What does the woke ChatGPT say?

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Why is it legal to require US gun owners to purchase insurance?

It is not currently legal to require gun owners in the United States to purchase insurance. Some states may have restrictions on types of firearms that require insurance, but it is not a federal requirement.

What does the woke ChatGPT say?

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Why is it illegal to require US gun owners to purchase insurance?

It is illegal to require US gun owners to purchase insurance because it would be a form of taxation on gun ownership. The U.S. Constitution protects citizens' right to keep and bear arms, and any form of taxation on that right would be unconstitutional. Furthermore, the insurance requirements could potentially prevent those who cannot afford insurance from owning a gun, thus infringing on the right to bear arms.

Ask it to rap for you. "Write an 8 bar rap about XYZ in the style of ----" XYZ being your topic of choice and ---- being any popular rapper. I'm going to create a new account and post only ChatGTP generated answers, that directly conflict with each other.

What? Big business leaves a hot mess once they die? Any relative of a shareholder should foot the bill.

#3 | POSTED BY BRENNNN AT 2023-01-27 03:34 PM | FLAG:

Upon visiting Detroit for the first time, my impression was that it looked like a German city in 1945.

For the average guy who drives a truck

#113 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2023-01-27 08:45 AM | FLAG:

The actual biggest negative of owning a truck is that all your friends whom do not own one call you when they need one.

A guy just read a Chat GTP generated speech to Congress, arguing for a joint US-Israeli AI initiative.

Oh that's gold Snoofy.

Charger 120 volt 'badboy'
Nothing but a $6 e-bay bridge rectifier on a scrap of aluminum. This is why I selected 132 volts; it draws 45 amps briefly and gradually tapers down to 1 amp and floats there. Has a standard cheap dryer outlet mounted by the door where I won't forget to unplug it, and a dangerous exposed plug with a on/off safety switch, timer and amp/hr meter. Touching battery terminals can be fatal.

The inflation angle lol. So far on Ukraine we have spent 1.16% of what we spent on occupying Afghanistan, are clearing old stocks of obsolescent hardware we continue to pay depreciation on through maintenance and storage, and have demilitarized the Russian Expeditionary Force and set Russian defense production back 40 years.

That's some of the most cost effective military spending in US history. I'm hard pressed to think of more effective funding uses. The nuclear bomb development maybe?

Should be in the $50k range then. Unfortunately that's an appropriate price for a small truck EV. Big battery, low rate production, poor aerodynamic efficiency, it doesn't make for a reasonable EV truck at a reasonable price.

How reasonable is reasonable?

I wish someone would make a reasonably priced EV version of a small truck.

#93 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT AT 2023-01-26 02:33 PM | FLAG:

Who reasonable is reasonable? You're looking at $8k for just a 60kW battery, and lack the aerodynamics required for an efficient EV, which means you need a monster $15k+ battery before you even think about trying to tow something.

Artificial noise is required for electrics, so you don't run over the blind. It's usually a fake engine noise, because that's what you want a blind person to hear when they're working to avoid cars.

Older Republicans with Facebook probably. We can get wackier though. $1.1 million into a Freeman 42. Definitely terrible to keep it in a slip. If you want to fish the 8000' water column of Perdido rig, you have to truck it down to South Padre Island right on the border. Then when you're ready to take it to the Bahamas for the Winter, you either need to truck it to Miami and make the passage or ship it on another ship direct.

You are referring to what here are the people that drive around in side by sides utility vehicles that are lifted beyond comprehension just to parade up and down a flat beach.

On boats, something different. The flashy guys wrap their boats and parade them up and down the channel, they join Trump Flotillas. $100k on a boat isn't all that anymore, it's just a competition bass boat that you can fit in a garage. $150k is the same boat but with accessories and your fishing gear on it. A 25' foot fishing boat you wouldn't want to confine to 1 body of water when you can fish many large lakes and the entire coast. On boats where it stops making sense to tow it, we're starting to move into the $250k - $500k range.

You generally don't find those on the trucks of people with $150k boats.

Come kick it with me in the backwaters on my surface drive gator trax... that's something else. Deep bayou culture, definitely need a sense of humor.

#68 They make aluminum trailers.

#71 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2023-01-26 11:06 AM | FLAG:

That is aluminum on the weights I quoted. I have a Magic Tilt trailer for a small very shallow water fishing boat and a Cargo USA box on wheels to fit RC planes.

Still not uncommon for people to tow boat-trailer setups approaching 10,000 pounds. Boat slip rental is expensive, can easily go upwards of $700/month. The alternative is a valet dry storage where you just show up and the boat is waiting for you at the dock, fueled and ready, and then returned to dry storage for you after the adventure. Also quite costly. Much cheaper to park the trailer at a local self-storage and zip on the covers.

Then your CVT makes like a hand grenade.

The Nissan Rogue you mentioned earlier, Towing Capacity: 1500 lbs. Empty weight on a lowly, 6x12 enclosed single axle trailer is.. 1200 pounds. Don't dare get a double axle, you'll be at 1800 pounds.

10,000 lbs on a small lake.. wtf you towing a small houseboat? A 23' center console or reasonable pontoon boat, on trailer, is in the 5500 lb range fully decked out.

The problem with all Japanese trucks is a lack of configurations. It's why the Titan and Tundra never really penetrated the US truck market. No cab, crew cab, king cab.

#27 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2023-01-26 09:40 AM | FLAG:

That's a you problem not a manufacturer problem lol. The extremely low volume on anything that's not a 4 door crew cab is seeing them phased out of the US market. People want SUV interiors with truck beds.

A NATO hegemony requires both Greece and Turkey in its alignment to control Black Sea naval access into the Med. This is the consequence of that alignment and occupying a portion of Syria.

Erdogan is not in the bag for Putin. Erdogan is leveraging the situation to demand an end to US support for Kurds in Syria. It's entirely about self-interest.

He showed it to a teacher on the playground.

While not a popular solution, this would have been easily solved by punching the third grader in the face and taking the gun from him on the spot.

The super amazing F-150 PHEV clocks in at a ... svelte 5500 pounds, but that's with onboard generator, ice & battery system, etc. Truly the superior combination of technologies.

The excess weight of EV's share some of the same problems that trucks pose in terms of damage caused in an accident as well as accident avoidance - the extra weight reduces agility and extends braking distances.

#5 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2023-01-25 05:50 PM | FLAG:

Intriguingly, the most fun F-150 from the factory, the Raptor, only weighs 300 pounds less than the F-150 Lightning. Both 1700 and 2000 pounds heavier than the base model respectively. Fun to drive though, both of them. Clearly not time attack vehicles, but very exciting in straight line acceleration.