Tuesday, March 31, 2026

environmental and Indigenous groups filed a lawsuit in Las Vegas federal court, arguing that the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Nevada, one of North America’s largest sources of lithium, poses a major threat to the endangered Tiehm’s Buckwheat, a desert flower endemic to the area, which could even cause it to go extinct.

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Of course, it's in the middle of nowhere between Vegas and Reno, and no one outside of the people in the lawsuit have ever heard of, or ...

Walt Disney and Ward Kimball at the Chicago Railroad Fair of '48

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the Santa Rosa parents of a 16-year-old just discovered the cost of getting their i8 BMW out of impound, and bail for their kid, as that dumbass was arrested for reckless driving, at 130 mph on the 101

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This is NOT that actual car, it's the i8 I found last week parked in Mira Mesa.  https://autos.yahoo.com/people-and-culture/articles/tee...

dropping a new Vette.... really? How after all these decades of using lifts, has the process not become fool proof? How after a decade of internet ridicule, hasn't every shop and garage, gotten the message "there will be international online shame and notoriety if you drop a car on a lift"?

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it’s not the first time a C8 Corvette has fallen off a lift. This marks at least the third documented case since the model’s introduction, w...
Monday, March 30, 2026

seen on tonight's walk, first time I've seen a seen an Austin Healey 3000 on a walkabout

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this looks like it's a Halloween display... but it's just years of neglect. Hard to believe the owner walks/drives past this and sees it nearly every day

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seen while grabbing lunch today... look at this over the top back bumper

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Sunday, March 29, 2026

lucky kids got to do the family Christmas card photo in their Dad’s jet on Miramar

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/110663305532/permalink/10173004662670533/ I was stationed there for the last two years of it being a Navy ba...

The infamous "Backwards Train"

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TTI headers are reputed to be the best. Looks like they fail to do the same fundamental thing everyone fails at. Do a good job at spark plug clearance! What the EFF is this BULLSHIT? It's GD LAZY is what it is. Look at all that space to the rear of the engine!

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On February 3, 2026, a Kyrgyzstan national who entered the United States through the Biden administration’s CBP One application, was driving a commercial truck in Indiana

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he failed to slow for traffic and swerved into the westbound lane.  The van he struck was carrying six Amish people. Four of them died. He h...
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American drive-in restaurants, iconic for 1950s carhop service, neon lights, and parking lot dining, every little town used to have one or two, and teens in the late 60s used to pick a direction and hit everyone to test the shakes/malts and burgers

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I don't have enough time to do a proper post on just how damn cool I think it must have been to be a teen in 1969-70, too young for the ...
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in an odd merge of themes, this one neighborhood in Mira Mesa has streets named for places in BC Canada, and stars

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an ol shipmate of mine in the PI just posted that some drastic alternatives to gas have shown up

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spiffy looking BMW... I never thought I'd see one of these parked on the roadside

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pretty weird to see a spare wheel rim, without the tire. Ironically feet away from an advertisement about a mobile mechanic

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These are some new aero things I haven't seen before on this Civic

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Spotted in traffic the other day

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In the 1978 film The Wiz, the Lion is named Fleetwood Coupe De Ville, and he's got a pretty cool rear view mirror

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  One of my favorite childhoood movies... the graffiti people, the lion, scarecrow and tin man, the monster trash cans, walking cameras in t...

i like this... everyone familiar with the Navy rating system will recognize that it's a couple ratings

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I met Ron yesterday, and was shocked at what a good deal he got on this BMW... he paid less for it than it cost me to repair my Hyundai's radiator.

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I saw this Buick on the way home the other day

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Colorado troopers pulled over 2,540 drivers for ‘hanging out’ in the left lane and failing to move right while traveling at slower speeds than the flow of traffic, in 2025

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The top roadways for traffic stops for “hanging out” in the left lane in 2025 are as follows: I-70 (962 contacts) I-25 (564 contacts) Hw...

The Great Redwood Trail will connect the San Francisco Bay to the Humboldt Bay via a 300-mile multi-use trail.

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The plan is to build a 300-mile trail along the route of the disused Northwestern Pacific Railroad, stretching from the San Francisco Bay in...

The great-grandfather of all flight recorders from Germany. A porcelain plate with thinning discs, illustrating various possible causes of a crash. In the event of a problem, a crew member would puncture the relevant disc.

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abandoned bus made over with street art

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=700187430743004&set=a.498276272422745 https://www.bizbrunei.com/2020/09/guerilla-artchitects-overtu...

I love this graffiti spoof of the Peanuts gang, in Batu Satu Brunei, by artists Guerrilla Architects (thanks to Larry Chen for showing this in his trip to Brunei!) the only commercial street art studio in Brunei

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The transposition of a staple, to a new variant of style, it what makes art and artists, so appealing. That something that the original arti...

proof that you can get kids to work a real job, as long as there is a remote control to operate

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Two Lane Blacktop clip of the dragstrip scene

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If I were rich... this 66 Econoline is currently on Bring a Trailer for 13k

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https://fordauthority.com/2026/03/refurbished-1966-ford-econoline-van-up-for-auction/ https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-ford-econoline-...
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