They sell a much larger window.

Unfortunately the American thinner oil factory recommendations to meet CAFE standards (American 0W-20 vs. EU 5w-30 for the exact same motor) means that those “much longer” windows result in a nightmare building up in the engine. Even with synthetics.

This is one of those silly debates where seasoned mechanics sit back and sip their coffee while adhering to a 5K oil change interval schedule for themselves, smiling at how secure their job is due to marketing gullibility.

The best maintenance schedule confirmed by reality and not marketing, is going to come from your local seasoned mechanic. If you tell them 20K oil change intervals, best make sure they’re not drinking something hot to be spit all over you in uncontrolled laughter.

I do my own maintenance on my cars and they have lasted over 200K miles on average. I’ve never even had to replace a clutch. Only one that went bad on me prematurely was a Nissan with a CVT. After 160K miles and facing my third transmission now out of extended warranty, I realized they can make great engines but suck at CVTs. Hated to get rid of it because it ran like a top otherwise.

5K change intervals (up to 7.5K to accommodate “life happening”), using semi or full synthetics, is more likely what a mechanic will confirm they do. Clean oil is the cheapest insurance you can get for your car long term. The goal of car ownership is to make that car pay you for every month you paid for it. You do the math on a 72 or 84 month loan. Then ask yourself how else are you gonna get to 250K miles or more.

Have not developed a way to test it? Bullshit.

The exact same motor is installed in the American variant and the EU variant. Do you know what the oil recommendation differences are and more to the point why they are different?

0W-20 runs in the American motor in order to barely eek out another 1MPG to barely meet the CAFE standards necessary to ship product. 5W-30 runs in the EU motor because it’s the best viscosity for the damn engine. Which they determined long ago with engineering and testing, both in lab and real world results.

Now pull those engines apart after 100K miles and see why we need to get rid of CAFE bullshit. The American environment isn’t being “saved” by forcing Americans to replace their disposable cars before the fucking loan is even fully paid.

Rockets that are capable of delivering a nuclear weapon into orbit, and their components, are legally defined as export controlled munitions. Taking pictures of export controlled munitions on a personal device is almost certainly going to get you into some pretty deep shit, even if you have no intention of exporting. Federal law, see ITAR.

Nobody asked for your life story.

If I mention the Philips curve, that doesn't mean I'm name-dropping Bill Philips. Many (most?) economic concepts have a name tied to them, and when you talk about them, nobody assumes you're talking about the person behind them. Besides, when I referenced the capital B, there was literally only one relevant name in that page you gawked at, not two, and that was only to get you to actually read the material rather than just do a control-f. Why you're doing this here, I have no idea, but it doesn't even matter.

And what would you say if they used it to install a hot tub for the staff? That's basically what's happening at a lot of these institutions. Besides, this still isn't relevant to Baumol, which is the whole reason you even went down this rabbit hole.

I specifically excluded politics in my first post. The only relevance it has is in whether the government should be putting tighter limits on student loans. That's it. You know another reason I say that? A few weeks back I was dating a woman who graduated from Cal Tech, and she was telling me about how some of her classmates were spending student loan money on completely ridiculous stuff, like using it to buy a brand new car in one case. If somebody does something THAT stupid with their loans, there is zero reason for the taxpayers to bail them out. Full stop. It would likewise make a lot of sense to reduce the loan amounts to encourage borrowers to choose less expensive schools.

Unless you're sitting here trying to argue that Baumol explains all, or even a slight majority, of why modern students are spending a lot more on their education than their parents did, then this is a totally moot point. Not only are you fixated purely on the tuition cost which is only one of four reasons I alluded to in my post, but you're also assuming that all the money is being spent wisely, which goes back to the original question I posed: Is it worth the cost?

But continue grasping at straws.

