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All of the vehicles recalled, all of them. Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover | Ars Technica On Monday, we learned that Tesla had suspended customer deliveries of its stainless steel-clad electric pickup truck. Now, the automaker has issued a recall for all the Cybertrucks in customer hands—nearly 4,000 of them—in order to fix a problem with the accelerator pedal. It has come at an inconvenient time for Tesla, which is laying off more than 10 percent of its workforce due to shrinking sales even as CEO Elon Musk asks for an extra $55.8 billion in compensation.

Don't mothers and grandmothers teach everybody that underwear must be white to be able to be washed on 90° C in America? It is something of a stereotype here.

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There is really very little chance of that. Sybell was giving her preventative drinks every day, and Jeyne had no idea so did not stop her. So while I tend to agree that if Jeyne was swapped it is because she was pregnant and in that case the real Jeyne is with the Blackfish, I at the same time very much doubt there was a swap. I put it at less than 10% likelihood. It would be quite a digression with no satisfying purpose to need to spend any of the little time that is left following the story of Robb's baby because no baby will be in charge of the North in the end. The fact that Robb named Jon as his heir is where this story needs to go next. So I just see no reason why Jeyne having a baby would make the overall series better instead of just dragging it out. Even if the story needs the North to have a contest for the seat, they already have that contest. Ramsay Bolton is Roose's heir until he has a son (who Ramsay will then murder). Sansa is Ned's trueborn daughter, soon with the backing of the Vale. Jon is not who he was believed to be when Robb named him heir but he WAS named heir. Rickon is alive and will have his own supporters, however briefly.

Yet, wider food production ... left so many Brits so nutritionally deprived that a most significant portion of volunteers and conscripts at the start of of WWI were so badly off they didn't even reach the height minimum for an English soldier. It hardly sounds like even approaching an equitable distribution of wealth and resources even inside the UK from the plundering of the resources of others for the past few centuries -- and leaving the plundered populations worse off in the main, including health, just like in the UK. As noted previously -- "and always wrong!"

April 18, 2024 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON APR 19, 2024 .... Many congress members have left Washington, D.C., since Friday was to be the first day of a planned recess. This meant the partisan majority on the floor fluctuated. Olivia Beavers of Politico reported that that instability made Freedom Caucus members nervous enough to put together a Floor Action Response Team (FART—I am not making this up) to make sure other Republicans didn’t limit the power of the extremists when they were off the floor. ....

Half way through Apple+'s Sugar, the "genre-bending" neo-noir detective show created by Mark Protosevich (writer of Tarsem Singh's The Cell, wrote the Will Smith I Am Legend, and the Spike Lee-directed adaptation of Oldboy) and starring Colin Farrell as the titular John Sugar, a private detective who is very good at finding lost people, a polyglot with a fanatical level of interest in Hollywood films who detests carrying guns, and a genuinely nice dude who keeps going out of his way to help people he runs into in passing. The first two episode are directed by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, best known for the magnificent City of God, and his aesthetic is rife through the show -- lots of interesting editing choices and camera angles, and (uniquely) a heavy use of vintage films as B-roll or commentary on events no doubt inspired by Sugar's deep love of Hollywood cinema. It reminds me of nothing less than the old HBO sitcom, Dream On, but it's not played for laughs, it's just a sign of how Sugar's mind free associates. But... there's a twist, as "genre-bending" might suggest, and so far it's not clear. It seems to tie into Sugar, into the fact that he occasionally gets weird cramps or numbness, weird flashes of visions, and there's something about a society of polyglots that he's part of... Theories abound. Simon Kinberg is an executive producer on this, which may suggest the direction of the twist. It's fun. Not too deep, a little stiff at times (but this may be on purpose), but Farrell is such a charismatic, interesting actor. Also appearing on the show are James Cromwell, Amy Ryan, and -- after a couple of episodes -- Anna Gunn, among others.

So Germany didn’t industrialise??

When Britain entered the Great War in 1914, a huge number of men were called up and tried to enter the armed services. The problem was that at least half of them were so sickly and/ or malnourished that they were not even useful as cannon fodder. The Germans even noticed how small and stunted the British soldiers were compared to themselves.

There are reportedly 1.3m people currently on the waiting list for some form of NHS mental health treatment. As I said, what a cunt.

I don’t love heights but it’s not like a crippling fear or anything.

Somebody who's defending Bran will say Bran doesn't know any better because he's a child. Varamyr at least was taught this is wrong. But Bran was never taught. What would you say to that?

Ukraine claims to have shot down a Tu22M Bomber with an S-200 SAM near Krasnodar, while Russia claims it crashed due to a technical malfunction...

he’s also wanting to strip GPs of the ability to issue sicknites and instead have “specialist work and health professionals” do it. Ie people untrained in health basically told to not issue any. Contract probably given to some Tory’s mate. And ignoring the reason there sre so many prople off longterm is because thry’ve broken thr NHS so big waiting lists, massive waits for services, and long covid.

Id say again the slavers are done, their revival seems highly unlikely The dothraki are an essential slave 'gathering ' part of slaver machinery and they are about to either follow anti slavery dany or shel possibly toast large numbers of them before she flees! Mereen is about to be resolved brutaly by the anti slaver forces victory and the fighting forces of the slavers themselves being disease ridden when they flee home. That leaves slavers bay ie the place where almost all slaves get processed/trained up an anti slaverly zone for some time. No slave training = no slaves The free cities we see slaves outnumber freemen 3 or 5 to 1 and are majority fire worshippers all ready to pop ans follow theit anti slavery messiahs example. In Volantis we see half the guard are fire worshippers, the head priest is there with his own 1000 strong force. The widow can get inside the inner black walls , has her own armed forces and says the entire slave population is ready to rock. Add in we know most mercs would be in the disputed lands (varys says they are heating up in 1st few books) and swarming towards bravos for stannis iron bank backed contact for 20k men so most will be too far to intervene in any way. Finaly we know the faceless men and bravos dont like slavery , they were in a position before where tbey had to accept it but now they are in a position to stamp it out anywhere it threatens to emerge

Very mild trypophobia. Not so strong that I can't rationalize myself through it, but ... I think it was unlocked by watching the scene in the Flash Gordon movie where they put their arms in the rock thing, and there's a monster in there that stings you, or whatever it was. What really gets to me though is stuff living inside skin. Botfly larvae and the surinam toad spring to mind.

Sorry I'm not a drug addict.

Holy fuck, The Beach is a book?!?!?!?!? I've always argued that's one of Leo's five best films.

These sound terrible but at least they’re much more original than cockroaches!

Every time I see the Tully Madness thread reappear, I age another 10 years.

Bathmophobia! I use stairs every day, but every time I climb or descend them I picture myself falling and breaking my neck. Even when I watch other people use the stairs, I get nervous for them. Especially kids!! Another one I have is bones breaking/dislocating. Obviously, I think most people have this fear, but mine is so great that the thought of it lives in my head rent free. I don't allow it to deter me from being really active, but it still gnaws at me and I cringe every time I think of it. Like, if you describe any bone fracturing or something dislocating, I will physically curl up into a ball and go LALALALALLA because I don't want to hear about it.

What’s the question here? Haven’t had any coffee yet? You said long bike ride, joint, wine and I added a great playlist to that perfect combo. All together make for an amazing day out.

Draconophobia

Damn you and your Eurocommie metrics. That really isn't very far. ?

It also shows a staggering lack of awareness. He says he wants an end to 'sick note' mentality, when he says this shit does he not realise people are going to be 'hang on a second mate, everyone is sick because your party have underfunded the NHS for so long'.