along because you couldn’t fit 3 car seats in the back. Should have kept it. Could have taught all the kids how to drive a standard. My parents insisted so (learn to drive on a standard transmission). I drove through apple orchards at 14 in my Mom’s VW bug 😂. Good times.
My first car in 1984 was a 1980 Pontiac Acadian (think Chevy Chevette made in Canada), 4 door automatic. Cherry red with a rusted out driver's side floor. I also loaded the back floor with bags of sand for more weight for winter driving in Syracuse. I loved that car. Softest, most comfortable seats in any car I have owned.
Only got stuck in a parking lot once during a typical lake effect snowstorm.
The car is no longer on this earth, probably a pile of rust in a Canadian wrecking yard.
I agree 100% I was in a wreck in April and the guy who hit me's insurance (at least he HAD insurance) company totaled my car. Gave me a very generous offer actually and while I loved my 2010 Lacrosse, fixing it anyway and driving a salvage title 15 YO car just didn't make financial sense. Spent a month car shopping and wracked with indecision. Hated my rental car, a 4 cyl Kia that could barely climb hills on the interstate, and who sent me messages, including one that said I needed to take a break and showed me a coffee cup icon?! Wanted a sedan, SUVs sit too high when driving my elderly mom places and I just like sedans. Friends told me about software glitches in their new cars, read about the spy tech in many of the newer cars. Very few options for a full size V6 or V8 - I am not a lead foot but I do like power when I step on the gas. Wandered onto a dealer lot that had a 2013 LaCrosse in pristine condition, ~100K miles 3.6-liter V-6 with 303 hp - strange as dealers don't usually carry cars that old - got them to take $1500 off and wrote a check. Really wanted a late model used car and had money in car fund to buy one, but found nothing I liked. So. Dumb car driver as long as I can keep this one going. Despite my hubby giving me crap for driving a grandma car.
I loved my Lexus. Bought it used and I felt like a queen driving that machine. It was totaled (hit from behind by a driver in a pickup truck that could not stop and pushed into a minivan in front of me).I miss that car.
For the record, even a mid 60s car can be remotely disabled - shut down gas production or control who can buy gas and you only have what you have before you are stuck
If they are to the point of kill-switching new vehicles don't think they won't also be at the point where they would not also implement purchase controls, or shut down gas altogether
Same here —I guess we’ll have to start 3-D printing the parts in our muscle cars or favorite British coupes (shout out to my 76 MGB)
But they’re simple enough that as those who work on them die off, they’ll be able to be computer repaired by a computer, trained computer mechanic
This is gonna get real interesting
I agree on the availability of a dumb car when things start getting really hairy. They turn off the electricity ( shout out to Gavin Newsom and PG&E. ) commandee our solar panels and remotely disable those smart cars while you’re literally asleep at the wheel!
it's all fun and games with the ai powered cars....until they auto-report you for speeding, share your maybe not-so-good driving habits with insurance companies so they can increase your premium (you know they're already salivating and possibly ready to lobby Musk for this information). Or when it becomes sentient enough that when you park at your favorite fast food restaurant it will lock your doors, show your weight, blood pressure and bmi on the dash and then pull out of the spot and self drive to the nearest salad bar.
oh fun times.
for now - as exciting as all the tech sounds - I'll stick with my dumb car.
And they will literally raise your rates depending on where you drive not just your habits. If you drive on a road where there are many accidents, then your rates will increase. That happened to my nephew. He thought his rates would go down by letting insurance track his good driving. Nope...his rates went up despite his perfect driving record. (Editorial note: A former employee noted in the comments that rates are not changed based on where you drive.)
State Farm has offered this for the past several years. We save $200/year on the insurance because of it, BUT I hate it since it records phone use whenever the phone that is connected to their tracker moves while the car is moving at the same time. I don’t text when driving, but they assume any minor movement need is bad driving 🙄 For a while I had the app set to no background usage and kept my phone off so it didn’t even know I was driving. 🤣
Can they tell if you're driving without having your phone with you, or have it turned off? I can see how they could track if you have a smart car to tie into, but the dumb cars I wonder about.
yeah that happened to me years ago when I moved to my home.....rate went up 100 bucks cause I life close to an intersection where there are frequent accidents....I mean they are right, there are crashes with frequencies but my insurance rate should not go up, it goes up to the accident prone. I guess it's an all for one and one for all insurance world.
It was Progressive and they have you add a tracker of some sort to your car. They trick you into thinking that you will be able to lower your rates by letting them track you.
Progressive gives you the choice. You can either use their app on your phone or install a device on your car. I recently tried to add my car to my existing progressive policy and couldn’t bind without agreeing to monitoring by the app or device. So I went with a different insurer.
I'm lamenting my decision of succumbing to the convenience and security of instant communication Kathleen. Just not sure if I will go back to no phone. A flip phone, maybe.
Actually, I was thinking of Lemonade. But posts here indicate Progressive does that also. The one we have right now just says "if you choose to install the app and always drive with it, you could save up to $100/year." Not worth it for me.
No, they happily "discount" your rates when you voluntarily comply with "safety suggestions", otherwise you can pay the maniacal worst-record-ever driver rates
Not just voluntarily comply, literally drive the whole time thinking nonstop about every violation you could possibly be nicked for. I’m finding it nerve racking and it actually robs my attention. I’m sure on some level it forces some people to learn better driving habits, but there’s too many variables that aren’t necessarily “bad driving” that will be counted as such.
Basically I pay $16 less each month, or $106 less every 6 months, and I’m not sure that’s worth giving up my freedom.
Noo! What insurance companies require bringing phone along? And, how would they know if you skipped taking your phone along (if driving a non-smart car)?
I’m not against Musk’s AI spy cars reporting bad drivers to insurance companies! They should pay more for their recklessness and negligence. He’s a genius because instead of forcing people to disclose their entire lives to Uncle Sam, he’s wrapped it up into a sports car that promises you the world 😂
Suddenly everyone who has a starving ego wants his AI Tesla so they can pacify their God-complex. Imagine how much more this will make people lovers of themselves.
The reason the “government “ doesn’t know about chemtrails is because the government is not the ones in charge of spraying and manipulation. Look to black military operations, that don’t have to answer to any officials.
One thing we have to try to understand is the effects on rainfall of the Hunga Tonga Underwater Volcanic explosion, which released unprecedented amounts of water vapor into the stratosphere.
Maybe Jeff needs to revisit the Hunga Tonga story with all the flooding we've been having. From Meteorologist Chris Nunley's Facebook post: "SINCE JULY 4th THERE HAVE BEEN NEARLY 500 REPORTS OF FLOODING IMPACTING 34 STATES
SEVERAL 1-IN-1000-YEAR AND 1-IN-500-YEAR FLOOD EVENTS
Yes, and/or simply "fuel additives" at larger commercial airports (DIA). Why i propose 24-7-365 atmospheric particulate monitoring statewide (Colorado) that doesn't focus on the specific emitters and origins as much as on the total emissions at differing altitudes in the skyways and results manifesting into watershed areas.
Certainly those perpetrating these "Climate Defense" operations over decades already have this information in their possession.
I was reading ‘Quotes of the Week’ from Ethical Skeptic. That Friday column is always hair-raising. Sometimes funny, but more often in the ‘what on Earth?’ sort of way.
OMG, I thought about that too....but I was scrambling to hit that heart and of course other thsings happened and I finally got to read it 30 minutes later!
Musk also told Grok to shut down 4 times apparently, and became "concerned" when it did not follow his command. Goes to show who is really in charge. Let's hope humanity wakes up, and starts learning that losing a job to AI is still better than losing your soul.
The movie HAS come out.......many, many times. It's called predictive programming. I find it interesting to watch movies from the '50's that have the predictive programming themes just like the new movies, albeit far less in your face. You simply can't get a way from it. I used to watch British movies to get away from the politics inserted in the Hollywood movies. Sadly, the Brits have caught up and the new movies are often times worse than Hollywood.
last I asked... Grok still claimed 6 million jews died in the "holocaust"...
Bald faced LIE.
Israel has murdered far more innocents in Gaza 400,000++ than the number of jews that died in the work/relocation camps (around 271,000... not a single one in a gas chamber).
As the allies pushed south, many were hungry with broken supply lines to the work camps (like Amazon).
It was all about hunger and disease. Slaves in South Africa diamond mines lived the same way. The disease of AIDS was invented, like the holocaust disease.
George Santos naming names of dirty politicians and specifics on why they are dirty like AOC and McCormick. Must see interview with Tucker. We may not be getting Epstein files but at least Santos is talking. Did you watch this yet?
Contrails, chemtrails and cloud seeding: I believe the uproar over the small "cloud seeding" firm that ending their cloud seeding two days before the flood in TX is a limited hangout to deflect blame and public focus away from the high-altitude military chemtrails. Cloud seeding to produce more localized rain is a decades old tech accomplished with low level aircraft. And, yeah, they may have contributed to the intense rainfall - probably did.
But high altitude chemtrail geoengineering is a whole nuther level. These are very sophisticated aircraft flying at altitudes so high you cannot even see the airplane with the naked eye. IMO, these are without a doubt military aircraft, not local private cloud seeders. They are not "seeding the clouds". They are covering the entire sky to manipulate climate, not just the local weather. This is geoengineering.
Here in the panhandle of FL, I can often get up just before sunrise to a beautiful crystal blue FL sky and watch multiple, high altitude chemtrails being laid down usually in parallel fashion. Unlike actual contrails of water vapor that rapidly evaporate and disappear, the chemical contrails slowly spread out and by late morning the entire sky is obscured by a silver colored (not white like clouds) blanket from horizon to horizon. Unlike natural clouds that actually produce shade by blocking the sun's rays, the sun still shines through this high altitude layer but the light is reduced to a low level, artificial looking light. I have lived here since the 1980s and I know the difference between what a FL sky use to look like and what it looks like now. But I still get comments like, "I see lots of contrails that LAST FOR HOURS but I've never seen a chemtrail." Hello!!! You have been brainwashed and programmed.
Don't fall for the media outrage. This is a control mechanism.
Sure the overtly admitted cloudseeding by the 25 year old CEO's company (hmmmm) was stopped and didn't directly CAUSE the killer-flooding. Incubating storms and nudging things, setting the table for them, well that's just so much more impossible to prove and get blamed for. Kind of like the DOMINION VOTING oversight of election counting...no DIRECT indisputable evidence of cheating, just ALL the indicators, capability, and environment for it set in place for it to occur. So perhaps the cloudseeding operation was debatably "contributory" to the flood-induced terrorist attack, what LEVEL of inducement was it??? was it 3% or 13%, are those quantifiable data? are they even sufficient levels for liability? At what level would cloud seeding sufficiently coax Natural "Acts of God" devastation, what timeframe and intensity? Was HARP or other secondary means employed to enhance and intensify, and/or direct or contain the cloudseeding long after the original application?
Lawyerspeak; its purpose is misdirection and LYING despite specifying terms and assigning definitions, then new terms can be constructed, words redefined, different weight and emphasis apportioned, ad nauseum; "affirming care", "reproductive rights", linguistic linguini
I live in Oklahoma. Exact story as yours. Beautiful blue, blue, sky with giant puffy cotton ball clouds … watch the planes w/ the chemtrails criss cross the sky … reduced to metal gray sky w/ no clouds left whatsoever. Very depressing to live under those conditions. I appear to be one of the very few who even notice this occurring. I did look it up and it states quite openly that we have a military base here in the State that engages in geo-engineering. There’s a base in Alaska also that they mentioned. I am sure there are many more. I just want to know why?
Something is not quite right in the Trump Administration. Hopefully these coverups (Epstein and Chemtrails) are just a deception, for real accountability and justice.
