One of my first jobs was at a Stop & Rob, back when people were trusted to pay after filling up.

The cellphone thing comes from back when batteries were a separate component that clipped onto the back of the phone. It was possible to generate a spark between the contacts on the battery and the phone if the fitting was loose, say if you’re one of those people who compulsively unclip/clip things with clips on them…

my favorite thing about this article is that what makes Torch happiest to not be a rich a-hole is because some of them drive tacky cars with too much chrome, not that they are capitalist parasites hell bent on destroying the middle class, letting the poor suffer, and dismantling the New Deal social safety net

I would go out of my way to dress it back up like a Jeep with Geep badging.  

Tesla is weird in how they’ve fallen in terms of styling. We’ll ignore the first Tesla Roadster, given that it wasn’t Tesla’s design. Then:

It’s an 80's Hollywood take on what a 2020 truck would look like.

I have always hated the Cybertruck. It looks like it was designed by a committee of people who had never used a truck before and have never had an actual need of one, for people who don’t actually want a pickup truck to begin with.

I know styling is subjective (outside of a few notable cases that EVERYONE agrees on), but, man, Toyota makes some SERIOUSLY ugly cars! I just scrolled through all the cars on their website and the only two there that weren’t hideous or “meh” were the 86 and the Corolla hatchback. Everything else looks like abstract…

Ugh, I know a guy who drives drunk in his Tesla all the time because he has AP. Before he would Uber everywhere which was great. Then he moved from the city to the ‘burbs and got tired of paying extra in Ubers to get smashed. He rationalized his Tesla purchase because it would save him money on Ubers. Fucking people.

“AP was not involved at all”

As long as they follow the DMCA takedown rules, they have zero liability for copyright infringement by users under the safe harbor provision (of course people can still sue you, even if they can’t win). More recently there have been concerns about the FCC possibly reinterpreting section 230 of the Communications…

That argument about copyright has me worried the comments are next on the chopping block.

One thing I have noticed in my OEM Conquest/Starion books (like 2 phonebooks, remember those?) are that they have specific detailed instructions on procedures. Most Chilton and Haynes books just say, “remove alternator”.

I would always, ALWAYS rather try and save lives by doing something than do nothing knowing people will die. The diminishing returns COULD happen, yes. But people are already dying of the virus and shelter in place is DEFINITELY saving lives, so I pick that. 

Honestly, the people who partook in the stunt make make me sick that we share the designation “Michigander”. All these assholes were NOT practicing social distancing. So now they’re going to take their potentially infected selves to their small rural towns that don’t have sufficient healthcare facilities to manage…

Fuck these selfish assholes.