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Brougham

Chill Cool

Very cool! But deleting the emissions stuff wouldn’t get you much. The problems are more related to the low compression ratio, very conservative cam and restrictive exhaust. Fixing those is where the real gains would come from with a car like that. Could get it from the anemic 190HP of its era (assuming it’s not the new-for-1975 Bendix EFI version that gave you 215HP) to maybe 250HP or so without risking anything. But it’s gonna reduce that glorious 11mpg you’d get even more, to probably around 9mpg or so.

I’d never want to own it, but I love that 5,300 pound absurd car.

Turntide

Chill Cool

I do think the tide is starting to turn on tattoos, especially on women. I overheard two young women at the hotel I am staying at now for a conference (they were maybe 18-19?) talking about how trashy tattoos looked and they were not planning on getting any even though they legally could now.

Good for them.

Dumping

Chill Cool, Cute

Damn, what a difference.

Yeah, I don’t think people understand that your life is extremely radically different when you don’t look like a human dumpster. It probably matters more for women, but it is true for everyone.

I’m treated much better and flirted with 1000x more frequently now that I am extremely fit and my face is more masculine.

V(a)ultus Dei

Chill Cool

One of my favorite sports photos is of a woman pole vaulter. It’s on one of my many storage locations somewhere, but alas I could not find it. It also would not be allowed by the new sharia broadcast guidelines because in it you can ascertain that the woman in question possesses a body.

All that preamble out of the way, I also really like this pole vault photo. It would also of course be banned under the new liberal sharia.

I don’t know who the vaulter is, but such a cool pic.

Vid Too

Chill Cool, Music Video, Video

I’ve started noticing a change in tattoos on women. It appears they are no longer considered cool or appealing by or on the most attractive women. The most desirable women are always at the vanguard of style so the rest will follow. Thank the fucking gods. What an aesthetic blight omnipresent tattoos have been.

I watch so, so many music videos. And like in the one below, in which you can see most of Belize’s skin, she has no visible tattoos. And the same for Sarah in the Pamela. video below that one.

Both Sarah and Belize are obviously extremely attractive women — easily in the top 0.01% there — and both have no tattoos. (In fact, both of the people in the band Pamela. — Sarah and Josh — are so absurdly good-looking I thought they were hired models and not the actual band the first time I watched one of their vids.) This lack of disfigurement would not have been true even a few years ago.

So as I pointed out at the start, where attractive women lead others will soon follow. I’ve also been seeing more Reddit posts and such where people (usually women) are talking about trying to find the money to get their much-regretted tattoos lasered off.

All good signs. Along with GLP-1s, it’s likely that soon so many people won’t walk around looking like fucking graffitied dumpsters again.

That benny blanco and Bb trickz video starts off kind of slow but the end is a banger (literally). I’m glad I watched the whole thing.

Will and Tools

Chill Cool, Tech

I and the LLM made an extension that will piss off devs, designers, and everyone in that space who wants to control what I can do, but that helps me enormously. And it took a lot of work and research. The LLM did all the heavy lifting, really, but I did the background research to see what was possible.

The extension restores true back button functionality even on sites that don’t allow it and even those that actively attempt to prevent it. I burned a fuckload of tokens doing this, brothers and sisters. But it works pretty well now for something that is not supposed to even be possible. It is possible, of course. Anything is with the will and the tools.

I’d made an earlier version of this extension but it was honestly pretty crap. It broke tons of sites, was slow, and just in general was not worth using. The new one actually functions correctly. Basically, it snapshots the page and stuffs that into local storage and then when you slap that back button, you get the snapshot of the page exactly as it was before, transparently. And, people, it’s so much faster than the worthless fucking redraw that every page insists on doing now.

No, I will not release it generally. It’s just for me. And my partner, if she wants it. I simply refuse to be anyone else’s tech support outside of my actual job.

This extension rules. It is a middle finger to all those who attempt to control my computer against my wishes and intentions.

Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.