And here’s the thing... cars are, IMO, really the wrong tool for moving around cities. They’re inefficient uses of space, dangerous, polluting, and they mean that people are insulated even more from their own surroundings. And, in cities that are structured to make car ownership a necessity, it hurts the poor to have…

My reading comprehension must have failed me in a big way, totally didn’t see the BS there.

Man, I really feel for the guy. It’s easy to armchair quarterback this stuff, but when you’re out on a road, where you haven’t done lap after lap of practice, and you’re behind the wheel of a 458 Italia, things can get out of hand pretty quickly. A downhill hairpin is like a fucking bear trap. Yeah, the guy obviously…

His point was to publicly disclose he is a closed-minded idiot.

That is some good old-fashioned home-brewed Kinja right there. 5 stars, would read again.

Good episode, like your thinking =)

The US needs to catch up... perhaps they could call on a certain red-haired child who speaks an inexplicable accent.

Exactly. Four cylinder up front with a standard hybrid drive train, and a Tesla like flat battery pack below the passenger compartment. The added range and low center of gravity would make it like taking turns nicely, unlike the i3 or the Opel Ampere. While maintaining traditional hatchback interior cargo space.

I mean we only hear about the tech they want us to hear about

Fuck these guys. Seriously.

For the record, I agree, I was replying to Robins comment on the U.K. immigration to the OP.

Everyone outside the U.S?

nice #hashtagpocalypse

Seems appropriate.

The first tanks in WWI sucked, does that mean the British should have said “well I guess this whole idea is bad?”

They weren’t modelling asteroids big enough to do that - you are moving into the kilometre and above range for an asteroid to punch a hole in the ocean floor.

This is an argument about word meanings — which are entirely arbitrary — and not about facts. The closest we could get to facts would be an ethnography or a frequency analysis of the use of the word “vehicle” to refer to elevators. Popper famously said that arguing about word meanings is a waste of time. Wittgenstein…

Yes. Books are a vehicle for learning/adventure/romance etc... Phones are a vehicle for the conveyance of information. Sound is the vehicle for the conveyance of information.

And what is your objective view of the fact that he has shown himself to be unpredictable, dishonest, a full blown chauvanist, racist, popular with the KKK and white nationalists, erratic, thin-skinned and orange? I mean objectively do those traits make him a likely good choice for President?

That’s because he’s a con man, a kleptocrat, a racist, and a man-baby.