Man , tough weekend for foosball fans. Both teams I can credibly pretend to follow lost.
Oh well. Now I can go back to feigning interest in literally anything else.
¡Enlaces!
I will say the Mexican fans had a bigger hurdle to returning to life before the world cup loss. You try going back to, for example:
- Attacks on naval patrol vessels from domestic enemies. Or even…
- Toyota declaring they will move production of the Taco to Texas.
I’ve heard mixed reviews about the new Taco, so this might improve it to be honest.
They’re still doing better than Cuba.
Oh we’re allowed to care about human trafficking again?
Interesting take from Milei, now I have to find the full interview.
Here’s Corey Taylor covering Led Zeppelin. Enjoy your Tuesday!
“A security operation in Mexico’s Sinaloa state during the weekend left 10 assailants dead and three others arrested after an explosive device attack on naval personnel carrying out flood-monitoring work, Mexico’s navy said on Monday.”
The cart els must really not want “flood monitoring”.
The Cartels are effectively separate countries, can’t have foreign armed forces on their territory.
Maybe it was like this: “Hello, snack bar?”
“NO, Sin Aloha! The anti-Hawaii!” Bang, Bang.
You’ve still got Pato O’Ward.
*recent Mclaren personnel announcements seem to have lit a fire under him.
I was out and about the other day and found myself behind an older Taco. It was so small and cute. Looked very practical. Too bad bloat ruined everything.
It got bigger, the engine got smaller.
Corn or flour tortilla?
Flour tortilla is the white man’s tortilla and we won’t have that shit.
So, lettuce leaf. Got it.
Flour tortillas are more common in northern Mexico, and are of course scoffed at by the rest of the country.
mexican sharpshooter:
So… flour tortillas are the correct ones as they’re looked down upon by the masses?
The masas will have nothing to do with flour tortillas.
Swiss Servator, to the white courtesy phone.
Corn tortilla is just a skinny pupusa. [slams bunker door shut]
I really wish the racists hadn’t burned down “Black Wallstreet” (forget the fact that it was basically comparable to the average main street in any American city). It’d be funny to see what it would have devolved into over time. And I’d never have to hear that black people live in poverty because when they try to rise up the white man gets jealous and destroys their shit.
Tulsa itself is a shithole largely cited as why Oklahoma itself sucks by unironic white progressives. Hurr dee durr crime rate! Who the fucks doing the crime in Tulsa? SHUT YOUR MOUTH BIGOT!
Yes, that is annoying on so many levels.
Yet, in Richmond, former capital of the CSA, Maggie L. Walker flourished, and nobody burned anything.
Personally my favorite part of that story is whites dropping bombs out of planes to destroy the town.
But government is always good!
/tard
Nah, government is only always good when the right people are in charge!
Hahaha
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/07/leftist-group-reveals-troubling-allegation-against-potential-platner-replacement/
Wow, there are a lot of terrible people on the far left? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Politicians in general are freaky. But progressive men are extra-special gross. I don’t think you can find one that would attract the normies.
Not sure what the Dems are going to do. I mean, half of them have already voted for him via early voting, and the other half is already written on ballets to come out after the election. How do you change those votes?
I will say the Mexican fans had a bigger hurdle to returning to life before the world cup loss. You try going back to, for example:
But… they have bouncy stuff.
Yes, rubber trees grow in southern mexico.
True
Minor inconvenience
How chilly are we talking about? At 0C, or 32F, the wiper motor can lose communication with the control module for the steering wheel. When that happens, the system might only work at the highest speed setting. The washer jet system can also become inoperable, another big problem in the cold. And federal safety standards say you need functioning wipers and washers on a car. Not having them could lead to an increased risk of a crash.
The specific problem is a chip. One of the hundreds of suppliers to the company sent the wrong microchip to the wiper motor factory. The board uses a 16kb chip, but the programming was for a 32kb architecture. That can cause errors, but for reasons we don’t fully understand, it causes more errors when it’s cold.
