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Old 02-12-2025, 11:42 AM   #1829 (permalink)
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I don't recognize that structural limits to education exist simply because an individual's name is what it is.
For all his contributions, R. B. F. failed to excite the popular imagination, and nobody ever mentions his housing 'solutions' within the context of 'build back better.'
If I lived in a rational universe, the day the first fatality occurred in a Ford Explorer roll-over, a US Marshall would have pad-locked the entire Ford Motor Company, sending it into the dustbin of history, just like happened with the Dymaxion Car.
Perhaps 'cubism' is the second most addictive behavior as breathing 'carbon'.
...and we'd go back to our safe caves.

The rollover controversy was due to severely underinflated tires. People should have been taught to recognize that unusual handling characteristics suggest a tire inflation issue. Perhaps they knew, and just hadn't got around to addressing it.
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