No one’s doubting it’s the future, just like EVs. But saying 5 years ago that self-driving will be here in 3 years, and it’s now 5 years later, and it will be another 10-15 years before it’s becoming widely available, that’s just a SMALL miss that’s worthy of pointing out, no? Being too early is just as bad, or even…

I have a date with Eudora Welty!
(off stage LOUD and PROLONGUED belch)
Coming, Eudora!

Because people like my mom are going to watch it on cable TV.  Who watches TV anymore?  Mom.  

Can someone explain to me why US tv is carrying Prince Phillip’s funeral and all the related nonsense this weekend?

I’ll get interested in autonomous car tech when it becomes good enough to drive me home while I take a nap in the back seat... and I can do that legally.

BBC are depicting him having just returned from his latest Noire thriller...

I used to do procurement and supply chain (decided to go back to school for an mechanical engineering degree), and I gotta say when it comes to quality, [brace yourself for a possibly unpopular opinion] I’ll pick a trusted Chinese manufacturer, over a US manufacturer almost any day. I’m born and raised in the USA, but…

I’m in this market now. Had a Model3 for an overnight test drive, and it sold me on the Polestar. The Polestar is a couple of thousand more ($52,500 after tax credit vs. $50k for the 3), but you get a (IMO) nicer car.

Oh absolutely I’m with you on any settlements having to come from the police pension fund...that’s another of my absolutely necessary reforms. A third one is getting rid entirely of private prisons. No industry should ever have a financial incentive to keep people coming back to jails...that’s just purely bullshit.

So what happens when Trump rolls in and cuts that department? I’m with you in theory, but in practice, that would be somehow even MORE fucked than the current system.

My “big idea” for trying to fix policing issues is to entirely remove investigating/prosecuting police misconduct from local departments and DAs, and have a national DOJ office dedicated solely to handling those cases. If the local police try to stall or impede the national investigation, they lose full federal…

Thank you for this insight because we are, every single one of us, really, really, really, tired of all the armchair quarterbacks out there, making up reasons for why yet another Black person needed to die at the end of a cop’s bullet, instead of just coming right out, and simply admitting they hate Black people!

b. I am purposefully trying to deescalate the situation. c. I am not trying to prove I am a badass.

He had an outstanding 20. I believe he was pulled over because he had air fresheners hanging from the mirror. None of this adds up to a shooting. For those that say he was fleeing, Tenn v. Garner states that it is a violation of the 4th Amendment to shoot a fleeing suspect unless the officer can prove that the suspect…

Poor people actually pay more for necessities than middle- and upper-class people, due to things like having to buy stuff in small quantities rather than bulk, or having to buy something right now that they’re out of rather than being able to wait for a sale. Same goes for loans, the topic of this article—sometimes…

I live in suburban New Hampshire. There are plenty of poor people here, just like everywhere else. There is no public transit and for much of the year you can go weeks without seeing a cyclist on the road, due to sub-freezing temperatures, snowstorms, and ice. What would you suggest?

How do you do all that without a car? Serious question. Me, I need a car to get to work so if I didn’t have one, I’d have no way of making money.

When I needed a loan and my credit score was in the mid-600s, my credit union was still able to come up with an affordable APR for me. (5.45%, I think it was. Not amazing, but hardly predatory.) Credit unions are great, you should join one.

If you have poor credit, you almost certainly don’t have the cash on-hand to pay for a car all at once, which leaves out private buyers.  

Much easier said than done for a lot of people.