Feminism Broke This Young Woman [VIDEO] – it ruins families, females and everything it touches. I don’t recall ever wanting to be around one very long as they are as tedious as vegans, they have to tell you everything that you know is wrong. She, like the rest of them have to find out for themselves how they ruin their lives, and those around them
NASCAR Ditches Cheap Gimmicks in Favor of a Playoff Format Focused on Racing – You could also cut out a lot of woke shit and let campers raise the Confederate flag. That’s when NASCAR was most popular, not with all the Bud Light Marketing. I love racing, but stopped watching NASCAR 3 years ago as they made it boring.
China
China’s Sacked Top General Accused Of Leaking Nuclear Secrets To US: Report – Seriously? What are they going to tell us other than maybe where it’s hidden. Any technology they have they stole from us to begin with. It’s a political purge by a dictator who distrusts his staff. That starts with him being a tyrant. Real leaders trust their team
U-Haul’s Election Lesson – Everyone moves from there. It must be as bad as they say. Then, they talk about how good it was and wear all the shirts from there. If it is so good, why don’t you live there?
Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane – Smart phones. The answer is that we built global-scale consensus engines and deployed them on a species with sexually dimorphic psychology. The machines captured the half more susceptible to consensus pressure. Then they started capturing the other half through different mechanisms.
Germany Finally Admits Nuking Its Energy Sector for No Reason Was a Bad Idea – you ruined your economy and energy sector for the climate lies based on no facts. It will take you years to recover from this. “So we are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world,” he said. “I know of no other country that makes things so expensive and difficult as Germany.”
Not a chance in Hell – He has Delusions of Grandeur
British Defence Secretary Says He Wants to Capture Putin Like Maduro – the UK is better off persecuting people for Meme’s than this. Putin is in a different class of security than Maduro and they don’t have the weapons or training that the Delta Force used to capture a 3rd World dictator.
Fact-check. Hard to tell if the bird shown is a lesbian or just a soy boy. But it would be in keeping with the state’s official fossil—the Giant Beaver.
FINALLY, Gene Roddenberry created the original Star Trek series.
Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis created Ghostbusters.
George Lucas created Star Wars.
Lewis Milestone created Ocean’s 11 starring Frank Sinatra.
Dale Launer created Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Reboots of these originals have replaced men with women and paled compared to the original. For example, the series Star Trek: Voyager and the new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy are just not as good as the original. But Star Trek: The Next Generation was better than the original in part due to improved sets thanks to bigger budgets but also more intriguing stories.
The 2001 reboot of Ocean’s 11 led by George Clooney led to a new series of those films. A 2018 reboot called Ocean’s 8 led by Sandra Bullock did not.
Screenwriting was largely a white male occupation in the 20th century because they were good at it. Thanks to the push for diversity, only 44% of the Writers Guild of America today are white men.
It is not that people who are not white men cannot create original films that are box office hits. Gordon Parks directed Shaft. Isaac Hayes wrote and sang its iconic theme song.
But one of the reasons audiences left TV and the movies is that Hollywood stories suck because the industry kicked white men to the curb. It would be OK if the diversity crew came up with something original that was entertaining. Diversity isn’t Hollywood’s strength right now.
Europeans and TDS-sufferers in hysterics after Steve Miller’s wife tweets a red, white, and blue Greenland. They are losing their minds, which I find quite entertaining. My wife’s Scandinavian family hates his ass, so this is making me enjoy it even more. They are a bunch of whiners anyway. The Greenlanders say the Americans treat them better.
Trump Pulls US Out Of Notoriously ‘Alarmist’ UN Climate Change Panel – We’ve wasted too much time and money on this hoax. Look what AI did to the Clmate scare as soon as it made more money than grifting for climate handouts and politicians making each others wallets fatter
Temu Radar failed Venezuela – They had the best radar China has, with anti-stealth capability, yet in 3 hours, it was over and they never saw it coming. Bejing better reconsider the World Dominance thing.
