Good morning one and all to another spectacular day!
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Oregon does not surprise me at all. Georgia to follow.
20% is insane
Is it? The commies have been cheating so long, with no repercussions.
And even with this being done I guarantee nobody goes to jail.
^^^^THIS^^^^
[blinks repeatedly] “jail”??? As in someone did something illegal?
This was all in service to the Party comrade. Gulag for you, not for me!
It’s a good thing we know that voter fraud is rare and isolated.
Any percentage above 0 is fraud, but media and pols like to state its so low why care so much?
Same with the Doge work…its only pennies in a bucket people, relax
Washington too.
Every state with motor voter.
They issue drivers licenses to illegals and register them to vote at the same time.
Impossible!
I called out sick – why am I still connected to work?
Is it a psychic connection?
VDI-RDP
Sigh.
UnCiv and his job:
https://media.tenor.com/a0FzOdhYGOcAAAAM/yes.gif
WOAH Cowboy!
Rather than face the lawsuit and the inevitable discovery proving their intention to cheat, the state settled it, agreeing to clean 800,000 ineligible voters off its rolls.
I wonder why the state settled. You’d think they would’ve fought tooth and nail to keep the system — unless there are other ways of rigging things that we haven’t caught on to yet, or they think the big-city vote is still enough to keep the state cobalt blue.
They romoved real wrongthinkful voters, leaving the fakes.
*note, this is a wild accusation based on the assumption that they would not simply capitulate.
Like it says, to skip the discovery.
When the attention goes away a week later, they’ll just proceed with the usual cheating. A minor bump in the road.
I concur that they had no other option and decided to look elsewhere to “fortify” the elections….
Settle to avoid trial and further exposure for facilitating fraud?
Yeah, I kind of feel any citizen should be able to contest that and get the discovery going. Fuck this two government parties “fighting” with each other to eventually settle.
Why did the plaintiff settle. The whole point should be discovery – who did what or neglected to do what, who benefited, who should never be near public office or a government job ever again.
âThe best way to end race-based discrimination is to stop making decisions based on race,â Landry said in a statement. âHere in Louisiana, weâre proud to lead the nation on this charge.
Huh. Landry took office January 8th, 2024. Which means he is the one that signed the bill which created these unconstitutional districts. Huh.
At that time, racially discriminatory districts were required by the courts.
But only the right amount of racial discrimination – not too much, not too little!
I didn’t know the constitution changed between when he signed the bill and now.
In any event, he didn’t have to sign it.
Maybe he wanted to lose the case.
The governor signed their bill because not signing meant that the court wold draw the map for them, as had been happening a lot in that era. Shockingly, liberal justices who struck down election maps were disposed to draw democrat gerrymanders to advantage democrats, all with the stamp of being impartial and for justice.
LA was essentially coerced into drawing a new map. The court gave LA a choice.
âDraw a new map with a second black district that I approve, or Iâll draw it for you, and Iâll draw it in such a way that the state will lose incumbents who hold high positions on Congress.â
With the latest data showing the public debt eclipsing the size of the U.S. economy, the federal government is quickly approaching the all-time record debt to GDP percentage of 106%, which was set in 1946 as the U.S. was in the process of demobilizing after the end of World War II.
Rookie numbers. Under Trump, we’ll have the biggest, hugest, and best debt ever!
If the man can bankrupt a casino, why not a government?
To be fair, it was bankrupt long before he got a hold of it.
4 bankruptcies and counting. C’mon, Donnie, you can do it! The Big One is next!
Whether by accident or design, Iâm thinking SCOTUS delayed releasing this ruling until it was too late to affect the midterms.
I imagine the Justices are in a real mental bind. They are all members of the clerisy, the managerial class, and thus marinate in and mostly likely share the revulsion of Good People for Trump. On the other hand, they keep getting handed cases where he clearly has the right of things. What to do? Demonstrate that they are Good People, or make the right decision?
