@sampsonite24 The plot stiffens.

"or similar"

Enjoy your Elantra.

9:53 if it doesn't work.

@essextee Too bad they didn't take that photo from a little lower down

@essextee

@rctothefuture said in Would you live with this?:

If it meant you got to hear this every day?

If I got to hear that every day I'd be happy.

The worry is I wouldn't get to hear it every day because it was broken.

Sparked by @jayvincent 's reply to me yesterday, welcome to "Old Oppo Post of The Day"--a semi-regular series in which I present to you an archived kinja-Oppo post of my choosing. It may be a well thought out, informative piece. It may be a build post. It may be a shitpost I deem worthy of particular praise. Or, it may simply be chosen at random.

Today, I present to you, Tow me down! by @HammerheadFistpunch.

@facw said in The most Canada thing ever?:

@silentbutnotreallydeadly

The most Canada thing ever?

Did the beaver apologize?

Didn't give a dam.

@awesomeaustinv said in GRRR... (angrily buys car parts):

So fine... I'll buy the stupid relay. I just want to legally drive my car again.

Install a BMW badge, you'll be good to go.

@cobrajoe

And also stuff like "What school did you go to?" Uh... several. And also, they have long-ass names so that they were almost always referred to by initials. Did I spell them out or abbreviate? Oh, and if I abbreviated did I separate the letters with a period or keep it simple? Did I capitalize?

Doesn't help that all the sites that ask for this are usually sites that I use once in a blue moon, either.

@bicyclebuck I'd use the very first question and fill it in with a random conspiracy theory.

@e90m3 Even if it didn't mix perfectly, one would assume the most heavily contaminated oil would sink to the bottom of the pan, making it most likely to reach the pickup - and also that any clean oil that managed to make it into the pickup would be more likely to leak out of the engine than the thicker dirty oil. And there's also the matter of still needing to change the oil filter.

@nowhere

There's obviously no way for me to prove or disprove anything with regards to Coventry, as (a) I can't physically read the files and (b) their entire business was secrecy. But personally I'm inclined to believe the book as it is part of a record from Stephenson himself, and published long after the fact. Not to mention that the BSC files themselves had been allegedly "weeded" deliberately by the organization as a measure of postwar "cleanup". The idea that Churchill knew something was up, at least, is pretty well documented, even if the exact target was unknown there was still a shortlist of possibilities.

Either way, the fact that Coventry is laid at the feet of Churchill's decision in this particular account, regardless of whether or not it happened... indicates to me that Roosevelt had no prior knowledge of Pearl Harbor, or at least not enough that he could take any action from. I mean, if a Canadian/British account is spilling stories of Churchill, surely they'd have no issues with pointing up Roosevelt doing the same thing (that and there's another event specifically called out as "Roosevelt's Coventry"). So while I see the arguments and wouldn't say there's no evidence at all, I do say it really doesn't add up.

@ttyymmnn said in This Date in Aviation History: December 7, 1941:

Some historians (or conspiracy theorists) go so far as to suggest that Roosevelt had prior knowledge of the attack but allowed it to happen anyway.

Have you ever read A Man Called Intrepid? Pretty fascinating account of Allied secret warfare, largely from the top man on the job (the author's name is a total coincidence btw, if you haven't read it), and the rest pulled mostly from declassified British records.

The conspiracy theorists claims aren't totally unfounded, though their idea of motive may be. I don't remember precisely, but I believe the book claims that the FBI had intercepted some vague information that could have been clarified had Allied cooperation been more complete, but due to some competing interests... and some deliberately sown distrust... it didn't happen.

Whether that's true or not will likely never be known, after all the book's subjects do have a natural interest in putting their slant on things, which can never be entirely ignored. But it is at least an established fact that at least one highly placed communist agent was operating within the Allied system, and was so good at what he did that he was eventually elevated to nearly the top of the chain within MI-6 before he was flushed out and escaped to Moscow, so it's entirely plausible.

I'm inclined to believe the book, frankly. The idea of prior knowledge combined with inaction comes up in it under different circumstances, namely Churchill keeping the secret of Bletchley by allowing the people Coventry to be bombed without warning them - a warning to the city would have let Germans know that something was up. The fact that that is included in the book indicates to me that had Roosevelt pulled something similar (and with military targets, not civilian) it would have been acknowledged.

@ttyymmnn said in This Date in Aviation History: December 4 - December 7:

foreign carriers in the western hemisphere was viewed by America as a threat to national security

It should be noted that Trippe actively encouraged this view. Not saying that he was wrong necessarily (thinking of a couple German South/Central American lines in particular that could have proved useful later on), but he did have quite a knack for pushing the right buttons in Washington

who else's eyes immediately went to the "H" key

@cb upvote dispensed.

@chariotoflove said in D is for…:

@derp
I need to send you a Rush complete discography and a ten pound bag of candy corn for Christmas. New address, please?

The music is fine, but the candy corn is just straight up cruelty.

@chariotoflove said in D is for…:

@smallbear said in D is for…:

@chariotoflove said in D is for…:

@highlander

CB’d

Huh, I thought you couldn't overdose on cbd

Has anyone tried? Give it a shot.

See you on the 18th, maybe.