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7 Apr, 9 tweets, 4 min read
If it needs somebody to operate it, is it really a robot?
ELEKTRO SPEAK
ELEKTRO SMOKE
I am hereby changing my job title from Janitor to AI Floor Bufferbot Engineer
ROBOTS RANKED (non-MST3K category)

1. Thinko
2. Elektro
3. Robot
4. Pimpbot 5000
*I would like to thank @lileks for clarifying that Thinko from Sex Kittens Go To College (1960) and Elektro from the 1939 World's Fair are one and the same, albeit with his stomach hole paper mache'd closed
Smooth operator
Smooooooth operator

(ht @Ron4California)
How it started / how it's going
1934: Imma build a robot to pick up chicks
2021: Where we're going, we don't need chicks
how could I neglect to mention my eventual replacement @iowahawkbot

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C'mon, she's no villain, she's a femme fatale
I don't care how many people she murdered, she has far too high a va-va-va-voom factor to be labeled a "villain"
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yeah well me too, but somehow I haven't gotten any offers of board seats from murky Chinese investment companies
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What's left of a 1959 Chrysler Windsor. Old junk cars were once deliberately put on beaches and river beds as a means of erosion control. (ht @AndreaBitely)

#DavesCarIDService

Not bullshitting but not gonna lie, it took a bit of cross referencing to ID this one. Happy to explain the deductive logic if anyone is curious.

Clue 1: transmission appeared to be an early Mopar TorqueFlite.
Clue 2: block head bolt pattern matches Mopar B motor
Clue 3: forward chassis & body mounts match 1957-59 Mopar (pic A)
Confirmation: 59 Windsor unique match to bumper (pic B)

Q.E.D.
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Today's episode of #DavesCarIDService is brought to you by the all new 1960 Chevy Corvair - official car of the Easter Bunny!

apologies to anyone who may have contracted the heebie-jeebies from viewing that clip, and for those of you who are new to Dave's Car ID Service, I thank you in advance for respecting the guidelines: Image
All right, let's kick off the vehicular Easter egg hunt with this neat story & photo. Solid ID is a bit hindered by the grille blanket but I think it's a 1923 Buick Series 23 sedan. The steel disk wheels give me a lingering pang of doubt, tho.

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Don't know if that's good career advice, but I think we can all agree that whatever passes as opinion writing (left or right) is now so interchangeably conformist and boilerplate it might as well have been churned out by 3 algorithms
freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/if-you-want-…
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1. do they write about interesting topics nobody else is covering?

2. do they write in a unique, entertaining, or surprising style?

3. do they seem to know what they're talking about?

4. am I learning anything from reading them?
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30 Mar
Happy Birthday Eric Clapton
Say what you want about Clapton, but the man has some bitchin' hot rods
Other noteworthy guitarist hot rod & custom collections: Billy Gibbons (I omitted the ZZ Top Eliminator because everybody knows that one)

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