Scuttlebutt has it that Kagan slow-walked her dissent (and thus the release of the ruling) for precisely this reason.
That takes Robertsâ cooperation. As Chief Justice, Iâm pretty sure he can tell them âYou have until Friday to file your opinions or they donât get published.â
LA has already postponed their primary because of it. FL has already approved their new lines. Iâm sure other states will follow shortly. Iâm also sure every single one of those states will get sued for doing so, even if only to get a friendly district judge to postpone the drawing until after the midterms. Like everything the courts have done since T was elected, their goal is to drag out.
Iâm pretty sure you canât get a visa if your purpose for coming to the US is to squirt out an anchor baby. So any visas issued to the baby mamas were fraudulently obtained and invalid, and so the Anker Baby Birthinâ Center is a party to that fraud. Unfortunately, under current doctrine, the anchor baby is still a US citizen even though it obtained that status via fraud.
“Iâm pretty sure you canât get a visa if your purpose for coming to the US is to squirt out an anchor baby. ”
Actually, you would be wrong…
Under Obama they passed a law allowing this precise loophole. However, the amount of CCP people that come to the continental US – mostly CA, WA, and TX – are less than 20% of that traffic. The bulk of these people go to the Solomons where there is an entire setup designed to cater to more than 55k people a year. Oh, and half of those people bail and leave the bills for us tax payers to cover, curtesy of that law passed back when.
Which law and which Congress – since Republicans controlled the House most of Obama’s terms.
The reciprocal visa agreement of 2014 and the consular guidance from the WH in 2015. I recommend you read “The Invisible Coup”. And At no point did my statement that it was done by Obama’s people give republicans a pass. Many of them sold their fucking souls to Beijing.
So it wasn’t actually a change in the law, just at the policy level. I was just curious.
Let me guess, Trump hasn’t rescinded this in either his first or current term.
I am unaware of any executive order from him to do so, correct. However, the numbers now are far lower than before as orders did go out to kill this shit. Lets see what the numbers for this year are, but I hear that the system to support and make money from this shit is hurting badly in the Solomons.
They should shoot the planes down.
The Solomon Islands? That makes no sense since they are an independent nation. If you meant Guam or the Northern Mariana Islands- that makes sense since they are US Territories.
But the Senate retains its serene tranquillity about electoral security and sees no reason to do a damn thing. And neither do the federal courts that have blocked the feds from looking at voter rolls.
But vote even harder in the Most Important Midterms of Our Lives(tm), suckers!
My bet is they acquiesced to avoid people finding out there were even more fake voters, and likely, they feared whatever other cheatng they had might get exposed.
âWe will clean the voter data if you promise to not out us in jail.â
Of all the places to be outed, I think Jail would be the worst.
Should be a law against being outed in jail…
They also are only removing 160k per the article. The rest stay on the rolls until they meet the criteria for removal.
This settlement allows them to continue registering every homeless person they find in the precinct to the same empty lot and then “ballot harvesting” those after the results are in so they know how many they need.
Greater Idaho.
âThe Constitution prohibits sorting Americans by race. DOJ should act accordingly.â
But where’s the grift in that?
Trust me, somebody will find some.
Three things that I notice watching the shooter video.
-The first five minutes are pointless.
-FBI guy’s first shot absolutely should have been a hit.
-FBI guy’s third shot should not have been taken.
I thought, for a guy carrying a bunch of weapons on his way to commit mass murder, he was remarkably . . . ordinary and unnoticeable before he made his move.
FBI Guy is probably not actually FBI. Or rather, I have insufficent expertise to make the judgement of which of the “highly trained, only people to be trusted with firearms unlike the tax cattle” organization they work for.
Also — I don’t see the shotgun being fired. And if IF this clip shows an agent being shot I’m saying it was the middle agent of the trio who drops with/after shooty-cop’s second shot. Rule #4 people!