Note that they all came in on private jets and have the carbon footprint of a small country. They took out 100’s of thousands of trees in the Amazon forest to attend. COP30, thy name is Hypocrisy
People responded to Ferrari bragging about its commitment to ‘diversity and inclusivity’ by pointing out that the luxury car manufacturer forces customers to pass a ‘social status’ background check just to be able to buy a Ferrari.
Awkward.
In the wake of the Jaguar farce, when the heritage brand launched a new commercial featuring androgynous models, thereby alienating their core customer base, Ferrari appears to have said, “Hold my beer!”
It started with a post on X in which Ferrari boasted of its, “Commitment to equality, equity, and inclusion by endorsing the new Diversity and Inclusion Charter alongside @F1 and the @fia.”
However, that “inclusivity” doesn’t appear to extend to its own potential customers.
As Nick Sortor points out, Ferrari conducts exhaustive background checks on anyone who wants to buy one of their higher end vehicles to “ensure they fit the mold of the brand and its desired image.”
“Family background, social status and additional affiliations,” are also scrutinized before Ferrari will even consider taking your cash.
That doesn’t sound very inclusive!
“Nothing says “inclusivity” like requiring background checks and “social status checks” for ENTIRE FAMILIES before they’re allowed to purchase your cars,” commented Sortor.
Those cars breathe testosterone and Alpha male. This shit started as soon as they hired Lewis Hamilton as an F1 driver and he brought that diversity shit which brings down everything it touches.
I’ve always loved Ferrari, but will have a hard time liking a company with these principles. Grow a set and be the company Enzo created.
“… the ideological vision has failed. We need to acknowledge that …”
Italy Seeks Reversal of EU’s 2035 Combustion Engine Ban
By Alberto BrambillaSeptember 07, 2024 at 11:45AM EDT
Bloomberg) — Italian officials said the European Union’s plan to ban sales of new internal combustion engines from 2035 should be reviewed.
“The ban must be changed,” Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como, on Saturday.
Pichetto Fratin called the decision by the EU “absurd,” and dictated by an “ideological vision” along with a state-controlled approach to policy-making within the bloc. The plan needs changing in order to reflect different market realities amid the European auto industry’s slowdown, he added.
Industry Minister Adolfo Urso also backed a change, urging the incoming European Commission to anticipate the review of the plan to early 2025, from 2026. “In an uncertain landscape which is affecting German automotive industry, clarity is needed to not let the European industry collapse,” Urso said in Cernobbio.
These greentards are delusional. Carbon and petroleum are not the danger they claim, nor is electricity the panacea they propose
Why would you want to ride in a Ferrari when you can command such a beast around the roads? It would be like having the most beautiful girl in the world and not sleep with her.
At least the company headquartered in Maranello announced they won’t pollute the sanctity of their driving machines with this feature.
They caved to e-fuels, but the essence of the prancing horse will stay intact.
Self-driving Ferraris are not for us, Ferrari chief executive Ferrari Benedetto Vigna said Monday. “Lifestyle business is immportant for us,” Vigna said. “It allows us to expand links with our community.”
Vigna also welcomed plans to exempt cars that run on e-fuels from the European Union’s planned 2035 phase-out of new combustion engine vehicles as they will give the luxury carmaker “greater freedom” on its power systems.
COMBUSTION ENGINE EXCEPTION
The European Union and Germany have reached a deal allowing new cars powered by combustion engines (ICE) to be sold beyond the 2035 deadline, or 2036 for so-called small volume manufacturers like Ferrari, if they run on carbon-neutral e-fuels.
“The good news for us as a company is that on top of electric cars, we’ll also be able to go on with our internal combustion engines ones,” Vigna told a Reuters Newsmaker event.
“This decision is very interesting for us because it allows ICEs to go beyond 2036,” he added.
Ferrari, which is renowned for its powerful petrol engines, is already producing plug-in hybrid cars and has promised its first full-electric vehicle for 2025.
However, Ferrari, which sold over 13,200 cars in 2022, has never provided a roadmap for going all electric.
