Yeah I know someone who recently started posting stuff like this and it's really sad. And baffling, since he's a white American.
Our podcast gets a lot of downloads from the DC area, and we mostly just talk about shitty old cars
I live in Colorado and used to go skiing a couple times every year as a kid (ie, when my parents were paying for it). It's pretty fun to go sliding down a scenic mountain at 30 mph, and it's rewarding to learn and get better. But now that I'm an adult I've decided that it's not really worth it to wake up early on a weekend, drive 2+ hours, freeze my ass off, spend a lot of money, and possibly hurt myself. Speaking of, you definitely want a helmet if you don't want to end up like Sonny Bono.
There are a few smaller and cheaper ski slopes that aren't crowded with rich tourists, but they're the exception. I've run into plenty of rich dickheads on the slopes, and lots of loud obnoxious Texans dressed fully in Cowboys gear.
She went to high school with Nick Roman from Regular Car Reviews and iirc they were in a production of The Sound of Music together
At least 12, but that's because I'm in a group chat with a bunch of leftist podcasters. IRL only one other white guy.
At my old shop they gave the job of running the EDM to the old dude who regularly fell asleep during his shift.
What I'm saying is that those machines are slow as hell.
I wonder if he's inventing arbitrarily rigorous standards as an excuse to delay production again
Depends on what it is. Some things like ball bearings need to be precise in order to work efficiently, but car body panels definitely do not need to be that precise. Pretty much nothing on a car needs to be within 10 microns.
We've talked about this a little with Zac "the Mad Redneck" Hyden, a mechanic, organizer, and Christian Leftist from Alabama. He says that Appalachia is an internal colony inside the USA, and among other things it needs land reform to redistribute the land owned by absentee capitalists. He goes into more depth here: https://themadredneck.substack.com/p/internal-orientalism-of-the-american
Also check out Zac's podcast, Redneck Liberation Theology: https://sites.libsyn.com/477687