Retired engineer; dog lover; concerned by increasingly aggressive threats to democracy - most notably in the USA! War crimes by US and Israel are clear, horrid
@CeliaBedelia I think I’m starting to understand soccer strategy. If other team is threatening, scream and throw yourself on the ground, play is required to be negated! Simple!
YES! I have experienced this situation. It’s obscene. Manufacturers don’t even make individual parts available! They FORCE you to pay to replace an entire system. Totally corrupt. Need new gov intervention.
Auto manufacturers are now engineering cars in a way they if you break one small thing, a massive repair is needed
Example: This door handle on the inside of this new 2023 vehicle broke, you would think you just need a new door handle. Wrong
You now have to replace the entire door panel because they have manufactured it so that the door handle can not be removed
So now instead of paying a small amount of money for a new door handle, you have pay insane amounts of money for a whole door panel
This should be illegal. We need much stronger right to repair laws in America
@MikeHudema Keep it up Mike! And save your posts for the “told ya so” era that’s coming. Maybe try to get the attention of Trump and his Sec of Energy. Just killed all grant support for renewables…
@ReallyAmerican1 I buy car and home insurance every year. My goal is ALWAYS to NOT have to make a claim. Why would healthcare be any different? Especially when, if you DON’T have insurance, the cost could bankrupt you?
@typocatCAv2 Sika has been in the business for a LONG time. As an engineer, I turned to them several times over the years. And learned a fair bit about the challenges of a concrete coatings. It was doomed from the get-go. I expect the Rino people ALSO told Trump they wouldn’t guarantee it.
@zdroberts@PiperK So…have they somehow passed a new law making it illegal to “touch the water”? The lawn around the pool is in pretty bad shape too. Are they going to pass a law making it illegal to “touch grass”?
@aravosis This is becoming hilariously ridiculous. And now all of the traffic from “law” enforcement and algae removal equipment is destroying the turf AGAIN. Trump will end up demolishing the entire pool an environs with a promise to replace it with a “beautiful yellow brick (gold) road”.
@desota@CalltoActivism Nonsense. It was applied as a fully-adhered coating - like thick paint. You cut “slits” in it like it was a pool liner, which is a manufactured sheet that is laid over the concrete.
@AC360 Oligarchs are killing democracy. They provide up-front dollars to Trump so he can advance horrid projects/policies WITHOUT needing approval of funding from Congress. He does so. Then he pays them back by giving them overly generous contracts. Congress is neutered, thanks to GOP.
@Mtn40A@fette_a No…I was not serious about that suggestion. But I AM seriously tired of the constant whining from Dani, the “Black Hat” seniors club, and that (small) fraction of Albertans who are getting so much attention.
@RonFilipkowski@Acyn Aah…a line up curated by…Tim Burchett!!!? Sure to be cream of southern evangelical church performers (plus perennial “fav” Kid Rock).