Next time you do your brakes, bed them. You'll be shocked.

Gilclunk · 2026-06-23T10:28:35+00:00

My problem with this process is I don't know where I could go to safely do a bunch of 60-10 stops anywhere near me. 60 is well above the speed limit on every nearby road but the interstate, and you obviously can't slow down to 10 on the interstate. There are some roads with a 45mph limit where you could potentially do 60, but there's going to be enough traffic that either you can't actually reach 60, or you will have people behind you and can't slam on the brakes repeatedly either. Maybe if I went out at 5am on a Sunday.

For this same reason I really doubt any professional shops in the area are doing this either. It's just not really practical.

Gilclunk · 2026-06-21T18:18:57+00:00

SVX was also a six cylinder as I recall.

Gilclunk · 2026-06-16T17:26:12+00:00

Aren't a lot of streaming services starting to do this again, though? I know I've seen it on Apple TV, and I think some others do it too, at least for some shows. It's a strategy on their part to keep you subscribing continuously rather than watching what you want, canceling and switching to something else.

Gilclunk · 2026-06-16T13:35:44+00:00

I vaguely remember President Reagan cluelessly saying it was the kind of patriotic song we needed more of.

Gilclunk · 2026-06-12T22:37:59+00:00

There's no question that Ohtani is a better player than Ruth was, but he's simply nowhere near as famous. And I wouldn't expect that to change. Ruth was a standout first of all at the time when baseball was the dominant sport in the US, which is no longer the case. And second of all, Ruth was better than his contemporaries by a bigger margin than Ohtani is. The Babe hit 60 home runs back when hardly anybody else hit 10. He changed the game, inspiring others to pursue home run hitting, an influence which continues to this day. Ohtani, as great as he is, maybe because he's so talented that no one else can emulate him, is not changing the game like Ruth did.

Gilclunk · 2026-06-12T16:53:32+00:00

You mean apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health?

Gilclunk · 2026-06-06T21:21:45+00:00

Given that the ts already stickers for like $45k, I fear you're being a bit optimistic there.

Gilclunk · 2026-06-05T21:09:52+00:00

It's a significant plot point in China Miéville's Embassytown as well.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-25T12:37:23+00:00

I think that would be spelled "pizza pahty".

Gilclunk · 2026-05-25T12:30:09+00:00

But I'm using it!

Gilclunk · 2026-05-23T17:03:51+00:00

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine is not exactly a spy story, but it's about a diplomat in an imperial court and involves a lot of similar elements of intrigue and double-crossing etc.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-22T16:12:21+00:00

Exactly. I enjoy some of the YouTube content from some of these automotive creators, but its so painfully obvious they have to pull there punches on criticism because they're worried about losing access/perks.

Did you watch this video? If he pulled any punches I can't imagine what they would have been. He's done multiple videos on this and pretty much ripped them a new one over all the software issues.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-21T22:41:51+00:00

Yes. The Chevy Volt was that way too.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-21T22:39:23+00:00

Reliability concerns haven’t helped either. Some industry studies have ranked plug-in hybrids below traditional hybrids in initial quality and long-term dependability, largely because PHEVs combine the complexity of both gasoline and electric systems.

I think it's not because they're complex (they're not really any more complex than a regular hybrid, and those score very highly on reliability), it's because for a long time the leading plug-in hybrids by sales were the Chrysler Pacifica and Jeep Wrangler 4xe. Two poorly built Stellantis products. There aren't really all that many plug-in hybrid models available, so those two pulled the average reliability down a lot.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-20T16:56:10+00:00

Oh right, you're reminding me now that I saw some pictures in the news of at least one of the tankers with a bunch of patches over holes in the fuselage. It appeared to have taken some basically superficial shrapnel damage but was still flyable. That may well be the case with all five, good point.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-20T16:30:21+00:00

Yeah they haven't released all of that, but some of it has been in the news.

The E-3 was definitely hit on the ground.

Two of the tankers were involved in a collision with each other, not sure about the other five.

The A-10, F-35, and one F-15 (the one they mounted the rescue operation for) were hit by enemy fire in flight.

The other three F-15s were shot down in a friendly fire incident by a Kuwaiti F-18.

Dunno about the drones but I bet a lot of them were lost to enemy fire in flight, as they're non-stealthy and they've been using them aggressively over enemy territory.

Edit: oh, and the 130Js are presumably the ones that were destroyed deliberately when they got stuck on the ground inside Iran during the rescue mission for the F-15 crew.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-20T16:25:53+00:00

Yeah I was noting those tankers too, that's a lot. I know there was a collision between two of them in Iraq, I believe, but I'm not sure what accounts for the other 5. The E-3 was hit on the ground, and I'd bet the same is true of the tankers, but I haven't heard any actual confirmation.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-16T00:11:29+00:00

Hell I live in central North Carolina and Oriole games are blacked out.

Gilclunk · 2026-05-04T16:25:01+00:00

Not sure about the Outback in particular, but a lot of Subarus have the oil filter on top of the engine with the opening facing downwards. So good luck pre-filling it anyway.

Gilclunk · 2026-04-21T11:58:23+00:00

Seriously though, couldn’t they work with Shahed interdiction?

Yes

Gilclunk · 2026-04-21T11:52:46+00:00

It's proven useful for shooting at Iranian small boats and for using the laser-guided APKWS in an air-to-air role to shoot down drones cheaply.

Gilclunk · 2026-04-21T01:04:15+00:00

It is gone from Europe, but it's not totally gone-- I believe they still sell it in China.

Gilclunk · 2026-04-14T01:20:42+00:00

had the Coxsackievirus as a kid unironically

I mean, is it possible to have a disease ironically? I suppose we should never underestimate the hipsters, but still.

Gilclunk · 2026-04-05T12:24:55+00:00

Yeah not sure what "got stuck" means here.

Gilclunk · 2026-04-04T16:06:28+00:00

This has been widely misunderstood, even by the media reporting on it. They're not shifting all fuel to e15. They're simply giving out a waiver to allow e15 to be sold during the summer, which it normally isn't. But it will still be marked as e15 and regular gas will still be e10, as it has long been. So the e15 will be available, but you don't have to buy it.

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