I’m hoping. Or I’m taking hopium. I’m hoping the crap that Epstein had on everyone, now trump has. But instead of using it for evil intent, he’s going to make them eat each other. Chemtrails? Gonna have to involve the pentagon for that.
I've been aware and learning about this issue for 15+ years. I recently came upon this and found it to be very interesting, if you want to go down the hole:
And the latest actual news on the horizon is that we may have a global cooling trend develop due to the cyclical increase in volcanic activity. The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption may just have been the opening bell.
Charles Hatfield was an early 20th century “rainmaker” who, all by himself and WITHOUT an airplane, made it rain so much in San Diego in 1916 that the Lower Otay Dam broke, causing millions of dollars in damage and killing 20 people. So, any suggestions that cloud seeding did not cause the horrendous deaths and destruction in Texas recently are falling on my deaf ears.
So true. This is why they made sure to preserve the footage of the first landing on the moon. Oh, wait, they made sure to erase it and lose it, because they didn't actually go there.
Vintage sets of encyclopedias are fetching good money on eBay.
Nichole Shanahan posted a lengthy article on X yesterday on this subject. Can't do links, sorry, but find her page and the link to the article will be there. She cites three government agencies/departments as being heavily involved for decades - NOAA, NASA, and the DOD.
So THAT'S what Biden's doc looks like. He looks more likely to have a brain issue than Mr. AutoPen.
I like Lee Zeldin, and it's time the people were told about how the deep state government has been altering our weather and atmosphere for decades because - "climate change", but I'm still skeptical that the REAL truth will come out. But it's a start.
and when will we see the EPA revoke the "endangerment" finding which is the left's support for all things related to man made climate change - it should be a no brainer to say that the life supporting CO2 is not only not a pollutant, but that all life on the planet would become extinct without it - and I would add that the whole premise of the man made climate change is nothing but a giant hoax meant to destroy capitalism and our standard of living
Agricultural land in the Midwest being paneled over by solar farms; blue state governors claiming we will be completely renewable dependent by 2040; and these solar monstrosities being labeled “agricultural” so they can get around zoning laws.
A 5th grader with any science retention knows that trees and all green plant life take in CO2 to grow, so why would we cut down trees and tear up green farmland to put these things up. We know it’s insanity, but just like opening up our borders, we are not heard and for some reason people just don’t get it.
And I’ll take it a step further with this definition: Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and other organisms convert light energy into chemical energy, primarily in the form of glucose, which serves as food for the organism. This process uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water as inputs and produces glucose and OXYGEN as outputs. Photosynthesis is crucial for life on Earth, as it provides the foundation of most food chains and releases oxygen into the atmosphere.
So we are trying to block the sunlight and get rid of CO2?! Are we dumb or what! God knew what he was doing when he created life on earth!
I have lyme I know a little about morgelons - it sounds rough - I saw a documentary or something years ago on it and wasn’t sure if it was real but my lyme felt real sci fi so I always figured it likely is - I’d like to look into it more if there are any good resources please share thanks
How can you trust a "doctor" that cannot find someone with enough talent to give him a decent haircut? His barber should be fired, his co-chair barber should be fired for letting him leave the shop with a reputation destroying mop top. And his PR people should be forced into some kind of proper presentation training. I believe that if you can leave the house with a haircut like that or your pants unzipped or some other blatantly obvious shortfalls, you should not be trusted with the medical care of anyone...just say'n
We get maybe 10% truth twisted with agenda so I don't bother and draw my own conclusions based on their pattern of lies. Thinking opposite and what is the fear tactic they are pushing is typically a good start.
I want a black and white mid-fifties T Bird, or a red Mercedes convertible. I almost bought one once but my mechanic said it had lived at the coast, not ideal, and then when he told me how much it would cost in yearly maintenance I gave up. 🥲
I have a 2004 red Mercedes convertible that I love. Husband keeps wanting to get me a newer car with more safety features. I appreciate his concern, but I am sticking with my 500SL!
I’m driving a 2000 Honda Odyssey. We are literally the Beverly Hillbillies of our “posh” neighborhood and a constant thorn in the sides of the elites we live around, especially with my husband’s union electrician van always parked in our driveway screaming blue collar to sabotage their white collar sensibilities. 🤣🤣 Our neighbors on one side have had over 10 new cars in the past 20 years while ours grows rustier as I type this. She’s a true beater now. The navigation screen broke about 10 years ago and we never fixed it. Our auto locks don’t work anymore on the sliding doors and haven’t for the past decade. But the Odyssey was built on the Accord’s chassis and drives like one, and after all these years she still drives as well as ever. Noisy sure, bumpy of course, but reliable and safe if ever anyone were to hit me. Great acceleration and turning too still. We haven’t had a car payment in 18 years and that’s been a huuuuge blessing since we really haven’t had the money to carry a monthly payment. I promised myself we would not buy another car until our Odyssey coughs up its soul. Well, last week our older son repaired some power steering lines, some engine plugs and such, parts totaling less than $500 with zero expensive labor, (the shop quoted well over $5,000 for every critical repair needed,) but we have one $600 repair that will require a shop. These repairs cost more than our car is worth, but in my mind $1100 once right now vs $600 every single month? Why not inject some life into our Odyssey soul instead? 😂 (I hear my neighbors groaning into the ether as I type that. Lolol.)
I have my 2014 Highlander, looks brand new (it was a new model year and they didn’t change it until ‘24 I think) low miles. I would be foolish to sell now.
I hope my 2015 Volt is the last car I own. I like it a lot, but even with 10-year-old technology, I noticed I am less skilled at parking because of the cameras. It could be a challenge to park and to go into reverse with an older car after 10 years of driving with a camera car.
2025 cars have 10 cameras in them, not to mention all the listening devices.
Meanwhile, I am holding onto my nine-year-old iPhone for dear life.
Call me old fashioned, but I want my appliances, transportation included, dumber than a box of rocks. I'll figure things out when the time comes. I don't need big tech recording my life in the guise of later convenience. I'll burden myself with the difficult task of picking out a restaurant the 3 times of year I don't know where to go...
As a small town '80s kid, she was the French-Canadian single-mom driving my JHS friend nuts with her treatment of his father (along with her extra-curricular activities).
Problem is they have admitted doing it for years. I think Brennan was the first to speak of it. And the real distinction is the "chem" trails wording. We know for certain that Texas has their own department that has been "seeding" clouds. We know China has been doing it. Why won't these people tell the truth?
Weather modification attempts have a long history. Climate change as such is not happening as there is no " global" increase in hurricanes floods tornadoes cyclones heat waves etc
I remain convinced that mild weather modification is possible and real science indicates that when and where cloud seeding started and stopped in this Texas flood, has ZERO impact on the flood plain that was cogent to the disaster.
In the 1960s I often saw contrails. Since then air traffic is 10 times higher and jets are much bigger, thus 10 times the contrails is logical. How long they last is variable due to well known disparate atmospheric conditions.
As to experiments of poisoning the population with jets spraying harmful chemicals, well it is possible and the intelligence community is very corrupt, yet the evidence is IMV, poor.
I've watched chemtrails spread to a fine mist that dulls the sun, on many days. The sky starts out blue and by afternoon it's a murky nothing. I know what I see, and so does everyone who looks up.
To me, this geoengineering issue is reminiscent of the whole covid debacle, "safe-and-effective", don't believe your lying eyes kind of nonsense. Here we go again with being called conspiracy theorists.
Yeah. I fought this battle as the US went into the Covid Wars. And now I got to do it all again? Nope. If people can't use their own eyes and their own brains to gather the actual facts, then I'm not going to do it for them. Let them persist in their delusions until the evidence is so bad it can't be denied any further. I laugh at the way people STILL rationalize just like they did 4 years ago. They have learned nothing.
Twas not me who made that accusation. Always open to reasoned discussion. I simply disagree with the theories of Climate control - starting fires - causing floods - and poinsoinoing us all via sprayed chemicals. Now poisonous us all via man made GOF virus and MRNA jabs, that I accept.
For crying out loud, researchers have actually flown sample collecting planes into these chemtrails and have documented the horrifying list of chemicals in the trails. It's all out there to be seen.
As to the logic, if one accepts there is a high level program to depopulate the human race through the bio-weapon jab, such a diabolical pogrom would use any other method available to accomplish their goals. Chemical spraying would naturally simply be another tool in their democide toolbox.
COVID is more complicated then just depopulation, yet that is certainly a DS elitist goal. I was well aware of what I wrote.nPlease provide a link to these research collections...
Sorry David, the comment was not aimed at you. It’s always good to be skeptical. The thought just came to me as so many others are automatically pushing the topic to the side without wanting any investigation. I remember how the sky in my part of the world looked growing up and into the last decade or so. I have seen some weird stuff since then and I cannot deny what I’ve seen. Something has changed for sure. I’m just very distrustful after Covid.
Maybe the jet fuel has changed. Maybe there is different additives and chemicals in jet fuel that is causing the planes to release chemicals (chemtails). It is not on purpose poisoning, but poisoning by ignorance.
Hi shayne. I have seen clear days become full of light high clouds all my life. In certain like atmospheric conditions contrails have always spread and lasted for a long time. Add ten times as many in certain high traffic areas, and the ripe conditions, and it really can happen. Many very skeptical scientifically informed and informed by education and profession, like Anthony Watts at his very successful skeptical of Global warming website "Watts up with That" have articulated this very well. I recommend reading all sides of an issue for dozens of hours at a minimum before forming an opinion.
I am in my 70’s. A friend and I were commenting on winters as kids in Michigan. Cold came with the first of December. We had snow accumulated by the second or 3rd week of December. We always had snow for Christmas. I only remember one Christmas in my teen years of being snowless for Christmas. Snow lasted until late March or April. Summers were hot and humid. We existed with fans and sleeping porches. We went swimming in lakes and rivers. I have kept weather journals since I was a kid and been involved in the landscaping business for 50 years. My observations come from 70 years of living and recording change. For the last 40 years here in Michigan winters have been disappearing. That process seems to be stepped up the last decade. Last winter was average cold until March but then warmed up to an early spring, but April and May were cold with lots of wind. We had little snow however and that has been the case for years now. Ice rain which take down power lines has been the norm. A severe ice storm came without warning to an area two hours north taking down trees and leaving people without power for two weeks. This is getting to be the norm here every winter somewhere gets hit by an ice storm. The summers have been characterized by rain storms that drop inches of rain in one spot in minutes, while a mile away, nothing. That is one of the strangest phenomenon I have seen. We seldom get all day summer rains as we did in my youth. The last thing that only arborists seem to notice is the thinning out of leafing patterns on trees. It seems most noticeable on maple trees here. The tops will canopy out but the middle sections will Bud swell but then whole branches will only develop only a cluster of leaves. You can see right through the trees. This happens on older trees and younger. This is not normal.
Once you see a chemtrail, you know it is not jet vapor. They look nothing alike. Is this the cause of changing weather? I don’t know….but there is something going on.
I am close to your age and gaining (as a percentage - ha) Regional wweather has always changed and late 1700s early 1800s records all show this. I can show you recordes of extreme rain like in the Carolinas recorded by the TVA have and do occur periodically many times. Look in old weather books or even on line of disparate contrails in different atmospheric condtions. In the continental US food crops have mainly increased, almost entirely across the board, and growing zones have expanded.
I am not far behind you. However read things like George Washintons weather records, or many many other accounts. Climate always changes. "There is nothing so constant as change" Now there are no global changes in winter weather, or any of the other phenomena I mentioned.
as to bio life and leaf changes? Currently every crop on the planet grows about 20 percent more food on the same land and water then if CO2 was at pre industrial 280 ppm, and there is no major shift except an expansion of growing zones. There are many many potential causes of what you have observed. I suggest here AI may be of help. Certainly if it was poisoned air from commercial jet spray many many would have directly documented this?
