For anyone curious about what it actually looked like to kill a generation of functioning cars, here’s an actual video from 2009 and brief explanation: The dealer first replaces the oil with sodium silicate solution. It’s a clear-ish liquid that crystallizes under extreme heat. As the engine warms up the solution begins to form small abrasive crystals in the oil system that shred the bearing and score the cylinder walls. Within seconds of starting the car you can see smoke billowing from the exhaust, this is the crystals scratching the cylinder walls and leaving small grooves for oil and solution to leak past into the combustion chamber and ignite/evaporate, producing the white smoke. Pretty soon the entire crankcase is full of crystals and freshly shredded metal flakes, the engine seizes. It took about 40 seconds in this video. Some engines reportedly lasted up to 7 minutes, but all were destroyed. That strikes me as sort of sad in a way, like watching a great warrior slowly lose a heroic last stand. Now, this is the part that gets insanely wasteful. These cars were sent to federally approved recycling facilities where they had 180 days to sell the non-engine parts before they were required to prove that they had shred the entire thing into scrap steel. But, in talking to a guy who ran one such facility at the time, he typically just sent them straight to the crusher. The timeframes allotted weren’t long enough to dismantle all of the cars, and even if you could, the marginal prices of the parts was greatly diminished. You cannot sell 1000 transmissions when only 50 went bad that year, they became worthless. So just like that, in order to increase prosperity and save the environment, 677,000 entire running cars and trucks were turned directly into rebar worth a few cents per pound. The entire Obama administration was like a chapter out of atlas shrugged.

🚨Child rapists will be put to DEATH under Restore Britain.

Top 10 greatest Americans in history: 1. Jesus Christ 2. George Washington 3. Alfred the Great 4. Andrew Jackson 5. Thomas Jefferson 6. Alexander Hamilton 7. Hengist 8. Robert E. Lee 9. Harold Godwinson 10. Arminius

can you tell i have some. issues.

Not to be overdramatic, but when bungie nerfed stompies for the final time it legitimately felt like they had cut off one of my arms. I lost all motivation to play the game, and I probably should have quit to be completely honest. I get what you're talking about, but stompies were such an integral part to the hunter playstyle that it feels less like an 'era' and more like the way Hunter was supposed to play. The class is inherently flawed in a seemingly irreparable way now. Sorry for the essay. I am... still bitter.

Everyone thinks it's Article V allowing the Constitution to be amended, but in reality it's Article III. Theoretically, nothing stops a party with a majority in Congress and the White House from abolishing all lower courts, establishing new courts in their place, doubling the size of the Supreme Court, and, in doing so, gaining absolute control over the Judiciary at all levels of government and thus eliminating any opposition to whatever policies they'd like to impose. You want to sue Congress when it grants sweeping powers to the President? The lower courts don't even stay the law. You appeal to the packed Supreme Court? They refuse to hear the case. You complain that the President and Congress have overstayed their term in office? The courts rule that the Constitution does not mandate Federal elections every two years during a state of emergency. You take to the streets and protest? The President declares a state of rebellion and Congress suspends habeas corpus. Any political party sufficiently united in its desire to completely destroy the political system, and having obtained even the slimmest majorities in both the legislative and executive branches, can essentially overthrow any republican system of government. All of this is procedurally allowed. There is no constitutional order, including our own, that can ultimately guarantee its own continuation through constitutional procedures alone.

Students at Cornell put up these signs around campus... from @ buffalopotholebandit on Threads

Biblical Christianity.

New Mormon game just dropped! Pretty realistic. Solid graphics. Solid LDS realism.

Assistiu 9 filmes de Star Wars e vai votar no Império; Leu 7 livros de Harry Potter e vai votar pelo bem dos Comensais da Morte; É fã de O Senhor dos Anéis, mas escolheu votar no Sauron; Diz gostar de Zelda, mas está do lado da Calamidade… O nerd brasileiro não entendeu nada.