TheMechanic
Number of Vehicles in use has increased by 20% since 2003. Number of vehicles in use has doubled since 1990. The vehicles are also getting larger and heavier. Light Commercial vehicle sales increase at 7% each year for year, relative to the total sales.
ie A typical family 30 years ago would have one medium sedan or wagon, now they have two trucks or SUVs.
Many Russian conscript POWs have said they never handled a weapon. They were told they were going to be drivers, then trucked somewhere to then be given a shovel and told to dug trenches. Then a few weeks later trucked to the front-line and told to sit in a hole and observe.
I cant read past the first paragraph because of paywall. If the author hasn't come to the conclusion that it's because of all the fucking cars they need to reassess.
Walking to places and randomly running into people who can become acquaintances, then friends is difficult or impossible in places with cars as the primary transport.
Meeting in 'third places' is no longer easy because all of those areas are gone or dying due to car based infrastructure.
Town and city public meetung spaces are dying or gone due to car based infrastructure 'needing' those areas for parking.
Rage comics were better and were actually a modern form of Commedia dell'arte or Masked Theatre, in such that it used stock characters and so plot could be both meaningful but simple. Wojacks lack implied character and context, so story or character depth requires explanation which doesn't usually work as well with that form
I'm just some guy who can maybe read minds?
I don't know about the microwave. Heat actually breaks the bond for these kinds of adhesives, so if it isn't poisonous, it probably wouldn't work well for that anyway.
If you add an extra step of bullshit it makes it all squeaky clean. Everyone knows that. Like hydrogen, or electric cars, or biodegradable plastics or or or...
Super glue.
Cyanocrylate adhesives were accidently discovered in WW2 while trying to develop a clear plastic. Later Eastman-Kodak held the patent and then sold it to Loctite on the 1960s.
Loctite 404 is so much better than anything else available on the market. It bonds better, it's stronger, it lasts longer and the bottle applicator is more controlled and easier to use. If you want it to last years, you can actually store in in the refrigerator when not being used.
A common thing I've told people starting out is to find a class or race you want to compete in and build the car for that. It's almost always cheaper to have one race car and one street car than it is to have a car that tries to do both.
I used to build race cars. Two guys I knew did this.
The first one was actually a massive nerd who by day worked for some shipbuilding company that designed and made composite hulls for the Navy. It was big money with few working hours.
The other guy owned some random worthless land in the middle of nowhere and some oil company sent him money each month for mineral rights.
So essentially both had limitless funds for what is usually a side hobby.
The CIS consists of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.