Eat the dragons.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000

Been there. Chose 4. Can you believe they had a slightly different approach to liberation of the working class? Really dodged a bullet on that one.

That’s what she said.

declining birthrate is a solution

15:52

Good point about the vanes jamming in their sleeves potentially being a problem at startup. As RPM increases, centrifugal force will make it harder to retract the vanes, so they might need some kind of powered actuation beyond just a passive spring.

I imagine there would be no contact with the engine wall, just a narrow gap with an active system to adjust the size of the gap, similar to some jet turbines. The video goes into it a little bit at this time:

https://youtu.be/UPFFXBAe5mc?t=952

And someone in the comments who has experience with building this kind of engine talks a little about how its difficult but not impossible to lubricate the seal with a higher viscosity fluid that will want to build up and prevent a vane from fully extending at high RPM. A different comment points out that piston rings experience similar problems with carbon and grit.

Seems like an interesting option for naturally aspirated race cars. They let you hit high RPM without worrying about valve float and without using overly powerful and lossy springs.

The difficulty of keeping them sealed suggests they’re less than optimal for high boost turbo applications, or high compression, fuel efficient commuter engines. Narrow tolerances may also increase manufacturing costs and decrease longevity, which is less of a problem for a race engine compared to something designed for mass production.

less of a ‘disaster’ than it is a ‘good start’

who are, ironically, not communist

I’ve never seen a Nord wearing such fine clothes.

When I make steak fries at home, I’ll sometimes mix sour cream and hot sauce for a dip.

the citrussy:

look at Mr Moneybags over here, able to afford a van down by the river

what taking damage does to a mf’er

I stopped buying their shit after they started hiring Pinkerton mercenaries to clean up their mistakes.

from the wiki:

Following the Civil War, the Pinkertons began conducting operations against organized labor.[5] During the labor strikes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businesses hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and recruit goon squads to intimidate workers.[6] During the Homestead Strike of 1892, Pinkerton agents were called in to reinforce the strikebreaking measures of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, who was acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie, the head of Carnegie Steel.[7]

center space: rum

Yes, that’s exactly how the two android phones I’ve used have worked, and why this post is getting upvoted is a mystery to me.

There are also folders called “Camera” and “Screenshots”, and I’ll give you three guesses where photos and screenshots go.

The spawn from Ronald McDonald fucking a low budget carnival merry-go-round.

Nothing works without extended fiddling. While fiddling, nothing works the way the manual says it should. Googling for solutions gets results that are terminal commands than don’t do what the poster says they should.

Microsoft sucks, but Windows programs work as expected 95% of the time. Linux programs don’t work at all 75% of the time, even after extensive reading and extended periods of time wasted fucking around with fixes proposed by the internet.