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   Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:52:50 JST Matty

   • Bread up, Bro
   If you asked me to pull a motor out I might be able to do it after like a week of slamming my dick in the hood. I've never been much of a car guy. A novice handyman at best. I won't pretend I'll have any tradable skills when SHTF other than knowing how to handle firearms and being very good at doing so.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:52:50 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @matty matty, I'd suggest you remove the hood as the first step, then you'll stop slamming your dick in it. ( also makes operating the crane a bit easier )
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     Special Guest Star (s2208@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:53:06 JST Special Guest Star

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     • Bread up, Bro
     make a paper airplane!!
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:53:07 JST Matty

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     If you showed me one of those flyout engineering diagrams I wouldn't have any clue what to do with it. I'd be boned.
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     Heil_Honkler (heil_honkler@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:53:08 JST Heil_Honkler

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     @matty @sickburnbro I would probably need to read a manual for the newer engines and the like. still, taking apart is one thing, being able to identify the problem once it's disassembled is another.
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     Heil_Honkler (heil_honkler@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:53:54 JST Heil_Honkler

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     @matty @sickburnbro I mean going in you would usually have a pretty good idea but still there is experience that comes from that regularly working on vehicles that you won't have otherwise. I would get there eventually but would take me significantly longer than someone who does it for a living.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:54:43 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Heil_Honkler @matty right, the question isn't "are you a professional mechanic, RN"
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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:54:50 JST Dudebro

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     I never realize how mechanically inclined I am until other people talk about machinery and diagrams like they are greek. I am glad I did HVAC for years and can fix most simple machines.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:55:57 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Dudebro @matty @Heil_Honkler looking at digrams is pretty easy, what is vomit enduing for me is trying to create them. As soon as there are more than say 20 components and they have to be connected .. ugh.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:58:07 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Dudebro
     @matty @Dudebro @Heil_Honkler yes, I think there are a lot of similarities, but there are a lot of conventions in auto mechanics that can trip people up.
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:58:08 JST Matty

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     • Dudebro
     It's Greek to me. However in the event I am forced into learning something, I can generally pick it up quickly once I have the fundamentals understood. It's just that most of the things that I do involve computers.
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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:58:33 JST Dudebro

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     I would never want to make exploded diagrams. Writing electrical schematics is hard enough and I only had to do that for some basic shit as an example. When you get to a 15 page chiller diagram spaghetti starts flying.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:18 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Dagnar @grizzlywhisker @matty you can retap spark plug holes, its not the end of the world, they aren't torqued nearly as tightly as say the studs for exhaust manifolds.
     
     The part about retapping spark plug holes that is bad is that you're making metal shavings that have a high probability of falling into the cylinder.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:19 JST Dagnar

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     We were driving home one night and there was a sudden POP and then the engine sounded all fucked up. When we got home, I looked under the hood and saw the plug still on the wire but dangling on the engine. I looked in the hole and found it smooth, the threads had stripped completely. I called up Auto Zone and they told me what I could do was get a retap kit and the plug would hold. You use this tap to gouge out the thread walls, install this ring with threads on both side, use Locktite, and the plug threads into the ring. It held for another two years before we simply got rid of the whole car.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:20 JST Dagnar

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     It's not recommended to keep running an engine with a retapped plug, but if it's 1996 and you're stuck with a 1982 Subaru, you make do.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:20 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I didn't even know that, so if you alter the thread of the spark plug it can mess up the engine?
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:21 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I've never had to do that. Most I ever did was look up the type of spark plug I needed, buy it at the store and then screw it in lol.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:22 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I changed a belt on my lawnmower once... 😩
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:22 JST Dagnar

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     I retapped a spark plug in the middle of winter. That was .. horrible.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:23 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I usually change my own oil and oil filter, I changed out a water pump on a car I had that was overheating once but I'd have to do some research before attempting anything like that again. Other than the most basic of stuff like that I'm pretty much clueless.
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:49:23 JST Matty

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     The most I've done was replacing a timing belt on an interference motor and a thermostat.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:53:33 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Dagnar @grizzlywhisker @matty helicoils are a great hail mary
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:55:22 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @grizzlywhisker @Dagnar @matty haha, how many plugins blew out
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:55:23 JST grizzlywhisker

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     Damn, the exact same thing happened to me in my old Crown Vic police car lol. I bought this shitty ass Crown Victoria from an auction for dirt cheap thinking it was going to last until 500,000 miles or something, but the spark plugs shot out of the engine after a massive gunshot noise while I was driving and I couldn't get anyone to even work on it so I just scrapped it and bought a new car lol.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:55:48 JST Dagnar

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     I worried about that a lot. I forget what I did to help with that, but I think it involved paper towel and some wire, with a shop vac afterwards. Damn near 30 years ago so some details are gone.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:55:48 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Dagnar @grizzlywhisker @matty yeah, that's usually what I've seen done, you want to plug it, put some light oil to catch the flakes and pray
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 22:56:10 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • grizzlywhisker
     @Dagnar @grizzlywhisker @matty as long as you get the bigger stuff, the tiny stuff will work its way out
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:03:26 JST grizzlywhisker

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     Hell yeah, I'm sure they abuse the shit out of them and they're poorly maintained. I got it with something like 60k miles on it for 3 grand and I drove it until like 150k without putting any money into it so it could have been worse.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:03:26 JST Dagnar