Since this will be in Federal court, any reporting will be cleanly sanitized for public consumption.
Feds say vest was peppered with buckshot.
I’m not saying it didn’t happen, just that I don’t see the shotgun going off in this clip. Usually there’s a lot of stuff coming out of the business end.
Sounds more like Rule 34…
For GT, missing Tranquility Base:
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/2050193806046158981
I might need a hand warmer for that.
I had gloves on.
I made the mistake of not having gloves with me on a previous hike where it was around 35 at the trailhead.
I was, however, wearing shorts.
BIGLY ANNOUNCEMENT. YUGE!
After taking some feedback from potential GlibsCruise vacationers, we found that GlibsCruise 2 – Eclipse Boogaloo was a little… ambitious.
So we’re making the next one much more accessible in terms of expense and logistics. Introducing…
GlibsCruise III (that’s three, or one hundred eleventy if you’re a Minnesota Somalian).
Departs Tampa on April 4, 2027
Three port days (Bimini, Nassau, Cozumel), three sea days. Nothing too exotic, certainly easier on the wallet than Iceland.
The link has the phone number for Suzanne, our Glibs travel agent, who can answer any questions and personalize your cruise (if you want WiFi but are skipping the drinks package, etc).
I’ll keep making this announcement in the AM and PM links for several more days, and will draft an article very shortly.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Shpip — Associate Chair, Glibertarians Fun Committee.
Fun Committee is an oxymoron
Committee is a bit of a misnomer for a one person effort.
You ARE the brute squad!
I am completely unsurprised that Shpip is on the Fun Committee.
I had volunteered for the Pun Committee, but apparently there was a misunderstanding.
Throw him in the fungeon!
Just be thankful you didn’t end up on the punk committee. I hear that is a real pain in the ass.
Shpip is quite fun. It surprised me as well.
Hmmmmmm…I’d love to hit Cozumel again…but this might also conflict with a major 2-gun match…life is chock full of hard choices.
Conflicts with tax season.
Someday.
HAVE FUN STORMING THE CARRIBIAN!!!
(think it will work?
it will take a miracle…)
Nice!
Unfortunately spring break is a no-go.
Hereâs to GlibsCruise IV!
Does not bode well for the future of governance under this party! Transparency? What’s that???
Biden and Harris aren’t sufficient answers?
The didnât cheat enough to overcome the groundswell of legitimate votes?
They will always have Oregon.
These people have refused to correctly diagnose any problem for decades, because it would always be their stupidity that causes it. Why do you think they will suddenly decide this time they are going to correctly diagnose the problem?
I thought they had decided it was because white males re irredeemable racist, sexist, transphobic bigots and need to be exterminated?
Correction: white men that are registered anything other than
MarxistDemocrat party, otherwise such held beliefs are okay.What’s to examine? In 2020, 81 million American patriots rose up and righteously cast Trumpenhitler from his illegitimate presidency. Four years later most of them because racists and misogynists and allowed Cheeto Benito to steal another election from a qualified woman.
In 2020 81 million votes were counted for team blue’s zombie, but I guarantee you there were not anything close to that many voters. At best there were 70 mllion.
“Because” should be “became.”
And turns out I was right in that assessment.
In 2020 81 million votes were counted for team blueâs zombie, but I guarantee you there were not anything close to that many voters. At best there were 70 mllion.
Don’t you even Narrative, bro?
She was the most qualified candidate ever.
The electorate that elected a biracial President (twice) and a Vice President in a n interracial marriage?
That electorate?
despite her overwhelming qualifications
She could tardsplain and cackle with the best of them!
Shush RC Dean! They are on a roll.
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The real question is how does the GOP ever lose anything to these r-tarded morons?
By standing around looking helpless and confused at the prospect of actually fixing any of the problems the Democrats actively cause? Also by proposing fixes to obvious problems that are idiotic compromises that do nothing to actually fix the problem. Inflation running amok? Hey what about mailing people checks from the tariff revenue! Deficit? what’s that?
