Aa an addendum, I once read a profile of another isolated gas station (in the Mojave if memory serves) that pointed out they kept their price artificially high to discourage full tank buyers. The short reasoning was that the fuel trucks followed a set loop, and if they wanted more deliveries, they’d pretty much have…

I wouldn’t necessarily call it short-sighted. At the time, there was no vaccine for COVID, there was no telling when or even if there would be one. Understandably, at the outset of the pandemic, many companies, including auto companies, went into cash-hoarding mode because there was no way to determine how long the…

Well, you’re only partially true. A lot of orders were CANCELLED because factories shut down. Several of my orders were, even when I insisted to keep them in the pipeline.  It causes financial complications for many companies not able to cope with backlog or even know if they’ll exist 3 months down the road - so the…

Crank suppliers went out of business YEARS ago.....

The reduced size transistors require different voltages, have different power needs, and can handle different external loads. So it’s a totally different chip as far as integrating it into a larger circuit, even if they kept the exact same design shrunk to 20%.

So I did work for a semiconductor mfg that was a leading supplier for the auto industry. While I, personally, didn’t work on too many products that were for the auto industry, I did work on a few an many co-workers and friends worked almost exclusively on auto parts. I’ve been away from it for almost a decade now, but…

that’s a funny take and not totally made up

I like questions like these for the conversation they generate, but it’s lame af that half of Jalopnik’s articles are questions like this now

It’s azteks all the way down.

Not a myth as far as I’m concerned. I got rid of my MT car because my commute was such a pain, and I had been driving stick for two decades at that point. An hour and a half of shifting every 10 seconds between N, 1st, and occasionally 2nd f’in sucks, especially in something with a stiff clutch.

Stickers.

Big truck / SUV means small penis. It’s totally a normal size, guys; my wife assures me.

I don’t care what anyone says.

And Britney’s back in the news.

Two decades ago, Microsoft was hit with an antitrust case by the U.S. governmentfor doing nearly the same thing: bundling Internet Explorer

The linked Long Beach Post article has an example with some even more interesting specifics:

And here I was thinking it was a report you had actually done, rather than one you had simply copied from...

Which is hilarious to me, since the comments/community interaction are honestly the lion’s share of why I even come here. Once GMG buggers that up enough, I’ll simply stop coming here.

Nicolas.  It’s right there on the movie poster.

If you want to learn how to do a quick and dirty crank journal repair, you need only read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Of course, to do it you will have to squat on the ground, melting lead in a pot (probably the same pot you would cook in) in a campfire by the side of the the road.