notsince98

I'd rather see them as an independent country but I just hope they get out regardless.

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Is AF1 a gift to the US as you claim this bird is?

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Your reading comprehension is terrible. You said the gift doesn't belong to the USA because I personally can't use it. I pointed out to you that Marine Force 1 clearly belongs to the USA and I cant use that either. So your line of logic based on whether or not I can use it is completely irrelevant to the discussion.

I can't use the desk Resolute, either. It was a gift from a foreign government to the USA. So your line of reasoning tying to whether or not anyone but the president can use it is just asinine.

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Which weekend do you get it?

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Which weekend do I get to use Marine force 1?

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It actually doesn't prolong the life of the engine. Every time you turn the engine off and then 30 seconds later activate the starter solenoid that turns the crankshaft flywheel, you're essentially forcing the engine RPMs to jump from a dead stop to 750-800 or so almost instantly. That is going to wear out both the starter and crankshaft/flywheel.

Wouldn't affect the compressor and alternator as much, but will definitely put stress on the serpentine belt.

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From what I have read and seen with studies on fleet vehicles and general reliability reports, there are no discernable increases in issues with engine wear/life. To this point, it is only assumptions. It makes sense that some things might wear more.

At this point the only data driven claim I have seen is that some specific BMW model from 2012-2015 era had issues with the timing chain stretching due to the increased starts so the BMW shops were replacing timing chains around 100-120k miles whether there were measurable issues or not.

I have read one paper that said AGM batteries are better suited for SS than traditional VRLA but I think I have only seen GM put AGM batteries in their cars.

all points of space and time are connected. You can go from one to the other without traversing all of space between.

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The auto shut-off at a stoplight is the stupidest fricking thing, all it does is speeds up how fast you’ll have to get something replaced in your engine from constantly stopping and starting

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While i'm not a fan of the SS, it doesn't add any increased wear. It only works when engine oil is warm enough and the oil has already been pumped completely throughout the system. It maybe wears out a starter or something depending on how the restart is accomplished. I think some cars fire off a spark plug to get the engine turning again.

I will say it does save a lot of gas in my wife's car.

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No matter how justified it would be reasonable to call this treason

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You sure? They don't want to attack or overthrow the government. They want to peacefully leave.

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All of that is wildly incorrect. You basically posted the deranged view that radical leftists have of the Ivies, which is about 80 years out of date. Todays Ivies are overwhelmingly non-white. Further, if you take Jews out of the white column, there's hardly anybody left, and those few that are left are extremely woke (David Hogg for example).

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What I said is accurate and first hand knowledge. I have had to recruit engineers on the east coast and I am very familiar with the ivy League process. Legacies are automatically accepted.

The non white issue is for accepting non legacy applicants. You have to realize there are two different categories of students.

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I was destroyed by the pre-liberation day slide.

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How is that possible? You were selling low and buying high?

I think people have a huge misconception of what ivy league schools are vs what they advertise to be.

Ivy school enrollments are almost exclusively comprised of legacy students with terribly mediocre academic records. They hand out As intentionally so they can market stellar undergraduate performance and help their legacy students get in to any post graduate program they want. They are nothing more than diploma mills for the rich.

Legacy students do not need to meet any of the minimum entrance requirements the schools advertise.