1st. Gear: The FCA-Peugeot merger is good for them and good for us as enthusiasts. Snarky quality comments aside, becoming the #4 automaker is a big deal.

Countries that took it seriously and don’t complain about small things like wearing a mask are living a relatively normal life. Meanwhile in the fucking west.

This year has taught me so much about why hermits take to the woods.

If the people just stayed home for 2 weeks last March it would have been done. Ffs. The fact that it's almost a year later says people in general are terrible selfish pricks.

Probably because the Netflix Spaceforce show called everyone “Spaceman” and it sounded fucking hilarious.

I assume the Darksaber can’t cut through Beskar because it’s a lightsaber, and it’s been established that lightsabers in general can’t cut through Beskar. We see this specifically when Ahsoka battles Din and he’s able to fend off her lightsaber with his gauntlets.

I perform site visits and build PV systems for a regional solar contractor, and I fuckin’ love every minute of it.

I’m sure that as a mayor, Buttigieg has sat in planning meetings that involve roads, viaducts, rail, conduits, etc. I can’t imagining Chao even knowing what viaducts and conduits are.

We literally just finished transitioning off tape to off-site archive HDD (similar to surveillance drives, but even slower), but after the whole SolarWinds BS over the weekend we are back talking about tape again - having truly off-line backups suddenly sounds appealing to the CTO again. It never ends...

I’m sure a lot of truck kits are illegal, just rarely enforced.

I genuinely would love to like the Tacoma, but it’s insane to me how incredibly low the payload rating is for the 4x4 models. It’s about 1100 lbs. That’s including all people. So by the time you’ve got 2 Americans and their dog, you can bring about 500 lbs of gear. Sliders, winch, bumper, and other offroad goodies put…

1st: Early in the pandemic, Tacoma owners were trading their Tacomas in for more than they paid for them. The Tacoma is a great truck. 

5nd Gear: Replace Cadillac with Pontiac and all things will get better.

That’s another benefit of vehicular based traveling. You can pack out more trash! Shitty people will be everywhere and their momma’s failed to teach them to clean up after themselves. Bring a spare trash bag and pack out more than you bring in so it’s nice for the next person. Sadly the more remote the camping spot…

I once rode my e-bike around town with a bluetooth speaker on the back rack playing a sample of a Harley idling on repeat.

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I’m getting old, I think I’d rather stick with the shot.

He put up the captital to get it running, but SpaceX doesn’t need VC money to keep going. It’s a viable company. But yeah, bitching about Elon is dumb in this regard. 

Lately Torch has been reminding me of my Aunt the Alpha Karen when it comes to Tesla & SpaceX.

“Removing Elon Musk from the equation, it’s an incredible technological feat. Musk didn’t do this, the engineers of SpaceX did.”