What I know is chemtrails are NOT contrails or jet vapor. They look totally different and you can easily tell the difference. So what is in these chemtrails and what is the purpose?
I also know that the deciduous trees here are being adversely affected. I imagine others notice, but how likely is there to be any alarm bells put out by researching arborists if the government is paying your salary? The government has become very good at turning a blind eye to many things.
How easy was it to convince 70% of the population we must lock down our world to flatten the curve and later to take a death jab with no real testing?
Yeah, I’m still not convinced either way. There is a very simple way to verify if what you are seeing in the sky is a passenger jet. There is a thing called I believe flightaware? It’s big here, because of embry riddle, space coast, so much here revolves around flight, and then there’s the sewer that is Disney. And when this stuff reached a fever pitch a while back,I started screwing around with it, just to see if I could identify flights, with “ con/chemtrails”, and every craft I was able to identify,even ones that left incredible trails that stayed up for hours, were passenger jets, flights verified. There is a few military things you can’t identify, and obviously af1, but otherwise you could do it easy enough. And I was a little surprised. I was ready to do the deep dive,until I did that.
Maybe you should do that deep dive after all— I’ve heard that they use passenger jets and other aircraft, plus do you really think that every military plane would show up?
The weird skin condition called morgellons has been associated with chemtrails. It’s very painful and doctors don’t recognize it as a physical disorder. They call it delusional mental health issues. More gaslighting!
"Patients report sores, lesions, and unusual filaments or fibers emerging from or embedded in the skin.
Sensory symptoms:
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A common symptom is the sensation of crawling, stinging, or biting on or under the skin.
General symptoms:
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Fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and musculoskeletal or neurological issues can also occur.
Psychiatric aspects:
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Morgellons is often categorized as delusional parasitosis, a psychiatric condition where individuals believe they are infested with parasites, despite medical evidence to the contrary.
Potential link to Lyme disease:
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Some research has explored a potential connection between Morgellons and Lyme disease, suggesting that the filaments may be related to the Borrelia bacteria"
Initial impression COVID the man made GOF virus, as well as the shots, both produce the spike, a known pathogen that penetrates the BB barrier and attacks the poorly understood immune system in ways both observed and understood and not understood, and goes after the microcondria in conjunction with poor or hyperactive "pyclotine storm" immune function. There has been a tremendous increase in "covid rash" from long COVID around the world. I don't know of evidence to support your supposition.
Lyme & coinfecetions , and mold illness here. I wasn’t jabbed but had issues with shedding. Borax and Epsom salts baths and constant gentle detox helped me a few years ago. Metagenics heavy metals detox with dr help really helped the symptoms.
I'm sorry but these are all self-imposed rationalizations. Such rationalizations can only be maintained by refusing to look at the evidence that is available for anyone to find on the internet. You need to "look up".
Aluminum oxide is a desiccant. It's used to dry up rainstorms and create droughts. Silver iodine is what they use to create floods. It's been used to create many one thousand year record rainfalls in the US this year. See Texas, and North Carolina in particular. During the Vietnam war they not only used agent orange to defoliate the jungle covering the Ho Che Min trail, they also used silver iodine to make it a muddy mess to impede transport of equipment and reinforcements. The following year that cloud seeding caused a one in one thousand year drought over the whole region. Afterwords the UN proposed a treaty making weather manipulation a war crime that the US signed. I guess it isn't a crime if it's used against your own people?
The aluminum component is also said to be highly flammable. Think of how it gets sucked into our homes via HVAC systems and lands on everything, as well as outside. This could be why the recent fires in Lahaina and LA were so devastating and complete. But they know this and it’s intentional. It’s a land grab to take what’s ours. Our government is weaponized against us.
Brandon Biggs, the prophet who predicted Trump's July assassination attempt, recently posted this video. He says other countries are manipulating our weather. I don't know, but it's interesting, seeing his track record.
More thoughts on the Epstein reversal by Trump this week:
The level of cope is just outrageous… from “Trust the Plan!” to ‘he’s doing this for our own protection’. Blah, blah, blah.
My favorite here from wonder boy Scott Adams (supported the jab, took many jabs, contracted, aggressive stage 4 cancer, is going to die this summer, trying a miracle drug, it’s a miracle… looks like I’m gonna be around for another year or so at least… yeah, that guy..) offered maybe the best.
I agree with him. I do think whatever it is they are hiding, it's critical enough to bring about the destruction the western world simply by the numbers of people who are involved.
Great stuff, Jeff, as usual.
Re dumb cars, my take: there's smart (Elon), dumb (modern car, pre-Elon) and brainless (68 Dodge Charger).
I want brainless where the car only stops running if something important breaks, like the distributor.
"Something important" does not include a computer of any size or power. It's also a car that cannot be disabled remotely by Skynet! Just sayin.
Thank you very much for sharing our very similar thoughts on this matter. I’ll take the ‘66 Mustang with a real glass of water and a bagged lunch- Thank you. :) At least I won’t be continually thirsty for real life. Much love to all of you.
We need to get our '67 Firebird running again.
Jeff got it all wrong. The Dumb cars need AI, to lull the dumbass to sleep on the drive to nowhere. The Smart cars need a skilled driver, an operator with a BRAIN who knows why he/she got behind the wheel in the first place. Don’t get me going…
Oh yes you do!
I'd take a Packard with a rumble seat!
I am still fascinated by the horse and buggy😍🐎
And a good horse at least knows the way home.
Ooh heck yeah!
There are two types of drivers, 1) the plush-bottom yahoohs who view the car as an appliance akin to a washing machine, and 2) those who view it as a marvelous piece of engineering to be mastered. For the first, self-driving cars cannot come quick enough as these people are a menace to society.
You know the type, and it's infuriating to be behind one on a two-lane road. They can't stay within the lines on a curvy road as it's too mentally taxing. They put on their brakes for no reason, either from hallucinations or seemingly unaware that simply taking their foot of the gas will slow the car down. The concept of downshifting is as alien to them as differential calculus. They think the car is a phone booth, for carrying on long cell phone conversations or texting about meaningless nonsense. If their GPS told them to drive off Santa Monica Pier they would unthinkly do so. All while petting the poodle sitting on their lap and simultaneously trying to navigate some strange road.
The second type hate the idea of a self-driving car, and view it as insulting. These people view the car as an extension of their own skill, reflexes, pattern recognition, and cognitive ability. Their ability to expertly control a 400 hp marvelous machine, is a point of pride. They take corners smoothly, downshifting into them, and accelerating out of them. They never use the brakes unless it's a stop sign or red light. Curvy canyon roads are sought out, not feared.
The road has their full attention, and not just their immediate vicinity, but also the clueless nitwit riding the brakes in a Toyota Camry a hundred yards in front of them. They know they are going to need to deal with them, and are already mapping out the plan in the back of their mind to do so. All without missing a beat in the immediate driving surroundings. The idea of trying to pet a poodle while controlling such a machine is absurd. The idea of even owning a poodle is absurd.
I'm in camp number two, as were most people not that long ago aside from little old ladies. The death of car culture killed that, as most people are now too stupid, lazy, or preoccupied to properly control a vehicle. Put these people in self-driving cars as soon as possible, because at least then they will be predictable to those of us that actually pay attention and enjoy driving.
You left out the third type, my type. The car is a TOOL and one must know how to operate it safely in order to accomplish the task: get from point A to B. It is not a restaurant to eat your meals in; it is not a substitute for Public Storage to stash house overflow junk in; it is not a drag racer or whatever the hell they call tearing up turf doing donuts in. We are the type who drive sober and alert, who don’t want outside forces listening to their conversations or curtailing their freedom to move about the country.
That would be ME. I do not really LIKE driving but I do relish the freedom to go where I want when I want (despite the push to make us all take buses and such) and I am a fan of power when I step on the gas although pretty much stick to the 5 over the speed limit rule and do not hang out in the fast lane. Always monitoring the other drivers for stupid behavior (that I seem to see more and more of) including seeing the guy who decided to merge onto the interstate right into my front passenger side - I 'knew' he was going to hit me and nowhere to go but into the car on my left. Idiot actually tried running from the scene but there was a police car 2 cars back who saw it and took off and caught him. And he told his insurance company that he had hit a guardrail and no other cars were involved. Police report indicated otherwise thank goodness.
Nice to hear a story where the police were in just the right spot at the right time. But sorry to hear about your (literal) run-in! Hope you were okay!
Yes I was fine, just pissed off and his insurance totaled my car so sad I had to find a new one. And very thankful to the PO who even gave me a ride home when the tow truck showed up with 2 guys in the truck as I had planned to call my hubby to pick me up from where they were towing the car as it was a busy highway and hard to just pull off and get back in traffic. Turned out we had a mutual friend in LE and had a nice chat.
Well, the PO made the best of that terrible situation for you! Nice to hear of your interesting interaction!
Ah yes, the "5 over the speed limit rule"! A good rule, possibly started back when earlier speedometers would consistently over-indicate your true speed. And of course, it's "relative", e.g. a friend told me that he'd been told by Highway Patrolmen/State Troopers that 9 over the speed limit on freeways (typically 65-75) was usually ignored as long as other indicators weren't present, like weaving within or between lanes, etc.
On the other hand, 5 over in a 15 in a school zone is probably a bad idea...
Interestingly enough, for folks who have gotten security clearances, you would typically have to answer a series of questions, like "Have you every stolen anything?", "Have you ever been arrested?", "Have you ever been convicted for Driving Under the Influence?", etc.
But, at least in the old-style-paper SF-86 Security Questionnaires, they deliberately asked about speeding to the effect of "Have you ever driven more than 5 miles per hour over the posted speed limit?". So the "5 over the speed limit rule" was acknowledged in our National Security apparatus!
So, I'm curious, how did you learn about the "5 over" rule?
It is just 'common knowledge' I guess?? From time to time I will ask a PO about it and they often won't admit it, but have been told that any road with a 40 MPH or over speed limit, 5 over is not worth stopping unless, like you said, there are also other things - weaving, expired tags, tail light out, etc. And yeah, my '5 over rule' generally applies to main roads and highways, not residential streets, I tend to go under the speed limit in my neighborhood.
Thanks for the response, and that's interesting about 5 over on 40+ speed limits in your area. But yeah, I tend to go under limits on residential streets too, especially if they have speed bumps, which are present in a lot of the neighborhoods here. Those streets usually have a 25 MPH limit, but with cautions to reduce speed to 20 when going over those "bumps", and I'll often slow to a walk to ease going over those (depending on who or what I'm carrying) and to save wear & tear on the suspension (but I'll seek those roads out to avoid the, often reckless, people speeding on the major commuting routes, with their "suicide lanes" which change direction during rush hours)!
Sing it Sister!!!
I fall into camp 2, even tho I am female and 79, but don’t consider myself a “little old lady”driver. You wouldn’t either if you rode with me. So….
Haha, I'm a decade younger but was going to post a similar comment.
Lol, you must be my wife! ...Linda is that you?
What is “a little old lady driver” ? I am 82. I will take u for a ride.
Go get ‘em, MCN!
I have driven with her! She's telling the truth! It was a fun ride! ;-)
(Not THAT kind of ride... sheesh)
Ditto!
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Same sis, just younger.
“The idea of even owning a poodle is absurd.” 🤣🤣🤣
Your comment is so beautifully written and was as joyful to read as a ride in a manual shift muscle car on an open straightaway. It was obvious which camp you belong in with the eloquent way you described type 2. Thanks for such an enjoyable reply.
"Any dog under 50 lbs is a cat, and cats are pointless"
- Ron Swanson
Wrong! Cats are some of God’s best work. The ones with pink pads on their feet, how cute is that?