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     They order top of the line from the factory, though, so there's that bit of leeway. They can take more abuse, but if shit like popped plugs happens, just scrap it.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:03:27 JST grizzlywhisker

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     This was a really long time ago, but I think it was 2 of them. I remember trying to see if any local places would fix it for me and they'd call me right back like "yeah we can't fix this" so I just got rid of it because it was practically worthless at that point with how many miles were on it.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:03:27 JST Dagnar

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     Besides .. police car. Thing must have been abused.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:06:03 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Dagnar @grizzlywhisker @matty they unusually do the required maintenance of them, since that is built into the costs, but they usually flog them a lot.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:10:09 JST grizzlywhisker

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     This ambulance was bought new for over 100k by the department that used it, they sold it to this dude for like 9k when they wanted to get rid of it lol. He got it for a steal.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:10:10 JST Dagnar

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     Size of a regular camper .. yeah that totally makes sense.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:10:11 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I came across this interesting video of a dude who made a 1999 Ford ambulance into a fully functional house. Apparently the engines last forever on these things.
     
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVfnmiMtuaw
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:10:55 JST Dagnar

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     Just 5 good chases alone will strain the car a lot, nevermind pit maneuvers.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:00 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • grizzlywhisker
     @BattleDwarfGimli @DC5FAN @Dagnar @grizzlywhisker @matty well, the trick is that there were some initial things that a lot of people wanted done, and so they took the fact that they were doing that as license to hector everyone on dumb stuff for 50 years
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     BattleDwarfGimli (battledwarfgimli@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:01 JST BattleDwarfGimli

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     The root of the problem is that the EPA exists at all.
     
     And yes, people would flock to buy that car.
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     Weed B Gone (dc5fan@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:03 JST Weed B Gone

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     @grizzlywhisker @BattleDwarfGimli @Dagnar @matty @sickburnbro I wonder if someone came out with a really simple car if people would buy it? The problem is all the EPA and safety regulations make that impossible.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:04 JST grizzlywhisker

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     Like I really want to get a second vehicle that's from 1990 or something and has no computer crap in it so I can have both.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:05 JST Dagnar

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     NY started moving away from using exclusively Crown Vics somewhere around 2000, and I had my Grand Am in 2008. Yes, I have never owned a car younger than 10 yrs old at the time.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:05 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I made some money with Bitcoin so I cashed it out and bought a brand new car last year, it's the only new car I've ever owned. It's a 2023 which is cool but I kind of don't like all the computer bullshit, I wish I still had my old pickup truck with rolling windows sometimes.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:06 JST grizzlywhisker

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     Farmington Hills used to have Comero cops around 2005 I think. I think they had Chargers/Challengers or something after that.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:07 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I had one of these blue state police ones lol. I tried to get one that looked the least like an actual police car but it still looks like a damn police car. I would never drive one of these fucking things again because everyone drives slow as hell around you and then gets all mad when they realize you're just some random person driving it.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:07 JST Dagnar

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     I had a 1994 Grand Am in White, and got the same responses from other drivers. It looked like an unmarked car.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:07 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I don't think I've ever seen a Grand Am police car. I remember Robocop had like a late 80's Ford Taurus police car or something.
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     BattleDwarfGimli (battledwarfgimli@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:07 JST BattleDwarfGimli

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     Birmingham was using Soccer Mom minivans with a headlight they could turn on and off, as early as 1988... fuckers...
     
     ask me how I know...
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     BattleDwarfGimli (battledwarfgimli@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:05:08 JST BattleDwarfGimli

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     I blew a plug at a stoplight in my 2009 Ford Police Interceptor. I thought I was taking fire at first. Damn near climbed under the dash.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:09:22 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @grizzlywhisker @BattleDwarfGimli @Dagnar @matty @DC5FAN I mean you can power things many different ways, but the key is *power* - it needs to come from somewhere.
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:09:23 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I remember there was a guy Stanley Meyer who claimed to have built an engine that was powered by water and his wife claimed he was poisoned when they were out eating dinner and he dropped dead or something. There used to be videos of him on YouTube, they’re probably still there.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:09:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @DC5FAN @grizzlywhisker @BattleDwarfGimli @Dagnar @matty there is no free lunch
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     Weed B Gone (dc5fan@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:09:37 JST Weed B Gone

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     @grizzlywhisker @BattleDwarfGimli @Dagnar @matty @sickburnbro I've heard about that. Free energy would be very bad for business.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:13:56 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @DC5FAN @grizzlywhisker @BattleDwarfGimli @Dagnar @matty the power that is "free" that is being suppressed is nuclear, they don't really need to suppress anything else, sadly.
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     Weed B Gone (dc5fan@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:13:57 JST Weed B Gone

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     @sickburnbro @grizzlywhisker @BattleDwarfGimli @Dagnar @matty I'm too dumb to understand how something like that works. My understanding of engines is just slightly higher than the average woman.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 03:35:57 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @WilhelmIII @veff @Dudebro @matty @Heil_Honkler cars don't use magnetos for ignition anymore.
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     @Dudebro @sickburnbro @matty @Heil_Honkler Do cars even use magnetos? I thought that was mainly a small plane thing

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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 03:35:58 JST WilhelmIII

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     Not really, though a cam or crank position sensor uses basically the same principle in miniature.
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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 03:35:59 JST Dudebro

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     Whats a fucking magneto, damn comic books nerds in my fuckin car! Then a solenoid, what the piss is that!