GTD is among the Mustangs recalled, but obviously that’s a very small percentage of the total. In all, there are 67,553 Mustangs from the 2024-2026 model years affected, along with the aforementioned 289 GTDs, all from 2025. Ford dealers will inspect the wiper motor and, if necessary, replace it with a new motor with the correct programming.
You wouldn’t want switches and wires. that would be crazy.
There’s no reason for programming for wiper blades or washer fluid pumps.
That is insane.
“The board uses a 16kb chip, but the programming was for a 32kb architecture.”
It is INSANE. Obviously wiping needs 32 bit precision with resulting higher memory demands. Who can wipe with only 16 bits and such puny memory?
infinite intermittent wiper speeds.
My actual hypothesis is that it’s related to some “Rain sensing” tech that automatically turns on the wipers. Tech so useless I forget it exists most of the time.
Do you even know how much money you’d be throwing away for fixing the code on something that doesn’t need code to operate?
Both wipers and pump should be hand operated.
It’s the only way to be sure!
this is fucking nuts
The engineers have lost the minds.
If you watch some of the automotive channels I do it makes perfect sense.
The engineers are all siloed. They have design criteria that starts with #1 Cost. It’s followed by 98 more things many of them dictated by marketing. The remaining two criteria are 99 durability and 100 repairability.
Being engineers they optimized for exactly that list and are paid based on it.
Making it so that you have to go to the Ford Service Center to get it fixed is a feature, not a bug.
Using a software-controlled motor to replace a one- or two-decade-old mechanical design {that has already been produced by the millions} does not reduce costs.
It is purely for the revenue generating ability to force a subscription model on to owners and to remotely enable/disable the function if has not been paid for.
Cost got nuthin to do with it.
automotives are now a service, not a product.
All my old GM stuff and international stuff has a stand alone module for the wipers, I think it’s built into the wiper switch itself. The older stuff has two speeds (fast and faster) and is nothing but a switch.
Who can wipe with only 16 bits and such puny memory?
The wipers need near-as-instantaneous-as-possible reactivity to the moisture on the windshield. It goes without saying.
The wipers are controlled by their own AI.
I usually wipe with three bits, seems to work.
I unexpectedly wandered into this today. Had no idea what was going on until I circled around to the other side and the crowd which had been boisterous settled to down to watch a futbol match. I guess the Egypt flag should have given it away but for some reason I forgot there was a match at that time today.
I watched along for a few minutes and then the feed cut out so I left lol
I was gonna root for them but of course fucking Argentina won.
YES!
TOK and UCS.
Why Are Tesla’s Automatic Wipers Such Garbage
Can confirm. In the Mustang case I think the wiper is just another fucking intelligent device hung off the CANBus network.
That’s even stupider!
Just give me switches which turn on the motors for the wipers or the pumps. I’ll handle it myself for a shitton less cost and a let more intelligence.
In theory it makes sense. He already has a body controller that commands a bunch of devices including the wiper.
The camera is there for always in two years self driving feature.
You already have the computer for the same self driving. You just use it to sense rain at only the software development cost. After that it’s “free”.
Problem is it didn’t work and he won’t admit it or pay for a rain sensor.
My 69 Chevy had a pump that ran off of the wiper motor. One motor for both functions.
3door – Tell me there were settings for washer fluid only, wipers only (intermittant optional), and both
My M51A3 Truck, 5 Ton, Dump (Korean War Vintage, still in Army inventory in the early ’80s) had an air compressor that would inflate the tires, run the air brakes, and, when you turned the valve at the top of the windshield, would run the wipers slow or fast; depending on how much you turned it.
I had a 5 Ton dump, took more than three wipes.
UCS, two stitches in one knob, turn two positions for fast or faster, push and hold for squirt and wipers on.
My 76 Blazer was a step down. It has a slider thing that functions the same but is an inconvenient style of switch.
My moms 85 Suburban has a multi control with Intermittant wipers like my 97 international. Neither can squirt without the wiper wiping.
There’s quite a bit of talk among the Toyota / Lexus crowd about reading the VIN before buying the vehicle.
If the VIN starts with a J, your vehicle was made in Japan and is of the highest quality, fit, and finish.
If the VIN starts with a 1 or 2, it was assembled in the US (1) or Canada (2) and will be just fine.
