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For anyone doubting the debauchery in the Epstein files, consider what history tells us about Rome and emperor Maxentius.
>I have no idea if this allegation in the Epstein files is true… I immediately thought of one example, reported by the Church historian Eusebius in his “Life of Constantine.” He describes the behavior of Emperor Maxentius—who controlled Rome—before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge with Emperor Constantine, in AD 312. Before the battle, Constantine received a vision of the sign of the cross in the sky and was told “In this sign, conquer.” Meanwhile, his pagan opponent was cutting open pregnant women and examining the entrails of babies. Yes, you read that correctly.

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it was a little NA 1.9 so i think it was like 5.5 pounds compression tops. it just didn't need all that much energy to get it going and had tall gears, i think GM pulled the 5 speeds off a much larger and more powerful car because the thing was indestructible

the one thing i hated was that GM neglected to drill oil drainback holes in the pistons to save like $5 per car and de-incentivize people hanging onto the car and not buying new, so oil coking got terrible after 80k or so. spent way more time than i like to think about doing seafoam shenanigans to keep oil consumption in check. some people pulled the engine apart and drilled them according to the original plans and it worked like a charm, apparently
Yeap.
Only way around that rule is a diesel, which NOx wasn't really regulated until recently - and even now, it's post-treated rather than trying to make the engine stop producing it.

Old chevy 6.2 diesels got 21mpg (in a squarebody) because they were running 23:1 compression (16:1 is standard for a diesel)