Imagine going to Best Buy and telling the cashier, “I’ll take this flatscreen if you knock off fifty bucks.”

Every time you give press attention to this nobody, a Q-bert gets his tinfoil hat.

Yeah, ULA’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket is a long way from prime time right now. It’s supposed to use Blue Origin’s BE4 methalox engines, but Bezos is having trouble delivering them.

Actually, it turns out that carburetors of the era did in general get better mileage. That said, carburetors do not have a particularly good heat range, which is to say, it’s very difficult to tune a carburetor where the engine runs properly under varied temperature conditions, such as a cold engine and a warm engine.…

Fuck you all for even bringing this into the conversation. I understand octane, but clearly half of the people commenting do not. (I also understand combustion chamber design, which few other people do.)

I don’t think the car’s mileage was the issue here.  Pretty sure it was the little chrome “Jetta” emblem on the back.

This is the great failing of the “social media” era: Everybody airs their dirty laundry in public without thought of the actual value of the feedback they get. Instead of finding a good counselor to vet their feelings, they set them free in the wild for the use of anyone who wants to comment on them. Certainly you will…

My Ex was/is an Operating Room nurse. Supposedly an educated, health conscious person, and so were her co-workers.

Criminally underrated movie, even considering the casting of Victoria Jackson and Michael Richards before it was known they were jackasses.

I have always found the verbal similarity of “kawaii”(cute) to “kowai” (scary) to be entertaining.

Texas has been trending more Democrat for over a decade.  This is a panic move on their part.  Panic and/or last ditch tactics rarely work in the long term, although they can be extraordinarily painful in the short term.

It will tickle me if these voting restrictions (which can harm Republican voters too) results in these yoyos getting voted out in the next few elections.

I’ve seen more Buick V6 transplants than 304s. I’m still unclear why that was a popular choice when the AMC I-6 was a great engine.

I’ve never actually seen a CJ-7 with a 4-cylinder, but I know they made them.  They even made a (very few) 4-cylinder diesels with an Isuzu engine.  The vast majority are I-6 engines, but there are plenty of V-8 304s running around.  (and also plenty of conversions.)

I rode modern Triumphs for a couple decades. (Known within the community as “Hinckley” Triumphs to distinguish them from the “Coventry” and “Meriden” factory bikes of the past.) I was forever getting “I didn’t know they made Triumphs anymore!” or worse, “Triumph. Isn’t that made by Kawasaki?”

(Spoilers)

Yeah, I thought that was pretty tasteless myself.

Oh good.  It’s Disqus, and I have an account.  I can be recognized as “Tarmaque” with a different Rutger Hauer avatar.

Thank you for the invite! I’ll look into it.