How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
Senecaâs Letters from a Stoic
If you have anger issues, this one is a great tool (h/t mindyourbusiness)
This weekâs book:
Discourses and Selected Writings
Disclaimer: Iâm not your Supervisor. These are my opinions after reading through these books a few times.
Epictetus was born a slave around 50 ad. His owner was Epaphroditus, a rich freedman who was once a slave of Nero. Though he was a slave Epictetus was sent to study philosophy under Musonius Rufus.
Epictetus was lame and there are some stories it was caused by his master and others that it was caused by disease.
He was a freedman when all philosophers were banished from Rome in 89 by the Emperor Domitian. He then started his school in Greece, and had many students. He did not leave any writings from his lessons, but one of his students, Flavius Arrian, took notes and wrote the Discourses.
Epictetus did not marry, had no children, and lived to be around 80-85. In retirement, he adopted a child that would have been abandoned and raised him with a woman.
He died sometime around AD 135.
He is my favorite Stoic teacher. I love his bare bones and very straight forward approach.
Following is a paragraph-by-paragraph discussion of one of his lessons. Epictetusâs text appears italicized in bold, my replies are in normal text.
Of Freedom Part X
And so, when you have received everything, and your very self, from Another,[24] do you yet complain and blame the Giver, if He take something away from you? Who are you, and for what purpose have you come? Did not He bring you into the world? Did not He show you the light? Did not He give you fellow-workers? Did not He give you senses also and reason? And as what did He bring you into the world? Was it not as a mortal being? Was it not as one destined to live upon earth with a little portion of paltry flesh, and for a little while to be a spectator of His governance, and to join with Him in His pageant and holiday?
If my life isn’t perfect, it is easy to be upset at what is going wrong instead of being happy with what is going right. It can be hard to see all of the blessings and opportunities I have when things seem to be bothering me more lately and I am not sure why.
105Are you not willing, then, for so long as has been given you, to be a spectator of His pageant and His festival, and then when He leads you forth, to go, after you have made obeisance and returned thanks for what you have heard and seen? “No,” you say, “but I wanted to go on with the holiday.” Yes, and so do the initiates in the mysteries want to go on with the initiation, and no doubt the spectators at Olympia want to see still other athletes; but the festival has come to an end; leave, depart as a grateful and reverent spectator departs; make room for others; yet others must be born, even as you were born, and once born they must have land, and houses, and provisions. But if the first-comers do not move along, what is left for those who follow after? Why are you insatiable? Why never satisfied? Why do you crowd the world?
Life cannot go on forever. It is much more peaceful to accept this fact by making the most of your life and not railing uselessly at the fact there is an end that you have no control over. It can be difficult to accept the end and not feel that somehow life is being unfair to you. Looking at the many ways people have died or gotten ill at young ages, it is hard to argue that somehow I deserve special treatment . It is also handy to remember that things that can happen to anyone can definitely happen to me.
Yes, but I want my little children and my wife to be with me.âAre they yours? Do they not belong to Him who gave them? To Him who made your Will you not, therefore, give up what is not your own? Will you not yield to your superior?âWhy, then, did He bring me into the world on these conditions?âAnd if they do[25] not suit you, leave; God has no need of a fault-finding spectator.
This is one area where I have been especially blessed. I have a happy marriage of 31 years and going strong. All 3 of our kids are good people. Having to deal with losing any of them would be exponentially more difficult than the thought of dying.
He needs those who join in the holiday and the dance, that they may applaud rather, and glorify, and sing hymns of praise about the festival. But the peevish and the cowardly He will not be distressed to see left out of the festival; for when they were present they did not act as though they were on a holiday, nor did they fill the proper rĂ´le; but they were distressed, found fault with the Deity, with fate, and with the company; insensible to what had been vouchsafed them, and to their own powers which they had received for the very opposite useâhigh-mindedness, nobility of character, courage, and the very freedom for which we are now seeking.
I have known people that were miserable in their lives. I am even related to some of them. My Mom’s entire side of the family would always be bickering over every little thing. I had very little contact with them before Mom died and haven’t talked to or seen them since. I don’t understand how you can live your life angry at the world, but they seem to be happiest when they are feuding with someone over a small slight.
