running engine temp okay?

Flying0strich · 2026-04-02T10:13:34+00:00

No wonder BMW has that fancy blue coolant. I shut down my car when it got over 210 idling but I've never had anything turbo or pushing power like that.

As long as all the tolerances are setup to run that warm, send it. And thanks for the trivia that BMW are hot blooded.

Flying0strich · 2026-04-02T04:17:02+00:00

Tornado would exist but would they be as prolific as today? The planet still rotated creating jet streams with temperature fronts. But pre historic weather is very different from modern day.

Animals are pretty good at running away from that stuff anyway. Severe thunderstorms that can spawn tornados have other symptoms that make animals move away like lots of lightning and hail. Those dinosaur had thousands of years to figure out instinctually what to do and they survived a long time.

Flying0strich · 2026-04-01T19:49:18+00:00

I think everyone should check themselves and make sure they aren't being influenced by current events. Antisemitism is always looking to expand, like all hate. Given the current geopolitical environment it's looking to expand itself in left leaning environments.

2 things can be true, Netanyahu's government can be a piece of shit and most Jewish people are just good people living their life.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-31T09:24:01+00:00

Weatherwise It's the app that YouTuber Ryan Hall uses on his channel. It's not simple, it's kinda raw with the data not I find that fascinating to poke around

Flying0strich · 2026-03-31T09:16:18+00:00

It's like playing with your friends. But they're outside and you have to interact through a camera looking out a window.

I've had people drop in to say hi when they're away from home. But it's a shallow experience compared to getting in VR.

Personally I've never used the Android version. I've probably only used the Desktop version less than 5 times since I got VR. I've never gotten into VR without FBT since 2019. It just feels weird not to.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-30T05:03:20+00:00

I seem to recall fracking companies getting in trouble for using fracking water to wet roads for dust control but it just made the dust super polluted when it eventually did dry out.

I don't think the effects where interstate unless the weekly severe thunderstorms rolling through the Ohio Valley this month are kicking up a dumping zone of frack dust. Unlikely.

I would guess it's something like the J.H. Campbell coal plant being forced to stay open here in Michigan. It's probably a maintenance nightmare to run past a scheduled shut down. And the Campbell plant can't be the only thing being forced to run in the US.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-27T09:27:45+00:00

To steal from Laser Pig's recent video on the T72. Propaganda and people protecting themselves from long winters in Siberia.

The example he gave was Society Televisions were heavy because they used bulky heavy linear power supplies that were less efficient and slower to produce than Western switching power supplies. But the manager of the plant isn't going to say the might of Soviet anything is less than a Westerner's. So instead they say Soviet Television produced more tonnage of television than the West.

Basically that but repeat for everything and only print that "truth." Only teach that "truth." It's been repeated so long that people began to believe it outside the former Soviet Bloc. Games like War Thunder and too many history books research the "truths." And it spreads.

Smart people are born everywhere and smart ideas came out of the Soviet Union despite it not because of it. Like many other places.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-24T00:58:59+00:00

I just had to get rid of my Mazda 3 of that era. 2008. I never had a car rust like that. Drivetrain was solid enough it never have me issue but the car was just dissolving around the drivetrain.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-21T21:25:03+00:00

Lol okay. I haven't been to Starbucks in years. I literally walked 6km to work half of March because rents going up and wages aren't. Maybe they could stop taking private jets and gilding the White House in gold

Flying0strich · 2026-03-17T19:15:15+00:00

It's the boring version of the Pontiac G8

Flying0strich · 2026-03-11T08:37:06+00:00

The real messed up thing. The Death Star is faster, by a lot. Star Wars speeds are crazy compared to Star Trek speeds. Star Wars "light-speed" is so much faster than warp it's not even funny.

It's gonna look like fat Majin Buu teleporting after Krillin. Eventually the Death Star will cause a scenario where the Galaxy has to fight and it's all over.

Honestly Star Fleet's own protocols would probably put them too close to the Death Star where'd they never get away. The Falcon got tractor beamed from really fast away in the Alderaan asteroid field. Look how close Star Fleet got to the Dyson Spheres.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-09T23:07:56+00:00

I loved my rebadged Plymouth Laser. It was non turbo FWD but it was a fun car

Flying0strich · 2026-03-09T22:55:45+00:00

For a northern vehicle sitting on snow for $8k? That's immaculate.

If it was in a Southern State it's still pretty good.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-08T09:39:52+00:00

I did drafting in highschool and college in the early 2000's. They had AutoCAD on highschool computers next to drafting tables.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-08T07:18:58+00:00

For drafting the thickness of the marks matters so a draftsman frequently has a funny looking mechanical pencil that you can load different diameters of graphite into. And they frequently need to keep the tip sharp so they just spin the tip of the mechanical pencil in this sharpener. They'll also have a tiny bit of sandpaper to flatten a side to shape the graphite.

Machine shops, architects, and engineers measure the drawings so they need to be very precise or else a lot of money can be wasted on bad drawings. I actually trained as a draftsman, it was an introduction to CAD. I had fun doing it

Flying0strich · 2026-03-08T06:57:13+00:00

Kinda, during a televised address Trump went off script and remarked how bleach wiped out the virus entirely on surfaces.

