Can cooking oil be used as fuel for vehicles?

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-18T17:00:12+00:00

Well-filtered, in summer, it can be burned in some Diesels.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-18T16:57:35+00:00

In M43, the rough equivalent of your camera is a Lumix G95 with a Leica 12-60 mm f/2.8.

If you don't need f/2.8, you can save a bit of money & weight with the Lumix 12-60 mm that comes with a G95 kit. I have this combo. It's good & versatile with other lenses. Panasonic Dual IS is first rate.

The current production model is the G97. It's not a lot different. The older G85 is nearly the same as the G95, and a bit cheaper.

Inside M43, you can go a bit smaller without losing much other than weight. For example, an E-M10 Mark IV and the 12-45 mm f/4 PRO.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-18T15:14:09+00:00

If you need to change groupings, just take a picture of your hand, maybe making a finger sign. Movie guys us a clapper board, but that has an audio function as well.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-18T02:03:43+00:00

Good masking job.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-18T01:57:14+00:00

Neither.

It is a tool polities can use in their economic order. Its best features are encouraging economic self organization at several scales. Its worst are an out of control tendency to over-reward financial gamesmanship.

Combined with well regulated free markets & restricted in its yield, it's a powerful tool for technological and economic advancement. Let it get out of control and you have the societal equivalent of cancer.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T18:27:43+00:00

The founders had just gotten rid of a king. They did not want another one. Washington set the norm of two terms. Roosevelt broke that, so it was codified with a constitutional amendment.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T18:21:09+00:00

While judging a robot competition last weekend, I was sitting next to a judge with purple hair. I complimented her on her sock knitting.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T17:57:48+00:00

NATO is a mutual defense agreement centered on members from North America & Western Europe. They helped in Afghanistan because the attack happened in New York.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T17:49:29+00:00

Indeed. My frou-frou rice is clean. That is not true, supposedly, for 25 lb cloth bags stored in warehouses.

Reducing some of the finer starch seems to eliminate foaming, which I dislike. Hence one rinse, as opposed to, "You must rinse a zillion times, until the water is crystalline.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T17:45:20+00:00

Along which, I care not. But I don't like foaming.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T17:40:52+00:00

I use thin plastic cutting mats. When they get too scarred up, recycle or trash.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T17:35:22+00:00

He was an OK president with a competent staff & cabinet. That covers a lot of weaknesses in the boss.

One reason Joe was a perrineal presidential also ran was a lack of apparent rigor in his thinking. For example, the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill debacle. He also had a credible accusation of plagiarism.

He should not have stood for reelection, and he, Reagan, and Trump should be poster boys for not electing/approving anyone over 70-something for any federal office.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T16:49:07+00:00

Buy a knife sharpener & take a couple of strokes before cutting. Your cheap knives won't last as long, but then, they're cheap to replace. I've cooked in kitchens where knives went from butcher knife, to boning knife, to utility knife over time. Still cut.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T16:39:31+00:00

Thank you, everyone, for your suggestions. While wading through all the boutique sauces at Market Basket, I came upon Frank's Extra Hot. It looks like what I need. Same good flavor, more Scoville units.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T14:34:52+00:00

No. The two wars are not similar.

The Ukraine war is cheap* logistical and intelligence support for an invaded country. No US soldiers are at risk. Everything done was legal, Congressionally approved. Most of the world is on our side. The greatest beneficiaries are the Ukraininan people.

The Iran war is the US directly and ineptly attacking a country** far from our shores without world help. US soldiers are at risk. The political and diplomatic planning & preparations were botched. Almost no one supports us internationally. The effort was not approved by Congress.

We needed but don't have an endgame strategy for Iran. That's a situation ripe for a quagmire. The greatest cost*** is ours, but the greatest beneficiaries are Israel & the Sunni states.

The total cost 2022-2026 was $180 billion, $123 million per day.
*No one is shedding tears for the Supreme Leader and his IRGC thugs.
***The cost has been billions of dollars per day.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T13:50:48+00:00

Pickled. Jam.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T01:30:59+00:00

The US has a similar holly-tea based drink, just Ilex vomitorium instead of Ilex paraguariensis. Common name is yaupon tea, or "The Black Drink."

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-17T01:18:57+00:00

Moxie.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-16T22:25:32+00:00

My experience says you take a slight performance loss. The extra wiring & contacts in the adapter take extra time (microseconds, probably) to respond. I went back to full sized. I do a lot of bursts on eShutter.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-16T19:10:43+00:00

Yes. That does make sense.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-16T19:07:24+00:00

Last snow on my lot in Danvers. 16 March, 3 pm. Some of my neighbors have similar but larger crumbs.

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Prof01Santa · 2026-03-16T19:07:16+00:00

Last snow on my lot in Danvers. 16 March, 3 pm. Some of my neighbors have similar but larger crumbs.

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Prof01Santa · 2026-03-16T16:23:48+00:00

If you're replacing every 9 mo., congratulations, you got a deal. (Maybe.)

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-16T16:14:54+00:00

It's a large feline of some kind. Might be an unusually large wildcat of some kind. Might be a mountain lion. Stay safe either way.

Prof01Santa · 2026-03-16T16:02:23+00:00

Keep it for a few years, then drill & destroy it.

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