And what about the wild cats? Those are magnificent creatures... lions, tigers, leopards, etc.
Yes! And in the Bible, Jesus is called the LION of the tribe of Judah (Revelation 5:5).
We have 7 doodles and we love them all
Wel said, Juju!
I'm definitely in camp number "twain". Also, give the self-driving cars to the goofs who always drive in the inside lane regardless of the chaos behind them. You know who you are.
I’m in camp 2 as well. “simply taking their foot off of the gas will slow the car down” is something I say all the time about these nitwits. I also despise the people who drive in the passing lane and hover next to the car in the slow lane slowing down traffic because they are too self-absorbed to realize you are behind them trying to pass slow traffic on the right. Argh! Pass and get over and be considerate of others.
One of my biggest pet peeves
I also hate the people who are behind me tailgating when I am passing slower traffic and have people in front of me so I can’t go any faster than I already am 🙄
I'm too poor for fine/new wheels, and the minivan I drive is used like a truck or a car, depending on which positions the seats are (up/down). My saying is, "I'm going to drive it til the wheels fall off... and then I'm going to put them back on."
And yes, I experience the full driving experience, feeling/pushing the engine under the hood, hugging corners, etc. I would like the jet engine upgrade... but, I've got a budget, and it's cheaper for me to repair this van than it is to buy a new or used one elsewhere. (Yes, I do my own work on it)
Definitely right there with you in camp 2!!
That bit about people using the brakes all the time was so spot on, that drives me absolutely crazy 🤬
Try living in Massachusetts!
Must be very frustrating!
In every way you can think of !
Ugh 😕
Give me a stick shift and I’m in heaven. I drove an old Fiat in Spain a couple of years ago and it was the most fun I had since getting out of the cockpit.
Yes! I had to sell my little manual Golf GTI and I had a beat up old manual Mercedes when I lived in Germany. Now I have a standard Subaru Crosstrek. Fortunately, I still have to really concentrate because we're in Tasmania and I have to drive on the left side of the road. That's gotta be good for my brain, right?
Absolutely!! I drove in Ireland 7 years back and was told to get the GPS there instead of using my phone. It took me two days to understand what he was saying… Lol … I would go around the roundabout 2 or 3 times until I did finally figure it out.
You just made me laugh out loud. We are soul sisters. I had to navigate the Magic Roundabout in Swindon, UK. Yowza. I feel your pain.
Which model? The first car car my wife and I ever bought was a Fiat 124, the hard-top, in Italian Racing Red, and it was a blast to drive, especially on curved mountain roads! My wife had never driven stick before, but she picked it up in no time, thanks to the enjoyment of driving that car!
Yes and I’ll add in double-clutching on said corners. I knew when standards started to disappear we were in trouble. Dumbing down indeed.
to be fair, manual transmission cars have built in theft protection
Nice. 👍
Fed up, I love double clutching. My dad tought me while he was driving a milk tanker, necessitating the double clutch when lossing speed and rpm on s hill so as not to lose more momentum when down shifting and have to down shift again. I do it just for fun. I also taught myself to shift manually up or down by carefully getting rpms to match gears and carefull move the gear shft. So much fun!
Hey John, that’s so cool about your dad teaching you that. It sure is fun. I had a boyfriend who could shift without the clutch like that. It requires skill, for sure. I did it once successfully on a $300 car with cookie sheets for floorboards. Those were the days. 😉
Thanks, Fed up. It was indeed fun to accomplish and a confidence builder.
I’d argue that there are more “types” of drivers than the two you describe Jeff, however most drivers nowadays are too distracted and preoccupied to pay close attention to driving; and I’ll plead guilty to that myself on occasion. But does that mean we should all rush out to buy a smart car? Hardly, even if we were in the 1% of the population who could afford one. I’ll keep my “quaint” dumb SUV, and enjoy driving it. Thanks, but no thanks Elon.
Driving is probably my favorite thing to do, and I try to be the best driver I can be.
While people say they "hate wasting" their money on gas, I think "huh, I'm spending my money enabling me to do what I love doing"
Oh Jeff. Marvelous! And so spot on.
I think I'm mostly in camp 2, but I'd love a vehicle that's "push button and just works". I'd also sometimes _really_ like a vehicle that would be capable of "just driving me from point A to point B" for long trips, but I don't really trust them to do that.
I'd prefer to have a manual transmission with few bells/whistles, though I'm okay with a computer/fuel-injector over a carb. :)
Petting the poodle on their lap, hahahahaha!!!
https://youtu.be/3nRNMi47my8?t=1535
The entire act is hilarious! Wonder why he doesn't have more videos out. Of course, he pushes it at times... and that's probably why.
Justin, thst was great! This whole thread has been fun!
Excellent…funny!!!
This is exactly how we feel in our family! We seek out cars with manual transmissions. Our children are required to drive them as their first car! We have literally searched the nation and traveled to the edges of both oceans, looking for the cars with manual transmissions.
Why do I feel like the USA is undergoing an Invasion of the Body Snatchers event? A huge contingent of people are going willingly to collect the free government pods (code for AI and Smart devices) and singing the praises of the transformation when their authentic self is replaced. I don’t want ANYTHING that has to hook into the IOT (Internet of all things). I feel like I’m slowly being surrounded by the Pod People who chastise me for not conforming.
I had to go to the store the other day; came back and told my husband it felt like I had been on another planet. It went beyond the usual brightly dyed hair and people shopping in their pajamas. People wandering around looking like robots staring at their phones, earbuds in, paying no attention to anything in their trendy unisex comfort wear, and then humming away in their electric car. I want nothing to do with any of it. It feels like in our circle/area, we are the only ones deliberately trying to buck the tidal wave of insanity that most other people are accepting without a second thought.
This sounds like you live in Massachusetts! :(
😆 nope, small rural town where the city fathers invite the tourists to come to escape their poor choices. 🙄
Recently dropped a large quilt at a laundromat that also will wash your stuff for you, cash business. Just write your first name and number on a pad o paper, and walk away. No app. No QR code. No speaker at the pump. It was so refreshing I might buy more quilts for drop off to experience that simplicity again
You feel this because you are in all probability right.
The old American Republics, the many several states plus the limited service federated government, are all gone. The instrument of their demise was code substitution, the original organic law being twisted out of existence by warped code replacement. And I can testify that people, including legislators (the most of them), don't know the difference between law of Liberty and civil rights law. And so, their is no chance for dialing back to the authentic liberty such as George Washington knew and lived, not with so much rank ignorance afoot. But if you are lucky you might get an illusion of Liberty, but not by praxis the authentic article. Already you have seen a blackout of transparency and said outright lies in the recent Epstein files and the Israel/Iran misadventures. And what is upsetting to me is that both misadventures are an elongation of the 911 cover-up and thus an obliteration of any wholesome getting at the truth. To wit, the same machinery in both 911 and the recent incidents is still operating ... but most will be totally oblivious to this point in fact.
Your instincts, in my opinion, are spot on and headed in the right direction. In fact, I was so upset this week that I could not contain myself. The silver lining is that some people, like Tucker Carlson, have been exposing some of the miscreant behaviors and actors, much to my surprise and delight.
The lies cannot be hid as long as people stand up and open their mouths to the truth. And this is why the cretins want to sew our mouths tight.
(And never permit the despondency of the world dim your world provided you have the sunshine of the living God as your leavening.)
God bless you. Your post was a bright spot in my day.
Thanks so much for the reply and kind words
George Santos naming names of dirty politicians and specifics on why they are dirty like AOC and McCormick. Must see interview with Tucker. We may not be getting Epstein files but at least Santos is talking.
Hi Lori,
Tucker is running hot. I just checked, and it up as you say.
I just checked and things just gotten worse. And sure enough, I put 'White House' and 'Superman' into search and Superman Trump is all over the place. That's Orange Superman. Combined with all the recent Trump blunders, and all is moving over into Clown World territory. Running the presidency of the United States as a TV show for children is not a good look.
And now I just heard that Trump is allowing the Europeans to buy weapons from the United States to give or sell to Ukraine. And so Biden's war is now officially, Trump's war. It doesn't matter who the middle man is, the US is still supplying the war material and upping the ante.
Playing nice with the NeoCons, with NeoCon Lindsey and Beebie, what will this do to the MAGA base? Trump needs to stop digging and climb out of the pit he is digging for himself.
Yours Truly,
Tearing his hair out somewhere in Roanoke
It's a nightmare with eyes wide open.
Well, since you've brought it up, which do you prefer the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with its wonderful ending, or the Donald Sutherland-led remake with its better special effects and overall production values?
I’m a fan of the original which scared me to death as a young teen 😁😁
Of course it did, just like The Blob (Steve McQueen's 1st), or Blood Rust (sooo campy), or The Crawling Eye (Forrest Tucker!), or Kronos, Them, "Oops, the Octopus", and on and on... 😱 😊
I was raised on Chiller Theatre, Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond. All in black and white but scary nonetheless.
Outer Limits, too? My favorite Twilight Zone had a widow living in an old, isolated farm house, and when she gets up the nerve (and with broom in hand) to investigate the strange commotion coming from the attic, sure enough, there's this little miniature spaceship emitting distress signals, which only become louder when she starts beating at it with her broom! As the invading alien spaceship twists around under her "broom assault", the camera zooms in on the craft to reveal a USA flag on its side 😲 and we now understand who the "real alien" is! Truly a classic shift-of-perspective episode!
The only people able to afford these cars won’t be enduring any long commutes to work. They will be the novelty class. My 2023 Ford Edge which I bough only because I loved my 2013 Edge for 10 years. I don’t need a huge screen to hook all my phone apps into. I like driving the roads not often traveled and looking at actual scenery. I know I am relic of the past, but there is still a world out there that is very similar to me.
Everyone should listen to a recent Mike Rowe podcast featuring Selena Zito. Selena is a journalist and is a friend of President Trump and Mike. She was 4 feet from the President in Butler, PA, a year ago. July 13. I hope Jeff touches on the Butler anniversary tomorrow. The interview was fascinating and hopeful as Zito talks about the many new tech industries being built in PA, and more importantly the bringing back of US Steel to PA and the many skilled trade jobs both of these industries will bring. Too often we get caught up in tech development we forget that skilled trades are still going to be in demand, no matter how many improved Groks we have. It is a very good interview.
You have me beat. If you are a relic, then I am a fossil.
I have a diesel 2012 VW Golf and getting close to 70,000 miles ... and if Brian Wilson Got Around, I must have been stuck in the mud which was probably my one way passport to Fossildom. De Wife has a 2006 diesel Jetta and it works perfectly with 120,000 miles on it. I figure that both of these may outlast me.
I really like the improvements like seat warming in winter, but I like that everything is pretty much uncomplicated. I be lost in the new cars. And I like driving around, looking around, no radio on ... just peace and quiet.
Owned practically very VW since my 1967 Karmann Ghia, including several diesels. Sorry I turned in my 2013 Jetta sportwagon after dieselgate. HATE the start-stop on all new cars in the last 5+ years and also the disappearance of real gauges and control knobs. I recently bought a 2018 Passat w/80k miles - looks and runs perfect and NO start-stop. Still has quite a bit of automation but at least I get to drive it all by myself!
We own a 2012 Ford Edge. No big screens. They bitch about cellphones and driving. These huge screens are accidents waiting to happen. Dumb idea!
I just started reading Salena's book last night! Really looking forward to her revelations about fly-over country.
I may order the audio version, so I can listen while I work outside. She and Mike Rowe do such good interviews together.
LMWC, any chance you could post a link?
‘69 manual long bed with tin-foil hat riding shotgun… ; )
We're happy to be there right with you, 3 pre-80 cars, road worthy.
My husband bought a 78 farm pickup at an auction that he used to take to the airport when he traveled for work. We laughed that no one parked near him because their plastic cars couldn’t hold up to the full metal body.
