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David Burge Profile picture
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May 27, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Soft serve is the best ice cream, fight me
I say this as someone who hand makes ice cream every Thanksgiving & Christmas season. When the temperature is above 80F though, nothing beats DQ
And this is the unrivaled hands down best ice cream parlor on Planet Earth, end of discussion
Can you stroll into your favorite ice cream parlor and ask for the booth where Al Capone or the Beatles ate? Then STFU
Wilson's in Door County WI (since 1906) is a worthy runner up, and fueled by Wisconsin's mighty cows
Protip: when in Austin try Nau's Enfield Drug, a survivor old timey drug store soda fountain (and RIP Pearson's Drug Store in Iowa City)
Last but not least, the hot roddiest ice cream parlor in America, the iconic Nite Owl. Since 1948. 830 E. Layton Avenue, Milwaukee Wisconsin, my bosom hot rod buddy @ropekechris proprietor. Tell 'em Dave sent you

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cc: @NobelPrize
"Let's bring down inflation with 150% tariffs and 0% interest rates" is perhaps the most galaxy brained economic theory I have ever attempted to ponder
High interest rates are good because they encourage people to save and invest

Low interest rates are bad because they encourage people to rack up debt and buy stuff with money they don't have Image
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I live in Austin TX which, as you might have heard, has a few California transplants. I know a lot of them, and without exception they are painfully aware of why they they left CA and do not want those mistakes repeated here
"Those damn California libruls moved into Austin and turned it blue" is probably the most clueless reaction I get on this site. Austin has always been lefty, and if anything Cali transplants have made it less so.
1. Austin has always been lefty because it's always been a magnet for native Texan weirdos fleeing their conservative home towns.

2. There are some lefty transplants from CA and other places. But in metro Austin they're typically tech workers, many of Asian descent with families, who move to the suburbs for lower single family housing prices and non-insane school curricula.
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Apr 16
Having lost my beloved Kum & Go baseball cap, I would be deeply indebted to you for a replacement.

I will never forgive the Mormons for the calumny of destroying America's most trusted Kum-themed brand name
This is like when the changed the name of Marshall Field's to Macy's, only one billion times worse
Oh well at least we still have Spunky Dunkers Donuts Image
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Apr 10
I see a lot of commentary on this, but as a car-type-of-person I will offer my $0.02 (a thread)
First, yeah, Boomer Bait. The Nova SS in race #1 and 1940 Ford pickup in #2 are both highly modified. Stock form, the Nova would've had ~14 second 1/4 time rather than 10. And stock 1940 Ford wouldn't even had broken 20 seconds.

But the modification is *the entire point*.
Secondly, while the Nova is probably street legal the Ford probably isn't. But there is a benchmark for street legal old American muscle, the Hot Rod Magazine Drag Tour. Participating cars have to be registered, licensed, and must drive on the road between 6 or so drag strips where their ETs are recorded. They are allowed to swap DOT tires for slicks for their runs. There are dozens and dozens of these cars with electronically timed ETs under 9 seconds (A stock Tesla S Plaid is somewhere in 9.3-9.4). Some under 6 seconds.

Here are class records:
hotrod.com/events/hot-rod…Image
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Mar 28
Wait'll they realized that if we really wanted to hook up 8 million rural households with broadband we could just skip this bullshit, buy all of them Starlink terminals at $400 apiece, and save 92% off the DC retail politics price tag
Same thing with California High Speed Rail. For the same price to build 10 miles of choo choo track somewhere between Merced and Bakersfield you could have given free $2500 fly anywhere flight vouchers to every man woman and child in the state of California
But sure, let's have major public infrastructure systems designed by people who've never organized anything more complicated than a campaign fundraiser
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Internal combustion, electric, steam? Old hat, been there done that. Today's #DavesCarIDService salutes some mad geniuses who REALLY thought outside the box when it came to alternative vehicle power. Starting with Ron Main's rubber band-powered "Twisted" land speed record car.

Car-wise I was kinda jaded, thinking I had seen it all, until I saw this latex propelled green energy machine debut at 2008 Bonneville Speed Week.Image
Yep, you read that correctly, rubber bands. The SCTA (Southern California Timing Association) land speed record book has hundreds of classes for different body types, engine displacement, wheel counts, and power sources. Which leads to a lot of innovation, and craziness. Main owns a number of those records, including the world's fastest Ford Flathead V8 at 302 mph.

And what's more innovative than inventing your own rubber band powered class? That was the intention with Twisted. Under the hood: a battery of 150 industrial rubber bands, the kind used to secure cargo on pallets. Anchored to a set of gears that could be wound up with an electric motor.

How to keep them from binding, though? The following content is for mature audiences only. Rubber, as we all know needs to be lubricated, and a team crew member was designated to apply friction-reducing lubricants. Main referred to him as "the fluffer."

How did it do? SCTA measures speed over flying mile, but allow for a vehicle assisted push start. The goal was pretty modest, 30 mph, but the biggest challenge was to sustain rubber band power for that one mile. Sadly it wasn't going to happen that first year, which was also the last year Twisted appeared there. The rubber band class record remains vacant, in case you want to attempt it yourself.Image
For REAL speed with alternative power? There are more things under heaven and earth, Gear Ratio, than dreamt of in your philosophies. Like 189 mph on compressed air. Achieved in the Speed Sport IV dragster in 1962.

Speed Sport was a well established successful drag racing team out of Tucson at the time, racing fairly conventional Top Fuel dragsters. Tucson was also home to AiResearch, which produced auxiliary power units (APUs) for jet aircraft engines. Basically, an APU is part of the starter motor for a jet turbine, powered by compressed air. When you listen to the engines powering up on your passenger jet, your hearing that.

They're capable of producing 750 ft-lbs of torque, and weigh only 35 pounds. AiReseach approached Speed Sport about a joint project to adapt them for drag racing. Note the tire smoke: this wasn't about thrust, the compressed air turbine was geared to a truck axle. The turbine itself produced virtually no thrust.

But it did produce snow: the rapid decompression of the air tanks crystalized the ambient H2O, making it into an accidental snow machine. Which also limited its ability to even go a complete quarter mile. In order to solve this, a spark plug and a bit of conventional fuel to heat up the decompressing air. Voila, 189 mph in the quarter mile with a low 8 second ET.Image
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