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I've had a car with where the oil pressure sensor failed; combine that with an oil leak, and you quickly have a major problem. So, what happens when the sensor telling you the oil level fails? A dipstick is extremely unlikely to ever fail to work correctly, so...?

You can use DOT 5.1 to significantly increase that wet boiling point, but it's expensive for normal car use. I usually use it in my motorcycle, since I've experienced brake fade on that before, and it's... Not fun.

Depends on how much you drive, and what the recommended interval is. If the interval is 7k miles, and you drive 18k in a year, yeah, you need to change the oil 3x/year.

It seems to me that counting the number of cycles each makes, and basing your intervals off that would make more sense than mileage. If I'm constantly running at high RPM, that should require more frequent oil changes in terms of mileage.

You can do that perfectly safely with chicken IF you cook it sous vide first. You could run it at 130F for about four hours before grilling it, and it would still look very raw, although the bacteria would all be dead.

Emissions are a large part of what's causing the habitat destruction, depending on where, specifically, you're talking about. For instance, the warming oceans are caused by the increasing CO2 levels, and warming oceans and ice cap melt is causing massive changes in weather patterns, which in turn, is leading to droughts, floods, increased wildfires, more and stronger hurricanes, etc. Deforestation in the Amazon is still an ongoing problem, although I understand that the president of Brasil has instituted a program that takes land back from ppl that illegally burned forests to turn it into grazing land. (I think seizing the cattle would help too; the large-scale rancher that do that need to be bankrupted.) Microplastics are definitely A problem, but I don't think that we know how much of a problem they are yet, in that we're not entirely sure how increasing levels of microplastics in animals, etc. is going to affect them in the long term.

So. This one is complicated.

Part of the issue is that we want to have an auto industry in the US; being utterly dependent on a foreign country for the majority of your transportation isn't a great idea. Yes, the big 3 auto companies should be doing basic electric instead of high-end luxury electric (...that usually doesn't work super well...), but they need to get competitive in that market. Super cheap electric cars from China would undercut the US auto companies so badly that they would likely end up being bankrupted. At that point, Chinese companies could charge whatever the fuck they wanted, because we'd have no options.

And, more than that, the big 3 auto companies directly employ about 600,000 people, and millions more indirectly (as parts suppliers that do nothing but supply the auto companies); losing those companies means losing millions of jobs. And not just jobs, but often union jobs.

There's a certain value in trade agreements, as well as a certain value in protectionist trade policies. But, in this case, it would make more sense for the gov't to take partial ownership of the big 3--through stock purchases--and fund development of competitive EVs. Much like China does through their domestic economic incentives and subsidies.

...And then also fund public transit infrastructure.

Particulates are bad, sure, but they're not what's causing climate collapse.

I misspelled it; it should be galdrastafir. It literally translates as 'magic staves', but it's understood to mean symbols that are a part of a magical spell. ...Or 'magickal' if you want to draw a distinction between parlor tricks and 'real magick'. The books that contained them were sometimes called galdrabók, although that's also the name of a specific grimoire. It's complicated because, while galdrastafir are currently believed to be explicitly magical, in some cases they appear in books alongside herbology, which would seem to indicate that either they weren't contemporarily perceived as 'magic' per se, or that herbology was.

Anyway. It's a form of folk magic. The general idea is that you draw or scribe a specific symbol on a certain kind of object, perhaps with particular tool, and use the object in a specific way, and it will produce some kind of effect that would not otherwise happen. The most well known ones are ægishjálmur (the helm of terror; said to protect you in battle, make other people fear you), and vegvísir (a compass to help you find your way home in bad weather; supposedly used by sailors). But there are a lot of others as well. Draumstafir was a symbol scribed in silver on wood (linden, maybe?, I don't remember anymore) that was supposed to let you dream at night of what you most desired.

Supposedly--and there's not a ton of really solid, scholarly writing about this--the Catholics were pretty forgiving of the people practicing folk magic, as long as the people were still paying their tithes. Supposedly a Catholic bishop (?) in charge of the area was also a practitioner of black magic, and had a grimoire called the rauðskinna full of exceptionally powerful spells. When Denmark became Lutheran, they also supplanted the Catholic heirarchy in Iceland with Lutherans. The Lutherans were quite a bit less accepting of folk magic; they burned ever grimoire that they came across. So there are only a handful of examples that still survive, and they all date to late 1700s to late 1800s. Keep in mind that Iceland was very backwards relative to Europe until fairly recently, so it's entirely conceivable that there are people currently alive that had grandparents that were galdr practitioners.

/autistic monologue

Every time I've had that happen, it's been the cable going bad, not the port.

Could be. But it's not something I would put money on.

This is one of those things that angry people on the left want to be true, just like angry people on the right want all of the Q-anon trash to be true. This is one of those things that feeds directly into conspiratorial thinking. Anything that sounds too good to be true, isn't sourced, and isn't published in a reputable source should immediately make you suspicious. No one is immune to propaganda.

Also: which outlet was it that was publishing all of the claims that Putin had some kind of highly-aggressive, fatal cancer, that he was dying, that he was trying to complete the defeat of Ukraine prior to dying? That was, like, two years ago? That didn't pan out at all, and it was the same thing; none of the reputable news sources were picking that one up.

Trucking used to be a way a person could provide for their family, remain independent, and feel in control.

Still can. There are still owner-operators, and they have significant control over how they do their job, as long as they aren't caught cooking their books (...which is what most drivers used to do before there were crackdowns, because you got paid per mile). They usually get paid a lot more than fleet drivers, because fleet drivers aren't responsible for the maintenance of the truck.

Kyiv Insider is a very questionable source. ~~Not~~ Note that they don't even name the FBI agent, when his name would be a matter of public record if he was arrested and bonded out.