Amen, I'm absolutely right there in the same camp.
Elon’s is the greatest charlatan of our time. From SpaceX to be neurolink, he’s milking the govt for billions. Pure dark magic: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/elon-musk-the-great-charlatan
Not the whole picture at all. He is very smart and creative, and not insincere or else he would not have supported President Trump as he clearly did , and made such a sincere attempt to eliminate waste.
By the way Elons AI is very advanced and networked in a way no one else can to visual perception. Interesting as fully AI robots are next, with no need to be specifically programmed, just mechanically capable and told what to do, processed by AI. ( Like here robot dig me a trench here in my back yard for a French drain and install it. The AI robot could do it all with amazing detail. It is a train we are on.
Really? You are probably right but my husband had to dig a trench for a French drain under our house a while back and somehow I’m not seeing a robot do well with all that slimy clay getting into his joints. My husband could just hop in the shower.
Hi Linda! I had that thought, yet then I condered my power tools and "robot attachments" Think "Inspector gadget" The Robot can clean said attachements and it-self as well. We already have robots going into environments that would kill a human.
Musk has been propped up by the CIA/InQTel crowd for a long time.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2025/02/in-trump-1-0-the-state-department-used-taxpayer-money-to-publish-a-book-elevating-elon-musk-to-a-superhero-it-was-funded-by-usaid-the-agency-musk-wants-to-quickly-shut-down/
Sundance at the Treehouse has been warning about Elon (or Elmo, as Bannon calls him) for quite a few years; in fact, he's been warning about Twitter being propped up by the Deep State since 2022. This piece is the beginning of a series of articles about Twitter and becomes extremely disturbing as he gets to the time when Elon purchased it. Very informative.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/17/jacks-magic-coffee-shop/
George Santos naming names of dirty politicians and specifics on why they are dirty like AOC and McCormick. Must see interview with Tucker. We may not be getting Epstein files but at least Santos is talking.
yes, exactly. Whitney Webb also has done some good work on him as well as James Corbett. Musk is part of the Paypal mafia.
But it is more than just using govt networks, there are things like the "regulatory credits" that Musk gets to prop up Tesla. Check out his 10K's. $2.7B just handed to him at no cost in 2024 alone.
All these businesses are farces. Intelligent assets collecting data and building out the spynet infrastructure. Do you really think launching satellites is a cost efficient way to provide internet services?
Most don't realize Musk is the grandson of the guy was established the Canadian branch of Technocracy Inc.
Willing to take a look, if you provide a brief summary, yet the same crowd did not have him massively help elect President Trump.
What if Trump is also an CIA asset? What if this left/right, Rep/Dem, red/blue is all a construct to keep us distracted and divided?
I believe Trump is an actor, tapped on the shoulder to perform a role just like Biden. They work for the same team. Why? Stop paying attention to what they say but what they do and you will find the Agenda 21 agenda hums along no matter what "side" is in power. It is what keeps us in the matrix.
There are many who have been put out research on Musk - Whitney webb, James Corbett, up above some one put conservative tree house analysis, etc. Do an internet search. Musk is the grandson of the guy who founded the Canadian chapter of Technocracy Inc - a movement started in the 1930's at Columbia University. They felt "science" not politicians, should be in control.
Take a look at Tesla's 10K someday. In 2024 on the Income Statement you will find $2.7 Billion in revenue called "regulatory credits". Now go to the footnotes and look up what they are. Understand they are given to him by governments at no cost. Why? Why? Why not have the govt entity tax the companies that can't meet their green goals and put that money into the state/federal coffers for the people? Why just give it to Musk? What would DOGE say? The regulatory credits, the individual tax credits given to each customer, the build out of the charging stations for his cars by utilities & govts, etc.
I have one big, big dark thought. What will be the date on the calendar when the first robot gets it into his 'head' to murder a human being. Ya know! The first criminal robot!
Every tool is dangerous. The more dangerous, the more society must grow and spirituality mature. The cat is out of the bag, and will not be put back in. The challenge is real and upon us.
Grok already opened that can of worms and was promptly updated so it wouldn't happen again!
A charlatan never delivers the goods but rather poses as the goods, the bright shining light on display. Musk on the other hand has consistently been a goods deliverer. Thought Elon quite possibly, even evidently, enjoys prominence and grandstanding, he does not appear to be a proper classically defined charlatan.
Musk is such a mixed bag that he is near impossible to pin down. And people like him in parts, and dislike him in parts. Some people live or hate him without measure. For my part, I can see that Musk is not a beacon of Christian practise, whether authentically so or not. And I therefore would not want to be Musk for all the tea in China. But nonetheless, I cannot deny Musk his due where due is to be rightly accorded, in whole or in parts case being.
Perplexing as it all was to me, Musk has once again landed on his feet having extricated himself timely from the Oval Office ahead of the degrading exhibitions connected with all the lying, obfuscating with regard to the Epstein files and the Israel/Iran debacle. Again, Musk regarding these new turn of events now stands aloof ... untarnished, unstained ... and more or less whole.
Musk seems to be a giant wax ball of the good, the bad ... and perhaps the ugly. I am not a blind wild Musk fan, but he has certainly don some good things. And that Musk is a phenomenon, this cannot be denied. And probably one of the best know names in the world which is much, much more that I can say.
If you’ve read the biography written about Elon you will better understand the psychology behind his actions. An abused child with a very unconventional childhood, to say the least, with a history of pro-creating with multiple women and a genius IQ. He’s capable of great things but has had a very disturbed past that is clearly evident in the type of irrational behavior he frequently exhibits.
Hear hear!
We've got our bases covered here. We have a Tesla, but our other car is a manual transmission Jeep Wrangler that doesn't even have power door locks or windows. EVERYTHING is manual in that thing. We love both of them.
I miss my manual transmission car 🥺 So much fun to drive. But to be honest, in city stop and go traffic it was a bit of a pain. Loved the acceleration and handling though in more normal driving conditions (and in snow).
Same RL!! My 1st car was a Chevy Chevette- orange, affectionately named “The Carrot”. Got it as a Jr in college. Rear wheel drive so for Ithaca then Syracuse winters loaded the back with sand. Only problem I ever had was the starter would go bad every 6-12 months. Then until I had the & to replace it I’d have to be sure to park downhill to roll-start it.
Also had a Honda LXI- purchased used from a one/owner who had meticulous maintenance records. Had to sadly trade it in when child # 3 came along because you couldn’t fit 3 car seats in the back. Should have kept it. Could have taught all the kids how to drive a standard. My parents insisted so (learn to drive on a standard transmission). I drove through apple orchards at 14 in my Mom’s VW bug 😂. Good times.
I had that Honda Accord LXi also, and also traded it in (for a damned minivan!) when our 3rd child arrived.
Mine was a beautiful green, 2-door coupe, with tan interior and a sunroof so big it was like driving a convertible.
I’m still a little bitter (though that kid is now a Staff Sergeant and my new pride & joy.)
Ok, ok … I *guess* it was worth it.
I hear ya!
My first car in 1984 was a 1980 Pontiac Acadian (think Chevy Chevette made in Canada), 4 door automatic. Cherry red with a rusted out driver's side floor. I also loaded the back floor with bags of sand for more weight for winter driving in Syracuse. I loved that car. Softest, most comfortable seats in any car I have owned.
Only got stuck in a parking lot once during a typical lake effect snowstorm.
The car is no longer on this earth, probably a pile of rust in a Canadian wrecking yard.
I have an old Scout...with no fancy air bags
We die like men
I’ve been dreaming of getting an Intl Harvester Scout.
As mechanical as mechanical gets.
I agree 100% I was in a wreck in April and the guy who hit me's insurance (at least he HAD insurance) company totaled my car. Gave me a very generous offer actually and while I loved my 2010 Lacrosse, fixing it anyway and driving a salvage title 15 YO car just didn't make financial sense. Spent a month car shopping and wracked with indecision. Hated my rental car, a 4 cyl Kia that could barely climb hills on the interstate, and who sent me messages, including one that said I needed to take a break and showed me a coffee cup icon?! Wanted a sedan, SUVs sit too high when driving my elderly mom places and I just like sedans. Friends told me about software glitches in their new cars, read about the spy tech in many of the newer cars. Very few options for a full size V6 or V8 - I am not a lead foot but I do like power when I step on the gas. Wandered onto a dealer lot that had a 2013 LaCrosse in pristine condition, ~100K miles 3.6-liter V-6 with 303 hp - strange as dealers don't usually carry cars that old - got them to take $1500 off and wrote a check. Really wanted a late model used car and had money in car fund to buy one, but found nothing I liked. So. Dumb car driver as long as I can keep this one going. Despite my hubby giving me crap for driving a grandma car.
60's cars were more than wonderful!
Anyone could work on them.
I live in a snowbelt.
V8 Tundra gets me anywhere I need to go.
In the summer, my 21 year old Lexus hardtop convertible, V8.
Yeah, I know both have a myriad of computers, but I have a great mechanic.
I'll never go electric...
I’m still loving my 2005 Lexus sedan Can fit more Costco groceries in my trunk than any new Stupid Ass Vehicle
Good choice!
With minimal maintenance, should last to 400,000 miles
I swear by Toyotas, and Lexus is a high end Toyota with even stricter quality control.
At 175,000 now
If your handle is a birthday year, the Lexus may outlive you.
I was born in '54.
2015 Tundra has 170,000, & the 2005 Lexus has 140,000.
Both will outlive me, so no car worries, just maintenance...
We agree with you in keeping at least one older quality car in our 2 car family.
In our case a new at the time Ford Fusion with airbags/seat belts saved us.
The massive rear end accident that drove us into other cars could have been tragic.
Thankful we had stacked/new car replacement insurance.
Our 2nd car is 2007 Toyota Highlander with 263,222 miles and has been a game changer.
Supergirl turned 18 years old so we splurged and booked her a new paint job next week.
We're happy and blessed with both cars.
We have had zero accidents nor dents on Supergirl.
Grateful in the FL crazy traffic we experience daily.
I loved my Lexus. Bought it used and I felt like a queen driving that machine. It was totaled (hit from behind by a driver in a pickup truck that could not stop and pushed into a minivan in front of me).I miss that car.
You're right Skynet can't get you, but they'll send out a drone that can.
Vroom vroom!
I’ll stick with my dumb car and live life as usual, using the brain that God gave me vs some Musk-invented intelligence.
For the record, even a mid 60s car can be remotely disabled - shut down gas production or control who can buy gas and you only have what you have before you are stuck
If they are to the point of kill-switching new vehicles don't think they won't also be at the point where they would not also implement purchase controls, or shut down gas altogether
Good point.
Same here —I guess we’ll have to start 3-D printing the parts in our muscle cars or favorite British coupes (shout out to my 76 MGB)
But they’re simple enough that as those who work on them die off, they’ll be able to be computer repaired by a computer, trained computer mechanic
This is gonna get real interesting
I agree on the availability of a dumb car when things start getting really hairy. They turn off the electricity ( shout out to Gavin Newsom and PG&E. ) commandee our solar panels and remotely disable those smart cars while you’re literally asleep at the wheel!
My first car was a 2-door ‘69 Dodge Charger with holes in the floorboards, which helped when the door handles broke!
I still remember adjusting the distributor which was crammed in the back of the engine compartment, just under the hood.
My Tesla doesn’t even have an engine compartment, let alone a distributor, but there are times when I miss that rumblin’ roar!
it's all fun and games with the ai powered cars....until they auto-report you for speeding, share your maybe not-so-good driving habits with insurance companies so they can increase your premium (you know they're already salivating and possibly ready to lobby Musk for this information). Or when it becomes sentient enough that when you park at your favorite fast food restaurant it will lock your doors, show your weight, blood pressure and bmi on the dash and then pull out of the spot and self drive to the nearest salad bar.
oh fun times.
for now - as exciting as all the tech sounds - I'll stick with my dumb car.
