It’s the bounce you get off of the ionosphere that lets AM signals propagate so well under good conditions. You also get phase shifts/changes and odd harmonies depending on the varying conditions of the upper atmosphere. You can still listen to faint stations on AM right now in the present day, especially if you pick…

it’s where all the cool exiles hang out: fact

You’re always welcome to come and shit post on the old Oppositelock. Until you’re not.

> It is programmed to charge the battery in the most gentle, get the job done so we can start again,

Only newer alternators have what could be considered programming. In any event any alternator will supply a regulated voltage at demand current just like old ones. The only exception for "smart" alternators would be adjustments for wire capacity and temperature as well as digital charging steps

Things must have changed. It used to be the alternator ran hard over to maintain a certain voltage up to the maximum current it was capable of delivering regardless of whether there were headlamps or a battery attached to it. As the system draw decreased the voltage stayed the same as the voltage regulator rolled…

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It’s a MINI, so the next owner will probably be a scrapyard, anyway.

Thread locker??  Once it’s forced-cross-threaded in there, they basically become one piece of metal anyways.  Cram that bolt in there. It won’t come out. 

So RealOEM puts that at an M12x1.5 bolt. The helicoil tap drill for an M12x1.5 insert is 12.5 mm...

My boomer neighbor (working class neighborhood) down the street gets 2 new cars every 4 years. Its not a lease, he trades them in. Must be nice to have your home paid off 30 years ago and a pension. As an older Millennial, I understand the friction between generations.

Furthermore, not enough of them are even retiring. The pernicious combination of widespread borrowing, the untested reality of actually banking on a 401K for retirement, and the stigma of old age has kept a lot of these folks in jobs long past what we’d previously consider “retirement age.” 

The millennial generation is people born from early 80s to mid/late 90s (I argue that if you are too young to remember 9/11 you aren’t a millennial but lets say 1981 - 1996).

Anyone born after 1996 is not a millennial.

That’s assuming that boomers are retiring. I work with an 85 year-old partner in a law firm. He’s barely awake half the time. Still won’t retire.

As a milennial, I might get in trouble for mentioning this, but we are actually meeting late next week to discuss new ways to fuck that up.

But when replacing a burnt out taillight involves “learning to code”, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Damn. My condolences, boomer.

This all sounds good but I’m pretty sure it was a long, protracted process simply because the NHTSA, EPA, and CARB just couldn’t get around the fact that a blue S209 didn’t come with gold wheels.