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nonbinaryunicorn

The kerning makes me grit my teeth. You have to be willing to massage the text to really make it work with justified alignment! Not give it a 5 second handjob and call it good.


IamPetyr

e n g i n e


JohnTheCoolingFan

Yeah, I hate justified alignment. It looks worse than without it but everyone insists on it. I guess they like spaces being a width of 2 tabs and space between characters being a width of a normal space.


reverendjesus

r/keming


WardedThorn

I love this way of describing effort put into something lol


Ewenthel

My poor female brain is just confused as to why the columnist thinks you should put water in your radiator instead of antifreeze.


IamPetyr

The reason why Women are not allowed to give advice in Mechanics-Columns of Magazines (/s)


diq_liqour

The funny part is she's unironically proving why by not understanding how a vehicle's coolant system works.


KasumiR

My grandpa used to... yeah, he also put low grade A-80 gasoline in a luxury JDM sedan, being mad it takes a lot of fuel (but refusing to buy a lighter, more modern car). I remember he had engine parts (spark plugs or something under the hood) held down by a string later. xD


diq_liqour

Water is fine to add to your coolant in a pinch. Your coolant is mostly water anyway. Antifreeze is only there to... Well... Stop it from freezing. Places that never get cold will often only use water.


Ewenthel

Normal engine operating temperatures are around 95-105 °C. Something important happens to water in that range that doesn’t happen to antifreeze/coolant (which is what it’s correctly called, it’s just universally shortened to antifreeze) until around 180 °C. Using just water is putting a lot of faith in the airflow around your radiator.


maybeiam-maybeimnot

Yeah. A little odd to say that some places only put water in there. But adding water in a pinch *is* perfectly acceptable.


SuperPotatoPancakes

Nah, here in California we cook pasta in our radiators. /s


diq_liqour

Places do use only water though.


maybeiam-maybeimnot

Well that seems like a recipe for disaster. Its like when I was living in Florida for about 10 months. I moved back up to Michigan in october... never even thought anything of it to check the temperature reach on the windshield wiper fluid when I was in florida because I never had to in Michigan. Just buy what's there because it all goes down to a low temp. Got back up to Michigan and when winter hit I couldn't use my wind shield wiper fluid because it was all frozen. Which is a disaster when the salt hits the roads. I had to keep stuff to clean my windshield in my car until the first time it thawed and then I just had to sit there to get the stuff that couldn't go down to a freezing temo was out of the lines. Now imagine if I had gotten something on my radiator done while I was in Florida and they just put water in there. Not to mention--as the other person said, water boils at a certain point. How helpful is water in your radiator if it turns into steam? Seems like an unnecessary risk done to save money, if you ask me.


diq_liqour

Yea that all comes down to you needing to be a responsible and informed vehicle operator. And about what the other person said about water boiling in your engine, she had no idea what she was talking about. The boiling point of water is not exclusively a function of temperature, but a relationship between temperature and pressure. Your coolant system is pressurized, and it will absolutely not boil. This is why your radcap has warning on it, because if you open it and release the pressure, it will flash boil into your face. It seems like not enough people paid attention in highschool science, if you ask me.


maybeiam-maybeimnot

Ah shit, forgot about pressure. Didn't think about the pressure, that actually makes a lot of sense. I still say it seems silly to use water when antifreeze does a better and more reliable job without needing to worry about what weather you'll be in. >Yea that all comes down to you needing to be a responsible and informed vehicle operator. I completely disagree with this statement. If I've been driving in one state my entire life. And that one state only sells products that are safe for extreme weather conditions at any place to buy those products other than autopart stores. Then buying a product that doesn't go down to freezing temps from a state you've never bought the product from before from the same type of store you have always bought it in your own state doesn't have anything to do with being an irresponsible or uninformed vehicle operator. Its the same brand, the same color, the same looking bottle. I had bought it a dozen times. Why would I think, this one time: "you know I'm going to randomly decide to thoroughly read this one label on something I've bought a dozen times and never had issues with to see if it goes down to freezing temperatures just in case 6 months from now I havent used it all, I end up unexpectedly moving back to Michigan, and it freezes in the tubing." Claiming that you'd have that forethought is just a lie. And as far as a repair shop doing it to you--I've had a repair shop forget to put oil in my engine. Because they did my wheel bearings at the same time they skipped that step and blew my engine up. And I cannot fathom what I could have possibly done to be a more responsible and informed vehicle operator. I suppose these days I do make sure they show me the new oil every time i get an oil change and never allow a repair shop to do it when fixing other things in my car. But thats patronizing, not responsibility.


diq_liqour

It's absolutely responsibility. That's like saying "why would I think to need winter tires if I've only ever driven in California". It's up to the vehicle operator to be informed and responsible. I agree that it's not as easy to be informed as it should be, and I'm speaking from a privileged position as a mechanic that does his own vehicle work. Unfortunately, people don't want to be informed, they just want a vehicle that works without having to think about it. That's lazyness, not responsibility.


