Yes, I preferred the days before Disney, NBC, CBS, Warner, and everyone else launched their own services and started hoarding their original content. Unfortunately, the only way Netflix could survive was by doing the same thing.

Isn’t that the job of the “Space Force”? Or are we saying when the little green aliens come to destroy us that the American armed forces are all going to say “hey, that’s NASA’s problem”.

Are you certain you are still paying only $8 per month? I thought they eliminated the Google Play Music discount amount a number of months ago.

The thing is — Google (mostly) doesn’t pay for music streaming with YouTube Music. They are leveraging the music videos already uploaded by the publishers, whereas Spotify and Apple Music have to pay a nominal amount for every song played. That does not mean Google is not paying — the whole YouTube empire is vastly…

Whoa! Wait a minute! Washington State licensing already assesses an additional EV tax on the annual license that amounts to driving ~14K miles per year to offset the loss in taxes. I know this because I have a Nissan Leaf that moves less than half that distance annually and it is a tough pill to swallow. So, are they…

Fiat Panda is the greatest: Mostly because it absolutely is but also partially because they are forbidden fruit in America.

Every 12 months Florida has over 3,700 people die in car crashes. Seems like the issue might be the people sitting in the automobile driver’s seat.

No doubt, Tesla’s pricing is causing issues for the rest of the EV market - and the Tesla used market.

Oh, don’t worry. They’ll replace them with Christmas decorations in September.

It could be argued we have unlimited (potential) energy when the sun is up but have not mastered storing it for the other half of the day. In theory, electrolysis to create hydrogen for fuel cells is an alternative to batteries (or pumping water, or raising weights, or ...) - except it is expensive, slow, not as…

1st Gear: Hydrogen for trucking (and airlines) makes sense environmentally on the surface - until you realize nearly all of the hydrogen is generated from fossil fuels, making it (essentially) no better than the diesel / kerosene it replaces. There is a large amount of “we build it and the problems will then be…

It makes sense for Zuck & Co since that is one more potential hole to trap people in the Meta garden. The concern I would have is whether the latest craze of charging providers that link to news articles in certain countries could turn this idea into a liability.

I think there is a new normal that has formed for “average” movies. Yes, the social aspect of going to the big screen still exists, but there is no denying that audiences are more selective and many simply refuse to return. Movies that are truly extraordinary (Spider-Verse) and ones that fans need to see (Mario) will…

And in news getting significantly less coverage:

Right — if you compared the Betamax 1 hour recording time to the VHS 2 hour recording time then you couldn’t tell the difference. But people were using the 8 hour feature because we were all cheap bastards.

Meanwhile in stories not getting much press:

Gen Xer here. Betamax quality was the same as VHS and Betamax tapes had far shorter recording time.

In Beijing, a weekend. I wouldn’t want to drive on it afterwards, though.

They easily can be had in Europe for less than 100 Benjamins, so you would have to completely ignore all common sense. It’s way outside my budget range and I would want it to be 100% Scirocco, so I’ll have to wait another 10 years, I guess.