Buelldozer

I’ve been strongly considering adding a whole home humidifier and after watching I’m going to buy an Aprilaire 700 like his and do the same upgrade to it!

And I never see any headlines of any ICE agents being prosecuted.

There’s been at least five this year.

These commenters just want to be outraged. If schools were suddenly confiscating phones and forcing students to unlock them they’d be on here rabble rousing about First Amendment rights, how Schools are run like prisons, and how students aren’t being respected.

You should know that the person you are going back and forth with has an exceptionally argumentative and unpleasant comment history.

Are we discussing cars or trucks? You use both terms but they are very different things. The article itself is discussing CARS and the very first picture is of a Honda Life.

In your original comment you said “average American car”. Which to me as an American is clearly a reference to a CAR. And by sales the three most popular CARS in America are the Nissan Sentra, the Toyota Corolla, and the Honda Civic. If you push it to Top 4 then the Tesla Model 3 enters the chat. None of those are called “trucks” anywhere in the world.

an f 350 (American large car) has between 400 to 500 hp

That is not a car. It is a Heavy Duty truck, one of the largest behomeths commonly (and I use that term loosely) sold in America. By sales volume the Full Ton and up trucks like the F350 are maybe 20% of total truck sales, the rest are 1/2 and 3/4 ton trucks.

If you want to bag on American trucks that’s fine but that isn’t what you brought up nor are they what my comment was about.

I wouldn’t purchase a Kei truck in America. It’s too small to be used for heavy loads or over distance and in the city a small van is superior in literally every way as it’s storage is both lockable and protected from the elements. That Honda Life in the first picture is better for nearly every use case than a Kei truck.

Loved those back in the day but they were not safe and a lot of people died in them. There’s no chance that car would pass today’s crash tests.

I had a serious fetish for Ford EXPs and Escorts in the late 80s / early 90s. Me and my buddies did lots of hop-up work and engine rebuilds. Set aside the nostalgia though and they were absolute piles of crap.

It won’t really cost much less. The difference between a 1.6l 100hp engine and a 1.6l 150hp engine is just a turbocharger and those are less than $1,000 for an auto maker. So the cost of the car could potentially drop from 28,000 to 27,000 which is peanuts. The cost of maintenance between those two vehicles would be almost non-existent.

Cars aren’t expensive because of horsepower. They are expensive because of labor cost and government regulation. The less you have of either of those the lower the production cost goes and the less expensive the vehicles get.

Since the late 70’s, the US auto industry has shown that it is unable to make small cars with low margins like other countries.

Oh they can they just don’t want to. GM, Ford, and Dodge have occasionally released small low margin vehicles but they either get discontinued or bloated and made more expensive, typically starting about 5 years in.

It ain’t just US Domestics either. How big is a 2025 Honda Accord vs a 1986 model?

If the Big 3 suffered consequences, they would be the Bug 2 or the Big 1 by now.

I’ve been arguing that same thing for over 20 years. Heck I was just doing it again over the weekend. There isn’t enough space in the US auto market for 3 Domestic Manufacturers anymore. They should have let Chrysler / Dodge die back in the '80s, the entire auto industry would be more healthy if they had.

She asked for help. The officer said no.

No they didn’t and if they did that information is not in this article. She went to the Guidance Councilor at 7AM then to the onsite Sheriff’s Deputy after. She texted her father and sister about 2PM. The SD couldn’t immediately find anything but it appears that they didn’t stop looking because 3 weeks later they were charging the boys.

So unless you have another source with a different timeline or more information your originally comment was inaccurate. Sort of like the ragebait headline and the ragebait summary.

They will not investigate it further than threatening the victims with persecution.

Read.The.Whole.Article.

The article states that the police investigated but found nothing.

You should have kept reading.

"Ultimately, the weeks-long investigation at the school in Thibodaux, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, uncovered AI-generated nude images of eight female middle school students and two adults, the district and sheriff’s office said in a joint statement.”

Your question was answered in the article but you clearly stopped at either the outrage bait headline or the outrage bait summary.

“Ultimately, the weeks-long investigation at the school in Thibodaux, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, uncovered AI-generated nude images of eight female middle school students and two adults, the district and sheriff’s office said in a joint statement.”

To the surprise of absolutely no one.

That dedication is how you know they actually use Slackware.