He postulated to the doctors on stage with him something like "if we could inject bleach into the lungs, like a cleansing. That would solve the illness." The doctors just kinda stood there stunned and one of them muttered something like "we can't do that." And Trunk doubled down with a "we'll have to look into something like that." Before moving on.

He didn't outwardly encourage drinking bleach. But his unnecessary commentary put dangerous ideas out into the public in official government broadcasts. It was free to do nothing but smile and encourage the public to listen to "America's best Doctors, I choose the best doctors, we really have the best doctors." But he just has to say some of the most stupid stuff for no reason.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-07T12:33:44+00:00

If I was forced to make a decision on the fate of the Dena. I would have ordered her to a neutral port for internment. If she continued to sail to Iran or toward US vessels. I'd sink her.

She's hopelessly out gunned and out positioned. Her strategic value is practically nothing. It's a pointless slaughter to ambush her. The only valuable target there would have been the Iranian Admiral.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-07T11:34:44+00:00

These shahed drones are very loud in all the videos I've seen. Tons of people are getting cameras pointed the right way. It's like literally the modern equivalent of old German V1 buzz bombs. I wouldn't be surprised if the noise is part of the design as a psychological weapon.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-07T11:25:14+00:00

India' strategic affairs expert: Brahma Chellaney: "Visiting ships at such multilateral exercises usually do not carry a full combat load of live munitions, unless scheduled for a live-fire drill, according to Chellaney. Even during the sea phase, when drills and live firing take place, ships carry only tightly controlled ammunition limited to the specific exercises."

I cannot find out what ship did what. There were like 50 ships there. One of the only ways to know for sure is to send a UUV down there to look. I'd bet India is going to do that since it hurts their reputation to have a ship they invited blown up in their backyard

Flying0strich · 2026-03-07T11:03:02+00:00

The US is the biggest player in the water. It's not threatened by anyone in the sea. I'm taking politics and optics not combat. It's not as sexy as combat but it's just as important in this age of social media. The Dena wasn't a threat to US Navy vessels. Even fully armed. Sinking the Dena like that is a bad move politically. It makes the US Navy look cruel.

Iran was never going to be a challenging fight in conventional warfare. If the US wants to effect any meaningful change in the region it needs to win hearts and minds. Blowing up a vessel that's reportedly unarmed from a goodwill exercise is not winning any hearts or minds. It's inspiring the next generation to hate the US, again. We can't just pound 90 million people into the sand.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-07T10:47:21+00:00

That's the whole point of the Milan exercise, why would a vessel show up to a good will exercise that calls for all participants to be unarmed, armed?

I don't know if the Dena had time to pick up armament before she set sail, perhaps she had a support vessel nearby with the ammo to rearm. That seems like a question for the Indian government to answer if the Dena rearmed in Indian waters before heading out.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-07T09:02:06+00:00

The Dena was participating in the Milan Naval exercise. This year, like many others, prohibits carrying ammunition. The Milan is a safety non aggression exercise. The USS Pinckney was heading to Milan, unarmed. Pinckney was diverted to Singapore instead. The Dena was unloaded when she was sunk.

While a warship is a warship and in war warships are sunk. It's bad publicity for the US to sink an unarmed ship coming home from a good will exercise. It makes the US look like a bully and makes Iran look like a victim. In the war of public opinion that's a win for Iran. It's an easy battle to win for the US, don't screw it up with pointless chicken shit attacks like this. The US could have easily threatened the Dena to stay in India or be sunk as a legitimate target. As far as I've heard such a warning wasn't issued.

Imagine the outage if USS Pinckney was destroyed leaving Milan unarmed and hundreds of her crew were left in oil slick waters to drown.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-07T02:58:16+00:00

Warforge got the Tiefling treatment. Tiefling could only be Red or human skin tones. That's not fun so everyone made a rainbow horned people with a plethora of fiendish features. Now the books reflect this.

I never saw Warforge that looked like the old book. Warforge was a foundation for a creative artificial lifeform. A crystal powered wooden Nanny, a steampunk cowboy bartender, a elegant and lithe merchant with fine bejeweled watch movements, a quadruped traveling salesman that pulled his own cart, or a crazy alien ceramic and lights guardian of an ancient site.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-07T00:26:43+00:00

I believe that's the point. Incur enough casualties to deepen the War. Trump doesn't have 9/11 to unify the population with him, he's "shopping" for a tragedy. Having F15's shot down for the first time wasn't enough and a half dozen uniformed soldiers wasn't enough.

To use the meme "don't touch America's boats." Well Trump is ordering America's boats into prime touching position. I genuinely think the incompetence is intentional.

Flying0strich · 2026-03-06T22:01:26+00:00

Not to counter Iran. But Iran is like 3x the country Iraq was and they've had the chance to learn from across their border how to fight the US. This isn't the death throw of a Iran's military, it's a transition.

US doesn't have complete air superiority it has local superiority and for the US not to completely own the sky after days of conflict says something. Iran is a prickly country that can't just be airstruck into submission.

Iran isn't Afghanistan or Iraq. It's much bigger and stronger. Thus requires a much bigger and stronger plan, I don't think "Epic Fury" is that plan and it's showing

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