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Years ago, I read it up until the point that he described his "wallet" endeavor.

He decided he was going to sell shitty velcro wallets. So he got some factory in SE Asia or China proper to manufacture them for pennies, and he sold them for dollars. As I recall, he was proud of how low paid the labor was.

So just like every other cockhole who thinks they're "self made," he started with money, used that money to exploit far away people with less power than him, and sold a product that nobody needs to people who could have spent their dollars on something more useful.

Of course, whatever substantial money he ever made was from the book. Just another scammer.

And the mRNA technology has been in progress for 50 years. That’s why it didn’t take long to create a COVID vaccine

I feel like it's worth mentioning here:

DO NOT MIX BLEACH AND AMMONIA. You can die.

give me a shout out if you are a car enthusiast!

I require a place that goes in depth on malaise era cars.

Edit: Also, not seeing the ModCoord over on kbin.social yet, but it should be at https://kbin.social/m/ModCoord@lemmy.world

Re-edit: I searched it up and subscribed, so it's there now.

Not sure where you're getting that from.

He has also hosted fundraisers for a controversial nonprofit group that financially supports Jan. 6 defendants, and campaign finance records show that his political action committee donated $10,000 to the group.

In the days immediately after the Capitol riot, when he was still president, Trump "floated the idea" of a blanket pardon for everyone involved in Jan. 6, ...

... aid or comfort ...

My feed shows that @Stamets is awake.

I get what you're saying, though I would frame it differently.

Knowing that there will be fascist violence, sooner or later (and with the election in November, that's the cutoff date), I may be put in a position of protecting myself and others. I need to be prepared to do that protecting.

They're going to be violent; it's only a matter of when, how much, and for how long. Kicking the can down the road puts "when" further away by making "how much" and "for how long" much worse.

Oh if I could.

Yeah, I mean, that kind of thing is going to happen when cannabis is Schedule I.

“We didn’t think about the consequences of getting involved, or how the federal law was going to affect us,” Reimers said.

When you want US citizenship, it's a federal level thing. You should maybe think about how federal law is going to affect you. I'm not saying that the laws around cannabis at the federal level are right, but they are the laws that exist.

They also mention roles of Congress via the 20th Amendment, Article II, and section 5 of the 14th Amendment. And via these they indicate that it's implied that Congress is the one who disqualifies.

With regard to the 14th Amendment Section Three, a person who has sworn an oath, and then engages in insurrection, is disqualified. Congress is given the power to "remove such disability;" this is wholly different from Congress being "the one who disqualifies."

This still leaves SCOTUS a perfect out: read the law, apply the law. SCOTUS should rule that Trump meets the characterization for someone disqualified from the ballot via 14S3, and that States, having the sole responsibility for operating elections, should disqualify him from their ballots - while making it very clear that this disability can be removed by a two-thirds vote from each House of Congress.

SCOTUS does not want to be responsible for disqualifying Trump; they don't have to be. In actual fact, he has disqualified himself, through the actions he took of his own free will. SCOTUS also does not want to be the last word on the subject; they don't have to be. Congress, and their vote (or lack thereof), would be the last word on the subject.

It's the implication.

Technical shite.

They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them.

wat

The VPN is to shield yourself from DMCA (in the US, of course) while you sail the high seas.

Those end joints (often called "tie rod ends," since they were part of the "tie rod" before rack and pinion steering became popular) operate just lilke the ball joints do, except their job is turning the drive wheels via the steering wheel. Remember how I said that the lower ball joints were a good design, because they came in from the top? These end joints come in from the bottom. That's not necessarily a "bad" design, but it does mean that if the nuts that hold them on are loose, they can drop out of the steering knuckle and cause the kind of failure we're talking about. I also do not see a cotter pin in this image, which would contain the nut and prevent it from loosening all the way off the end joint.

However, as I have mentioned more than once, an assembly failure which undertorqued that nut would not happen "all of a sudden." There would be - yes, again - ample warning to the driver that "oh shit, something is really wrong here" before the wheel became completely separated from the steering rack.

That's really about it. I'll mention again that none of this is "new technology." These are the same kinds of suspension components which have existed in cars for decades. No failure which would result in
"suspension collapse" or "wheel fell off" could possibly occur without plenty of warning symptoms before either of those happened.

Based on what I've seen through these diagrams, it seems that the most likely failure would be that last one, where the steering end joint becomes disconnected from the steering knuckle. It would still come with those warning signs, but by comparison to other possible failures, those signs would be the "least noticeable" (still very noticeable, just less than for the control arms).