“a certain segment of the electorate was never going to vote for a biracial woman”
Actually, this can be quite an amusing claim if you push a leftist or Democrat on it – if you can get them to concede that the 35-40% of the electorate who identify as conservative and/or Republican are pretty much never going to vote for the D candidate regardless of who it is. That is, they’re either going to vote R or not vote.
If you can get them to concede that, then the next point is something like, “so, if those people always vote R, then it must be moderates and progressives who won’t vote for a woman, right?”
Itâs hilarious in that the dems are admitting they are all racist asshats who talk big but would never vote for a real brown person.
Are all the people who voted for Biden but not for Harris bigots or fake? Maybe the parties switched again.
Itâs hilarious in that the dems are admitting they are all racist asshats who talk big but would never vote for a real brown person.
Literally true – Harris never won a single delegate to a nominating convention.
Two big handfuls of Friday Funbags to get your Commie Day started right!
https://archive.is/fFwZr
https://archive.is/AohpG
Lenore Skenazy haz a sad
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. â The 32-year-old mother of the two-year-old child, who was struck and killed by a pickup truck after walking into the roadway in St. Petersburg in October 2025, now faces a manslaughter charge.
According to the arrest affidavit, authorities said Alejandra allowed her kids to play in the yard next to a roadway unsupervised. Authorities said Alejandra “should have known that leaving young children unsupervised to play outside in the front yard near the roadway could have caused them to get seriously hurt or killed if they entered the roadway and were struck by a vehicle.”
I’m a bit conflicted on this one. Letting a toddler roam a (presumably unfenced) yard next to a busy road while unsupervised is dumbassery of the highest order. But the woman lost her son as a result. I’m not sure what public interest is served by putting her in prison.
She’s paid enough for her carelessness. Putting her in jail seems sort of vindictive.
Jailing her allows the nanny state to signal its virtue.
It is a reminder that you are merely a custodian of the State’s children.
^^^^THIS^^^^
We talking residential or next to an arterial street? Cause that does make a difference. However, this is just the State being the State doing as ji has already pointed out.
My thoughts exactly.
Claiming that they are forced to prosecute as a deterrent is ludicrous. What could be more of a deterrent than the story of a dead kid?
The street where the kid was hit is east-west two lane residential. At the west end of the street it intersects with a six lane north-south artery.
Apparently, the child just darted in front of the truck, leaving the driver no time to react.
A picket or chain link fence around the front yard would’ve prevented this, since kids that age will run into the road while chasing a ball, a butterfly, or out of sheer bloodymindedness without any situational awareness whatsoever.
Yeah… we lived in a quiet, wooded suburban neighborhood with large lots. A family down the street lost a 2 year old the same way. Family was outside and toddler just wandered away and stepped right in front of a car.
“Things happen fast”
My dad said that all the time.
My kids are being raised on a busy neighborhood street with tiny lots. We have sidewalks. So I made a rule – kids cannot go past sidewalk. And if they were playing outside, I positioned myself at the sidewalk to kick them back into play.
It is a pretty dangerous spot, despite being in a 25mph residential neighborhood with limited access and zero through traffic.
But even with all of that, a random kid could easily bolt past at some point. Neighbor down the street got his 4 year old an electric car, and he was in the street all the time.
I say, dont be the first to cast a stone.
Definitely. I felt like I had to be a hawk in the early years of my daughterâs life. One tome at the public pool I got tired and sat down. 30 seconds later a lifeguard came up and said my daughter had just strolled into the water and sank to the bottom. Only took maybe ten seconds of not watching.
Daughter is fine, BTW.
And definitely I do not judge that lady.
A picket or chain link fence around the front yard wouldâve prevented this
Incoming legislation mandating front yard fences?
It is an easy “win” for an ambitious prosecutor. Easier than going after real criminals.
Is it? What jury is going to rub salt in that wound?
