Ford built a Fiesta with a two-stroke engine that achieved 1.4l/100km (that’s 168 mpg!) in 1996! Not a drawing. Not a experimental model. No, a real driving prototype car. Looked just like a normal Fiesta.
I don't believe you. If anyone could make a 168 mpg car without some show-stopping problem with it, they'd be making it now. I think someone pulled that claim out of their ass, and it got copied without citation between editorials and blog comments for awhile.
Not if you have an "ASCII" file you are trying to read on Windows that has Unix newline conventions. Try opening a newlined file with notepad, for example.
As far as I can tell, the problem is entirely unique to notepad. Every other text editor I've ever tried handles files with Unix-style newlines correctly. Since it would be trivial to fix Notepad, I can only assume that Microsoft either doesn't care at all about Notepad, or is deliberately leaving the incompatibility in place to discourage use of Unix.
Capacity for delusion is only a problem because of scoundrels looking to make a dishonest dollar by exploiting said capacity.
That statement is entirely false. Self-deception, both on an individual and societal level, frequently leads to bad consequences, even without anyone trying to exploit it; and believing that all the blame for such consequences falls on scammers is absolving your responsibility to try to dispel delusions and see the truth.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.