â110For what purpose, then, did I receive these gifts?âTo use them.âHow long?âFor as long as He who lent them to you wills.âBut what if they are necessary to me?âDo not set your heart upon them, and they will not be necessary to you. Do not say to yourself that they are necessary, and they will not be.
I know my family is not guaranteed to me and that losing them could be my fate. I also know that if that happens I will struggle for awhile. I am as certain as a man can be that my wife and I will be together until one of us dies, and both of us hope to be the first to go.
I have been able to continue running and working out this week, so hopefully I won’t be useless at Honey Harvest.
I have been on ships the majority of this week, so I haven’t commented much, but as I was reading through, I found the following exchange:
Mark76on August 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM[+][Mute][Nuke]
Last time I took my car for new tires, they had to roll it in and out of the shop in neutral, because no one there knew how to drive stick.Reply
rhywunon August 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM[+][Mute][Nuke] I was trained on stick and I hated every minute of it. It was a great relief when my other brother let me use his automatic instead.Reply
R C Deanon August 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM[+][Mute][Nuke] I liked driving a stick when I wasnât commuting in traffic. The constant pedal work and otherwise pointless shifting required for stop and go traffic made me glad to get an automatic.
DEGon August 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM[+][Mute][Nuke] I like my manual cars, but when I get stuck in traffic with them, Iâm quickly reminded of why my daily driver is an automatic.
kinnathon August 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM[+][Mute][Nuke] I had an old Subaru wagon when I lived in Phoenix. I love driving a stick, but getting caught up in traffic sucked.
Mark76on August 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM[+][Mute][Nuke] I donât expect everyone to be able to drive stick, but youâd think at least one person at an auto repair shop would be able to. This was my Toyota Echo; to be honest, even I can barely drive the Volkswagen. đ
Akiraon August 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM[+][Mute][Nuke] Iâm glad I know how to drive any type of car (e.g. might have to drive some drunk person home someday) but I would never choose a stick if given the choice. People always tell me itâs âmore fun to driveâ. I donât drive for fun though. Maybe itâs a thing that âcar guysâ understand. Someday if I have a ton of disposable time and money (haha) Iâd love to buy a bunch of old â30s cars. Thatâs the only way Iâd choose to own a stick.
There is something wrong with all of you. I hate driving an automatic, the only one we own is my wife’s car(2011 Camry). My truck (2001 Ram 2500) and my car (2004 Saab 9-5 Aero Wagon) are both 5 speed manuals. Every time I rent a car for work travel it’s an auto and I never enjoy driving them. I especially despise the giant knob transmission control. Traffic in the stick never bothers me unless I think about how much extra wear and tear it puts on the clutch. I don’t drive for fun, but it is more enjoyable when I row through the gears. My wife makes fun of me because I grin every time I get on it in either the Saab or the Ram. As much as I love the Saab, there is no way I would have bought it if it wasn’t a manual.
I will be on a ship again today, so feel free to go off topic or tell me I’m retarded for liking a stick and hating an auto.
Your inclusion of your nonstandard formatting screenshots of comments made me think I was having connectivity issues.
Well played.
Same. Except I though WP was being squirrelly.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I refreshed the page a couple of times to fix the formatting.
Not Adahn:
Regarding your comment about stage variety in the links thread: I always like to play with angles and walls that force competitors to make choices of where to be, and whether or not they want to possibly sacrifice an A for a second or two. Deep shot that can be taken fast, versus a closer shot that takes some running to make up the time. Or, alternatively, a string that requires a reload breaking up a run versus an opportunity to reload earlier at the cost of a more difficult shot.
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I’m just not very creative in a visual/spatial way. I never had the knack for visual arts. Never could paint or draw or sculpt. I can remember the core idea behind some stage that a better designer did and then try and put that down in a way that hopefully fits the space I’ve got.
There’s also the tension between not wanting to put extra work into something and also not telegraphing shooting positions with your FFZ. Walt Paegel is a master of putting in non-landmarked shooting positions that makes them excruciating to find unless you’ve seen him set it up or are much better at breaking down a stage than I am.
This is also a points-down match so It’s difficult if not downright impossible to set things up to make shooting on the move an advantage without also trivializing the challenge.
#metoo on all counts (on the comment thing)
As someone who comments very infrequently, I was wondering what the heck was going on when I scrolled down and saw my own recent comment.