Oh well maybe the prosecutor thinks it will be easy. I didn’t see that it hasn’t happened yet.
Get helicopter mom’s that think little Johnny and Sally need to have leeshes and monitors on their kids at all times is how they convict.
She deserves a stockade.
Stocks.
Bring your own rotten fruit.
#board23 5/5
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Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles.
Interesting choice of countries to highlight.
Talking about different parts of LA and then jumping to Vietnam and C. America is really odd phrasing
It’s very telling. Like any leftist, she is a “global citizen” more than an American or Angeleno.
And not showing up for the neighborhoods that are still just rubble is an odd choice if you want to theme “showing up for every neighborhood” as the foundation upon which you should be jidged.
Bon Jovi deserved similar criticism when he sang Raise Your Hands.
The new DJ in town plays bonjovi several times a day.
And more rush than the station used to play as well.
Itâs really anoying.
US Gas Glut Drives Prices Negative in Texas Amid Iran War
Time to convert my grill! BBQ season is right around the corner.
Wonder if Candence Owens is gonna get the same ass raping that Alex Jones got with the defamation suit just filed against her.
She sure looks liable to telhe tune of fifty quintillion dollars.
Border Patrol GotâAways Plunge 97% from Biden-Era Peak as Special Operations Drive Record Lows
I can confirm this. My buddy in Border Patrol is working a sector that’s the lowest of the low, so much so that the bosses are loaning some agents to a sector in Texas that is having some issues. But overall, it’s an entirely different story than it was 2 years ago.
Almost like the flood was a conscious choice of the Dem administration.
First of May
First of May
Outdoor fucking starts today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1GD_T-3oLU
*NSFW lyrics
I’m boycotting the boycott by working and shopping today.
You know… there’s links with music in the afternoon as well. đ
You can link it again in the afternoon, too. The more people that hear it and are moved to fuck outdoors, the better.
Oh there are more “actions” today, right?
Why do I get the feeling it will be the same class of geriatrics and unemployed losers as the “No Kings” larping?
Memory holed
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/11/oregon-officials-will-not-conduct-criminal-investigation-of-errantly-registered-voters-who-cast-ballots.html
Money quote:
Oregon officials will not investigate…
Because….
There is no evidence that they knowingly….
Reverse catch-22!!
If we dont investigate, there wont be any evidence. So we cant investigate… because we don’t have any evidence!
Brilliant!!
State officials kept finding ever more non citizen voters through successive press releases but insisted that they would never vote because of consequences. Until they were forced to admit some did but it didn’t make a difference. And there would be no consequences. And tried to change it that the non citizen voters were citizens improperly registered (conflating non citizen US nationals as citizens, mainly American Samoa).
To the crowd who keep insisting there is no difference between Team A and Team B… this seems like an issue where there is a clear difference.
The DMV employees and management should be prosecuted and jailed.
On the “electing the most qualified biracial woman ever”…
I dont think “gaslighting” really covers it. I dont know what the word is..
But this is a woman so unpopular with her own electorate that she could not win a single delegate in that year’s primary, lost the black vote to Biden (!) completely, despite Biden having a long history of racist remarks and policies, and who was bacl-room appointed at the last second.
Yet…
She received a huge upwelling of support that resulted in one of the highest voter turnouts in history? Really?
And only internet kooks even noticed?
I mean, she had to pay celebrity democrat activists millions of dollars just to show up at rallies for her.
But nobody even suspects shenanigans at the polls?
(All of which also ignores the fact that she was the hand picked replacement for the candidate who was hand picked to run for a second term by having all of the rules of the primary rigged so that only he could run. If you are that unpopular in your own party, do you really have coattails?)
The rumblings of her running for the presidency again show their either deluded or want to rub everyone’s face in their fraud.
It’s almost like it isn’t 1955 anymore and the numbers of Americans who actually vote by “race” or “sex” is vanishingly small and the Democrats have nothing of substance to talk about so they talk endlessly about “race” and “sex”.
