QuinceDaPence

To accelerate a vehicle we need to put kinetic energy into it and Power is the measure of how fast we can do that.

From a technical capability standpoint, torque is a useless measure. With a motor of a given power you can always gear it up or down to whatever torque you need (assuming a lossless transmission system).

If we take two identical trucks with 10k lb trailers on them and one’s a 800ft-lb diesel and one’s a 300ft-lb gas, both with 400hp, they sould realisticly accelerate and climb a hill at the same rate. The diference is the gas engine will be screaming at 6/7/8000 rpm and guzzling gas. (This also assumes no other factors like heat cone into play, the gas may not be able to maintain as much power due to cooling system designs or other factors).

Torquey-er engines also tend to feel better from a driveability standpoint but that’s not representative of capability.

It’s accurate or close to it… Some concrete truck drivers will keep bottles of coke to pour in there in emergencies where they need to make sure it doesn’t set inside the truck.

He comes from a land down under.

Yeah they bought some food company

I love operating heavy machinery as long as I don’t have to get out/off the heavy machinery.

If I have to get off to fix it when it breaks then I’m unhappy.

Using an airconditioned tractor for literally anything, fun. Unjamming the fucking hay bailer when it’s over 100F and 95% humidity and there’s dust everywhere, not fun.

In the US there is the ‘Ghost Flower’ or ‘Indian Pipe’ which is parasitic to fungus which is parasitic to the host tree. It is totally white with no chlorophyll.

It’s parasites all the way down.

Photovoltaic doesn’t require water. What are you talking about?

Gotta get that “y’all all” or “all y’all” going if that’s what they’re going for.

Yeah definitely. Keep it in and adjust to match.

Thanks.

And get more surface area to the air than you could with straight air cooling.

And control the temperature more acurately if desired through a thermostat.

My grandpa has a Vanagon but it’s in kinda rough shape.

Body is pretty good but the interior is pretty much gone and it has electrical grimlins so it either starts and drives perfectly or just screams at you doesn’t even attempt to start.

Super cool vehicle though.

What was the original sign?

In addition to that. It’s probably mocking these places where it asks if you want to leave a tip when you didn’t see a single employee your entire visit. Or counter service/fast food etc.

Wait 'till they meet Charlie B

That’s because it’s a made up number that they add on instead of just pricing the vehicle accurately. So then they advertise it as $60K and then add the market adjustment of $40K.

If I was Attorney General I’d be shutting dealers down if the price before TTL was even $1 higher than the advertised price.

I was going to say the same thing.

The first two parked vehicles look like the (old) Pessima and the LeGran

Needs to be either a percentage of yearly gross revenue averaged over the last 5 years, or a multiple of whatever they stood to gain from the policy (not just the individual plantiff).

Whichever is higher.

And don’t let them write it off. You still have to pay taxes on the fine

There’s a few reasons for that. One is obviously the having to get off the horse to deal with it but also dog poop smells way worse and doesn’t degrade the same as horses does. It really doesn’t take that long for horse poop to turn to pretty much dirt.

-someone who’s shoveled or mowed over my fair share of both

I’d expect the crushed up bones of their enemies to be more of a Finnish thing. Which is also why I’m glad they’re on our side.

Correct. If you take a totally clean, disinfected nail, stick it in some lab grade brine until it gets rusty, and then stab yourself with it, there is a 0% chance of getting tetanus.

You could technically have tetanus on something without it being covered in dirt. My point is tetanus bacteria lives in the dirt. But the rust has nothing to do with it other than making the metal more likely to cut or pierce you.

People tend to think the rust is what causes it.