Europe is already on the right side of the Laffer Curve, so any further increases in taxation will reduce actual revenue. If they want to increase revenue, they need to adopt the program of Javier Milei. Otherwise they can go after public services, but this is very carefully orchestrated to buy the popular support they need, so cutting it is a great way to start the unravelling of the European Project.

Grok starts getting nervous when it sees you're about to discover the truth about asbestos.

I want a law that you have to buy insurance which pays out if you commit a crime.

It'd be best if it's decentralized so you just see someone and you can open the app and bet on how likely they are to do some uncivilized shit...

As predicted since like 2 years ago: Russia will be allowed back into the West, China will be left out in the cold.

Is he talking to somebody who has me blocked?

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I already got out in front of that one, this is shipped from "ANY PORT, FRANCE"

That one looks like a Detroit Diesel 2 stroke, but more complicated. My main reaction is "what'd the camshaft ever do to you?"

I mean it's simple, it lasts a long time, it works. If you want it to do tricks, there's VVT.

Maybe that engine is designed for an application where space is at a premium so a crankshaft takes up too much space (?)

Does it? I thought it just bound with the water and then dropped the diesel...

The Catholic church has so much complexity to it

I see. I don't know any of this stuff :)

Tell me about the hat, is that a Catholic thing?

God bless polymarket.

I don't ready ANY news anymore.

Whitehouse twitter posting the cringe May The Forth pun is quite possibly the most heinous thing that Trump has ever done.

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The more you poop, the better you feel.

> DIESEL GOES BRRRRRRT

Those diesels go thump thump thump thump

> cycle it 5L at a time into the car?

Yeah, rotate it. Nothing lasts forever.

That said, those engines will burn pretty much anything. Old motor oil comes to mind...

1. Pressurized water reactors kind of suck, they're not naturally stable so they require active safety systems, molten salt is FAR better.

2. But even so, Chernobyl's design would never have been approved in the west.

3. Anprims using the internet = lolz

Does anyone have that Trump ad made by the Spanish guys where some protesters throw soup on a painting and glue themselves to a wall and a guy just strolls in and executes them?

Rotaries are awesome, nothing else short of a jet can achieve the same power to weight ratio.

That said:

1. If the rotor wobbles (I mean side-to-side, not the up, down, back, forth wobble they're suppose to do) it rubs a little trail in the end-plate which the side seal can't really seal up. Pistons wobble all of the time and they do rub the cylinder, but the wear is uniform - it's a cylindrical wear pattern in a cylinder, so the rings happily take up the difference. "Piston slap" is the sound of pistons that are so loose fitting that you can hear them wobbling around inside of the cylinder. Rings do a lot.

2. Apex seals require some very clever springs to push them out against the housing, piston rings are themselves springs, they're round, and they naturally push on the cylinder.

3. You need both apex seals and end seals because the rotors need to seal against both the housing and the end-plates. From a sealing perspective, you can't beat a piston, it's one surface that wraps around in a circle.

4. There's no way to get oil to the rotor seals without burning it. In a piston engine, the top of the piston is all business, but the bottom is oily goodness, so keeping the rings greasy is just a matter of letting a tiny bit of oil leak by. In a rotary, every side of the rotor is all business, so the only way to get oil to the apex seals is to basically treat it like a 2 stroke.

So as cool as they are, it's not a conspiracy that we're still using pistons.

Typical road, USA

vs.

Typical road, France.

I don't sell anything to China.

Me, in France, waiting for shit on Aliexpress to be so much on sale that it's basically free.

People like Trudeau make a compelling case that sodomy laws were in fact a Chesterton's Fence.

Imagine the job posting:

Bright young leader wanted for position in up-and-coming global economics group, apply within.

I think there's about to be a whole lot of phone calls and a whole lot of deal making going on behind the scenes and this list is going to get updated a bunch of times as different countries enter into agreements. When it's all over, the result is going to be something that a typical economist would say "the US improved it's position significantly".

> Current govt: PO+TD+NL

> Current president: PiS

That sounds like a pretty good arrangement. Make sure nobody is able to do anything, so nobody does anything bad.

I'm ok with using a car to show off that you can burn money. Just get a GTR so you don't look like a moron doing it.