Well, to be fair, their post-racial society response has started to succeed in recreating a racist society.
I didn’t see any racist nonsense online for decades. But it is back.
I mean, they had to work hard to get any traction… but they finally succeeded.
I dont know how much long term success they will have. My kids are in their teens now and live in an extremely multiracial and multicultural world. And they toss around racial slurs ironically with each other all the time. Even in surprising places… the boy was playing hoop with work friends the other day. Largely black dudes from the hood. (He flips burgers at a local burger joint) They dap each other up and greet him with “my n****”.
He is the whitest of the white. Blond hair, blue eyes, fair skin. Upper middle class and well educated.
Doesn’t matter. They toss that stuff around without animosity.
When that generation reaches critical mass, who knows what will happen.
Depends how many of them attend college.
The 90s are back Cyto.
She quit before the first primary.
By the same token, she was nominated by the delegates by unanimous consent, unlike Biden that was challenged by Bernie. So more popular than Biden by that logic.
Protestors were back on the interstate overpass this morning.
Today’s slogan:
WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES
They are so clever.
Hate and envy are so stunning and brave.
Man the cities are primed for the next shot heard around the world aren’t they?
Shouldn’t it be “Work over billionaires!”
“Work[ers] will set you free” maybe?
Deeply amusing coming from the class of people who largely don’t or won’t work.
It was a few retired looking people and a couple in those stupid inflatable suits.
A long-promised autopsy of the Democratic Partyâs losses in 2024 has yet to materialize, and itâs becoming a growing source of frustration for Democrats still looking for answers for why they lost the White House for a second time to President Trump.
We may never know.
Nobody in the party wants to admit that their platform alienated a huge chunk of voters. They are so dedicated to being DEI commies they cannot issue that final report.
They’re still working under the assumption that they “own” certain voting blocs. If those blocs vote for someone else, it’s because they’re caving in to propaganda because it’s obvious the Dems are what’s best for them, even when the Dems are actively doing things to harm them.
Yes. That gets back to the whole going crazy trying to control things you canât change. Democrats and not Stoic. And they are demonstrably more mentally ill than people who have a different mindset.
I wonder if he brought a chainsaw?
Ambassador Lamelas and President Milei Visit the USS Nimitz
https://ar.usembassy.gov/ambassador-lamelas-and-president-milei-visit-the-uss-nimitz/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwTi2NboHNw
The class warfare stuff actually has legs.
I was getting triaged by the nurse the other day. Young girl. Was talking about some robotics and space stuff excitedly.
I said “you sound like Elon”
She immediately bowed up. “I hate that guy!”
It was an automatic response. Like pavlov’s dogs
It was a deeply ingrained response, based on nothing more than propaganda. She was clearly way over into “i love the stuff that Elon does” camp intellectually, but the emotional propaganda worked. He was as hated as OMB.
It was wild to watch. Her demeanor completely changed and her desire to banter dissappeared instantly.
It’s shocking and disturbing when you see evidence in real life of just complete lack of any thought whatsoever.
I think this all goes back to social media. It was supposed to bring people together and expose us to different viewpoints. Instead they discovered the way to make money was to divide people into tribes, make every issue black and white, and use that to get people riled up so they are engaged and addicted to their feeds. The Dems were really good at capitalizing on that.
Enter Glibs’ marketing strategy…
There is a tesla in the parking lot with a bumper sticker “I bought this before we new Elon was evil”.
We saw one last weekend with some kind of “Anti Elon Club” sticker.
JFC.
I forget why the left even turned on him. Was it DOGE or something before that?
I forget why the left even turned on him.
He endorsed Trump and campaigned for him. Then launched DOGE.
I’ve been seeing that shit for months.
I have trouble interpreting it as anything but repulsive simping for government workers.