Presenting its new business plan last year, Ferrari said fully electric and hybrid models would make up 80% of those in its range by 2030, while 20% would still be powered by internal combustion engines.
“This does not change,” Vigna said. “We don’t want to tell clients which car to use. We want to make three kinds of propulsion available for them – hybrid, electric and ICE – and they will chose.”
SPENDING UNCHANGED
Vigna reassured investors that the company’s investment plans would not be affected by combustion engines getting an extended life, as Ferrari had already “embedded” this scenario in its business plan.
“The figure I gave (last year) – 4.4 billion euros ($4.7 billion) for capex in the 2022-2026 period – it’s enough for us to go ahead with electrification and also with ICEs which are compatible with e-fuels,” he said.
Vigna said Ferrari’s upcoming electric model would be “a unique car” but would not be drawn on details, adding that “keeping secret is part of the recipe.”
He added it was wrong to assume that specific forms of propulsion would match specific models in the future. Fuels are a mean to provide the performance expected from a Ferrari car, he said.
He said that the price of e-fuels, or synthetic fuels, was likely to come down as they are developed in coming years.
“They’re a new technology, and like for all new technologies they have time to become cheaper,” he said. ($1 = 0.9279 euros)
I find this interesting because part of the thrill of one of these ultimate driving machines is the sensory overload. The sounds and smells are as much a part of the thrill as is the rush of being pushed back into the seat when you push down the loud pedal (accelerator for the under educated).
I’ve been to races for 6 decades now. You can smell the exhaust, tires and hear it before you get to the track. You don’t get that from a station wagon or an SUV.
Even if I lost my vision, I’d only not be able to see how sleek and fast they look. My other senses would say it’s a real car.
Fortunately, even though it is ridiculous E-Fuels, at least they aren’t going to plug in a 911.
I still open the window of my car just to hear them drive away.
With many automakers transitioning from petrol-powered vehicles to electrified ones, Porsche and Ferrari are pursuing a new strategy by concentrating on the advancement of eFuels to preserve gas-powered engines. This decision follows the European Commission’s delay last week of the proposed 2035 ban on new internal combustion engine vehicles as the commission prepares to carve out a role for eFuels after 2035.
“Porsche and Ferrari’s status as national icons was enough to move their governments to challenge the EU plan last week just days before a scheduled vote,” Bloomberg wrote.
Germany’s Transport Minister Volker Wissing told the European Commission that he would withhold support for the approval of the new engine standards to end the sale of new combustion engine cars unless there were a plan for eFuels post-2035. Italy also threatened to fight the reforms.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday, discussing a comprise that would likely involve eFuels.
Germany and Italy are home to the world’s top sportscar manufacturers. There has been growing opposition against Brussels’ plan to ban petrol-powered engines. That’s because who in their right mind would purchase an all-electric Porsche 911?
The alternative route, mainly for sportscar brands, is the development of eFuels as a climate-neutral way to preserve combustion engines—just something about the sound of a twin-turbo V-8 or V-6 that captivates motorheads.
While most carmakers are pouring tens of billions into the EV shift, Porsche has also invested in an e-fuel plant in Chile, partly because the manufacturer doesn’t plan to make its 911 sports car with a plug. Operating combustion-engine vehicles in a climate-neutral way could also help speed up the decarbonization of the transport sector, according to a Porsche spokesman. Existing vehicle stock should be included in the push to lower CO2 emissions faster, he added. Ferrari has said it’s pursuing alternative fuels to keep making combustion-engine cars that preserve its heritage.
Proponents of e-fuels, say they’re essentially renewable electricity that’s been converted into a combustible, liquid fuel. To make it, scientists combine captured carbon dioxide with hydrogen that was split from water in a process powered by renewable energy, creating a synthetic hydrocarbon fuel. When burned in a combustion engine, the e-fuels create carbon dioxide. But since it was made from previously captured CO2, they argue it’s climate neutral.
We’ve outlined the growing resistance among vehicle brands and motorsport organizations that are firm in their belief the combustion engine will be sticking around for years to come.
Delusions of Adequacy 