As someone who comments very infrequently, I was wondering what the heck was going on when I scrolled down and saw my own recent comment.
Trying to increase your frequency by double posting is cheating
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*raises hand, head shamefully down*
Not retarded; just not stoic about having to rent a car with automatic transmission.
To be fair, I take one look at the “Dial-a-gear” knob on recent mistakes and go “that is asking for trouble.”
I wonder if there’s a part of my brain that really hates the idea that I might be good at something. I spent maybe five hours on the painting project I’ve been sharing with you lot (whether you guys like it or not), and that part of my mind is going “Oh that freehand is so grossly wobbly; and when you stick your eye right up to the model you can see where that drybrushing ends and it doesn’t look like a natural transition to the undercoat; and you forgot to deal with the moldlines, you moron;” and so on. This led me to use the phrase “minimum tabletop standard” when describing what is a halfway decent show piece given how much time I had.
But if I try to think about the stuff going sideways such as the paint bottle cap failure filling the airbrush, or the disintegrating decals, or the snow texture paint that didn’t want to stick, that voice goes “you’re just making excuses because you suck”. Admittedly, having half a bottle of spedpaint end up all over my airbrush, glove, shoes, and floor because the dropper part of the bottle popped out was a bit of a shock, but didn’t set me back that much after cleanup.
For clarification, this voice doesn’t go “keep practicing to get better” it goes “don’t try, you’ll just fail.”
And that fear of failure it what drives many people to procrastinate. And then the procrastination makes accomplishing the task in a timely manner all the more difficult, which reinforces the mental doom cycle.
That voice should get its tongue ripped out.
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For what it’s worth the image you shared looked superb to me.
Thank you.
The model is in my car as we speak o I can drop it off after work and get judged by strangers.
Yo. Trepanation works. You should get one! Your shaman will wear special gloves that don’t smell!
Don’t know where you live Ron, but although I love driving a manual in normal traffic, here in bumper to bumper traffic in NJ it kind of sucks.
To be fair, everything in NJ sucks.
I was married, for a while, to a Catholic girl in NJ
Dad?!?
(Kidding, my dad is still married to a catholic girl from NJ. Not in NJ anymore, thank God…)
Wrong. It was great place before the Democrats ruined it.
WTF – the last 30 years of RINOs didnât help.
Concur. Bonus for how people get annoyed as you creep in traffic slowly to avoid clutching.
However, the Tesla is the first car I’ve owned here in NJ since I graduated from college that doesn’t have a manual transmission.
Technically it’s single speed.
I love driving my manual transmission. But… my left ankle is all jacked up and commuting 40 minutes each way 4 days a week with a 6-spd manual makes it worse. So I have to be like the downer stoic guy and accept my less capable state and buy a car with an automatic in a few months. I console myself with the thought that someday I’ll buy a fun car with a manual. Maybe.
I especially despise the giant knob transmission control.
Dial transmission controls are an abomination.
My daily driver, the automatic, has a proper shifter.
I have an automatic, but it has a proper lever, and I can feel it engage when I put it in park.
I don’t know what component exactly I feel through the shifter, but I don’t want to lose that reassuring feedback.
Plus Dial-a-gear is just wrong.
My son’s Honda has a button for Drive. Bothered me at first. Since the computer runs the transmission, it makes little difference if I’m throwing a lever or pushing a button before turning shifting responsibilities over to our computer overlords.
Okay, the four pedals on a manual from right to left are Gas, Brake, Clutch, and Park… how do I release the parking brake?
Read the owner’s manual?
It expects me to be trilingual!
There is a release under the dash on the left just above the parking brake.
Thank you.
That’s what Brooksy said too.
I’ve recall some parking brake cars with a pedal that you pressed the pedal a second time to release.
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Who were these designers and why did they get their way?
Iâve recall some parking brake cars with a pedal that you pressed the pedal a second time to release.
My previous daily driver’s parking brake worked that way.
Sensei – I had a 2009 GMC Yukon with a brake release lever. I now own a ’13 Chev Tahoe, which is the same vehicle basically, and at some point GM transitioned from lever release to “push again” to release and I now always grab for a lever that isn’t there.
Dr – knowing GM they saved a fraction of a cent and everybody cheered.
Legend has it cost and efficiency was why GM uses the spelling âgageâ.
