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John DeLorean left Pontiac in '73 to go start DMC. And probably do some coke. The GTO was one of his babies. I imagine that not having him there to go to bat for the nameplate had something to do with it going away, because they didn't really shy away from putting holy badges like SS and 442 on cars that didn't deserve them in the late 70's.
GM got choked pretty hard around '73 because of the oil embargo and much more strict EPA regulations. The way they approached both of those problems was to lower compression ratios and run the engines much, much hotter. Cars went from running at a nominal 180° to running at 200-210°. This cut down on emissions, but the oil of the time COULD NOT handle the extra temps and would cook off. It caused a lot of premature engine failures in mid-1970's American cars, including making massive clouds of black smoke from badly worn valve guides. The same engines that had been rock-solid reliable ten years earlier were suddenly anemic junk, and most people didn't really understand why.
GM also dropped all convertibles from the lineup for the 1976 model year, because they believed the feds were about to ban them for safety reasons. It didn't happen and GM reintroduced convertibles in 1986. There were a few companies doing aftermarket convertible conversions in the interim.
Oh if you want to read up on something interesting from the time, look into Soichiro Honda and the development of CVCC technology. CVCC created multiple zones of fuel/air mixture in the combustion chamber (rich near the spark plug, leaner on the other side of the chamber) so that the flame kernel would more thoroughly combust the fuel during each power stroke, and create fewer emissions. The early CVCC Hondas didn't even need catalytic converters to meet emssion standards.
There was a rather famous interaction between Congress and representatives of the Big Three, who told Congress that the reduction in emissions they wanted was not possible, and then Honda sat down in front of them and said, "Can do, can do." Much to the chagrin of the other manufacturers.
Another interesting thing from the early 80's was Smokey Yunick's "Hot Vapor" engine. He built an Iron Duke in a Fiero that made like 200hp and got 70mpg by creating a vaporized gas/air mixture under low boost in the intake manifold. Smokey hated computers, so the system was completely mechanical. He shopped it back to GM, but they were going in the direction of EFI and weren't interested.
The Hot Vapor Fiero is in the Don Garlits museum in Florida now.
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The issue with switching to unleaded is valve fouling. The lead acted as a lubricant between the valves and the valve seats in the head. The fix for that is stainless steel valves and/or hardened valve seats. Stainless steel valves are more expensive, and hardened valve seats require an extra machining step in the manufacturing of the head (and also more expensive). But once that problem is solved, you can run whatever CR you want as long as your gas is high enough octane rating.
They had to go to unleaded to keep from clogging catalytic converters in 1975 MY cars. But they started dropping compression ratios and running the engines hotter in '73. '72 was pretty much the final year of the ultra-high-performance, solid lifter engines with big fat Holley carburetors in US cars. In '73, they introduced the Rochester Quadrajet, which had much smaller primaries and larger secondaries, and also had a solenoid to slam the butterfly shut to try to keep the hotter engines from dieseling after being shut off. In '75, GM introduced HEI ignition, which replaced all the old points-type ignition systems in the earlier engines. HEI was actually great, and is still found on a lot of hotrods and older cars that still run distributors.
One of the interesting events that happened around that time was Soichiro Honda introduced the CVCC technology, that burned much, much cleaner than what everyone else was using. The CVCC used a staged intake system that created a range of rich-to-lean fuel/air mixture in the combustion chamber (richer closer to the spark plug, leaner as it moved away) and would create a flame front that consumed more of the fuel and cut way down on hydrocarbons.
And of course, GM had placed a bet on the Wankel and it didn't work out for them. GM could afford to lose. AMC, who had planned on buying Wankels from GM for their mid-70's and later lineup, was hit pretty hard when the engine of the future wasn't.
I've kind of got a grudge against Toyota, because their reputation for reliable engines is based on outright theft. The 22RE is the illegitimate grandchild of the old Chevy Stovebolt 6, and the 4A series DOHC engines were pretty much a straight copy of the Ford/Cosworth DOHC 4. They just switched it from imperial to metric measurements. The 4A led to the 7M series that led to the 1JZ and 2JZ, which are the giants that all other Toyota engines stand on. And Toyota was having all of their R&D paid for by the Japanese government to give the Japanese auto industry an unfair advantage in the US market.