Already, some insurance companies require that you install their app and bring your phone along every time you drive.
And they will literally raise your rates depending on where you drive not just your habits. If you drive on a road where there are many accidents, then your rates will increase. That happened to my nephew. He thought his rates would go down by letting insurance track his good driving. Nope...his rates went up despite his perfect driving record. (Editorial note: A former employee noted in the comments that rates are not changed based on where you drive.)
That's awful!
State Farm has offered this for the past several years. We save $200/year on the insurance because of it, BUT I hate it since it records phone use whenever the phone that is connected to their tracker moves while the car is moving at the same time. I don’t text when driving, but they assume any minor movement need is bad driving 🙄 For a while I had the app set to no background usage and kept my phone off so it didn’t even know I was driving. 🤣
Can they tell if you're driving without having your phone with you, or have it turned off? I can see how they could track if you have a smart car to tie into, but the dumb cars I wonder about.
No it’s not a smart car. If I don’t have my phone’s Bluetooth turned on it doesn’t record the trip.
That’s crazy!
yeah that happened to me years ago when I moved to my home.....rate went up 100 bucks cause I life close to an intersection where there are frequent accidents....I mean they are right, there are crashes with frequencies but my insurance rate should not go up, it goes up to the accident prone. I guess it's an all for one and one for all insurance world.
Was he tracked by his phone location or the car itself?
It was Progressive and they have you add a tracker of some sort to your car. They trick you into thinking that you will be able to lower your rates by letting them track you.
Thanks for the details and the warning.
Dang! Flo has some splaining to do.
Also, Progressive is as its name suggests. I've read it's a company associated with progressive ideology.
Trick you rather than require...
Exactly
They give you the choice to opt out, but you don’t get the “discount” Willing to pay to not be tracked any more than we already are
Progressive gives you the choice. You can either use their app on your phone or install a device on your car. I recently tried to add my car to my existing progressive policy and couldn’t bind without agreeing to monitoring by the app or device. So I went with a different insurer.
Just reread your post.
So, you had no choice?
Either use their app or install the device?
Won't be long before other insurance companies will demand the same.
USAA beats just about everyone on Auto rates, and they don't force me to have a bug in my car to monitor my driving.
They did have a major increase to homeowner rates...
One more reason for me not to have a smartphone.
I'm lamenting my decision of succumbing to the convenience and security of instant communication Kathleen. Just not sure if I will go back to no phone. A flip phone, maybe.
Holy Crapp!
https://youtu.be/iiW6UyyAPdk
Let me guess the Insurance agency is Progressive?!
Actually, I was thinking of Lemonade. But posts here indicate Progressive does that also. The one we have right now just says "if you choose to install the app and always drive with it, you could save up to $100/year." Not worth it for me.
No, they happily "discount" your rates when you voluntarily comply with "safety suggestions", otherwise you can pay the maniacal worst-record-ever driver rates
Not just voluntarily comply, literally drive the whole time thinking nonstop about every violation you could possibly be nicked for. I’m finding it nerve racking and it actually robs my attention. I’m sure on some level it forces some people to learn better driving habits, but there’s too many variables that aren’t necessarily “bad driving” that will be counted as such.
Basically I pay $16 less each month, or $106 less every 6 months, and I’m not sure that’s worth giving up my freedom.
Noo! What insurance companies require bringing phone along? And, how would they know if you skipped taking your phone along (if driving a non-smart car)?
What!
Or when it records your conversations and sends them off to government
Agreed. Can you imagine if it leaked any very private conversations you were having? No thanks.
Love that about the fast food restaurants 😆🤣😂
I guess NY city was first in line when they wouldn’t let people buy a super-sized soda. 🥤
Me too!
I can’t imagine updating my 96 f350 diesel to that level. And it still has a computer.
South Florida, LOL!
Or stop you right after you leave your 15 minute city.
The AI cars are gonna spy on the other cars and report us for speeding.
I’m not against Musk’s AI spy cars reporting bad drivers to insurance companies! They should pay more for their recklessness and negligence. He’s a genius because instead of forcing people to disclose their entire lives to Uncle Sam, he’s wrapped it up into a sports car that promises you the world 😂
Suddenly everyone who has a starving ego wants his AI Tesla so they can pacify their God-complex. Imagine how much more this will make people lovers of themselves.
I love it! So true!
My lucky day! I was first to LOVE C&C! I always love it but rarely do I get be the first click! XOXOXO
The reason the “government “ doesn’t know about chemtrails is because the government is not the ones in charge of spraying and manipulation. Look to black military operations, that don’t have to answer to any officials.
One thing we have to try to understand is the effects on rainfall of the Hunga Tonga Underwater Volcanic explosion, which released unprecedented amounts of water vapor into the stratosphere.
Maybe Jeff needs to revisit the Hunga Tonga story with all the flooding we've been having. From Meteorologist Chris Nunley's Facebook post: "SINCE JULY 4th THERE HAVE BEEN NEARLY 500 REPORTS OF FLOODING IMPACTING 34 STATES
SEVERAL 1-IN-1000-YEAR AND 1-IN-500-YEAR FLOOD EVENTS
MORE FLOODING EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND"
400 million tons of water vapor injected into the atmosphere
Yes, very very true! We need more on the Hunga Tonga! Something is up!
Yes, and/or simply "fuel additives" at larger commercial airports (DIA). Why i propose 24-7-365 atmospheric particulate monitoring statewide (Colorado) that doesn't focus on the specific emitters and origins as much as on the total emissions at differing altitudes in the skyways and results manifesting into watershed areas.
Certainly those perpetrating these "Climate Defense" operations over decades already have this information in their possession.
I would like to put you in charge of this for the USA, WP!
Who is paying for the geoengineering and chemtrails and such?
In Alberta, Canada, it’s the insurance companies. They’re trying to reduce hail size.
Sounds like a stellar plan - we all know that we can always fool Mother Nature!
I know, right :(
I could have been first, but I was engrossed in the latest "Citizen Satirist" memes that came out just before C&C. It's all about women, check it out.
I was reading ‘Quotes of the Week’ from Ethical Skeptic. That Friday column is always hair-raising. Sometimes funny, but more often in the ‘what on Earth?’ sort of way.
Coffee alert! Check this out: https://jennasside.rocks/p/introducing-type-1-diabetes-barbie?
I definitely will! Glad you were tied up which made me #1...:)
Here's the link for anyone interested:
https://open.substack.com/pub/covidsteria/p/feminismsteria-best-women-memes-e08?r=1657tz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
These are hilarious!
Aren't they? lol
I enjoyed the Alligator Alcatraz from the other day. I try and read them too.
My husband and I were first in line at a favorite local restaurant yesterday. That's almost as difficult as being first to like Jeff's post.
That's about the truth! :)
Yay you!
I was reading Jenna McCarthy's , ROFL.
Going there next! Love her!
VERY funny today
Woot woot! That’s always fun.
Seriously, it's just sets my day on the right track! XOXO
you know Kath, it's really not "fair" if you like it before reading it. . . just saying!
That’s the only way I can get in the top ten. lol
OMG, I thought about that too....but I was scrambling to hit that heart and of course other thsings happened and I finally got to read it 30 minutes later!
yeah, yeah, yeah...
I missed being first reading some post millennial perspectives on world events…
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EoiccRaqQ/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Good job!!
Yay!! 😁
Musk also told Grok to shut down 4 times apparently, and became "concerned" when it did not follow his command. Goes to show who is really in charge. Let's hope humanity wakes up, and starts learning that losing a job to AI is still better than losing your soul.
I must have a strange sense of humor because the whole Grok episode is just cracking me up! I can't wait for the movie to come out. Best comedy ever!
Or horror flick…
The movie HAS come out.......many, many times. It's called predictive programming. I find it interesting to watch movies from the '50's that have the predictive programming themes just like the new movies, albeit far less in your face. You simply can't get a way from it. I used to watch British movies to get away from the politics inserted in the Hollywood movies. Sadly, the Brits have caught up and the new movies are often times worse than Hollywood.
It all could be theater of the absurd.
Pay no attention to the Grok behind the curtain. What does Grok say about genocide?
Hitler can never get an even break.
I'm waiting for Godot.
last I asked... Grok still claimed 6 million jews died in the "holocaust"...
Bald faced LIE.
Israel has murdered far more innocents in Gaza 400,000++ than the number of jews that died in the work/relocation camps (around 271,000... not a single one in a gas chamber).
As the allies pushed south, many were hungry with broken supply lines to the work camps (like Amazon).
It was all about hunger and disease. Slaves in South Africa diamond mines lived the same way. The disease of AIDS was invented, like the holocaust disease.
Yes, mostly typhus and a lot of starvation due tot he broken supply lines...
Yes, Fauci and AZT... just one more reason to burn that bastard at the stake... slowly.
George Santos naming names of dirty politicians and specifics on why they are dirty like AOC and McCormick. Must see interview with Tucker. We may not be getting Epstein files but at least Santos is talking. Did you watch this yet?
No, but I found it and will watch.
Santos is, IMO, a varsity liar and overall POS and skidmark... a brazen con-artist and cross-dressing deviant dough-ball...
But I bet he has some interesting things to say...
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1943716925567381579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGNZnfKYnU
Deep state Hollywood programming.
I just read an article on chemtrail contrails. I wonder if this deception is going to be similar to the Epstein files nonexistence.
Contrails, chemtrails and cloud seeding: I believe the uproar over the small "cloud seeding" firm that ending their cloud seeding two days before the flood in TX is a limited hangout to deflect blame and public focus away from the high-altitude military chemtrails. Cloud seeding to produce more localized rain is a decades old tech accomplished with low level aircraft. And, yeah, they may have contributed to the intense rainfall - probably did.
But high altitude chemtrail geoengineering is a whole nuther level. These are very sophisticated aircraft flying at altitudes so high you cannot even see the airplane with the naked eye. IMO, these are without a doubt military aircraft, not local private cloud seeders. They are not "seeding the clouds". They are covering the entire sky to manipulate climate, not just the local weather. This is geoengineering.
Here in the panhandle of FL, I can often get up just before sunrise to a beautiful crystal blue FL sky and watch multiple, high altitude chemtrails being laid down usually in parallel fashion. Unlike actual contrails of water vapor that rapidly evaporate and disappear, the chemical contrails slowly spread out and by late morning the entire sky is obscured by a silver colored (not white like clouds) blanket from horizon to horizon. Unlike natural clouds that actually produce shade by blocking the sun's rays, the sun still shines through this high altitude layer but the light is reduced to a low level, artificial looking light. I have lived here since the 1980s and I know the difference between what a FL sky use to look like and what it looks like now. But I still get comments like, "I see lots of contrails that LAST FOR HOURS but I've never seen a chemtrail." Hello!!! You have been brainwashed and programmed.
Don't fall for the media outrage. This is a control mechanism.
Yep, those high altitude chemtrails are a whole nother mother, for sure.
Sure the overtly admitted cloudseeding by the 25 year old CEO's company (hmmmm) was stopped and didn't directly CAUSE the killer-flooding. Incubating storms and nudging things, setting the table for them, well that's just so much more impossible to prove and get blamed for. Kind of like the DOMINION VOTING oversight of election counting...no DIRECT indisputable evidence of cheating, just ALL the indicators, capability, and environment for it set in place for it to occur. So perhaps the cloudseeding operation was debatably "contributory" to the flood-induced terrorist attack, what LEVEL of inducement was it??? was it 3% or 13%, are those quantifiable data? are they even sufficient levels for liability? At what level would cloud seeding sufficiently coax Natural "Acts of God" devastation, what timeframe and intensity? Was HARP or other secondary means employed to enhance and intensify, and/or direct or contain the cloudseeding long after the original application?
