5.7 seconds on a car from 2000 is...bad? I want whatever you people are smoking.

I think this is the episode of Planet Money in which they trace WWII back to the Franco-Prussian War and how WWI and WWII were heavily influenced by massive war reparations imposed by the victors, and massive inflation in Germany between the wars.

The race being called was a completely surprise to literally everyone. None of the teams knew, TV and radio didn’t know and the fans didn’t know. It was about 30 seconds of “what?! They called it” after it was broadcast over the PA. They called it because they’ve been sucking Porsches dick all season and to have a GT…

yep. I’ve heard people say that there really wasn’t “World War I” and “World War II,” but one big war with a long cease-fire in the middle. Kind of supported by Hitler’s insistence that the armistice with France in 1940 be signed in the same railcar in Compiègne where Germany initially surrendered in 1918.

Gotcha, my bad for misunderstanding.

This is the COTD to the COTD. Part of the reason the Nazis came to power was because the onerous punishment imposed on Germany for WWI created a fertile economic and social environment for extremist nationalism.

Not only that, dolphins are typically smaller than marlins. Every time I see him I get the feeling I’m looking at a fish murder

The official car of men that like to be called Daddy

Adequate Man sounded like a great idea initially, but I think all the topics worth covering have already been done. There’s nothing wrong with anything in this piece, other than the fact that it’s all completely unnecessary. More and more, these Adequate Man pieces are answering questions literally nobody is asking,…

I’d prefer one of these babies.

It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?

Any remaining vehicular power/gas/oil/automotive stuff would really be best spent on some sort of infrastructure projects to lay the ground work for years to come. You’ll want a safe place to live quickly and the heavy machinery will help a lot.

I actually quite dislike post-apocalyptic tales. I’ll happily watch them and enjoy them, but afterwards I start overthinking it and get depressed.

A bike would probably be even more reliable and not require food, shelter and potentially medicine.

Also. Hayburners can make new hayburners. Cars, not so much.

First you eat your transport, then, well, eat a bullet. No greens doesn’t leave much way to live.

I actually agree with your larger point, but as someone who grew up on a horse farm and owns more than a dozens horses today, that “drinking water too fast” is what you might call an urban legend. You’ll hear a similar story about not letting horses drink cold water, which is also an urban legend. I think the legend…

Going to grab myself a diesel hi-rail from the railroad. They’re Ford trucks sold in fleet so parts shouldn’t be that hard to scavenge, diesel that could be sourced from fuel pads in railyards and locomotives and maybe even some home types of heating oil in tanks of homes and businesses and can be driven on rails…

You know it! And it has AWD!

Is this the brown diesel manual wagon of the post-apocalypse?