VINs starting with 3 are made in Mexico. Avoid if you can.
Reddit does a deep dive here.
The 2008 FJ has a “J” VIN and was built in Japan, but I already knew that.
The 2022 Highlander has a “5” VIN, and was built in the US.
That is deeply offensive. All good thinkers know that the best tacos are Mexican.
But not the tiny Mexico City street tacos. Those are dogs.
So the tiny ones are Korean tacos?
CONNECT THE DOTS, SHEEPLE!
These are not distant disruptions. They are already here.
And into this landscape, add a statistic that deserves far more attention than it gets: 32 percent of all U.S. adults personally own a gun — roughly 83 million people. Ownership is highest in rural areas, skewing toward men without college degrees — the exact demographic most exposed to automation displacement. 47 percent of rural adults own a gun, compared to just 20 percent of urban adults.
Here is the compound risk nobody in Washington is connecting: Millions of working-class Americans — truckers, drivers, delivery workers — are watching their livelihoods get automated away. They are moving in together to survive. And they live in a country with more guns than people, inside a legal system that, in many states, effectively decriminalizes retail theft below certain dollar thresholds.
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When institutions fail to protect the social contract, people find their own enforcement mechanisms. That is not commentary — that is history.
I am not writing this as alarm. I am writing this as pattern recognition. Every society that has experienced rapid technological displacement without a parallel investment in retraining, safety nets, and civic trust has paid a price. Sometimes that price comes in the form of elections. Sometimes it comes in the form of something harder to reverse.
Civil war a’comin’. Roving bands of heavily armed hillbilly vigilantes, just like that movie I watched last night. Trump must be shot down like a dog in the Oval Office before it’s too late, and all his whiz kid techbro buddies.
Do tell.
Brahmin
The toothpaste in urban drugstores is locked up to prevent looting from laid-off gun-toting rednecks?
Wut?
Colion Noir.
He gonna rob the tooth whitening gel.
Automation is the ne plus ultra of social destruction, but off shoring? The hillbillys deserved that!
That’s tarded.
Chocko Valliappa is a fourth-generation entrepreneur and Chairman of the Sona Group, a century-old Indian conglomerate spanning education, manufacturing, and technology across India and the UAE.
Bingo. The government needs to give him a big fat contract to retrain all those people who will lose their jobs to AI.
What did he expect?
Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations tried to track down Rochester resident David Streever last month and give him a warning notice alleging that he had potentially violated the law when he wrote a harsh email months earlier to the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Now a lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression on Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C. argues Streever’s January email was protected speech and the federal agents’ and their superiors violated Streever’s First Amendment rights.
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FIRE’s lawsuit says the First Amendment protects Americans’ rights to speak out against police but says the “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is actively threatening that freedom, tracking down and retaliating against speakers like Plaintiff David Streever because he exercised his fundamental right to criticize one of the highest-ranking law enforcement officers in the United States.”
The suit goes on to say, “Our Constitution does not tolerate such a brazen abuse of authority.”
Streever wrote to Lyons’ government email address on Jan. 26 after federal immigration officers in Minneapolis fatally shot two U.S. citizen observers during the immigration enforcement surge there.
It sounds like he was looking for a response, and he got one.
Not that I put it past FedGov, but I’d like to know what they actually threatened him with.
He wrote a nasty letter and the delivered a nasty reply in person.
Everyone seems to be an asshole here.
Streever was taking his 7-year-old daughter on a vacation to a Finnish theme park when the agents visited his home. He and his daughter landed at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport two days later and made their way to a nearby airport hotel to sleep.
That evening, Streever was told by the hotel front desk that a federal agent from the Department of Homeland Security had come to see him and had left a business card. His wife had not told the agents which hotel he would be staying at, raising questions about how Streever had been tracked to that location.
In a stunning and totally unprecedented display of efficiency, a federal investigative body tracked him down.
Of course they did, he posed absolutely no danger to them.
That too!
His Swissitude must be orgasmic right about now.
That was a humdinger of a match!
So, Switzerland won? Snd previously Argentina won! Great day!