Age isn’t inherently a bad thing in politics. We’re a representative democracy,

I am not a workaholic. I want to retire from my profession some day, not continue working while in hospice care.

I want to be represented by someone who understands and shares my values, which includes a desire to enjoying life after retirement.

I want my representatives to value and promote the idea of recreation, hobbies, volunteer work, etc. Which means they will be retiring from professional work around 65, not 90.

Being of retirement age is an inherently bad thing in professional politics.

It exists to fuck up search results.

Shareholders.

I’ve stopped a half dozen people from doing something like this… Every single one of them was filling up to the maximum pressure listed on the sidewall.

The sidewall pressure is only the correct pressure at the maximum load on the tire. The maximum rated load on the tire is often nearly twice the vehicle’s maximum weight rating, so the sidewall pressure is never the correct pressure for your vehicle.

The correct pressure for each tire on your vehicle is listed on a tag on the driver’s door, or door frame.

Too many CEOs, not enough universal healthcare. Guns are a red herring here.

Nancy Pelosi, 84

She should have retired from professional politics 19 years ago.

Harry Tubgirl.

This guy is going to get a standing ovation when he enters the courtroom.

If my shotgun starts making strange noises, I check the brownies.

The only technology in my house is me, and I keep a loaded shotgun next to me in case I make a noise I don’t recognize.

(Am I doing this right?)

I use Tasker to log my weight to a Google Sheets spreadsheet, and just use a dumb scale.

I don’t think it really matters either way. The bell can’t be unrung, and it sounded the death knell of the private health insurance industry.

First one way, then the other.

This guy earns receives your annual salary every fucking day of the year, and after taking hundreds of dollars from us every month to secure health care, he has the gall to tell 1/3 of us that we should just die rather than receive treatment.

Fuck him with a pineapple.

That man’s obituary will be a best seller. Everyone wants a copy.

Honestly, I didn’t even catch that we were talking about NYT. I saw the parent comments about “person of the year”, and went with it.

NYT is garbage, too. I’ve had them filtered out of search results with browser extensions for years. I miss RES, which filtered them out of Reddit as well. I haven’t gotten around to figuring out block lists for Lemmy.

Trump is person of the year for 2024, yes. He was previously named person of the year as well. Putin, Stalin, Kruschev, Reagan, Nixon, Kissinger, and Giuliani have all been named person of the year, most multiple times.

It’s a rather notorious group.

*NHTSA, but yes.

No, you’re not understanding me correctly. Mostly because I misspoke, so that’s on me, not you.

The contact patches I was talking about are the corners of the rectangle. Everything between the wheels is the footprint.

The area of the footprint basically determines the minimum MPG you can have. (The more complicated point is that it is related to all the vehicles you produce rather than a specific minimum, but that overcomplicates the issue. The point is that CAFE standards provide strong incentives for manufacturers to increase the “footprints” of their vehicles. The larger the footprint they can claim, the less MPG improvement they need to make. So, longer and wider wheelbases.

So was Putin, Kruschev, Khomeini, Kissinger, Giuliani, Turner, Stalin, Reagan, Gingrich, Zuckerberg, and “You” (if you existed in 2006).