July Jocularities

[dao]

We laugh, to keep from crying. Our Republic is sick.

[Armybrat]

We laugh, to keep from crying. Our Republic is sick.

It’s been that way for years now.

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[Barth]

Had to buy the wife a new car today, her beloved 2004 Yukon finally died with just under 300K miles……Some of the folks at church have Subaru’s and love them so we found a 2024 Ascent lease return with 10 k miles and got it for a decent price……It’s a nice car but the thing has more bells and whistles than a F-22…….I wanted to take a peek under the hood but couldn’t find the hood release anywhere so got out the 2 inch thick manual and looked through it, found lots of info about the Starlink system and all the multi function electronics but nothing about how to open the hood……..Gave up and went to YouTube and found it, seems that others had the same problem because it’s almost invisible……..I’m just not ready for this kind of technology in a car, I want my 77 square body Silverado back, all manual and no problems opening the hood, hauled everything necessary and I didn’t need a video camera to back it up to a trailer………

Everytime I travel and rent a new car it's always a pain.
Even something as simple as how to open the damn gas cap can be a mystery
As a professional software engineer I pride myself on developing simple intuitive designs.
There's absolutely no good reason this new stuff has to be so difficult to operate.
Ordered my 2013 Tacoma 4x4 with a stick shift and crank windows
I got almost 400K out of my last Toyota 4x4 (1988) and I've got about 130K on this one.
Truly don't know what I'm going to do when I wear this one out

[Barth]

[getsome]

Those things are all over downtown Atlanta where I work, I stay away from them, probably safe but I ain’t walking in front of one……Technology is fine in a car until it fails…..There was a story in the latest Readers Digest about a teenage boy driving a Honda Pilot that went haywire going full throttle and the computer overriding everything he did to try and turn it off or stop it….. A State Trooper was finally able to get in front and use his patrol cars brakes to get it stopped before the kid ran out of road…….The Honda had done this before and the dealership couldn’t find anything wrong but after the second time it happened that came very close to killing the kid their insurance totaled it……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHmJ_2Y6Og

[Barth]

Those things are all over downtown Atlanta where I work, I stay away from them, probably safe but I ain’t walking in front of one……Technology is fine in a car until it fails…..There was a story in the latest Readers Digest about a teenage boy driving a Honda Pilot that went haywire going full throttle and the computer overriding everything he did to try and turn it off or stop it….. A State Trooper was finally able to get in front and use his patrol cars brakes to get it stopped before the kid ran out of road…….The Honda had done this before and the dealership couldn’t find anything wrong but after the second time it happened that came very close to killing the kid their insurance totaled it……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHmJ_2Y6Og

WOW, that's a cautionary tale for sure!!!
Those cars are all over Phoenix AZ as well.
Like roaches they are everywhere and I see them most every day ...