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Historically kettles never really caught on because we only have 110v power, so our kettles are bogus compared to nearly everywhere else in the world.

It really takes some very special conditions for that to happen. Every time I've boiled water in the microwave it's always boiled fine just like on the stove.

Mulva?

...the US knew about it but allowed it to happen...

I hear this, and in hindsight it makes sense to say, but put yourself back in the mindset of the late 90s. The US was a fucking giant. The world saw what happened after pearl harbor, I believe it was less of "allowing it to happen" and more of "we were so arrogant that we couldn't believe anyone would be dumb enough to actually do it".

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Artist: Harley Davidson Song: Idle, followed by acceleration and shift to second, followed by more idling.

Maybe, maybe not. Just depends TBH.

How restricting the sale of new firearms and not all firearms of the type that they want to restrict does anything is outside of my understanding.

Love this phrase. I may start using it regularly. Like, in response to other things as well... It's so... Good. Thank you.

I mean you can probably back up the trailers fine, but all the "stuff" involved with hooking up and unhooking is completely omitted from ATS and ETS/ETS2.

Shifting gears is another thing, I can shift a 6 speed, but if you put me behind a real 18 speed with splitter and range gearboxes, I guarantee I'd be grinding the shit out of those gears, over-rev or lug the engine... Etc.

The popular truck "sims" are not sims, they are basically one step above arcade games. And I say this as someone who likes playing them. They are fun, but they are not sims.

Flight instructors don't want you to know this one simple trick.

As an avid player of flight sims, probably not too well on a fully loaded plane like a 747 or whatever. They are heavy, react slowly, and the controls are electronic so you can't "feel" any resistance from the plane. Also the jet turbines take a while to spool up and down so you have to be pretty deliberate with your inputs.

Now if it were something like a smaller GA airplane, as long as it has tricycle gear and you aren't landing into a crosswind, I feel like it would be fairly successful, and even if you get 10 ft from the ground and stall, or miss the touchdown point by 1000ft or so, you are only going 45-50mph tops at that point so the chances of you surviving are pretty good.

Compare that to a 747 where you'd be going much faster and the margin between landing and stalling is pretty thin, there's a good chance you'd overshoot the landing point, come down hard, then crash into something at the end of the runway.

Now if it's a taildragger and you don't have any real training, there's a good chance you'll tail loop and crash once you touch down. You'd probably survive, but it would be ugly.

Edit: that is assuming you don't smash the brakes and prop strike first.

I've never seen an electric car that used a CVT, normally they are just direct drive. Like the motor spins a reduction gearbox, which is directly connected to the wheels. There is only one gear, not even a reverse, the motor just spins backwards to move the car backwards.

That is also why smaller electric cars typically top out around 80-120mph, and you need a very powerful one to go 150+ like a Tesla.

The issue is that at low speed the motor has to spin very slowly which requires immense torque. This is generally overcome with a reduction ratio. The less reduction the faster you can go, but if your motor is not powerful enough then you won't have enough torque on the steepest hills etc.

"flavor" lol