Yep - G/O Media no longer owns either the G(izmodo) or the O(nion), though Jim Spanfeller is still an herb. You can look it up on the internet, so you know it’s true.

The good Governor also breathlessly held a press conference to proclaim that he had decided to build a two billon dollar arena for the nearby NBA and NHL teams, with state financial guarantees, but without checking with the actual state financiers in the legislature. To which Senate Finance and Appropriations…

Now do America.

I have a Mk7 and I think it’s just casually brilliant. That’s why it’s going to be so disappointing that I won’t be able to replace it.

Sounds just right to me too.

Replacing the haptic crap on the steering wheel with physical buttons seems doable, and VW has already said “Yeah, we made a mistake with all of that.” We’ll see what they actually do. Creating HVAC controls seems hard, and that might be a showstopper for me. Lane keeping by default is probably already one.

I don’t think they’ll move the screen, but putting physical buttons back on the steering wheel seems doable. If the HVAC is run through the screen then that would be much harder to shift to a knob, and might be a showstopper for me. As it is I think they left a lot of Mk8 money on the table - there were a lot of…

Exactly the issue - you never take ownership of these mistakes, and they’re almost endless. There’s always a quick comment, there’s always an excuse, there’s never a “Yep, you got me, I’ll fix that.”

Somone actually researches the things he writes about. And the little “Better check” light is on when I read both “RAF paratroopers” and “16 Air Assault Brigade,” which is not in the RAF.

Eisenhower was serving as a full General, with four stars, after February, 1943. By the end of 1943 he was appointed Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces, with other 4-star Generals, Admirals, and Air Chief Marshalls reporting to him. Pay no attention to the intricacies of lineal numbers and permanent ranks…

I strongly prefer the Mk7 Golfs to the Mk8s. Physical buttons, analog dials, and a suitably-sized screen that knows it belongs in the center stack instead of pretending to be a MacBook Pro open for a Zoom session. An elegant “R” or “GTI” badge down on the left of the hatch, where history requires it. I’m going to have…

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VERY important.

That’s what I mean: sales are not covering costs. And the idea of Musk ranting about government interference, when government interference created a market that has so far paid him nine thousand million dollars, amuses me no end.

I’d like to see some math on this, but I’m not sure that it does make a lot of sense for Tesla to be leading on public chargers anymore. I’d bet they are loss leaders, deployed because they were critical for the adoption of a critical mass of Teslas. At this point, though, if they’re now the default standard across…

I was about to make a joke about hiding the plates when the VIN is viewable to all, but he’s made up the VIN. And that’s enough for me to say that I’m just not interested in working with this seller. ND.

Speaking of next-level dumb...

Context: Lockheed Martin has delivered about 1,000 F-35s so far. This was a developmental aircraft with new technology installed, on the way to Edwards Air Force Base for further testing.

You think eight men in a row hadn’t taken a shower? And that out of, I don’t know, 100 people on board it was eight black men, and only black men, who hadn’t taken a shower?

And commas are needed in both “a teenage pilot crashed his Cessna 172 just outside of Sydney only he wasn’t as lucky as Swanepoel” and “Case in point, this small Cessna which came incredibly close to crashing through someone’s house over the weekend.”