Friday, December 9, 2022
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Not a Joke: Ford Says Don't Use Heater in Electric Truck in Winter to Save Battery - But That's Not All
Winter is coming.
OK, technically meteorological winter arrived last week, beginning as it does every year on Dec. 1. Astronomical winter, which is the one that shows up on your calendar as “First Day of Winter,” doesn’t kick off until Dec. 21.
But if you drive a Ford F-150 Lighting electric pickup truck, it may have felt like winter to you for quite a while already, especially if you live in a colder climate and follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for extending the vehicle’s range during the snowy season.
Because I don’t want to be accused of taking anything out of context, I’m going to just list those recommendations in their entirety, commenting as I go. (I’ll put Ford’s wording in italics for clarity, and I won’t cut anything they wrote — you can double-check me here if you’re the less trusting sort.)
1. Park your F-150 Lightning in a garage whenever possible.
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I’d say that’s generally good advice for all vehicles. Keeping your car in a garage preserves its paint and wax jobs, as well as keeping it safer from vandalism and theft.
2. Keep your F-150 Lightning plugged in when parked.
Do the kids still say “duh” anymore? Because I feel like that’s the proper response here. “Want better battery life from your EV?” Ford seems to be asking. “Try plugging it in when you can.” Gee, thanks for the tip, Ford.
3. If planning a longer commute, precondition your vehicle using departure times to warm the battery while plugged-in by using the FordPass app or your trucks center screen.
This one raises several questions. Why is “plugged-in” hyphenated? Why does Ford allow people who don’t know how possessives work in English to publish on its website? Why would pre-warming your battery be more useful before “long commutes” than it would before short drives? A little explanation would be nice.
4. If equipped, use the heated seats and steering wheel as primary heat to reduce energy consumed by HVAC.
This is probably acceptable advice — if the temperature were, say, above 40 degrees. In the 40s and 50s, the heated seats would likely be sufficient to keep me comfortable. But there are parts of the country that don’t see 40 degrees for days, weeks, even months at a time. You’re going to tell people in Boston, Fargo or Nome to rely on heated seats? Do you even watch “Life Below Zero,” bro?
5. When charging, turn off the heater if possible, or lower the temperature enough to remain comfortable. (Especially when using DCFC)
DCFC, by the way, stands for “Direct Current Fast Charging,” which I hope electric vehicle owners know, because Ford made no effort to explain it on the page. Anyone trying to charge their vehicle using the Detroit City Football Club or a Death Cab for Cutie CD is going to be disappointed.
Again, this advice probably works adequately in...
Kirk Cameron Can’t Read His Children’s Book To Kids Unless He Dresses Like A Prostitute And Gyrates For Their Singles
How does it go again? …Something, something ‘blessings of liberty’?
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, and self-control. But the fruit of public libraries is faux diversity, drag queens, and rejection of the sexes — which is why the taxpayer-funded cesspools are “not interested” in giving Kirk Cameron a storytime slot to read his new children’s book on the fruit of the Spirit to kids.
The actor, writer, and producer “has not gotten a single ‘yes’ from the 50-plus public libraries his publisher has contacted so far,” Fox News reported in a Wednesday exclusive. According to Cameron’s publisher and Fox’s scouring of the libraries’ websites, “Many of the same libraries that won’t give Cameron a slot … are actively offering ‘drag queen’ story hours or similar programs for kids and young people.”
It’s not only drag queen story hours, where adult men derive pleasure from strapping on prosthetic breasts, painting theatrical contour all over their masculine faces, and sporting fishnet tights for an audience of children. These libraries reportedly host queer book clubs, a series called “Every Month Is Pride Month,” and so-called “get free help” events where attorneys and other volunteers help patrons fill out legal paperwork to change their names, record themselves as the opposite sex (or sexless entirely), and alter birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, IDs, and passports. But if you want to read to kids about gentleness, goodness, and kindness, it’s a hard no.
How does it go again? … Something, something “blessings of liberty”?
The self-important and self-appointed “principled conservatives” have expended much energy lecturing right-wing culture warriors who resist this debauchery. When conservatives took offense at libraries using their tax dollars to sponsor sexualized events that spit in the face of their deeply held religious beliefs, The Principled Conservatives™ were there with a finger wag and a condescending, First Amendment! Tsk! Viewpoint neutrality!