My autocorrect recently tried to “correct” gauge to gage.
Note – this car does not actually exist anymore, it is a reconstruction from memory of a vehicle I never got to drive.
I drove this type of vehicle back in the day. Came with three on the tree instead of a stick on the floor.
I’ve only driven one three on the tree in my life. Was driven by a mighty slant six. I’ll let folks here figure what brand. đ
DeSoto, Plymouth or Dodge?
The mighty Dart!
Neighbor as a kid had an AMC Sportabout with three on the tree.
The leaning tower of power
Okay, the four pedals on a manual from right to left are Gas, Brake, Clutch, and Park⌠how do I release the parking brake?
My Challenger is set up this way. There is a handle to release the parking break.
Most of the time in traffic you can just roll along in first dear, unless the jackasses are doing that thing where they stab the throttle and lurch forward only to stab the brakes two seconds later.
I, at least, specified âstop and goâ traffic.
“Most of the time in traffic you can just roll along in first, dear, just don’t be a jackass with the throttle.”
I love our relationship!
I enjoyed my manual transmission Mustang GT, and for awhile I had a 2001 Ranger with a manual that I loved. It was a company vehicle, and I traded in a ’94 Explorer I owned for a 2005 Sport Trac. Two months later, the company told me to drive the Ranger back to HQ so they could sell it. Had I known earlier, i would have bought it and kept it.
I’m looking at getting a 2025 Ranger Lariat by the end of the year, no manual transmission option, and the automatic shifter looks more like a computer mouse than a shifter. Meh.
how do I release the parking brake?
If there is a foot operated parking (emergency) brake, there will be a pull-to-release handle above it at the bottom of the dash. Standard practice on American cars, anyway.
Thank you, sir.
Not necessarily. Mine, you push to engage, and push farther to disengage.
That seems wrong. If I push the brake further I want it More engaged.
GM went to this awful parking brake where you depress the brake further to release it.
I hate that thing.
Needs a handle.
Probably positioned just below or just above the hood release for maximized opportunities to screw you over.
Speaking of parking brakes, a couple of things I have watched in the recent past involve a bunch of convoluted fucking around to release the automatic parking brake on a disabled car. Essential safety technology, FTW.
They need a hand release so
You can use them as an emergency brake.
I drove a Buick I was given for a while like that. One foot to operate the brake lights, the other to operate the emergency brake/parking brake which engaged the rear brakes, one hand on the wheel, one hand on the parking brake release.
Then one day the brakes started working. It had sat for 16 years.
I also
Cut the top off of it.
Best G body modification ever.
I have learned that on modern cars (at least my Mini), if the battery dies completely, you have to enter in a cheat code to get the car to allow you to shift it into neutral.
Feature designed by a towing company.
Newer Ram pickups have an electronic parking brake. To have the vehicle towed or move it, you have to dial it to neutral. If the battery is dead, the owner’s manual advises you to first, “set the parking brake” good luck with a dead battery. I had this scenario with a customer’s truck and I couldn’t get under the hood to attach my jumper box to set the parking brake. I hate newer cars for this poorly thought out shit.
TH400 and A727 are superior to any stick shift.
Fight me.
Airbus didn’t make the 727.
Ha!
I have a TH400 in my ’83 Jaguar. GM complied with Jaguar engineering by making it leak everywhere.
Manual transmission is an effective anti-theft device and it keeps my kids from borrowing my car.
Or, they make you a victim of a kidnapping.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article311607746.html
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Once again, I’m having difficulty remaining stoic with our payroll processor.
The deal we’re supposed to have is thus: We send them the information they need, they calculate all employees’ gross wages, taxes, deductions and employer contributions. We send them ALL the money they need to cover ALL these (including 401(k) contributions,) and they distribute it accordingly.
I asked someone at our 401(k) provider why the contributions from last week’s pay hadn’t posted yet. The response I got was essentially “we were told you’d send the money. Here’s how you can send the money.”
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And of course the person at the payroll processor who handles our 401(k) stuff is off this week. đ
That sort of thing is such a hustle.
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So did they not request the 401k funding, or did they get it and not disburse it?
The payroll processor received the money for the 401(k) funding (and for everything else), and they usually send it on to the 401(k) company automatically. According to the 401(k) company, they got all the who-gets-how-much info, but they never got the $$$.
