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For anyone curious about what it actually looked like to kill a generation of functioning cars, here’s an actual video from 2009 and brief explanation:
The dealer first replaces the oil with sodium silicate solution. It’s a clear-ish liquid that crystallizes under extreme heat. As the engine warms up the solution begins to form small abrasive crystals in the oil system that shred the bearing and score the cylinder walls.
Within seconds of starting the car you can see smoke billowing from the exhaust, this is the crystals scratching the cylinder walls and leaving small grooves for oil and solution to leak past into the combustion chamber and ignite/evaporate, producing the white smoke.
Pretty soon the entire crankcase is full of crystals and freshly shredded metal flakes, the engine seizes. It took about 40 seconds in this video. Some engines reportedly lasted up to 7 minutes, but all were destroyed. That strikes me as sort of sad in a way, like watching a great warrior slowly lose a heroic last stand.
Now, this is the part that gets insanely wasteful. These cars were sent to federally approved recycling facilities where they had 180 days to sell the non-engine parts before they were required to prove that they had shred the entire thing into scrap steel.
But, in talking to a guy who ran one such facility at the time, he typically just sent them straight to the crusher. The timeframes allotted weren’t long enough to dismantle all of the cars, and even if you could, the marginal prices of the parts was greatly diminished. You cannot sell 1000 transmissions when only 50 went bad that year, they became worthless.
So just like that, in order to increase prosperity and save the environment, 677,000 entire running cars and trucks were turned directly into rebar worth a few cents per pound.
The entire Obama administration was like a chapter out of atlas shrugged.
Barack Obama was horrible in a million different ways, but he doesn’t get anywhere near the hate he deserves for destroying the used car market for an entire generation.
15-year-old cars with 150,000 miles that should be selling for $3,000 are going for $15,000. It’s abominable. Pure destruction and thievery.
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Boomers visiting our apartments today after giving housing and jobs to immigrants and making it our only feasible option for a place to live.
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Kennen Sie den Führerkuchen? 😀
(Weil der olle Hitler gerade wieder mal Thema ist )
Laut damaliger Legendenbildung arbeitete Adolf Hitler auf dem Berghof jeden Tag bis spät in die Nacht.
Elisabeth Kalhammer, ein ehemaliges Stubenmädchen am Berghof erzählte das aber ganz anders.
Tatsächlich gab es damals Filmvorführungen und Wochenschauen oder lange Essen und Teerunden bis in die Nacht. Also eher Netflix n' Chill statt Arbeit.
Erst in den Kriegszeiten gab es tatsächlich militärische Lagebesprechungen bis in die Morgenstunden.
Da die Küche nachts geschlossen war und Hitler tagsüber wenig aß, musste nachts sein Lieblingskuchen bereitstehen.
Also wurde jeden Tag ein Apfelblechkuchen mit Nüssen gebacken, bei dem die Apfelschnitze in Reih und Glied wie Soldaten aufgereiht sein mussten. Die Köche und Belegschaft nannten ihn scherzhaft den Führerkuchen.
Frei jeglicher moralischer Wertung ist hier das Rezept:
🧵 Apfel-Nuss-Kuchen (historisch)
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🧈 Für den Teig:
• 300 g Weizenmehl
• 150 g Butter
• 80 g Zucker
• 1 Ei
• 1 Prise Salz
• bei Bedarf 1–2 EL kalte Milch
• Butter für das Blech
Alles rasch verkneten und zugedeckt 30 Minuten kühl ruhen lassen.
🍏 Für den Belag:
• 8 säuerliche Äpfel
• 60 g gemahlene Haselnüsse
• 50 g Rosinen
• 100 g Zucker
• 1 TL Zimt
• 4 Eier
• 125 ml Schlagsahne
👩🍳 Den Teig etwa 4 mm dick ausrollen und auf das gebutterte Blech legen. Den Rand leicht hochdrücken und den Boden mehrfach mit einer Gabel einstechen.
Äpfel schälen, entkernen und in gleichmäßige dünne Spalten schneiden.
🍎 Die Apfelspalten dicht und ordentlich in geraden, Reihen auflegen.
Rosinen waschen, trocknen und zusammen mit den gemahlenen Nüssen gleichmäßig über den Äpfeln verteilen.
🥚 Eier trennen. Eigelb mit Sahne, Zucker und Zimt verrühren. Eiweiß steif schlagen und vorsichtig unterheben.
Den Guss zwischen den Apfelspalten verteilen. Bei 180 °C Ober-/Unterhitze etwa 45–55 Minuten goldbraun backen.
✨ Auf dem Blech auskühlen lassen und mit etwas Zucker bestreuen
Abschließender Wortwitz: Das Beträufeln der Apfelstücke mit Zitronensaft war damals nicht üblich. Sollten Sie beim Nachbacken trotzdem machen. Sonst werden die braun. 😀
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More faggotry from the gay media. No real woman wants to see a man do this.
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My boss's husband hates that they moved to redneck country and then complains about the rednecks here.
My dude, *I* am a redneck, from a long line of rednecks from right here in Oregon.
He told me not to do a cow share with their next door neighbor because neighbor guy is "in love with Charlie Kirk."
I was kind of shocked, didn't know what to say to that, like, you do know where you are, right?
He also bitched about how people are racist and homophobic out here and I was like "Why, are YOU gay? 😜" Even his wife laughed 🤣
I don't know man, I don't bring up these topics for a reason. Other than being politically diametrically opposed, and me not appreciating his outdated edgy teen persona, he's a great person, just wish he left politics out of it because if I didn't care about getting fired... it would have been a very different conversation.
Do you think I should bring it up to the owner/his wife? He brings up liberal politics every day that I'm in there and it makes me uncomfortable.
