Text from CBS piece from a while back and Pogue’s interview:

there’s always going to be someone mad, so you might as well embrace that fact and do it anyway.

It’s a powerful argument tool to get people on your side, despite it being a very stupid approach. You present your argument in such an exaggerated fashion that then directs the only logical response to align with your point. It’s a form of reductio ad adsurdum (appeal to ridicule). I’d wager it tends to work well on…

The more modern nuance is that safety regulations are written in *other peoples’* blood, and it’s immoral to leave profit on the table.

I’m reminded of a KS state legistlator’s son who was decapitated on Verrückt- the world’s tallest waterslide. The slide was built in KS specifically because the state legislature had reduced safety and testing requirements. The Waterpark had a family day for reps and their families, and the result was irony in its…

“ I mean if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything.”

Interesting.   The chance of a problem caused by a hull failure just went up a lot of these systems work as advertised.

With regards to items 2 & 4:

According to David Pogue, the journalist who went on the sub a while back, there are multiple ascension systems, including one that is designed to release ballast in case of a power failure, and another passive ballast system that has water-soluble attachment points, so the submersible is…

But he was a billionaire so he was toots smarts!

The thing that we are doing with the focus on the construction type and materials used is to get the cart before the horse. There are MANY ways this could have gone sideways. Not a submarine expert, but off the top of my head.

It dominated its class completely from start to finish... though it was running in a special exhibition class by itself.

If this gets NASCAR to incorporate more road races into its schedule, I’m all for it. 

“Like playing Slayer’s ‘Raining Blood.’ I just backed my car up, pop the sunroof, every window, pop the back hatch, and let ‘er rip.”

There are very few areas where I agree with Joe Manchin. But one of them is that if there’s a maximum tax credit for domestically produced product, and the entire freakin’ Congress has literally codified that, you don’t make exceptions for foreign interests.

Wow, this has to be one of the most misleading article titles I’ve seen on Jalopnik in a while. Do better.

Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.

“Sicko wants 75k for pieces of the car Paul Walker died in”

Done.

Does anyone actually care?

It’d be faster if there were a virus and we could convince them not to get vaccinated.