ArumiOrnaught @ ArumiOrnaught @kbin.social

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My man, change your drivetrain oil. Call me old fashioned but vehicles should last longer than 8 years. This "lifetime transmission" stuff is hogwash. I have a 5 year old ICE car that I plan on changing it's transmission oil and filter...in about 3 years.

Your drivetrain is made out of actual materials. Not some marvel movie space metal. It will shed some metal into the oil when it moves. You don't want to drive around with grit soap for lube.

Way too many people get news and information through shit posts :/

Do you know how many people think because they have a hybrid they don't have oil. I'd much rather be called a dumbass for not knowing make/model/year on a random "ev's" than someone destroying their car. So yes, I will do this till I become the meme and the "ev's don't require any maintenance" meme dies.

If you have a clogged air filter you will damage your engine. Most of the time slapping the air filter against your leg to get the dust out helps. If you see oil on it then there is a serious issue, that could have been from not changing your filter.

An old air filter will do one of two things. Make your engine run rough because it isn't getting enough oxygen, 1/3rd of what makes your car go forward. Or allowing dirt to get into your engine and that will 100% damage your engine. Imagine if you will, instead of lube you used grit soap. Please don't ruin your car over a $30 part. Filter is cheap, engines are expensive.

Change your own air filter. One of the easiest things you can do for maintenance. It's either clips or a size 8mm socket... usually. Then you don't have to pay some kid $100 for 2 minutes of labor. You'll feel better for doing something and you will also get better gas mileage. If the answer to when was the last time you changed your air filter is "I don't know" then it's probably time.

Mechanic here. Most ev's have oil. Check your owners manual when you should change it.

/TiredMechanic

You play the Everest as Ra intended.

You can have a heart transplant.

If you don't vote then the politicians don't care. They'll see your ambivalence as a sign that you think things are fine. Also look more at local elections more than big ones. They help more than you think. Primaries are where you're actually allow people left of 1980's Republicans get elected. There have been elections where I've been one of the 10 people voting. It really isn't hard to change elections if you're doing it right.

Also aren't most of the book burnings happening in multiple states because of just 10 people. Knowing how to vote and apply pressure is better than making some politician 20 minutes late because you pulled out a valve stem core.

You? Lmao, nope. Gotta pay big bucks if you want new cars repaired. Pay a couple thousand upfront and then another couple thousand every year for new vehicle information. You can thank John Deere for that shift. I know, your car currently runs. For Americans, there is a certain point in buying a newer one is cheaper than repairing it. There will be a point where everyone is forced to have a shittier car because they are either all like that or you pay the big bucks. What are Americans going to do? Not buy cars, they don't have the freedom to not have one.

It's not one giant battery, but arrays of smaller batteries. At least that has been my experience with them. Battery goes bad and you replace that array. Not 20k but closer to 2k.

aS A meCHAnIC, all vehicles are doomed. You want green, advocate for trollies.

Heavier vehicles also eat up tires quicker and put more micro plastics into the environment.

I heard one of the byproducts of desalinization is hydrogen. If that's what's powering the cars, and we're going to run out of drinking water that seems like a win win in my book.

For context I work on trash trucks and salt trucks. What are you doing that's making zip ties cut into wires? I need to make sure that the wire harness that runs along the body above and next to the drive shaft that will spin everything the trucks run over. If the harness is loose the cable will get caught in the debris.

If you're working in a server room with lots of wires I can see the utility of those fabric fasteners. I don't get the luxury of the wires only moving when I touch them.

How is Paracord better for cable management?

Goku

My second and third paragraph should have that covered.

If it is a situation where you know you get horny and someone is trying MDMA for the first time, you don't disclose that you do get horny, and you have sex. I would say that is a gray area that leans towards bad.

My first time trying edibles was with someone that I already had sex with and was planning on having sex with that night. If we got horny from that and fucked sooner than expected then that would be fine.

I guess to sum up, if you put someone in a situation where they don't have knowledge of the possibilities that is bad. Everyone already feels this when it comes to other things. Like hidden fees. They said x but y happened. Why should I expect y to happen? This is a new situation and I'm ignorant and you took advantage of it. Even if I got what I originally wanted the "price" changed.

My spouse and I have drunk sex.

If I'm at a party and I've been with a person for a few months, have already had sex before, and already talked about doing it after I also see no issue.

If you are going to a party that is explicitly for sex and drugs, you should expect to have drunk sex with strangers. You know know this is going to happen before becoming intoxicated.

If you have talked about maybe making the attempt to date show up so a party on E and corner someone in a walk in pantry, that isn't fine.

A story from before I joined, someone was training and got pinned with a light pole. The vehicle cut him in half. Now we require backup cameras :D

I thank mine all the time. You know how much job security I get from people constantly running into walls, or leaving the PTO on while driving?

It's cheaper to "destroy" the weapons and equipment and make new ones.

I also doubt the person who wrote the article actually cares about Afghanistan.

If you wanted to fight the Taliban you would support Rojava. American military is too narrow minded and slow to fight an insurgency.

I appreciate you responding, even if most of what I was doing was screaming into the void.

FIAT and gold standards will have similar issues, and where they differ FIAT is better. Unless you want degrowth, then gold standard is better. Our current economy is built on growth. Without growth you die.

All graphs realted to inequality and general quality of life have been steadily dropping since 1971

I do feel it being correlation and not causation with line go down and FIAT. I can more easily point to legislation than I can gold.

the entire system is set up to steal

The system was set up to steal before too. It's just now a more shuffle assets around and magic presto you now have more money.

Boomers didn’t really cause this, they have no idea what any of that even means

Lol, fair enough.

It’s more or less created by a tiny policial and financial elite conspiring to takw over our monetary system

You kind of lost me there. I strongly doubt there are people who planned 4d chess and have it to roll out like this. Look at Elon, who has been failing upward his whole life. Look at Bill Gates being a big baby with copy righn. In most cases it seems to be people arguing for immediate short term benefits to themselves while disregarding the future.

were no crazy real estate bubbles...before 1971

If you're talking about raw size, sure. People use to also be much quicker to violence. You used to have striking union workers getting gunned down by the state for a 40hr work week. We are much more tolerant to being abused.

There’s some other factors too, like people moving to cities and social issues,

Moving to cities have generally been what made most human technological progress. Cities are much better than suburbs.

Ghadaffi...[wanted gold standard]...and that’s why Libya was destroyed.

Well, that is certainly a view. I think we'll just talk past each other on that one.