TH400 and A727 are superior to any stick shift.
Fight me.
Humbug!
I’ll decide what gear I want, and when I want it. Getting in a rental car which would incessantly hunt for the “right” gear used to drive me bananas.
*admittedly not an issue with the turbo 400
Granted I like four speed automatics, the 700R4 just isnât tough enough. The A518 being 727 based was.
Have an Allison in my dumptruck but wish it was the 6 speed and not the five.
Hate the 10 speed Eaton in my work truck.
+ 1 CVT. It may always be in the “right” gear, but it feels awful and almost always sounds like shit.
And again. The manufacturers spend incredible amounts of money to produce motors with perfectly flat torque curves, and then they hook eight speed transmissions to them.
*stabs at clouds with Hurst shift lever from AMX*
Buddy of mine built a four speed 71 Javelin and rounded up an AMX Hurst shifter.
Was a pretty cool car.
My ’69 AMX (390 4speed) sure was fun to drive.
The local non Jeep AMC guy, Larry Schwab had a twin turbo setup on his 401 AMX, I think his was a 68. It was pretty wild. As was the Gremlin drag car he had.
Let’s review
The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, is facing growing criticism from scientists who say their âworst fearsâ were realized when Wright revealed that the Trump administration would âupdateâ the USâs premier climate crisis reports.
Wright, a former oil and gas executive, told CNNâs Kaitlin Collins earlier this week that the administration was reviewing national climate assessment reports published by past governments.
Produced by scientists and peer-reviewed, there have been five national climate assessment (NCA) reports since 2000 and they are considered the gold standard report of global heating and its impacts on human health, agriculture, water supplies and air pollution.
âWeâre reviewing them, and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those reports,â said Wright, who is one of the main supporters of the administrationâs âdrill, baby, drillâ agenda to boost fossil fuels, which are the primary cause of the climate crisis.
I can’t understand why those highly respected scientists and experts would be concerned about somebody reviewing their rock solid science.
How are they doing on their predictions, by the way?
Itâs already been peer reviewed!
Everyone who agrees with our conclusions say the science is settled!
Offer them a deal: anyone who takes the position that the science is settled is ineligible for research grants. If the science is settled, what the fuck are they researching?
Anyone who admits the science isnât settled, can continue to get funding for research.
Should have used colloidal silver.
https://archive.fo/JIZMu
https://www.404media.co/guy-gives-himself-19th-century-psychiatric-illness-after-consulting-with-chatgpt/
Asked about Wrightâs comments on the national climate assessment reports, respected climate scientist Michael Mann said in an emailed comment to the Guardian: âThis is exactly what Joseph Stalin did.â
I wish. I want to see Trump go full Stalin and ship Mann off to a forced labor camp in Alaska.
respected …
I’d rather see journalismers get to go to the Gulags than Mann, although he can go as well. And Alaska is fine, but not mainland, somewhere down in the Aleutians where you get the 150 mph winds.
In a statement on Thursday, Dr Rachel Cleetus, policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and one of the authors of the sixth NCA report due in 2028 that the administration dismissed earlier this year, said she was dismayed by Wrightâs comments.
âSecretary Wright just confirmed our worst fears â that this administration plans to not just bury the scientific evidence but replace it with outright lies to downplay the worsening climate crisis and evade responsibility for addressing it.
âThe process for developing the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports is rigorous, with federal agencies and hundreds of scientists constructing this solid scientific foundation that decision makers, businesses and the public rely on to stay safe in a world made more perilous each day by climate change.
The “process” is rigorous. The science is sketchy.
Sorry, but when I see âDr. Cleetusâ, I think somebody hawking patent medicine at a carny sideshow.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-2026-dodge-charger-scat-pack-ditches-the-v8-for-a-550-hp-inline-six-and-awd
An overboosted v6 Dodge.
What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah, thatâs been the plan all along. Folks were hoping they could put a V8 in it, but Stellantis has claimed all along it wonât fit in the new design.
Straight not V, so thatâs a modest plus.
I think the Hurricane engine is something Dodge worked on in-house. It doesn’t come from Fiat or other parts of Stellantis. RJ would know more.
They need to fix the thermostats in them first. I know of 3 people who have the Hurricane motors and so far, 2 of them have already experienced overheats due to failed thermostats.
