I watched a TV show a while back about tracking down abandoned loads and finishing the haul.  I always wondered what drove some truckers to abandon their loads, but I suppose if they knew they weren’t getting paid and were going to be terminated there’s no sense in burning their own fuel. Just drop the load and look…

This story contains a quote from a Highway Patrol lieutenant who says that truck drivers these days seem to have a press-on-regardless attitude toward high-wind warnings.

Before I run off doing hours of research, could somebody give a quick rundown of the differences between the GT3/GT4 spec and GTE? I was hoping to see an explosion of new cars at Le Mans given how many new cars are running in IMSA events.

I think you’ve summed up my entire experience playing Diablo. Most times a gold or green item lit up the screen my reaction was “OMG! Oh, trash stats. Disenchant.”

$300 for mine. 1988 Pontiac Tempest in 2002. Imagine this car, only with the front left fender bashed in, the turn signal held together with clear silicone caulking, and 3/4 of the paint peeled off the hood and replaced with rust.

Question about PC1, does it have any concept of stewards or marshals? I’d love to play a semi-realistic racing game online but it irks me that players in Forza (my chosen game) can cut the track, spin people out, and crash people off-line, and the only penalty is an icon beside their best time saying it was a dirty…

I use my WiiU’s browser to watch League of Legends LCS streams. Sometimes I want to watch the stream on TV (and my TV isn’t a smart TV with a built-in Youtube app), and sometimes I want to watch it at my desk when my monitor’s otherwise occupied, so I use the WiiU tablet controller as a second screen.

Neutral: Just kill it.

MT - Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

Yep, it’d be the first shot in a trade war. US tariffs cars, their partners tariff cars and integrated circuits in retaliation. US tariffs imported steel, their partners tariff raw cotton. At the end of the day, everybody’s paying more for everything and the only winners are the taxmen.

I really hope they do something about the matchmaking in the game, especially in casual. It makes it hard to enjoy the game when I’m going 0-3 against a team of diamonds while my team has sub level-20s and copper leaguers.

Rolrig the Wolfen.

I just wish the silhouette was more distinct. I’m sure it’s the most aerodynamic shape that improves performance and reduces fuel usage and yada yada, but honestly from the side it looks exactly like a R8, and even from the front and rear nothing really distinctive jumps out. I have a feeling this car will become the…

3rd Gear: Senate Ditches Oil Disclosures Before Dawn

So half of the tailgate can swing further down once the tailgate is at the old rest position... is it too early for me to preemptively name this contraption ‘The Shin Destroyer’? I hope the lever (labeled 100 on the diagram) isn’t the release because it would require people to be even closer to the danger zone when…

So they’re using the thermal energy from the exhaust to add some torque to the crankshaft as well as driving the compressor? I’d imagine you’d need a lot of exhaust that would otherwise require the bypass valve to be constantly open to justify it, but those war plane engines probably had the boost cranked up so high…

This is the man who is supposed to stand up for all Americans, and yet there are 25 ‘I’s and 5 ‘me’s, vs 22 ‘we’s and 3 ‘our’s, and only 6 name-drops of prominent African Americans and 2 mentions of African Americans as a collective noun by my count. He spends 2 and a half paragraphs attacking news outlets, 2 and a…

Yep. I feel the quickest way to make someone a Luddite is to help them understand how technology works. I’m a professional code monkey and, knowing what I know, I’ll usually take a mechanical or simple electrical device over a complex electronic or computerized alternative.

They even made the windows opaque, perhaps to hide the eldritch horror that lurks within. Dear lord, these cars are more Daleks than humans...

Didn’t the #93 hood end up in the middle of speedway turn 4? The hood may have been removed by contact, but I wouldn’t phrase it as the team being forced to remove the hood, more like the hood wasn’t there for them to replace once the car was in the pits.