But Honda has always been an extremely forward thinking engineering company and they've come up with some really innovative and interesting concepts.
I do know Lotus claims to have invented the variable valve timing that eventually became VTEC. It was for the next generation LT5 they were developing for the ZR1 Corvette in the 1990's, but GM cancelled the LT5 in favor of the LS series of pushrod V8s. The LT5 wasn't going to fit in the C5 Corvette without a comically bulging hood.
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In his Monday monologue, #Colbert said he was “offended” by the $16 million settlement reached by #Paramount, whose pending sale to #Skydance #Media needs the #Trump administration’s approval. He said the technical name in legal circles for the deal was “big fat #bribe.”
Unter einer afd Regierung wird es nicht anders aussehen. Kabarettisten wie Böhmermann und Konsorten würden wahrscheinlich auch abgeschaltet. So beginnt eine Diktatur Ihren Lauf.
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As a reminder, America won WW2 because of its massive industrial base, thats since been gutted. This is why China will win WW3. Because we outsourced everything to save a buck and maximize quarterly profits.
In WWII the city of Detroit, Michigan would save the world from tyranny with its immense scale of mass production. But in 1939 America didn't have an armamen...
So supposedly people claimed to be Jewish sued Ford to force him to maximize profit at the expense of other things
If that is the case then these people claimed to be Jews would have then set the precedant for forcing corporations to do business with China to maximize short term profit which undermined America
@shortstories That is 100 percent correct, it was the Dodge Brothers that sued Ford and their lawsuit created the caselaw for what we now know as "shareholder primacy"
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@scottdhansen I was told by my daughter last week that blue moon ice cream is a Wisconsin thing. I found that hard to believe. So far based on the poll results, that seems to be true.
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Dogs are wonderful until they accidentally ‘ lock ‘ themselves in the bathroom and start doing a number on your trim while you are out running errands. New trim cut today and all is well.
@MummaBear he’s our rescue, he has a nice smile. my oldest while on duty saved him from a hot car on a 95 degree day when some hoodlems left him waiting while going to dinner in a car in the city. He busted the window and pulled him out.
@Zennagain @MummaBear Heinz 57 mostly shitsu although three other are in the mix as well. He’s immune to cold and water. Hates the Mail / amazon / FedEx/ UPS drivers.
@MummaBear My shepherds used to go into the USPS truck and get a cookie. It was so nice until a new driver showed up and had a heart attack when the dogs jumped into his truck! 😂
The most powerful form of influence the media has is what they leave out, from stories they don’t cover at all to details they leave out of what they do cover, as here.
There is very little News in the USA News now. I go to other counties to find out what's going on in my own country. There are also some fairly informative YouTube News. Sign: Living in Trumpland
Actually, the BBC does a much better job than the big US networks in covering Africa and Asia. BBC news in video and audio form is mostly kept away from us foreigners, but the web site is free and open. bbc.co.uk/news/world
I think this better coverage of Asia and Africa is because of the UK's imperialist history.
That's not to say that the USA hasn't acquired a lot of territory since the 1780s. The difference is that most of that territory is now states of the US, and well-covered in the press here.
The only fairly large territory left that is not part of a state is Puerto Rico. The others are all quite tiny.
Oh, and don't forget that the District of Columbia, which includes the capital city of Washington, is also not part of a state and not represented in the national government.
Hey Australians! What about the ACT. Is it represented in the national government in the same way as, say, Victoria?
@David Yes, the two principal mainland Australian territories (ACT and NT) are almost equivalent to the states, with representation in the parliament in both chambers. The eight smaller territories are effectively equivalent to local governments, like a town or city.
The main difference is that the territories do not have their own state constitutions, and are therefore governed directly by the federal constitution.
Here in the US, maybe the easiest fix is to add the territories to existing states. Make all the Pacific territories part of California, and all the Caribbean territories part of Florida or Louisiana.
If it's part of your country, it should be represented in your government.
