Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Even the Guardian no longer cares
My brain is slow today from poor sleep. Even slower than its usual granny-low**. I hoped to do electronic stuff today, but all I can manage is reading shit on the web.
Some of the shit is halfway interesting in terms of pattern recognition. I've been noticing this particular pattern a lot lately; in today's UK Guardian it shows up cleanly.
EVEN AMONG THE GUARDIAN'S AUDIENCE, nobody is interested in the Carbon Scam. They'd rather run the usual team scrum between the usual meaningless partisan teams.
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** Granny low is an interesting concept. After WW2, pickups meant for work generally had a four-speed floor shift, but nobody thought of it as a four-on-the-floor. It was a three-speed with synced low, plus an extra gear that you used occasionally when towing or climbing. Granny low is simultaneously first and not-first in a mysterious doublethinky way, like the ground floor or basement of a British building.
The synced "regular" low was an extra advantage that passenger cars didn't get until the late '60s. When sporty American cars returned to floor shifts, they started with a three-speed (with unsynced low) and didn't get to 4 until the late '60s.
The technology was obviously the same, and lots of people learned to appreciate the convenience of 4 speeds and the convenience of a synced low, but for some reason the appreciation didn't breed a desire for similar convenience in passenger cars. Normally a convenience feature starts in cars and later moves to trucks. In this case it started in trucks and stayed there; then later independently arrived in cars.
EVEN AMONG THE GUARDIAN'S AUDIENCE, nobody is interested in the Carbon Scam. They'd rather run the usual team scrum between the usual meaningless partisan teams.
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** Granny low is an interesting concept. After WW2, pickups meant for work generally had a four-speed floor shift, but nobody thought of it as a four-on-the-floor. It was a three-speed with synced low, plus an extra gear that you used occasionally when towing or climbing. Granny low is simultaneously first and not-first in a mysterious doublethinky way, like the ground floor or basement of a British building.
The synced "regular" low was an extra advantage that passenger cars didn't get until the late '60s. When sporty American cars returned to floor shifts, they started with a three-speed (with unsynced low) and didn't get to 4 until the late '60s.
The technology was obviously the same, and lots of people learned to appreciate the convenience of 4 speeds and the convenience of a synced low, but for some reason the appreciation didn't breed a desire for similar convenience in passenger cars. Normally a convenience feature starts in cars and later moves to trucks. In this case it started in trucks and stayed there; then later independently arrived in cars.Labels: Carbon Cult
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