Lieutenant, do you like movies about gladiators?

One thing I’ve always wondered, who/what decides their hierarchy?

Yeah I’ll be honest I’m way too lazy to keep up with their rebranding attempts, that’s where keeping it mentally filed as HBO made the most sense as it grew out of the premium cable channel from the 80s.

They aren’t fellating the right donors yet, nor championing the right anti-consumer causes.

Eh, those Shasta ultralight travel trailers are certainly on the mid to lower mid end if the scale as far as travel trailers go, especially if it doesn’t have a slide and he got it used. It’s also single axle as far as I can tell and a little older, so probably in the neighborhood of 24’, not exactly luxurious

Electrican here, it’s even worse. Fuck lightbulbs and florescent tubes, you don’t need me to change those.

I’ve just always defaulted to HBO, especially considering much of their older content still has HBO pop up as a credit.

Electrician here. One thing I will say, in times of inclement economic weather (like now), service plumber stay busy. People are likely not going to not fix a leak, blocked drain, or a heater/AC problem. People will run an extension cord if an outlet stops working or get creative if a light goes out. From what I’ve seen, many views plumbing as a more pertinent issue to resolve than electrical issues. But, as OP said, I’ll take electrical all day over dealing with poo.

Linemen for the power company will always stay busy regardless of the economy, and it pays stupid well. The guys in my town clear $200k with storm shifts.

But I only had two marijuanas, I was told that was ok by the cool guy on the corner.

Eh more like he needs to be taken out to pasture.

It goes both ways though. I have a corporation for my contracting business to shield possible frivolous lawsuits from unscrupulous people. I do my best to screen clients and not work for wackos, but that’s not necessarily enough to protect myself and family.

Of all the big services, Netflix subtitles are notoriously bad though. Like missing entire sentences or just flat out wrong.

Again, that was the style and not the exact ones we had, but yeah they were all fixed position, however ours weren’t too bad. I dunno, I don’t remember anyone complaining much, I was on the taller side of my peers and fit fine while I recall even the smaller kids were alright too. Id wager a big reason they were chosen was so kids couldn’t balance on the back legs, fall back and crack dome. They were great for cracking your back!

Not even that, but they are simple and repairable. I remember we had these sleigh-style desks (same idea except the seat was one-piece molded plastic) that were a total of four parts (two rails, the seat and the desk top) aside from bolts/hardware, and they had a graveyard of parts to replace pieces as needed. And those desk were tough as all hell.

Eh it always turns into a touchy subject. Like yeah we needed to transition away from burning fuel yesterday, but at the same time we still need a viable path forward for people to move themselves and good around, which hasn’t really gone far. Yes EVs are a good solution and they’re improving at a good pace, but they don’t cover every use case yet, which is where we need to focus. At the same time, we also need to be leaning into building out public transit networks that render most personal transport needs unnecessary.

For instance, we need a viable EV for OTR transport, as well solutions for trains and ocean/air shipping. We also need better solutions for contractors and the like, as well as vehicles that can achieve longer range.

And when are those rail projects getting built? Oh yeah, they keep stalling out.

I’m all for reducing car dependency, but we need viable alternatives before, not as an afterthought.

I’ve thought it’d be pretty nifty to replace the carpool lanes with rail transit, but then Fast track/The Toll Roads wouldn’t be able to keep up their Lexus lanes.

The idea was to transition everyone to EVs. The problem is that not everyone can afford to just up and buy a new vehicle, and it’s naive to think people can get by without one, especially in much of CA and the rest of the US where public transit absolutely blows. They’re putting the cart before the horse and not giving a shit about people who aren’t the monopoly man, as is tradition.

My town has had the price pegged at about $5.50/gal (diesel) for the last couple years, despite fuel trending closer to $4.25/gal lately elsewhere.

So that’s why him, Zuck, and their ilk are the way they are.