Aid officials say at least 85 #Palestinians killed by #IDF while trying to get food aid. (NPR reports the number killed was 100). Besides these deaths by gunfire, countless #Gazans are dying by starvation. apnews.com/article/israel-pale…
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#rock #soul Incroyable... J'ai. l'impression d'un monde qui s'est évaporé sans laisser de traces. Ma nièce écoute des niaiseries des années 80, de la techno un peu fade, ce que nous appelions, ma soeur moi et les copains avec un mépris appuyé, le "sirop', et mon père encore pire, des "écouillés" (à commencer par le pauvre Chet Baker qu'il habillait pour l'hiver), je ne rate jamais une occasion d'honorer sa mémoire par ce mot qui me vaut les foudres de tous les bien pensants polis sérieux.. Sans la chaleur des cuivres, de la sueur, du beat, les basses, guitares, la batterie, un Chanteur toujours toqué mégalo - et je parle d'expérience ! Ils sont perchés comme personne n'oserait plus l'être ! Il faut le leur laisser !
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I swear every single company is making every shitty decision possible all at once. I'm going to have to become a FOSS sperg out of necessity at this point.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHgc5LsX58Ys-YysMi/ Why do people fear socialism, but not fascism? Why does the idea of workers owning the means of production scare millions, while police states, corpora...
Yep. Fascism is notoriously difficult to define. I was effectively a socialist for years before I looked into it and realized my ideals already had a label.
I could just download Arknights boss themes and play them over Slice and Dice instead while goofing off at work. I already do half the time when the Arknights stamina is dry
"Archives / Vacarme en réunion #5 / Émission du 3 novembre 2013 En duplex depuis l'inauguration de la Toison d'Or, urbanisme, centre commercial et vol en tout genre."
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En duplex depuis l’inauguration de la Toison d’Or, urbanisme, centre commercial et vol en tout genre.
"Venez manifester aux côtés des gazaoui•es dont les familles subissent la famine et les bombardements orchestrés par Israel en ce moment même, votre présence compte et ne sera remplacée par la présence de personne d'autre"
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hahaha yes, I successfully triggered the iOS "your NFC secure element is too full, please delete some cards" UI!
for the unaware, Apple Wallet cards are really Java Card programs stored on an embedded Secure Element chip, separate from the main processor
this chip has limited storage! if you overfill it — say, by wasting $40 on TAP transit cards — it forces you to make room for more with this rarely-seen popup
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China reported better-than-expected economic growth for the second quarter in the face of an ongoing trade war with the United States, as diversification efforts to non-US markets buoyed exports.
GDP expanded 5.2% in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) at a press conference on Tuesday.
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Years ago, when I lived in Washington DC, there was an incident on the metro when a train got stuck in a tunnel that was filling with smoke.
Metro authorities told everyone to stay in the train cars, even though they were filling with smoke and it’s generally a bad idea to stay in an enclosed space filling with smoke. Metro also has evacuation instructions posted by every door.
An elderly woman eventually did die from smoke inhalation. More people had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
And I recall getting into an argument in, like, the comments section of an article on Popville about how *you should not stay in an enclosed space filling with smoke because you will eventually die.*
And a number of other people chastised me for saying this, because People In Authority had told everyone to stay put and it could have been very dangerous to open the doors and evacuate. Someone might have died!
But someone literally did die from following those instructions.
I routinely think about this essay, about the sinking of the ferry Estonia in the 1990s, which made a huge impression on me and which I’ve plugged before:
“People who started early and moved fast had some chance of winning. People who started late or hesitated for any reason had no chance at all. Action paid. Contemplation did not. The mere act of getting dressed was enough to condemn people to death, and although many of those who escaped to the water succumbed to the cold, most of the ultimate winners endured the ordeal completely naked or in their underwear. The survivors all seem to have grasped the nature of this race…”
In this particular case, the disaster unfolded so quickly and dramatically that there was no real chance for people in authority to tell people to stay put. But they were also of little to no help to anyone else.
When you sense that you are in danger, listen to that sense and act to protect yourself and anyone else around you who is willing to listen. Do not wait for orders. Do not worry about appearing embarrassed about overreacting. Trust yourself and take action.
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place in 1994. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves.
All of this came to mind when I read about the disastrous flooding at Camp Mystic in Texas on 4 July. The camp had been built in a flood plain. Its owners knew this and had deliberately sought and received zoning exemptions to build buildings that were unsafe. They had received flash flood warnings that night and waited more than an hour before taking any action to evacuate their children at the camp.
“As the water encroached, the teenage counselors, cut off from others, were left to make frantic life-and-death decisions.”
