That is certainly a valid point. Personally I’m pasty white, male and have no tattoos, so I’d be safe, but still feel iffy. Which is sad because I kinda want to visit a lot of places in the US. Maybe if they shake the taint they have on them right now.

Trump is actively working on changing that. Look at the value of the usd lol

Fair enough, in some careers you may see them more. In normal day to day life I’d say even decimeters are uncommon. You get deciliters in recipes when cooking, centiliters are often used for alcoholic beverage bottles, centimeters are the most common. Deca I think is especially rare, hecto is something you might see used with pressure (hectopascals apparently are equivalent to millibars), but even that is fairly uncommon in day to day usage.

To be fair, I did learn about deca and hecto in elementary school, but it was so long ago and I haven’t really seen them used since lol

Only way this would matter is if they were forced to sell or spin off Instagram and Whatsapp.

With the exception of deci and centi, I know literally nobody who uses prefixes that aren’t multiples of 1000. I’ve been using the metric system all my life. Have you?

You’ve found the most important trick then. The convincing yourself that you’re having fun not getting exercise part.

What does <current year> have to do with it? I had no idea what scale you meant because I’d forgotten the extremely rarely used prefix deca. Plus even decaliters isn’t really a lot when talking about hoarding water. Maybe literal cubic meters.

Uh I don’t thing deciliter is the unit you want lol

Simple cascade, but it goes from +15 to +7 to +15 lol

“Invited someone to Gmail” was enough for me, didn’t need to see the date lol

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.

My original account is 18 for sure, maybe 20. Have a second one now but even that is over 10 already.

This seems close but there’s still some videos where you have to click on an archive link like the Kimchi slap because of copyright.

I think you can still find versions of the playlist. Some videos would be missing thiough

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

It’s got to be either Russia or the US.

EU needs to pick up the CVE program. It’s going to be a shitshow if we lose that.

That agency apparently creates new safety regulations but doesn’t do oversight. I think that’s up to the courts? Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

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.

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