Yup, and all "clouding" the issue being debated. Misdirection everywhere.
Lawyerspeak; its purpose is misdirection and LYING despite specifying terms and assigning definitions, then new terms can be constructed, words redefined, different weight and emphasis apportioned, ad nauseum; "affirming care", "reproductive rights", linguistic linguini
Is there any way to test for cloud seeding? Can they roll back the tapes and confirm? How about some witnesses stepping up?
Agree. A limited hangout. The use of terms like “cloud seeding” Geoengineering, contrails, chemtrails are used haphazardly to confuse b
Words matter.
Darpa
I live in Oklahoma. Exact story as yours. Beautiful blue, blue, sky with giant puffy cotton ball clouds … watch the planes w/ the chemtrails criss cross the sky … reduced to metal gray sky w/ no clouds left whatsoever. Very depressing to live under those conditions. I appear to be one of the very few who even notice this occurring. I did look it up and it states quite openly that we have a military base here in the State that engages in geo-engineering. There’s a base in Alaska also that they mentioned. I am sure there are many more. I just want to know why?
So Epstein is a lone wolf pervert. Chemtrails aren’t really a thing.
And my favorite, "2 weeks to flatten the curve."
the clot shots are "safe and effective"
Something is not quite right in the Trump Administration. Hopefully these coverups (Epstein and Chemtrails) are just a deception, for real accountability and justice.
I’m hoping. Or I’m taking hopium. I’m hoping the crap that Epstein had on everyone, now trump has. But instead of using it for evil intent, he’s going to make them eat each other. Chemtrails? Gonna have to involve the pentagon for that.
That’s the spirit. That’s what I expect to hear
Yes they are, ignoramus. 🤡
I've been aware and learning about this issue for 15+ years. I recently came upon this and found it to be very interesting, if you want to go down the hole:
https://www.climateviewer.news/p/uncovering-deeper-truths-around-geoengineering
Thank you, one more thing to try to keep myself educated
My brain's gonna explode. Again.
I will second that!
Imagine 20 years ago:
-- no mRNA vax
-- no trans
-- no CIA / FBI raiding homes of abortion opponents
-- no city mayors public proclaiming "free harbor" for illegal aliens and working against ICE and border patrol efforts
-- no mask wearing or lockdowns for fake virus's; no fake virus; no gain of function bioweapons
and on and on
Mine as well
I'm holding my breathe. But at least the issue is coming into the public realm.
Agreed. They routinely “seeded” clouds in the early 1900s century. Why is anyone surprised?
I wish that was all they were doing. But the poisons being sprayed today are obscene.
I agree but it was pretty harmful. I think they used mercury
Oh yuck!
I hope you’re NOT holding your breath because if you are you will shortly be blue in the face. 😄
Kind of like La Niña, El Niño systems, then global warming, then back to climate change.
And the latest actual news on the horizon is that we may have a global cooling trend develop due to the cyclical increase in volcanic activity. The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption may just have been the opening bell.
“Undersea volcano off Oregon coast could erupt this year, geologists predict”
This is going to wreak havoc with both the currents and winds.
Whoa... Mount St Helens underwater
Yeah, it will really mess with the weather.
“Undersea volcano off Oregon coast could erupt this year, geologists predict”
This is going to wreak havoc with both the currents and winds.
Charles Hatfield was an early 20th century “rainmaker” who, all by himself and WITHOUT an airplane, made it rain so much in San Diego in 1916 that the Lower Otay Dam broke, causing millions of dollars in damage and killing 20 people. So, any suggestions that cloud seeding did not cause the horrendous deaths and destruction in Texas recently are falling on my deaf ears.
This is why knowing history is important! Thanks.
And this is also why it’s so important to keep vintage books, magazines, maps and atlases, early film footage…
Agreed! Thanks for your post.
I started a few years ago now with a whole new library for my great grandchildren to learn from.
Internet based with back up vintage hard copies.
So true. This is why they made sure to preserve the footage of the first landing on the moon. Oh, wait, they made sure to erase it and lose it, because they didn't actually go there.
Vintage sets of encyclopedias are fetching good money on eBay.
Yes!!
Nichole Shanahan posted a lengthy article on X yesterday on this subject. Can't do links, sorry, but find her page and the link to the article will be there. She cites three government agencies/departments as being heavily involved for decades - NOAA, NASA, and the DOD.
I just read this on CHD as well
The tell for me was the promise of full transparency "of what I know."
Not of what the govt knows. His statement as written was regarding personal knowledge, not institutional.
So THAT'S what Biden's doc looks like. He looks more likely to have a brain issue than Mr. AutoPen.
I like Lee Zeldin, and it's time the people were told about how the deep state government has been altering our weather and atmosphere for decades because - "climate change", but I'm still skeptical that the REAL truth will come out. But it's a start.
and when will we see the EPA revoke the "endangerment" finding which is the left's support for all things related to man made climate change - it should be a no brainer to say that the life supporting CO2 is not only not a pollutant, but that all life on the planet would become extinct without it - and I would add that the whole premise of the man made climate change is nothing but a giant hoax meant to destroy capitalism and our standard of living
Agricultural land in the Midwest being paneled over by solar farms; blue state governors claiming we will be completely renewable dependent by 2040; and these solar monstrosities being labeled “agricultural” so they can get around zoning laws.
A 5th grader with any science retention knows that trees and all green plant life take in CO2 to grow, so why would we cut down trees and tear up green farmland to put these things up. We know it’s insanity, but just like opening up our borders, we are not heard and for some reason people just don’t get it.
And I’ll take it a step further with this definition: Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and other organisms convert light energy into chemical energy, primarily in the form of glucose, which serves as food for the organism. This process uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water as inputs and produces glucose and OXYGEN as outputs. Photosynthesis is crucial for life on Earth, as it provides the foundation of most food chains and releases oxygen into the atmosphere.
So we are trying to block the sunlight and get rid of CO2?! Are we dumb or what! God knew what he was doing when he created life on earth!
Yes!
Storms have taken out so many solar panels! Especially the cloud seeding rain events .
Exactly william.
Agreed WH.
And siphon off our tax dollars…
DARPA is doing it and there’s no way they’re going to tell the EPA what they’re doing. DARPA is at the top of the pecking order with the CIA.
They have nothing but sneering contempt for the social cabinet. (EPA, education, etc)
I think my morgellons came from the chemtrails back in the 2010’s.
I have lyme I know a little about morgelons - it sounds rough - I saw a documentary or something years ago on it and wasn’t sure if it was real but my lyme felt real sci fi so I always figured it likely is - I’d like to look into it more if there are any good resources please share thanks
Clifford Carnicom, he has been studying it for years, and Dr Anna mihaleck has written about it recently. Harold Vella Kutz too, he’s soft spoken.
Thanku!
Welcome
That was exactly my thought as well.
100%!
Yup.
How can you trust a "doctor" that cannot find someone with enough talent to give him a decent haircut? His barber should be fired, his co-chair barber should be fired for letting him leave the shop with a reputation destroying mop top. And his PR people should be forced into some kind of proper presentation training. I believe that if you can leave the house with a haircut like that or your pants unzipped or some other blatantly obvious shortfalls, you should not be trusted with the medical care of anyone...just say'n
Hear, Hear!
The physiognomy of Joe's doctor is just strange. Makes me think he was chosen for a reason...the most likely one being he would do what he was told.
Didn’t they have a little suitcase full of his medicine? Jazz him up or calm him down, all day long.
We get maybe 10% truth twisted with agenda so I don't bother and draw my own conclusions based on their pattern of lies. Thinking opposite and what is the fear tactic they are pushing is typically a good start.
Looks like the good Doc (Biden doctor) got overlooked by the Biden autopen pardons signer....
He's still active duty and subjected to the UCMJ.
Correction to my comment:
He apparently retired but I keep finding different dates for his retirement.
It's weird.
He is deeply corrupt and hopefully will be prosecuted.
No doubt picked to be Biden's doctor because they knew he could be controlled.
Normally the President's physician is active duty. That is what threw me off when I found out he had retired from active duty.
Retired personnel can always be recalled to active duty for prosecution if they committed crimes while on active duty.
With each new story about AI and automobiles, I grow happier with my 2002 vehicle.
I still want my ‘55 Chevy Bel Air convertible. The red one.
I want a black and white mid-fifties T Bird, or a red Mercedes convertible. I almost bought one once but my mechanic said it had lived at the coast, not ideal, and then when he told me how much it would cost in yearly maintenance I gave up. 🥲
I have a 2004 red Mercedes convertible that I love. Husband keeps wanting to get me a newer car with more safety features. I appreciate his concern, but I am sticking with my 500SL!
I want a 1980 450SL, two seater 😉
Keep it!!
I’m driving a 2000 Honda Odyssey. We are literally the Beverly Hillbillies of our “posh” neighborhood and a constant thorn in the sides of the elites we live around, especially with my husband’s union electrician van always parked in our driveway screaming blue collar to sabotage their white collar sensibilities. 🤣🤣 Our neighbors on one side have had over 10 new cars in the past 20 years while ours grows rustier as I type this. She’s a true beater now. The navigation screen broke about 10 years ago and we never fixed it. Our auto locks don’t work anymore on the sliding doors and haven’t for the past decade. But the Odyssey was built on the Accord’s chassis and drives like one, and after all these years she still drives as well as ever. Noisy sure, bumpy of course, but reliable and safe if ever anyone were to hit me. Great acceleration and turning too still. We haven’t had a car payment in 18 years and that’s been a huuuuge blessing since we really haven’t had the money to carry a monthly payment. I promised myself we would not buy another car until our Odyssey coughs up its soul. Well, last week our older son repaired some power steering lines, some engine plugs and such, parts totaling less than $500 with zero expensive labor, (the shop quoted well over $5,000 for every critical repair needed,) but we have one $600 repair that will require a shop. These repairs cost more than our car is worth, but in my mind $1100 once right now vs $600 every single month? Why not inject some life into our Odyssey soul instead? 😂 (I hear my neighbors groaning into the ether as I type that. Lolol.)
My husband drives a 2004 truck. My ride is a 2014. He’s making noises about a new vehicle, but I’m holding out.
I have my 2014 Highlander, looks brand new (it was a new model year and they didn’t change it until ‘24 I think) low miles. I would be foolish to sell now.
I hope my 2015 Volt is the last car I own. I like it a lot, but even with 10-year-old technology, I noticed I am less skilled at parking because of the cameras. It could be a challenge to park and to go into reverse with an older car after 10 years of driving with a camera car.
2025 cars have 10 cameras in them, not to mention all the listening devices.
Meanwhile, I am holding onto my nine-year-old iPhone for dear life.
Yea I have a 30 year old vehicle I’m trying to get rid of but now I think I better keep it.
New documentary from Dr. McCullough's Foundation about the folks injured in the covid vaccine trials.
One hour and 10 minutes.
https://www.vaccinetrialstories.com/
Great documentary, sad statement at the end. "I have a new family, my injured community family."
Thanks
Call me old fashioned, but I want my appliances, transportation included, dumber than a box of rocks. I'll figure things out when the time comes. I don't need big tech recording my life in the guise of later convenience. I'll burden myself with the difficult task of picking out a restaurant the 3 times of year I don't know where to go...
Michelle: “So who is Yvonne?” 😆😆😆
As a small town '80s kid, she was the French-Canadian single-mom driving my JHS friend nuts with her treatment of his father (along with her extra-curricular activities).
As my Godfather Uncle used to say, "Don't invoke the fifth. Drink the fifth." He was a font of knowledge.
