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[GrussGott]

[minn19]

Originally Posted by GrussGott

Dafuq?

[GrussGott]

[Captain Blood]

Has anyone noticed LUPS and Liz Cheney are never in the same place together?

[Captain Blood]

https://twitter.com/anthonycwalker/s...934833665?s=21

[GrussGott]

Originally Posted by Captain Blood

Has anyone noticed LUPS and Liz Cheney are never in the same place together?

[Arcades]

Got my 2nd Moderna shot~~

[GrussGott]

I'm vaxxed up, traveling, and researching X5Ms ...

Likes: everything.
Dislikes: gas mileage, range.

On another note, anyone not using JBV1 while roadtripping is a complete idiot - this thing is mindblowing. First, it totally resurrected my old V1 - remember how chatty and annoying it is to use such that you just don't use it? Not anymore - JBV1 eliminates everything but what you want ... but you don't even need a V1, it's that good.

Other stuff it does live:

• Gives you a rolling heat map of where cops usually target, and will announce it if you want it too

• Announces aircraft surveillance! Tells you the tail #, if it's a plane or chopper, if it's a cop dept, what pattern it's flying, etc; was warning me 10-15 min in advance multiple times

• Announces crowd-sourced alerts which is really REALLY fucking accurate ... to the point where you could probably be safe from 90% of daytime driving traps w/o a dectector. E.g.: "warning - sneaky police spotted 9/10ths of a mile ahead; confirmed: 2 thumbs up". This was HUGELY valuable! It warned me *every time* of cops hiding on bridge overpasses with radar off!

• Announces speed limit changes (along w/ your current speed), construction zones, safety warnings, etc - this also proved to be oddly useful

• Auto-pushes profiles to your V1 by any criteria you want - so I was using state-by-state profiles to filter our scanning for shit I don't care about like X & K band in CA ... as you cross the borders it announces profile switches

• Enables you to boost the performance of old V1s by auto-pushing custom sweeps (I ain't no expert at any of this stuff, I just learned about all of it like an hour before we left)

Maybe I"ve been out of the loop too long, but mind blown. Even my wife who HATES that shit was loving the thing and gettin into it.

And, btw, we were running Waze concurrently on her phone (but JBV1 even integrates them both and overlays warnings onto any other app!) and it was garbage compared to JBV1.

I can't believe it's free and a good detector is like $800.

[Captain Blood]

Originally Posted by GrussGott

I'm vaxxed up, traveling, and researching X5Ms ...

Likes: everything.
Dislikes: gas mileage, range.

On another note, anyone not using JBV1 while roadtripping is a complete idiot - this thing is mindblowing. First, it totally resurrected my old V1 - remember how chatty and annoying it is to use such that you just don't use it? Not anymore - JBV1 eliminates everything but what you want ... but you don't even need a V1, it's that good.

Other stuff it does live:

• Gives you a rolling heat map of where cops usually target, and will announce it if you want it too

• Announces aircraft surveillance! Tells you the tail #, if it's a plane or chopper, if it's a cop dept, what pattern it's flying, etc; was warning me 10-15 min in advance multiple times

• Announces crowd-sourced alerts which is really REALLY fucking accurate ... to the point where you could probably be safe from 90% of daytime driving traps w/o a dectector. E.g.: "warning - sneaky police spotted 9/10ths of a mile ahead; confirmed: 2 thumbs up". This was HUGELY valuable! It warned me *every time* of cops hiding on bridge overpasses with radar off!

• Announces speed limit changes (along w/ your current speed), construction zones, safety warnings, etc - this also proved to be oddly useful

• Auto-pushes profiles to your V1 by any criteria you want - so I was using state-by-state profiles to filter our scanning for shit I don't care about like X & K band in CA ... as you cross the borders it announces profile switches

• Enables you to boost the performance of old V1s by auto-pushing custom sweeps (I ain't no expert at any of this stuff, I just learned about all of it like an hour before we left)

Maybe I"ve been out of the loop too long, but mind blown. Even my wife who HATES that shit was loving the thing and gettin into it.

And, btw, we were running Waze concurrently on her phone (but JBV1 even integrates them both and overlays warnings onto any other app!) and it was garbage compared to JBV1.

I can't believe it's free and a good detector is like $800.

Looks like it is android only right now.

[GrussGott]

Originally Posted by Captain Blood

Looks like it is android only right now.

Buy one used (hell a new Samsung A71 is $300) - totally worth it over a radar detector, that's for sure ... I use it as a 2nd mounted device anyway, then either connect it to your phone or car's hotspot or get a data SIM (my move).

I really didn't get how advanced this stuff has gotten until I used it ... and if you have an old V1 (or buy one) I'm not sure why you'd need new one unless you're just super into all that stuff (in which case you already have one!)

JBV1 will just keep getting better and better ... for free!

On balance, Waze does have some of this stuff (i.e., crowd-source alerts, but no V1 integration of course), but JBV1 taps into all kinds of other data streams too ... and the best part is, if you permanently mount your old V1 somewhere out of sight JBV1 works wireless via bluetooth so you don't need to the see the display or mess with the controls as long as the unit is turned on - JBV1 auto connects on startup.

