Learning that every car has the symbol for which side the gas tank is on is still in my top 5 most useful things ever learned.

I would ride the shit out of an E-bike or E-motorcycle on nice days to work. 8 miles one way. But I don’t trust the traffic.

The interior is definitely a step-up from the normal “I’m rich beige and marble” that they usually sport.

On one hand 100% fuck Door Dash for not properly paying its ‘employees’.

Colbert put it best last night: We can’t be bothered to pay our employees, so we’re gonna shame if you don’t pay them for us.

There’s no reason to use the platform at all.

Hard disagree on raw onions, but then again, I just don’t like raw onions in any context.  Biting into a raw onion is like getting a sudden blast of mace to the tongue; it just dominates the flavor of anything it is paired with.

I was going to go buy a lottery ticket, but this guy just used up all of the world’s luck.

I’ll use instant potatoes and in my experience it’s better to add a tablespoon and stir to see how it thickens before adding more.

And then even better would be to give them metal wheels and have them run on their own rails to reduce friction and reduce tire/wheel wear costs. 

The Tachikoma development has begun.

“If you came to me right now with a journeyman that’s been in the EV charging industry for the last couple of years, he’d be hired on the spot,” Trout said.

Bicycles are considered vehicles everywhere I’ve ever lived. They are expected to use the road just like cars, signal movement like cars, stop at lights/signs like cars.  The whole bit. 

So the problem with becoming famous among TikTokers is that your business attracts more TikTokers.

This is true, which is why it makes no sense to ban ICE cars at this point (apart from environmental signaling to score political points).

Superior technologies don’t need bans on their predecessors to succeed. On a number of levels, even beyond infrastructure, gasoline-powered cars are still better. Until BEVs can charge in the ~2 minutes it takes to fill up a gas tank, they will be at a competitive disadvantage, as everyone doesn’t live in buildings…

The constitutional argument for it is pretty weak. Interstate travel is a fundamental right, and prosecuting the purely in-state portion of it is absolutely a burden on that right. Alabama could not prosecute citizens going to Nevada to gamble or visit a brothel, and it can’t prosecute people getting an abortion…

The more well-known one was the Toba catastrophe, 74000 BCE.

The Toba catastrophe comes to mind, but that was around 70,000 years ago, I believe?

Sensationalist headline. The teacher signed a morality contract with the school, she breached it, and the school terminated the contract as per the contract. The lesson here is don’t do business with or work for private religious organizations.