27 campers and counselors died that night, and six more are still missing. You cannot rely on systems and structures of authority to help you in an emergency. You must trust your judgment. Act and act fast.
Hierarchical authority relies on stable and predictable systems to work. They require an environment that is legible to the people in positions of authority. They require clear communication of orders down the hierarchical chain.
None of that exists in a genuine emergency, especially one that affects people in authority and their subordinates equally. And, critically, for those systems of authority to work in ways that might be useful to you, they require people in power to have better judgment than you about your own immediate circumstances, and they require people in power to care as much about you as they do about themselves.
In short, act as if no one is coming to save you or the people next to you.
For Californians- If Cal-Fire tells you to evacuate, go! They do know what they are doing, and they really hate finding burnt corpses. Your property is not worth your life.
@c_merriweather But, if they haven't told you to evacuate but you think you should and have the means to do so, it's probably a good idea to get out early before there's an order. Similarly if the government doesn't require you to wear a mask in a setting but you think there's a good chance of catching a disease or being harmed by wildfire smoke there, go ahead and wear the mask instead of worrying about who won't think you're compliant enough.
Cal-Fire issues precautionary evacuation orders far ahead of time. In rural areas, they want people out of the way and off of the roads, so they can get their equipment to the fire.
I have been in two evacuations, so far. Been there.
@c_merriweather @PedestrianError I know people who lost everything in deadly freeway-jumping, neighborhood-annihilating wildfires that moved so fast there was no time for evacuation orders to go out.
Especially now that the various emergency monitoring and response services are getting cut willy nilly, don't count on getting warnings.
It's probably worth noting that this was a conservative Christian all girls' camp. The teenage counselors were not only minors but minors who had been socialized to see themselves as second class citizens not cut out to lead or take decisive action. Training them to wait for 'God' or his representative in the form of a man to save them helped kill them and the younger children with them.
this reminds me of a concert I attended recently, where the fire alarm system went off during the start of the show... nobody was sure what was happening, the show was occurring on the 4th floor of a large building, I'd estimate only about 10% of the audience got up and reacted to the alarm (which sounded for about 15 minutes straight before authorities made a statement of false alarm)
I can't help thinking about what would have happened if it wasn't a false alarm... if there was really a fire only the people who left early would have had a chance of making it out alive, the rest likely would have just been burned up in a tall building fire because they sat around ignoring the fire alarms waiting for a statement tbh
to make this worse, most of the audience happened to be elderly people who would struggle to escape in a rush too
Note that in the Metro situation, if it is the tunnel not the train filling with smoke things get more complex. It is the tunnel from which you must either escape or move far enough within to get upwind or out of range of the smoke.
The train car itself may or may not hold off the smoke, but if you wait in it until it gets too smoky it will then be even worse in the tunnel.
The final complication is this: if the train still has 3ed rail power Metro will presumably try to back it out of the smoke. Metro really needs to tell passengers right quick in these scenarios whether that will be attempted or not. If it works, its the best way out of the smoke for everyone. If it cannot be done passengers need to know fast.
I think about this lately from a bit of a longer perspective. I'm always depressed because I think the world is ending, but I still work and pay off my mortgage and prepare to retire. I have been thinking that I might be more at peace if I stopped worrying about fiscal stuff if I really believe that we have maybe a decade before most societies collapse.
(Like in your Estonia example me worrying about my 401k is like someone worrying about putting clothes on before jumping in the water.)
No no Ben this is your story of truth. In collaboration with the CCP renowned for their willingness to share accurate data with the western world. Do tell us more Ben.
You are willing to bet your life that zero mining took place in China 2022-2023? I will take the other side of that bet. Seems highly illogical. No one has real data on China and you know this. Unless you are a moron?
Well they did. And bitcoin mining went from 70% of the world share to invisible on the graph in three years. And I explained that to you when you didn’t understand. And I invited you to supply evidence to the contrary and you declined. So if I’m the moron here I’m not sure what adjective is left for you.
No Ben the year is 2025. You couldn't supply any current data on the amount of mining in China today so you showcased a small subset of data from 22-23 and purported that the data was empirical on a nation where it is impossible do so. You are the height of intellectual dishonesty aka a fucking moron.
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