[GrussGott]

My wife just pointed out that JBV1 is like the 21st century version of CBs in the 70s:

"Smokey on the road and a Bear in the air"

[Captain Blood]

So the house I live in, it was hit by a EF three tornado a year and a half ago. Big damage. Today, we just had a little EF zero or EF one hit us.
At the time, I thought it was funny when I was sitting in the grocery store and everyone's phones blew up with the tornado warnings.
And then wife called and said to take cover, our house had already been hit.
The only real damage trucks in the house was to the garage door, my S3 will be staying in there till the garage door is professionally removed. It was kind of lucky I was out, otherwise both our cars would be stuck in there.

[Arcades]

Jeebus the situation with Porsche cars atm, especially the GT ones are ridiculous.

[minn19]

Originally Posted by Captain Blood

So the house I live in, it was hit by a EF three tornado a year and a half ago. Big damage. Today, we just had a little EF zero or EF one hit us.
At the time, I thought it was funny when I was sitting in the grocery store and everyone's phones blew up with the tornado warnings.
And then wife called and said to take cover, our house had already been hit.
The only real damage trucks in the house was to the garage door, my S3 will be staying in there till the garage door is professionally removed. It was kind of lucky I was out, otherwise both our cars would be stuck in there.

Geez, sorry to hear that, glad everyone is safe and it is only minor damage. We’ve had three EF1 tornadoes very very close to our house over the last decade, but have been lucky that there was no damage. We did have our roof replaced because of a bad hail storm unrelated to those three tornadoes though.

[GrussGott]

Originally Posted by minn19

Geez, sorry to hear that, glad everyone is safe and it is only minor damage. We’ve had three EF1 tornadoes very very close to our house over the last decade, but have been lucky that there was no damage. We did have our roof replaced because of a bad hail storm unrelated to those three tornadoes though.

Yeah, sorry to hear Cap'n! I thought you were in California! Then I looked and saw 2 tornados hit recently Glad all are ok.

We've had our house hit by lightning twice, but luckily no tornado experience!

[GrussGott]

Hey y'all check out this badass motherfucker I saw today:







I think it's early 80s based on the square vs round headlights ... the Giorgetto Giugiaro design is so iconic, I'd love to have one these badboys ...

[Captain Blood]

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-...g-house-2021-5

[GrussGott]

Originally Posted by Captain Blood

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-...g-house-2021-5

We don't know what kind of tourism he enjoys. In other authoritarian, cultural separatist news:

[GrussGott]

Badass - checkout this bitchin Classic of the Day! I believe this is a mid-90s Firebird ... I even met the guy, super cool dude, put the top down and boogied outa there



In a related story, here's my BMW car spotting so far after a week's worth of driving almost the entire west coast including lots of city / suburbs driving:

* Many many many BMW f 4 series, i.e., no big grille, including lots of Ms (I'm parked next to one now)
* Many X5s, especially in Seattle, and lots of X3s
* Some 8 series
* Zero big grille specials
* Zero X4s/X6s

One odd note: I've also seen a lot of Harley guys with super loud Harleys and I started noticing .... most are wearing earplugs! What on earth is the point of a loud exhaust that you muffle for yourself?

[Arcades]

Originally Posted by GrussGott

Badass - checkout this bitchin Classic of the Day! I believe this is a mid-90s Firebird ... I even met the guy, super cool dude, put the top down and boogied outa there



In a related story, here's my BMW car spotting so far after a week's worth of driving almost the entire west coast including lots of city / suburbs driving:

* Many many many BMW f 4 series, i.e., no big grille, including lots of Ms (I'm parked next to one now)
* Many X5s, especially in Seattle, and lots of X3s
* Some 8 series
* Zero big grille specials
* Zero X4s/X6s

One odd note: I've also seen a lot of Harley guys with super loud Harleys and I started noticing .... most are wearing earplugs! What on earth is the point of a loud exhaust that you muffle for yourself?

Because we are all stupid

[Lups]

Originally Posted by Captain Blood

Has anyone noticed LUPS and Liz Cheney are never in the same place together?

I know I talk up wyoming and that I'm a blonde, but for fucks sake, a gop leadership role?

[GrussGott]

Originally Posted by Lups

I know I talk up wyoming and that I'm a blonde, but for fucks sake, a gop leadership role?

Turns out we're at the point where "believes in and will fight for democracy" is the rare quality to find and everything else is gravy.

Authoritarianism is on the march!

It's funny, because in my emo existential teens, reading things like Beckett's Happy Days:

Winnie, buried to her waist, follows her daily routine and prattles to her husband, Willie, who is largely hidden and taciturn. Her frequent refrain is "Oh this is a happy day." Later, in Act II, she is buried up to her neck, but continues to talk and remember happier days.

& Ionesco's Rhinoceros

Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II

At the time it seemed like old timey stuff from backwards people from days long gone ... who'da thought it would all happen again <100 years later!