Mechanical Ninja

@TroyCreigh90673 @Hortysir Then it's probably recommended, not required. There is a difference. Recommended = is a suggestion/scam, you'll be fine running regularly, at worse you'll lose a few HP. Required = you better put in what we say or get your checkbook out.

@RallyxPoint @Hortysir I haven’t had an issue, I remember years ago if you put cheap gas in it would spark knock.

Has anyone else noticed a drop in mpg with this more expensive gas? It can't be just me

@AngryInMplsMN @DisrespectedThe Yet you carry a phone in your pocket that does the same thing. Why aren't you rocking a pager if you're so concerned with being tracked? .... The fact is we will be tracked the rest of our lives and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Car type or age doesn't matter.

People need to understand what this is ultimately about. It's not just money grabbing for licensing fees. That's just the dressing. It's all about control. They want older, 'off-the-grid', analog cars forced off the road as much as possible because they don't have data uplink/telemetry transmission capability. They can't be tracked all the time, can't be data mined. This exists now to a major degree simply by way of the cell phones in everyone's hands. But you can still turn that off and move freely in an older vehicle. They are fixing that shit now. Big Tech, Big Government, and regulatory agencies want the ability to control and monetize every single thing about our lives and phones are not enough- vehicular travel presents the next largest potential data and surveillance market after digital communications as well as acting as an ultimate movement control system. Kill switch mandate has been passed, and within a couple years every single new vehicle will be actively transmitting locations, velocities, all driving habits with timestamps. LE will have the ability to render your vehicle inoperable. Late on a payment or behind a couple payments on a car? The bank will be able to simply signal your car to sit dead in your garage. No repo men needed. Insurance companies will have access to this in real-time. The great a.i. will control all of it. Speed a couple times on the way to work during the week? You're auto-flagged to have your premiums go up or you can be arbitrarily dropped altogether whether or not you were caught by LE and got a citation that goes on your MVR, which is what they use now, yearly or semi-annually to view your record and determine rates by risk factor. Of course, this will all be packaged and sold under the guise of "for your safety and convenience." Just like every scam and law they come up with that erodes freedoms and privacy. Laws and policy will also be put in place to prohibit attempted circumvention of any data/tracking/uplink features in vehicles. You will be fined, potentially jailed, and or car companies will void warranties or render vehicles inoperable if you try to disconnect the spybox or use 3rd party flashing to try and reprogram it. Calling representatives or voting will not stop this, unfortunately. It is the will of the great dystopian mechanism that's destroying freedom and autonomy in the West. Guaranteed that within a decade- two at the most- this will be active in every state in the nation. Everyone better just brace for it. You will own nothing and be happy. You will be spied on and ignore it. You will be monetized like a product and not worry. Just shut up, pay your ever increasing taxes, and focus on the distractions they keep throwing out while your country is turned into a totalitarian dystopia through backroom deals.

Minnesota is trying to pass legislation limiting YOUR use of YOUR classic car or motorcycle to daylight weekend hours.

@TroyCreigh90673 @Hortysir Not if your engine was engineered for it. Your ECU will be retarding the engine at that point which is not good long term for many reasons.

@Hortysir That’s why I stopped using premium and just put regular in. It’s a total scam

@Atomic_Ferret @MyronVernis Airbags are hard to add though.

@MyronVernis TBH, I like having CarPlay more than a tape deck and CD player. Fortunately easy to add. Manual everything but with Carplay and a backup camera.

Do things really need to be any more complicated than this?

@Gryph911 Of all the bears to come across a black bear is a best case scenario. Conditions apply, but 9/10 times they scurry off like raccoons once you make a loud enough noise.

But it’s my happy place

@caityxox_ @NostalgiaGalaxy Is this old tech? Is there a better way now? The place I go still does this? 🧐 Should I find a new eye doctor? 😅

@NostalgiaGalaxy Hahaha I used to work at an opticians and was on the other end. The reactions people had from the puff of air was wild

Only real ones know what came after seeing these 😭

About those Epstein files, is this still a thing? Asking for a friend.

@pat_loomis6537 @Gryph911 I'd rather not be at war for Isreal. Thanks.

@Gryph911 Some people can't take a few weeks of adversity without throwing a hissy fit.

So much winning.

The last chance the US had to save itself, even if a hail mary at best, was Ron Paul.

today i am 39. that means i have experienced 14,244.8 days and after fourteen thousand days i have come to one concrete truth for all: uninstall solidworks

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

Machinists after you say anything positive about 3d printing😭

Still a classic… how is it that he’s the only one making sense and thinking logically tell you everything

The debt passed $39 trillion today. Paying a trillion dollars of interest annually on this debt causes hardship for tax-payers and robs us of resources that could otherwise be used for infrastructure or national defense. And ultimately, this debt will enslave our grandchildren.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

Old Danforth Bridge, (Sudbury River) and nearby Carol Getchell Boardwalk path which was almost under water. (Framingham, MA - around 18:30 EST on 3/16/26), I'm sure by now the boardwalk is probably flooded over. (More photos and videos in replies). (Spotter ID 22-138)