Drag queens reading to innocents is just one of those great “blessings of liberty,” went the spiel, and the right couldn’t possibly ban provocative cross-dressers from reading to kiddos in public spaces or else Christians would soon be banished from those same spaces.
Here’s a snippet from The New Yorker summarizing such an exchange from the debate between Sohrab Amari and David French (Mr. “Blessings of Liberty” himself):
Why Everyone Must Get Sicker for the Good of Pfizer
Pfizer can identify illnesses they think will bring in billions of dollars in profit, create drugs to manage (not cure) them, and then sell them to a public already conditioned to take them.
"Many people believe that the most frequently washed body part in 2020-21 was the hands, but in reality; it was the brain."
— Bhushan Mahadani
In February 2022, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla proudly stated that in less than two years the successes of his company’s COVID-19 vaccine had “fundamentally changed Pfizer and its culture forever.”
The pressure is now on Bourla to come up with the next blockbuster drug, the biggest challenge of his career. Not only are the heady days of billion-dollar profits from COVID vaccines and Paxlovid winding down, but Pfizer is set to lose up to $18 billion in revenue from 2025 through 2030 as it loses several key patents.
If you are the CEO of Pfizer, with a salary of $24.3 million in 2021, equity holdings of nearly 597,000 shares (worth more than an estimated $32 million), and are entitled to a golden parachute of nearly $113 million, you better believe you are going to have to up your game over the next few years to keep your shareholders happy.
Upping its game will not be easy for Pfizer since the COVID vaccine, with its “groundbreaking technology,” has been the largest selling pharmaceutical product in history.
In just the first three months of 2021, Pfizer made $3.5 billion from the COVID vaccine. Pfizer went on to make a staggering $36.8 billion in 2021. It expects revenue of $29 billion in 2022. This despite recently admitting that the vaccine does not stop transmission, nor does it stop people from getting sick. The company expects to make at least $22 billion from Paxlovid, the drug that causes “COVID rebound.”
In a rational world, none of this would make sense. But that’s not the world in which we live. We live in a world where people have been led to believe that they must constantly consume pharmaceutical products just to continue living. These companies don’t actually want you to die, at least not for a while. But it does seem they want to keep you just sick enough that you become enslaved to their medications for life.
Pfizer’s overall revenues in 2021 doubled to $81.3 billion, and it expects to make record revenues of $98 billion to $102 billion in 2022. How will it continue this upward trend?
A plethora of illnesses is out there. Which ones are most likely to turn the biggest profit is the question. In the past 12 months, Pfizer launched 16 new products. On its website, Pfizer describes itself as a “pipeline of potential breakthroughs in the making.”
We’re in relentless pursuit of medicines and vaccines that will benefit patients around the world. We’re committed to treating 225M people with breakthrough treatments by 2025. Our ambitions are big and our product pipeline has never been stronger.
Inflammatory bowel disease is one such promising illness.
Pfizer recently purchased Arena Pharmaceuticals and its drug candidate for ulcerative colitis. It could generate billions in revenue, says Bourla. Ulcerative colitis is a debilitating inflammatory bowel disease affecting one million people in the United States alone. Over the next five years, Pfizer expects the demand for treatment will grow by 50 percent.
Hold on right there. Why will this illness affect 50 percent more people? That is of no interest to a company like Pfizer. They aren’t in the business of making us well. They are in the business of drugging us. Fifty percent more people sick means 50 percent more profit. It means Bourla justifies his salary, and the investors are happy.
Could it be that our biggest drug pushers are suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring for has a physical or mental illness when the person is not sick? People who have Munchausen syndrome by proxy really do make the people they are supposed to be caring for sick, and they keep them sick. Between 6 and 10 percent of all “factitious disorder imposed on another” (FDIA) cases will result in death, which makes it a very lethal form of abuse.
We could say our drug lords have this mental illness, appearing to be our saviors while they are really killing us slowly and deliberately over time, to gain as much power, money and...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #1226
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If You are Easily Upset, Triggered Or Offended, This Is Not The Place For You.
Please Leave Silently Into The Night......
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1926
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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