The United States is on a downward spiral and the ironic thing is that the MAGA, make America great again, cult is leading the charge and accelerating the decline. China is going all in on renewable energy and electric vehicles and so are a great many other countries, and who will be providing the solar panels,…

Well the chicken, at least, would be more than fine overnight or even longer since 35 is even colder than an average refrigerator. Depends on what the other things were though. As someone who's fridge/freezer is dying I can say that while 32 degrees may freeze ice cubes it does a poor job of freezing most other things…

The Top Gear episode where they see just how much a Hilux can withstand is a classic.

As a resident of WNY I wouldn’t say a deer is the most common animal that are hit by vehicles. I see far more raccoons and possums dead on the side of the road than deer. It would be more correct to say that deer are the most common, consequential animals that you could hit, since obviously hitting a possum does…

If Elon personally sent it, sure,  I'd go nowhere near whatever he sent. However the men and women at SpaceX are some of the most capable engineers out there, so I'd rather fly/land on anything built by SpaceX over anything built by anyone else, especially Boeing.

With The Grand Tour ending, I am disappointed that we’ll never get a special episode where the guys have to use 3 electric vehicles to make a crazy trip across some large distance somewhere in the world. 

This would probably be a great idea for a nationwide franchise. I would’ve killed for the opportunity to have access to a lift and a well equipped, clean garage for working on my cars over the years I once had to change the rear axle on my car, outside in February on a blustery cold WNY winter day with a snow covered…

Amen!

My one cat would hide all night on the 4th, but now that she’s been around for a decade worth of 4th’s she might get a little anxious but doesn’t hide out anymore. My 1 year old kitten basically could care less about fireworks, his behavior doesn’t change at all, but he’ll also be constantly under foot while I’m…

New York state is the same way with firework laws. Anybody who wants them just takes a jaunt down the Thruway to Pennsylvania and loads up. We also have another, closer way to get real fireworks, just head down to your local Indian reservation and there will be a bunch of pop up stores selling a wide selection of NYS…

Chris Evans wasn’t exactly a no name actor before he played Cap. His role as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four was pitch perfect casting. He also starred in Losers, Push, Fantastic Four 2 and Not Another Teen Movie among others. So personally I'd include Evans along with Rudd, with Downey being the biggest star…

I’m hoping that one of the upcoming MCU Avengers movies includes a universal, multi-verse or otherwise, reset. The MCU has become a bit unwieldy by now and it's not like it has had the success it used to. So wipe the board clean and start from scratch. That way you don't have to have some lame excuse for where the…

Bumblebee was a fun, decent movie.

Both The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone have published reviews saying this show is boring dreck, and they are both liberal leaning sites so they aren’t starting out with a known axe to grind.

Yes, all of that. Both The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone put out reviews that starkly contrast with the reviews put out by AV Club and Io9. The Gizmodo family of sites will praise anything from Kennedy’s Lucasfilm, especially if it involves a minority or an LGBTQ+ person somehow. Read reviews from sites that aren’t…

Didn't you hear? Elon actually said recently that if you think Tesla is a car company then you haven't been paying attention,  Tesla is an AI and robotics company! Musk really has jumped the shark.

Someone needs to use one of those AI video editors to add in a couple nude men on either side of Trump in that clip. Also that is about the worst "dancing" I've ever seen.

Which is so ironic since they’re the ones always complaining about “cancel culture”, yet they constantly want to cancel a whole laundry list of ideas, things and people.

Weirdly enough Musk has publicly come out against any tariffs levied against Chinese EVs. If a Chinese company like BYV started selling their Evs in the US Tesla would probably be dead a year later, maybe two.

Right now I think the biggest threat to US EVs are the US EV manufacturers who seem to have no interest in selling low profit margin, high volume, cheap/affordable electric cars, while going all in on high profit margin electric trucks and SUVs. I think the US automobile manufacturers need a legitimate threat to their…