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  • Interestingly enough, I haven't seen one of those unexploded ordnance pamphlets since I was a kid, they used to give those to everyone in my country.

    Guess WWII was a long time ago and people have done a lot of metal detecting over the last few decades.

  • Right, that’s my point though. With my '84 Chevy Monte Carlo SS, I could drop a new engine in (started with a 305, ended with a 400 short block), do a high-flow dual carb intake, get a couple Edelbrock carbs, buy some headers, straight pipes and a glasspack muffler, and get a ton more power. (And also much, much worse fuel economy.)

    Right. But with a lot of modern cars, you don't need to drop in a new engine at all, and for a lot of people changing fuel trim tables is easier than getting carb jets juuuuuust right. Not to mention there are premade stage1 remaps for stock engines that should "mostly" work. There are engines out there that will give you around a 30% without a single mod, though generally not on those premade remaps, as those try to err on the safe side. Stock intake, stock exhaust, stock everything. Just a remap. Oftentimes, they give you BETTER fuel economy because of the improved torque curve. Though the increased effect of the fun pedal often cancels this out.

    I'd say you can get into modding with less knowledge and skill nowadays, because as long as you have the hardware, you can get someone to remap your car remotely so you don't even need to be able to drive it to a shop after doing whatever mods you want to do to it. True, if you want to do everything by yourself, then it's harder.

  • It’s significantly harder to build hot rods or street racing cars now than the way you could in the 80s and earlier.

    Unless you know how to remap a car and have a car with plenty of power reserve.

    Anything turbocharged can be remapped for more power unless you're at the limit of either the turbo, or the fuelling - and when you get there, many have options for more fuel and air. Diesels in particular are magic because you take a car that does ridiculous economy figures stock, and you double its power figures just to show people you can.

    E.g Bobby Singh got 600 hp out of his diesel Audi wagon. These come stock with 240ish horsepower (176 kW or 239 PS I believe). He's done engine internals upgrades to this one, but on other peoples' cars he usually does bolt-on mods and gets about 400hp-500hp depending on what mods someone is willing to shell out for. Minus the upgraded internals, you could do this at home if you wanted to.

    On the gasoline side, BMW has the B58 where you can get 500-600 hp with bolt-on mods and if you build it like people used to build hot rods, 1500 hp is doable. It's considered the new 2JZ because Toyota itself put it in the Supra instead of building their own successor to the 2JZ. The 2JZ itself was a supercar killer when built properly.

    On the Japanese side, I'm not sure if they're doing anything fun new and new today, but they've all historically had at least one or two ridiculously tunable engines and Nissan will still sell you the very tunable GT-R.

    Yes, some of those tunable newer engines come in pretty expensive cars, but there are still plenty of 4 bangers you can mod easily too. And it's not like the hot rodders typically used small engines in the past. It was usually big ass V8s that you couldn't even buy in most of the world because they used too much fuel lol

  • The official stance is that nobody will ever get out of that prison alive. Literally. It's one very specific prison, and it's reduced El Salvador's violent crime rate to damn near zero because of how fucked up that prison is, and how little due process you'll receive if you even just get caught having gang tattoos. They don't need to connect you to any specific crime.

    You'll share the cell with like 40 other dudes, and you all share one communal water barrel and one communal shit pit. The food is specifically designed to not be nutritious enough to sustain any muscle mass. You'll wish for death in there, but you can't even commit suicide by another inmate. Even suicide by guard is hard to pull off.

    I'd honestly take the bullet over CECOT.

  • The running cost of the AI model is shared between users. cam girl donations - technically also, but if too many people donate, you get less attention personally.

    Personally I'm just going to keep on watching free porn. The gambling ads at least pay out to real people instead of fossil fuel companies.

  • Full self driving isn't full self driving anyway. You're expected to sit in the drivers seat ready to take action anyway. Sucks that it kills people, but it's a problem with the marketing, not the tech which is comparable to other cars adaptive cruise with lane keep assist. Musk should be held fully responsible because the fact that it's a marketing issue makes it even worse to me.

  • Not that I disagree with you on how idiotic it is, but with AI you can give it very precise requirements on what you want to see.

    There are people who would pay to have porn videos created to their taste. User fuckswithducks on reddit explained this a few years ago. Now people who have such extremely specific desires don't have to shell out thousands for a private video from their favorite star.

  • I haven't seen the attack helicopter and the joke is pretty damn old tbh, but drag at least is/was kinda funny. Drag's profile specified that drag's pronoun is "drag" in not just third, but also first and second person, which is an interesting concept. Drag also stayed in character in drag's posts. Drag didn't ever really bother people with the whole thing IMO.

  • The fact you need to prove citizenship to register to vote is the least of their election problems.

    Is it? Potentially millions of citizens can't vote. There's exactly one party pushing for voter ID laws and it's not the one that young people without driver's licenses would likely vote for.