OT: Been waiting for your article about the just released DC shooter footage.. đ
These are the same losers who used to say I was âselfishâ for not wanting to pay taxes to support massive government waste and useless programs.
Now these same asshats proclaim they wonât pay taxes that go to support Trumpâs war.
Good to know the identify themselves on the road now. Easier to avoid.
Moi? I didn’t really have anything in mind, but I’ll take a look and see if there are any points of interest…
Oh, of course. Off with his head, then.
I think it’s pointing out the politicized censorship Twitter was engaging in before he bought it.
X still is Ted.
War profiteering ain’t what it used to be
Surging oil prices due to the Iran war did not result in a windfall for Exxon Mobil and Chevron in the first quarter.
The two biggest U.S. oil companies reported profits on Friday that fell dramatically compared with the same period last year. Exxonâs net income declined 45%, while Chevronâs tumbled 36%.
They beat Wall Streetâs earnings estimates for the quarter. Shares of both companies fell more than 1% Friday as oil prices declined during the session.
Crude prices were depressed during the first two months of the year as the market anticipated a surplus, but suddenly spiked after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Prices have surged 57% as the war has caused the largest oil supply disruption in history.
They’re cooking the books!
Instead they discovered the way to make money was to divide people into tribes, make every issue black and white
Most people are more than happy to do that on their own.
RIP, an ordinary giant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dunn_(RAF_officer)
44 bombing missions during World War Eleven and then went back to working for the moving company he was with before the war.
NPR, home of the Smart Set
AAA has been testing exactly how big an effect temperatures have on modern EV batteries. In its latest research, shared exclusively with NPR, it found that hot temperatures reduced range by an average of 8.5%. Cold weather cut vehicles’ range by a whopping 39%.
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Inside, there’s enough space for a single vehicle, parked very carefully on top of two giant steel rollers â each of them 4 feet in diameter â that are hidden beneath floor level.
This is a chassis dynamometer, or “dyno” for short. “For lack of a better term, I guess it’s kind of like a treadmill for a car,” says Megan McKernan, who manages the research center.
For each test, the two rollers are carefully positioned to match up with the wheels of the test vehicle. Then the car is driven right on top of them, making sure the wheels touch nothing else. The vehicle is tied down with heavy, bright-pink chains, so it can’t move forward off the “treadmill.”
Now, it’s time for Richard Gonzalez to “drive” the vehicle â without actually going anywhere. Once he gets inside and presses the accelerator, the wheels make those giant rollers turn. For hours.
Intrepid NPR explores the murky mysteries of auto testing.
What’s the Goldilocks temperature that doesn’t cut the range?
Itâs probably 65-70
Living in Hawaii?
They donât mention the effect drastic temperature swings have on the overall battery life too, some of those Nissan Leafs became nigh-undriveable with only 30 miles of range after a few years of Texas heat and cold cycles.
I can say the temperatures over 102 (which is every summer here) is a damn sight more than 8% loss, from personal observation of electric car owners around me.
And here I thought that everyone knew that about batteries and heat.
Just about anyone that has ever wanted more power in their car has stumbled into dyno testing territory.
Wow EPA using more power by heating seats and using the four wheel drive decreases efficiency?! Who would have thought? â The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated a 10% to 30% drop in gas vehicle fuel economy in cold weatherâ
How much of the EV efficiency loss in the hot and cold is from the same thing, running the AC is not free.
I asked Brave because I am lazy and I wanted kW in addition to HP. AC use is a lot more than heated seats:
Typical Range: Most modern systems consume between 1.5 and 4 kilowatts (approx. 2 to 5.5 HP) during steady-state operation.
Peak Load: When first turned on or in extreme heat, peak loads can reach 3 kW to 5 kW (approx. 4 to 7 HP).
I remember people telling me that old York and GM AC pumps used as much as 40 hp. By the same guys that thought putting on chrome valve covers and headers added 40 hp.
AC is a big hit but itâs not that much.