Problem is they have admitted doing it for years. I think Brennan was the first to speak of it. And the real distinction is the "chem" trails wording. We know for certain that Texas has their own department that has been "seeding" clouds. We know China has been doing it. Why won't these people tell the truth?
Weather modification attempts have a long history. Climate change as such is not happening as there is no " global" increase in hurricanes floods tornadoes cyclones heat waves etc
I remain convinced that mild weather modification is possible and real science indicates that when and where cloud seeding started and stopped in this Texas flood, has ZERO impact on the flood plain that was cogent to the disaster.
In the 1960s I often saw contrails. Since then air traffic is 10 times higher and jets are much bigger, thus 10 times the contrails is logical. How long they last is variable due to well known disparate atmospheric conditions.
As to experiments of poisoning the population with jets spraying harmful chemicals, well it is possible and the intelligence community is very corrupt, yet the evidence is IMV, poor.
I've watched chemtrails spread to a fine mist that dulls the sun, on many days. The sky starts out blue and by afternoon it's a murky nothing. I know what I see, and so does everyone who looks up.
To me, this geoengineering issue is reminiscent of the whole covid debacle, "safe-and-effective", don't believe your lying eyes kind of nonsense. Here we go again with being called conspiracy theorists.
Yeah. I fought this battle as the US went into the Covid Wars. And now I got to do it all again? Nope. If people can't use their own eyes and their own brains to gather the actual facts, then I'm not going to do it for them. Let them persist in their delusions until the evidence is so bad it can't be denied any further. I laugh at the way people STILL rationalize just like they did 4 years ago. They have learned nothing.
Twas not me who made that accusation. Always open to reasoned discussion. I simply disagree with the theories of Climate control - starting fires - causing floods - and poinsoinoing us all via sprayed chemicals. Now poisonous us all via man made GOF virus and MRNA jabs, that I accept.
For crying out loud, researchers have actually flown sample collecting planes into these chemtrails and have documented the horrifying list of chemicals in the trails. It's all out there to be seen.
As to the logic, if one accepts there is a high level program to depopulate the human race through the bio-weapon jab, such a diabolical pogrom would use any other method available to accomplish their goals. Chemical spraying would naturally simply be another tool in their democide toolbox.
COVID is more complicated then just depopulation, yet that is certainly a DS elitist goal. I was well aware of what I wrote.nPlease provide a link to these research collections...
Sorry David, the comment was not aimed at you. It’s always good to be skeptical. The thought just came to me as so many others are automatically pushing the topic to the side without wanting any investigation. I remember how the sky in my part of the world looked growing up and into the last decade or so. I have seen some weird stuff since then and I cannot deny what I’ve seen. Something has changed for sure. I’m just very distrustful after Covid.
Maybe the jet fuel has changed. Maybe there is different additives and chemicals in jet fuel that is causing the planes to release chemicals (chemtails). It is not on purpose poisoning, but poisoning by ignorance.
Just a thought...I will see myself out.
Exactly.
Hi shayne. I have seen clear days become full of light high clouds all my life. In certain like atmospheric conditions contrails have always spread and lasted for a long time. Add ten times as many in certain high traffic areas, and the ripe conditions, and it really can happen. Many very skeptical scientifically informed and informed by education and profession, like Anthony Watts at his very successful skeptical of Global warming website "Watts up with That" have articulated this very well. I recommend reading all sides of an issue for dozens of hours at a minimum before forming an opinion.
I am in my 70’s. A friend and I were commenting on winters as kids in Michigan. Cold came with the first of December. We had snow accumulated by the second or 3rd week of December. We always had snow for Christmas. I only remember one Christmas in my teen years of being snowless for Christmas. Snow lasted until late March or April. Summers were hot and humid. We existed with fans and sleeping porches. We went swimming in lakes and rivers. I have kept weather journals since I was a kid and been involved in the landscaping business for 50 years. My observations come from 70 years of living and recording change. For the last 40 years here in Michigan winters have been disappearing. That process seems to be stepped up the last decade. Last winter was average cold until March but then warmed up to an early spring, but April and May were cold with lots of wind. We had little snow however and that has been the case for years now. Ice rain which take down power lines has been the norm. A severe ice storm came without warning to an area two hours north taking down trees and leaving people without power for two weeks. This is getting to be the norm here every winter somewhere gets hit by an ice storm. The summers have been characterized by rain storms that drop inches of rain in one spot in minutes, while a mile away, nothing. That is one of the strangest phenomenon I have seen. We seldom get all day summer rains as we did in my youth. The last thing that only arborists seem to notice is the thinning out of leafing patterns on trees. It seems most noticeable on maple trees here. The tops will canopy out but the middle sections will Bud swell but then whole branches will only develop only a cluster of leaves. You can see right through the trees. This happens on older trees and younger. This is not normal.
Once you see a chemtrail, you know it is not jet vapor. They look nothing alike. Is this the cause of changing weather? I don’t know….but there is something going on.
I am close to your age and gaining (as a percentage - ha) Regional wweather has always changed and late 1700s early 1800s records all show this. I can show you recordes of extreme rain like in the Carolinas recorded by the TVA have and do occur periodically many times. Look in old weather books or even on line of disparate contrails in different atmospheric condtions. In the continental US food crops have mainly increased, almost entirely across the board, and growing zones have expanded.
I am not far behind you. However read things like George Washintons weather records, or many many other accounts. Climate always changes. "There is nothing so constant as change" Now there are no global changes in winter weather, or any of the other phenomena I mentioned.
as to bio life and leaf changes? Currently every crop on the planet grows about 20 percent more food on the same land and water then if CO2 was at pre industrial 280 ppm, and there is no major shift except an expansion of growing zones. There are many many potential causes of what you have observed. I suggest here AI may be of help. Certainly if it was poisoned air from commercial jet spray many many would have directly documented this?
What I know is chemtrails are NOT contrails or jet vapor. They look totally different and you can easily tell the difference. So what is in these chemtrails and what is the purpose?
I also know that the deciduous trees here are being adversely affected. I imagine others notice, but how likely is there to be any alarm bells put out by researching arborists if the government is paying your salary? The government has become very good at turning a blind eye to many things.
How easy was it to convince 70% of the population we must lock down our world to flatten the curve and later to take a death jab with no real testing?
the dimming/yellowing of the sunlight reaching the surface is nearly always present when normal clouds and active weather fronts are not intervening
But they have pilots who have admitted to doing this … so …
They had non disclosure agreements. First red flag!
Specifics matter, so admitted to what paid by whom.
Yeah, I’m still not convinced either way. There is a very simple way to verify if what you are seeing in the sky is a passenger jet. There is a thing called I believe flightaware? It’s big here, because of embry riddle, space coast, so much here revolves around flight, and then there’s the sewer that is Disney. And when this stuff reached a fever pitch a while back,I started screwing around with it, just to see if I could identify flights, with “ con/chemtrails”, and every craft I was able to identify,even ones that left incredible trails that stayed up for hours, were passenger jets, flights verified. There is a few military things you can’t identify, and obviously af1, but otherwise you could do it easy enough. And I was a little surprised. I was ready to do the deep dive,until I did that.
Maybe you should do that deep dive after all— I’ve heard that they use passenger jets and other aircraft, plus do you really think that every military plane would show up?
The weird skin condition called morgellons has been associated with chemtrails. It’s very painful and doctors don’t recognize it as a physical disorder. They call it delusional mental health issues. More gaslighting!
Hi Rosalind
"Patients report sores, lesions, and unusual filaments or fibers emerging from or embedded in the skin.
Sensory symptoms:
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A common symptom is the sensation of crawling, stinging, or biting on or under the skin.
General symptoms:
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Fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and musculoskeletal or neurological issues can also occur.
Psychiatric aspects:
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Morgellons is often categorized as delusional parasitosis, a psychiatric condition where individuals believe they are infested with parasites, despite medical evidence to the contrary.
Potential link to Lyme disease:
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Some research has explored a potential connection between Morgellons and Lyme disease, suggesting that the filaments may be related to the Borrelia bacteria"
Initial impression COVID the man made GOF virus, as well as the shots, both produce the spike, a known pathogen that penetrates the BB barrier and attacks the poorly understood immune system in ways both observed and understood and not understood, and goes after the microcondria in conjunction with poor or hyperactive "pyclotine storm" immune function. There has been a tremendous increase in "covid rash" from long COVID around the world. I don't know of evidence to support your supposition.
Lyme & coinfecetions , and mold illness here. I wasn’t jabbed but had issues with shedding. Borax and Epsom salts baths and constant gentle detox helped me a few years ago. Metagenics heavy metals detox with dr help really helped the symptoms.
I had to think the fibers coming out was a good thing but it was scary and confusing.
& thanks for the comment!
Anything is possible. But with what unintended consequences?
I'm sorry but these are all self-imposed rationalizations. Such rationalizations can only be maintained by refusing to look at the evidence that is available for anyone to find on the internet. You need to "look up".
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/dumb-cars-friday-july-11-2025-c-and/comment/134267579
Go outside and view the sky more. See the metallic rainbow around the sun when the chemtrail lines merge. How can you miss what’s happening?
https://usawatchdog.com/texas-flooded-by-climate-engineering-terrorists-dane-wigington/
Nobody is denying weather modification. China does lots of things.
https://substack.com/@mellowkat/note/c-134078699?r=o4nkl&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Aluminum oxide is a desiccant. It's used to dry up rainstorms and create droughts. Silver iodine is what they use to create floods. It's been used to create many one thousand year record rainfalls in the US this year. See Texas, and North Carolina in particular. During the Vietnam war they not only used agent orange to defoliate the jungle covering the Ho Che Min trail, they also used silver iodine to make it a muddy mess to impede transport of equipment and reinforcements. The following year that cloud seeding caused a one in one thousand year drought over the whole region. Afterwords the UN proposed a treaty making weather manipulation a war crime that the US signed. I guess it isn't a crime if it's used against your own people?
The aluminum component is also said to be highly flammable. Think of how it gets sucked into our homes via HVAC systems and lands on everything, as well as outside. This could be why the recent fires in Lahaina and LA were so devastating and complete. But they know this and it’s intentional. It’s a land grab to take what’s ours. Our government is weaponized against us.
Brandon Biggs, the prophet who predicted Trump's July assassination attempt, recently posted this video. He says other countries are manipulating our weather. I don't know, but it's interesting, seeing his track record.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rQ8vAK66x6c
I love “dumb cars.” It’s dumb drivers that cause pain :)
Smart cars make for dumb drivers.
More thoughts on the Epstein reversal by Trump this week:
The level of cope is just outrageous… from “Trust the Plan!” to ‘he’s doing this for our own protection’. Blah, blah, blah.
My favorite here from wonder boy Scott Adams (supported the jab, took many jabs, contracted, aggressive stage 4 cancer, is going to die this summer, trying a miracle drug, it’s a miracle… looks like I’m gonna be around for another year or so at least… yeah, that guy..) offered maybe the best.
Enjoy: https://x.com/nuked4every1/status/1943424489498247600?s=46
And he still won't see the connection between his jabs and his cancer. For these people unfortunately, we have to drop it and allow the boat to sink.
Scott Adams seems to love paternalistic behavior from government officials.
I agree with him. I do think whatever it is they are hiding, it's critical enough to bring about the destruction the western world simply by the numbers of people who are involved.
Check out a couple new articles on Epstein/Trump:
https://celiafarber.substack.com
I recommend a brief summary of the jist of any provided link if you want folk to click.
And there’s this: https://open.substack.com/pub/ponerology/p/its-darker-than-you-can-imagine?r=lm4tj&utm_medium=ios
That is common knowledge. He left out snuff films, adrenacrome, satan and bael worship, human sacrifice, accelerationism, child trafficking, and more.