The article barely even mentions which Tesla model(s) are involved here, only noting one person's Model X. So let's go with a Model X. And since there's been talk of a Tesla with 115 miles on it, we'll go with 2021 and newer.

Steering knuckle and wheel hub/bearing The weak link in these parts is going to be the wheel studs and lug nuts. A failure here is going to happen there before anything else, and will likely be due to (as I said) improperly torqued lug nuts. If those (or the bolts that hold the hub in?) somehow fail, there's going to be ample warning in the form of noise, vibration, etc., before the wheel becomes separated from the vehicle. Everything else here is extremely thick steel. Nothing about this design is inherently different from any other vehicle.

Front control arms The Model X apparently has one front upper control arm and two front lower control arms. These mount to the frame on the inside via bushings, and on the outside via ball joints. The existence of upper control arms means that the front suspension does not depend on the upper strut mount as a pivot point for the steering; that pivot point is the upper ball joint here. This also means that a failure of the strut mount would not result in a condition that could be described as "the wheel fell off."

Of particular note about the lower control arms - I am used to seeing front lower control arms have the ball joints inserted from the bottom of the steering knuckle. This design has the ball joints inserted from the top side, and the nuts attached at the bottom. This is a safer design, since a loose nut would not cause the control arm to fall out of the knuckle. In any case, if a piece of hardware attaching these control arms failed, the wheel would not "fall off," nor would the suspension "collapse." It would be more difficult (though not impossible) to drive, there would be excessive noise and crazy vibration.

The weak points in the control arms themselves (for the purposes of our discussion) would be the ball joints. Ball joints simply do not fail suddenly and without warning. The joint can be extremely loose inside the part of the control arm which captures it and still leave the driver with enough control to safely steer the vehicle off the road (which a sensible driver would do, because it would be clear that something was horribly wrong).

The lower control arms pictured appear to be cast, while the uppers may be stamped, with welded on ends. Could one of those welds fail? As previously mentioned, yes, but it would be highly unlikely, and even if the weld at the single upper ball joint failed, it would not fail all at once. At the very least, the steering wheel would pull noticeably in one direction or the other, or the steering would be very "loose," as the affected wheel would not be tracking normally.

I will reiterate here that this kind of failure would be highly unusual. Automobile suspension is not some crazy new-fangled thing; this type of suspension has been around for decades, and nothing being done in this design demands any kind of special skill to put together or manufacture.

Front air spring The top of this component bolts to the "shock tower," and the bottom bolts to the rear lower control arm. No failure of this part would cause the "wheel to fall off," and the only way it could be involed in "suspension collapse" is if the lower mounting bolt were to shear off at both ends simultaneously. Even then, the bottom yoke of the spring would remain captive around the lower control arm. It would be very bad, but you'd still be able to drive the vehicle safely off the roadway (while it made horrible noises and vibrations).

Steering Here we see the steering rack and the rack end joints. Something I find very interesting here is that Tesla ... doesn't sell the ends separately from the steering rack? This seems absolutely bonkers, since those joints are far more or a "wear item" than the steering rack itself.

But I digress. (cont'd next comment)

Again, suspension components do not go from "working perfectly" to "catastrophically failed" without passing through an easily notable period of "oh shit, something is seriously wrong here, I should stop." A light bulb can fail that way; when there is a functioning electrical circuit, the light works, and when the circuit is broken, it doesn't. But we're taking about suspension components. These are (even if they are shoddily manufactured) very beefy metal components. Even when strut mounts, ball joints, tie rod ends, control arm bushings, springs, axles, and wheel hubs fail, they become extremely loose long before the failure escalates to something which could be called "suspension collapse" or "wheel fell off."

Is it entirely impossible for that to happen? The only scenario I can think of is if a front lower control arm snapped. Not the ball joint at one end of it, or the bushings at the other, but the actual control arm. It's possible, but highly unlikely - especially at 115 miles, again even if the part was manufactured shoddily.

There's a giant hole in the reporting here, to the point where the catastrophic failure events being reported only have a reasonable explanation if the driver ignored obvious warning signs.

I didn't make up anything. I'm not saying Tesla doesn't have some serious QC issues. Clearly they do.

What I'm saying is that "wheel fell off" and "suspension collapse" are not specific enough descriptions to know exactly what part(s) are failing prematurely or why or how one failure cascades into other damage. My descriptions above of potential failure scenarios are reasonably probable. I will also stand behind the notion that 115-mile guy had to have experienced horrible vibration, or scraping, or noise for at least several miles before "the vehicle's front-right suspension ... collapsed" -- whatever that actually means.