TIL 20% of Americans live in a persistent vegetative state.

Trudeau was a fucking saint compared to Trump. You’d have to be severely brain damaged to think he did anywhere near the kind of damage Trump is doing down in the US.

Are we sure those are “concerns” and not “hopes”?

I’m going to be “that guy” and rain on your parade a bit. So my apologies for that.

A lot of modern cars recommend against being used as a jump point. Jumping another car can be bad for the electronics in your vehicle. In particular, most (all?) EVs very strongly recommend against being used to jump other peoples cars.

Jumper cables were great in the 70’s when you had virtually no electronics in cars, and before lithium batteries were a reality. Today you’re better off having a good lithium jump pack — they’re small, portable, are often USB rechargeable, and can pack one hell of a punch. Many tow truck drivers have switched to using jump packs — they’re portable, can tell you more information on the state of the battery via built-in electronic meters, and have a lot of other useful features built in. And it’s way cheaper to buy a new jump pack if something goes wrong than it is to fix your vehicles electronics.

I’ve been carrying jump packs for a few decades now, and like you I’ve jumped a bunch of strangers vehicles over the years. These days I’m rocking a NOCO GBX45 — with 1250A of boosting power @ 12V, USB-C PD rechargeable, automatic polarity warning circuitry, a built-in flashlight, and can be used to recharge other USB-C devices — all in a package that fits in one hand and weighs just under 1Kg. Way better IMO than jumper cables — it’s effectively safer to use for the user and the vehicle, you don’t have to get close enough to use it — and if you own one yourself you don’t need to rely on the kindness of strangers to get you out of a pickle.

There are/were cars with positive ground, in which case you would want to connect the negative terminals first and the positive to a grounding terminal. So maybe the last time he had to jump a car was a ‘55 Packard? 🤣

It reminds me of all of the “Fidel Castro is secretly close to death” news articles that showed up in the 80s and 90s. I suppose the predictions were eventually correct — but I’m not sure that predicting “sucks is gonna die” 30+ years out from his actual death was particularly useful.

They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know."

Like Whitman, Price, and Hadad. You remember them‽

Sorry — have to downvote you on your rant, as Canada has the highest tertiary education attainment level in the world. And those are 2014 numbers — by 2022, 63% of Canadian adults had a post-secondary education. We are unmatched in global education attainment, and it really isn’t all that close.

Are there pockets of anti-intellectualism? Sure — but get out of your bubble and the reality is vastly different.