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why do a bunch of gas stations have 88 octane cheaper than 87?
  • Problems with ethanol in gas usually happen over a longer time, not within a single tank of gas. That pump was probably faulty to begin with. I would recommend lower ethanol fuel for older vehicles though, so it's not bad advice. But it isn't like pure acid that will dissolve the car within no time.

  • Alex Jones knows his archaeology! [I know it's Twitter, but it must count!]
  • To add context: The British period for Malta is 1814 - 1964. Most sources agree these things were made about 100 - 150 years ago, but the exact date is unsure.

    This is a graph of the sea rise in the past 140 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise#/media/File:1880-_Global_average_sea_level_rise_(SLR)_-_annually.svg

    Local sea rise due to global warming is around 30cm, local tides are also around 30cm.

  • Villain rule
  • To me the best stories are where I don't agree with the "good" guy, but can understand his point of view. And at the same time I don't agree with the "bad" guy, but can also understand his point of view.

  • rule
  • Need to get the programming in early to make it stick. Especially developing brains can be put into a completely fictional world and their young brains assume it's reality. The CIA did some fun stuff on this, but religion has hundreds of years of experience with child abuse in all of its forms.

  • What’s Your Oldest System?
  • A 1984 MSX home computer. It was the first computer I had. My grandfather gave it to me in 1985 when he upgraded to a new model. I didn't have a lot of software for it, but it had Microsoft Basic built-in. With a lot of books from my grandfather, I learned to not only program in Basic, but Z80 assembler as well. I used that thing so much I wore out the keyboard.

    I recently picked up a matching color CRT monitor for it. I never had a color monitor for it and only hooked it up to the family TV infrequently. I saw the color monitor locally for cheap and after doing a lot of repairs and fixing it up it looks awesome. Really cool to see how good of an image my old computer could do. Still love the old black and green monitor though, that's how I remember it.

    Computer is still running and with a big memory expansion I even have DOS 2.0 running on it. Somebody hacked FAT16 into that, so I can theoretically access 4GB of data. On a machine that only has 64kb of ram to start with.

  • Please vote
  • Funny the way you mentioned Obama because you are spot on.

    Obama was by far the best US president in recent history and maybe ever. Then the Dems just went like OK we'll never ever do something like that again.

  • I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed
  • Never answer, the scammers sell data to each other. As soon as you answer, they know they've got a live number and the number of calls will multiply.

    Also there's millions of them, pissing off a couple doesn't really do anything.

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