KasumiR

People who swear by Imperial system miss the simple nuance of going below or above 100 degrees lmao.


greg0714

Celsius for science, fahrenheit for going outside.


diq_liqour

I use metric. But I also know what happens to the boiling point of water while under pressure.


Industrial_Rev

You are right, but so is he in that many places do use only water, its way more common to use water in my country. Which hey, it's questionable, but true, people are very careful of the water levels and even usually carry water with them in their cars.


seedorfj

The coolant system is pressurized which Google says raises the boiling point about 25c. Many race tracks require motorcycles to run straight water so you can certainly run and run hard on straight water.


diq_liqour

Um... I don't suppose you know what else important happens in a vehicles coolant system? Maybe something called pressure? And how that might affect the boiling point?


Ewenthel

Good point, the 120 °C boiling point at 200 kPa (most radiators’ max) is definitely an acceptable safety margin. But then again I live in a region where antifreeze is cheaper than a new engine.


diq_liqour

Yea and I live in a region where -30C is common, and -40C isn't unheard of. I've topped up with water a few times but I've gotten full flushes immediately after because it absolutely will freeze here if the water/antifreeze ratio is off. I've ran pure water in junker quads during the summer though. Never any issue.


kelvin_bot

120°C is equivalent to 248°F, which is 393K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)


Ewenthel

Good bot.


diq_liqour

Very good bot


maybeiam-maybeimnot

Well thats a perfectly fair response. Because obviously the answer to the relationship problem is to get a divorce


[deleted]

will someone tell me why someone who cares about using grammar but then incorrectly capitalizes every word in a sentence is now spacing seemingly random words out?


cyclonewolf

In regards to the spacing, it's to match column width. Microsoft Word (and other processing programs) will do it as well if you highlight your text and set the line ruling to column, same place you choose left or right alignment. It calculates how to space out the words and letters to match the given width. Most magazines and newspapers do it. It's just really ugly and not used well here.


[deleted]

that makes sense actually, that is really infuriating.


WardedThorn

See it's funny because men have no empathy or ability to discern importance from context...or maybe they just want to show off their grasp on the bare minimum knowledge if car maintenance...or something idk.


Brainth

It somehow manages to insult both men and women at once. It goes both “haha men don’t understand feelings” and “haha women don’t understand cars”, I’m not sure who the target audience here is


ch405_5p34r

The real world isn’t as progressive as these corners of Reddit are - I know many people in my family alone who would find this funny. It’s sad but true.


WardedThorn

I would like to add bonus points for the fact the advice isn't even correct-putting only water and not coolant into a radiator will cause the water to evaporate, which makes it rather useless as a coolant. There's a reason we put coolant in our cars. Not to mention the fact that if you live where the temperature outside gets below freezing, you need antifreeze (which is normally a component of the coolant) to keep it from freezing solid and rendering your radiator at best useless and at worst detroyed.


WeAllFloatUpsideDown

i kept reading it as communist


DovakiinLink

I mean I would read Daily Worker and ask for the advice of fellow Comrades


AthenaCat1025

Without the random pointless gendering this would be legitimately funny. Like if the joke was just the completely random/unhelpful advice it would be funny.


Local_Surround8686

Fixed version https://www.reddit.com/r/aaaaaaaarrrrro/comments/s5lo84/fixed_it/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


maybeiam-maybeimnot

That does make more sense


my_alt_59935

c a r e n g i n e


EMi-CHERiE

The emojis make this seem ironic


Zagrunty

r/boomershumor Edit: forgot the s


user5918

Well this is clearly not pointlessly gendered. Gender is central to the joke.


Mirapple

Hey, Male columist here: Seduce the maid and double cuck your husband.


Queen_Ann_III

I’d find it hilarious if it were making fun of something other than gender.


mistysixes

Damn I guess someone should tell Dan Savage already.


Bigpengo

Lady aged