Does it come with a tow truck in the trunk?
The energy departmentâs climate report last week was published on the same day the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to undo the 2009 âendangerment findingâ, which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources.
This raised concerns that the Trump administration was attempting to scrap almost all pollution regulations in steps likely to trigger battles in the courts in the coming years.
They’re turning the clock back to 1950.
As usual, they hocus pocus a proposed change in carbon dioxide emission limits into the complete elimination of regulations on actual toxic pollutants. Because that’s what they do.
Of course, they do that with any number of issues. If you want illegal alien criminals deported, that means you want to send someone’s grandma who was here legally back to the old country. Things like that.
Of the 40 or so cars I’ve owned only a handful have been automatics. Everything in the current fleet has a clutch pedal. My next daily driver will be an automatic due to my knees and ankles hurting on what’s becoming a regular basis. I decided that if I have to give up my clutch pedal I want a lot more horsepower. I think there is a twin-turbo German V8 in my future.
My kids had no choice but to learn to drive stick. They all have at least one 3 pedal car to this day.
40? Wow. I’ve only owned a few, because I have to drive with a hand control, so getting a new car is kind of a big thing.
You guys jogged Jersey memories circa 1970. Going “down the shore” via back roads in ’65 stang convertible. Stop at farm stand and pick up tomatoes, corn, lopes for a couple bucks. Little place 2/3 of the way down for 2 baskets of shrimp and fries with pitcher of beer for about $6. Salt air, soft sand, motel beds that were noisy as hell but who gave a damn!
Shoobie
As contrasted to a Benny.
Shoobie
Now Iâm a Benny. Although we have a family place on LBI.
“motel beds that were noisy as hell but who gave a damn!”
You know, you didn’t have to put a quarter into the Magic Fingers bed.
Had a dial gear selector in a rental in Utah – the most aggravating part was there’s no ability to downshift with that, so on the huge Utah downhills you have to just ride the brakes, which just sucks.
My old Honda Fit has flappy paddles that I put to good use when I’m in Vermont.
I did find out a gross hack w/ the rental – if you set adaptive cruise control, it’ll downshift to keep you at the right distance from the car ahead of you.
The 3.0-liter high-output motor dubbed âHurricaneâ in the Ram RHO and Jeep Grand Wagoneer will produce 550 horsepower and 531 lb.-ft. of torque on 91-octane fuel, with Dodge targeting a 3.9-second zero-to-60 time, a 12.2-second quarter-mile, and 177-mph top speed. The inline-six boasts twin 54-mm Garrett GT2054 turbochargers and is tuned to deliver 88% of peak torque at 2,500 rpm and 90% from 3,000 to 6,000 rpm for optimum power delivery. Peak boost huffs at 30 psi.
They get that torque curve on a wfo dyno run. I can’t help wondering about real world driveability. How’s the power delivery chugging around town at 35-45 mph in fifth gear?
Corvette ZR1’s Anti-Lag System â Massive Turbos, Minimal Lag
TW. Whiny beta male who sold his Tesla because DOGE shitcanned his wife from the forest service and he felt compelled to create clickbait.
I donât really watch his shit anymore after heâs decided politics are ok to talk about. He used to be relatively neutral on environmental impacts of vehicles.
TW. Whiny beta male who sold his Tesla because DOGE shitcanned his wife from the forest service and he felt compelled to create clickbait.
I somehow managed to resist that one.
Speaking of clickbait, I succumbed to an utterly substanceless video from Hoovie and his bimbo (Bimbo A and Bimbo B) about some big pending announcement from Ford. The next Model T is coming!
When it first dropped the title was Musk fired my wifeâŚ
In the next day it read DOGE. I get it. I might sell my vehicle too if it brings bad memories. But thatâs different from posturing publicly on an automotive ENGINEERING channel.
He used to be relatively neutral on environmental impacts of vehicles.
As I recall, he was reasonably sane about ethanol.
Yup. Iâll still watch him, but only on stuff that I really care about. Previously I would have watched an ethanol video, but now âno click for youâ.
Straight out of the bad catitude playbook.
Donât give them clicks. Donât link to their shit, even to mock and abuse it. Starve the beast of what it craves (attention) and monetizes (views).