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  1. Zorba

    Vehicles you don't see on the road anymore

    Automotive styling peaked in the late 1930s. Just sayin'...
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    odds of evolution

    For the most part, monotheists are the only ones who care.
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    HAM Radio Is Dying — And It’s Our Fault?

    When you have the tech exam stuff down, go through the general material a few times. I aced the tech, and I squeaked by and passed the general because I'd eyeballed the material and taken exactly two practice tests (for the general). Yea, my electronics background helped and so did some common...
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    HAM Radio Is Dying — And It’s Our Fault?

    Its the way it is due to historical precedence. It stays the way it is for one reason: CB Radio. I can see both sides of the discussion. Hams fought bitterly to keep the Morse Code requirement to gate keep the idiots out. I can understand that what with what happened with CB Radio. OTOH, I went...
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    odds of evolution

    How abut Nut and Geb? ;)
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    How many of us here play guitar?

    Uh, yea. I'd stick out like a sore thumb... ;)
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    The unfortunate JKU & JLU of the day thread

    You couldn't be more right. I'm always bitching about how effete Americans have become - certainly accelerated by the smartphone, but not ultimately caused by same. Riding in a mini-van in Egypt - manual transmission - reminds me of the effete crap I heard in the mid-70s about automatic...
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    The unfortunate JKU & JLU of the day thread

    That is EXACTLY my point. Those fucking things destroy and ruin everything they touch, not the least of which is critical thinking skills. Its very obvious when you're exposed to a culture where they haven't had the chance YET to do as much damage as they have here in the US. The societal and...
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    The unfortunate JKU & JLU of the day thread

    Obviously, we're not going to agree - and that's OK. As for smartphones - having just returned from a country that they haven't completely wrecked as YET, my hatred for them has done nothing but gotten greater.
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    The unfortunate JKU & JLU of the day thread

    Ever own a vehicle with "MB-Tex"? Outlasts leather 5-1 easy. Yea, you can compensate for bullshit with more bullshit technology. Just like high beltlines and piss poor rearward visibility is now compensated for with backup cameras. Sorry, not buying - that's smartphone-think.
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    The unfortunate JKU & JLU of the day thread

    Leather? Its slippery. Its cold, its hot, it doesn't wear particularly well. A good quality vinyl at least wears better, but I prefer cloth.
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    Military Memes

    True that - but it could have been better. We weren't allowed to really win that one either. But you're right, it went sharply down hill afterwards.
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    The unfortunate JKU & JLU of the day thread

    You can keep it - leather is the absolute WORST seating surface I can think of.
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    Reman engine upgrade options

    There's the haulover canal, which in my younger years I could have easily walked to (a couple of miles or so), then there's Hall road which is another couple of miles further.
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    Anybody up for a random meme dump?

    Like "Yeet Cannon"...
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    Reman engine upgrade options

    Merritt island is sandwiched between them.
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    Reman engine upgrade options

    Ron Jon is in Cocoa Beach - at least it is now.
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    Reman engine upgrade options

    Rockledge isn't a bad town, but it just has no class either. Next town over, Cocoa, has a lovely historic district - Rockledge doesn't even have something like that. Some of the McMansions along the river are worth a looksee. But then, there are worse places, such as Viera, next town over the...
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    Reman engine upgrade options

    Rockledge? ROCKLEDGE?!? Slumming, you were!
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    New Radio

    https://jensen-electronics.com/heavy-duty-stereos/