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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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Give people a say than impose unilaterally. https://news.sky.com/story/as-swiss-...hange-12904670 |
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Kind of reminds me of the hype about self driving cars a few years ago. There were posts on this forum saying that we'd all have fully autonomous cars by about now. Boy has that gone quiet.
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I ran across a video with an interview of Navy Seal Shawn Ryan. He had a discussion about how vulnerable our electrical grid is in this country. This spurred me to look into other videos on the topic. Out of the videos I saw, the backlog to manufacture the huge power transformers that run the power substations are a year to a year and a half out. Most of the capacity has been shunted to Ukraine with the ongoing conflicts going on there. No US company manufactures these large transformers so we're entirely dependent on overseas supply which come from South Korea, Germany, and China. From the videos, about 12% of the power capacity of NYC is being supplied by Chinese made transformers and 20% of the power capacity for Vegas.
They went on to talk about cyber attacks and how none of the Chinese sourced transformers are being vetted for backdoors or malicious code with foreign adversaries such as Russia being confirmed to have infiltrated our grid. What was really alarming is the official recognition by FERC that it would take only 20 substation failures in key locations to collapse the entire grid nationwide. The Wall Street Journal after getting the leaked report places that number to only 9. What's astonishing is there has been 700 physical attacks on power substations in the US. A major one was in Metcalfe, CA where FERC went in to analyze what happened. And with the assistance of former special ops operators trained in taking out infrastructure systems, they came to the conclusion that this physical attack was done by highly trained individuals. They were almost successful in taking out power to all of Silicon Valley. To this day, none of them have been caught and no one knows who sent them. There's no denying that the US power grid requires significant upgrading outside of the push for more capacity due to increasing demand. It's amazing that with all of the things going on with the state of the geopolitical world we're in that these idiots in office are still pushing for these "green" mandates. Along with the lunacy to shift our critical infrastructures to depend on our biggest adversary being China where we're dependent on them for solar panels, batteries, and the huge power transformers for our substation. Below are the videos I watched for you to draw your own conclusions. Shawn Ryan's interview with David Tice who created the documentary "Grid Down Power Up" The "Grid Down Power Up" documentary: https://griddownpowerup.com/watch-gdpu/ And the 60 Minutes story on the vulnerability of our national grid system:
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[QUOTE=zx10guy;30233141]I ran across a video with an interview of Navy Seal Shawn Ryan. He had a discussion about how vulnerable our electrical grid is in this country. This spurred me to look into other videos on the topic. Out of the videos I saw, the backlog to manufacture the huge power transformers that run the power substations are a year to a year and a half out. Most of the capacity has been shunted to Ukraine with the ongoing conflicts going on there. No US company manufactures these large transformers so we're entirely dependent on overseas supply which come from South Korea, Germany, and China. From the videos, about 12% of the power capacity of NYC is being supplied by Chinese made transformers and 20% of the power capacity for Vegas.
They went on to talk about cyber attacks and how none of the Chinese sourced transformers are being vetted for backdoors or malicious code with foreign adversaries such as Russia being confirmed to have infiltrated our grid. What was really alarming is the official recognition by FERC that it would take only 20 substation failures in key locations to collapse the entire grid nationwide. The Wall Street Journal after getting the leaked report places that number to only 9. What's astonishing is there has been 700 physical attacks on power substations in the US. A major one was in Metcalfe, CA where FERC went in to analyze what happened. And with the assistance of former special ops operators trained in taking out infrastructure systems, they came to the conclusion that this physical attack was done by highly trained individuals. They were almost successful in taking out power to all of Silicon Valley. To this day, none of them have been caught and no one knows who sent them. There's no denying that the US power grid requires significant upgrading outside of the push for more capacity due to increasing demand. It's amazing that with all of the things going on with the state of the geopolitical world we're in that these idiots in office are still pushing for these "green" mandates. Along with the lunacy to shift our critical infrastructures to depend on our biggest adversary being China where we're dependent on them for solar panels, batteries, and the huge power transformers for our substation. Below are the videos I watched for you to draw your own conclusions. Shawn Ryan's interview with David Tice who created the documentary "Grid Down Power Up" The "Grid Down Power Up" documentary: And the 60 Minutes story on the vulnerability of our national grid system: If everyone knew the extent this was true... they'd better understand why there was so much ass kissing to the Chinese President this week... if China were to drop the hammer... we are screwed beyond levels anyone can imagine... and here is the kicker... 30 years of poor policy put us in this position.
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Hmmmmm.... At least 4 dead in NYC e-bike store fire, officials say.
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https://electrek.co/2023/06/02/jagua...ery-fire-risk/ Jaguar recalls all I-Pace EVs over battery fire risk |
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