They’re incapable of adaptation and adoption, like grandma who doesn’t want an iPhone because her touch tone landline telephone still works just fine and is familiar.

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    12 days ago

    Did oldschool lube technicians get like, really really upset about the new lubrication systems?

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      12 days ago

      Some of them might have. I bet any lubricators whose jobs were on the line because of them probably have had some complaints.

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        12 days ago

        Then I’d tell those lube technicians what I’d tell a manual typesetter angry about the invention of the rotary printing press:

        Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’

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      11 days ago

      I mean synthetic lube is not the same as natural lube, it does different things but fails miserably when overheated and stops becoming lube