Older systems were as high as 7 – 10 HP, like the compressors on big block 70âs cars. Makes sense it was reduced a little.
I wonder how many electric cars just come with heat pumps now. Imagine the sadness of getting in your car, itâs 110 in there, and you just have a heat pump breathing tepid air in your face.
Just about anyone that has ever wanted more power in their car has stumbled into dyno testing territory.
What sort of cretinous knuckle-dragger would think he needs more power than the manufacturer ‘s design provides?
Me. Thinking about buying a tune when my warranty runs out.
Me.
Now if o ever get caught up on my maintenance Iâll get that tune, exhaust, and EGR/DEF/DPF system in my pickup. Iâve had the parts for two years and I just canât find three days to get it all together.
How much of the EV efficiency loss in the hot and cold is from the same thing, running the AC is not free.
Aero drag from rolling down the windows is worse than spinning the A/C compressor.
You saying 4 by 50 air conditioning doesn’t work?
Way back when I lived in Phoenix, I read a study that said below 50 mph, rolling down the windows was more efficient that running the A/C. Above 50 mph, drag was so bad with the windows down that running the A/C was more efficient.
In the cold the Li Ion cells need to be heated and in the heat, cooled. This helps to keep the cells capacity from degrading over time and keeps the electrolyte conductivity somewhat stable. It also uses the battery to run the heater and cooler.
I have some serious hearing loss in my left ear.
I blame being poor and not having ac and driving for almost two decades with the window down.
My new pickup makes a terrible helicopter whump wump wump sound when you roll down the windows. Itâs annoying as heck.
I hate that.
EAT THE RICH
With gas prices, energy bills, and grocery costs all rising, the affordability crisis is top of mind for most workers.
But you canât talk about that crisis without also talking about extreme wealth inequality, says Patricia Stottlemyer, policy lead for labor rights at Oxfam America.
And just as affordability has worsened recently, so has the gap between regular workers and the rich, including company CEOs.
In 2025, for example, the top 1,500 CEOs of the worldâs largest corporations saw an 11% real-terms pay raise. The average global worker, on the other hand, saw their real wages increase by only 0.5%.
Those poor starving shoeless penniless workers.
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Just because you’re necessary doesn’t mean you’re important.
One of my favorites.
The solution to the affordability crisis is to steal the money from all the rich people and give it to the rest of us. It’s so obvious – I don’t know why nobody has thought of this before.
A possible solution for the voter rolls would be to void 100% of the voter rolls on January 1st following each presidential election. States can opt to mail out new registration forms on the 2d if they want, or let voters ask for them. If voting is a priority for a US citizen, they will register in time for the next election. If voting is not a priority for them, they won’t register. I will respect their choice.
And as long as I am dreaming, the same law would prohibit any tax provided funds from any and all “get out the vote” efforts. And yes, this includes $0 funding for NGOs to include the same. The final provision of the law would demand that for any election for Federal office there be a voting DAY and no mail in ballots unless sick, infirm, or confirmed absence from the jurisdiction.
If a citizen doesn’t want to register and go to the polls I respect their right to not participate. I would go so far as to say I do not want people to be hassled into voting since I don’t want them voting if they must be harangued into voting.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
âGo to the polesâ
This being the most important part.
Way back when I lived in Phoenix, I read a study that said below 50 mph, rolling down the windows was more efficient that running the A/C. Above 50 mph, drag was so bad with the windows down that running the A/C was more efficient.
Yes. And I suspect that speed crossover has gone down in the aero-obsessed homogenous designs of the current day.
I have traditionally driven bricks. I canât imagine fuel milage had any impact with the windows down.
My 71 gmc got 11.1 mpg no matter what I did. Town. 11.1, highway, 11.1. A ton of rocks in the bed, 11.1. 100 mph, 11.1.
Then I put a used HEI distributer in it and it got 12.2mpg. That was a nice improvement.