You're assuming that it cannot be and has not been tampered with or that GPS spoofing has not been employed (neither of which are really even necessary.) You're also assuming that there must be a constant GPS fix. These are really bad assumptions to make, especially in a place as unpredictable as a warzone. Even if what you claim is true (it's not) you're also asking Ukraine to rule out the use of its own Starlink aviation systems, which probably isn't a good idea.

Where do they state that they need it for that? And even then, I suspect that's for a residential (fixed) terminal, where GPS is also an administrative requirement rather than a strictly technical one. Besides, if it always depended on that to locate the bird, there's no way in hell that starlink mobility terminals could work reliably. A GPS fix isn't continuous, the first fix needing upwards of minutes depending on the last almanac update, with subsequent fixes taking several seconds at a minimum. GPS is not A-GPS. This is not street navigation with your cell phone. So long as you have the current time, GPS also isn't strictly necessary to establish an initial link. It'll take perhaps a bit longer, but it can still be done without a precise location.

If you've ever aimed a Ku band dish at a geostationary satellite, you'd know that being off even by a millimeter on either azimuth or elevation can really fuck your signal. So how do you believe viasat has been doing exactly this with phased array antennas on airliners for the last 15 or so years? It still works fine in turbulence even. Phased steered antennas update their direction in time scales of nanoseconds without needing to rely on external sensors. By the time you wait for GPS to get a new fix any time there's a light bump, you've already lost your link.

Besides, Starlink is designed to provide high bandwidth, low latency service. It's not designed to tell the military where the bad guy is. And when you say this:

What do you think this is? Command and conquer with starlink terminals? Cheese...

Yeah, and when that bubble pops in a few months customers will look at them side-eyed.

We can't have those because they wanted to sell chicken meat to Germany after WWII.

No, really, Fat Electrician has a good video on it.

(our government is just a loony bin now)

Not a mathematically sound decision to try and grab the bull debt by the balls and find a point somewhere in the shit.

Obama almost doubled Americas debt during his term, and the DEI regime was burning through trillions (plural) every year.

>"giving users personalized cards that showcase their top channels, interests, and a personality type based on their watch habits."

There are reasons I have never logged into YouTube and watch everything as a non-user. They still learn and show related or relevant stuff, but probably just tied to a generic cookie s897fds8d7fds89sdf7sdfs9v8ds7df89a0b

If the billionaires were actually smart, they would have found a way to curb their incessant Greed and find balance in Capitalism to keep the peace they need.

They're so blinded by greed that they fail to realize they're the first on the fucking menu after the collapse they're creating. A person can easily defeat an ant. That same person can easily be defeated by underestimating what a few hundred million ants will do.

I very much miss the "real" Netflix (Netflix Disc) service.

Unfortunately, my city's library system is not very good. Their collection sucks (mostly old DVD's, nothing remotely recent, and I believe nothing BluRay) and much of their "collection" is just some strange Hoola/Overdrive streaming service.

Oh, and they don't list, online, what media anything is (DVD, BlueRay, 4K), everything says "DVD" (of which I have no interest).

* glances over at the combined fiscal and narcissistic worth of the Pelosis, Clintons, and OBidens *

Maybe if it were only slightly less blatantly fucking obvious..

Bankruptcy is a scared child pissing themselves in the corner compared to a $38 trillion dollar debt monster.

Those who try and blame Trump for Americas debt will likely Make Asylums Great Again in order to treat long-TDS. We will see if that happens before liberalism succumbs to its own cannibalism.

I'm curious if you'd be comfortable if the people who manage your investment portfolio or retirement accounts were to act that way. Everyone always complains about the other guy being greedy, but seems to overlook their own behavior or that kind of behavior when it's beneficial to them. No one would be happy if their bank forsook their fiduciary duties and lent money irresponsibly and lost their depositors money because they didn't want be seen as money chasers.

It's your money though. Use it how you will. Just don't complain if it doesn't work out the way you wished it would have. The only sort of charity that ought to exist is personal charity. Even that is not immune to scammers and those who would try to take advantage of others, but it limits the damage that can be done.