Except that lower speeds are safer because lower speeds are safer. If public safety enters the picture, the speed limit needs to drop precipitously pretty much everywhere. Like, until we stop allowing trucks to be pedestrian plows, the speed limit anywhere someone might have to cross the street needs to drop to about…

That’s because none of the other amtrak routes go anywhere useful.

The new Chicago/Milwaukee-Minneapolis route is apparently in the black after just a few months of service, because that’s a route that people have been clamoring for for years. It’s $41 each way which is cheaper than the gas it would take for the same…

Jesus christ can we just put one of these on the freeway median of i-65 between Chicago and Indianapolis? or between Chicago and Denver on I-80?

The comic “Cerebus” had the greatest explanation or rich people ever- “Rich people are rich people first and whatever else they are second.”

Musk is a rich person, and he’s a rich person first, and a CEO, republican, whatever second. He’s sucking up to Trump because Trump is better for rich people. Trump makes huge tax…

To be fair: I can’t think of a way to describe this thing that doesn’t end up sounding like a nuclear weapon.

This is a huge problem for people trying to build neighborhoods- Back during the boom in “new urbanism” AKA “let’s build neighborhoods like we used to, where the streets are narrow and the parking is in the back via an alley and the yards are smaller and have big front porches”- and developers kept designing them…

Or, if you’re gonna do all matte black, do it right and paint it with vantablack, the black paint that absorbs all light and makes things look... WEIRD.

Thank god we might get another vehicle with capabilities that (checks statistics) a statistically negligible group of people actually use.

I’m a single car household so I still need one vehicle that can do absolutely everything, and part of that everything is multiple 450 mile drives a month across states with lousy infrastructure in general and lousy charging.

There’s a reason that for most corporations, the CEO is basically a faceless automaton in a suit. There’s a reason why most corporations take stands that are already focus group tested to not offend their audience.

it’s the “I was totally going to buy a new corvette until I found out it comes with firestone tires, so I bought a charger instead” of politics. You were never gonna buy the corvette pal...

Fun fact: you don’t need a politician who understands the nuts and bolts of your industry. What you need is a politician who’s willing to say “You’re right, I don’t know, what do the experts in that industry say?” And then listen to the experts.

Oh you 100% cannot trust AI to write well. It’s a great tool for editing or shifting tone but you’re still going to need to go through it and make it sound like it came from a human.

Our writer, who was overloaded.

And the thing is, it can’t replace our writer. It’s great for stuff we don’t want to bother a writer with, but it doesn’t replace them even a little.

AI seems like a decent productivity enhancer- like, “please make this email more concise and direct” or “rewrite this copy to an 8th grade reading level”- and as such it’s pretty useful if you work in marketing. Ditto with asking photoshop to extend a photo rather than spending an hour or so doing it yourself.

Got a RENTAL Prius and it was absolutely terrible- it was noisy, uncomfortable, smelled bad, the seats were designed for... I don’t even know who those seats were supposed to work for but I pity them and the challenges they must face. The car was hard to drive, the handling was somehow both floaty and rough. It was…

Finally, someone gets it.

I’m surprised more people with public facing service jobs don’t snap. People are the worst.

I had a Klein that maxed out on 25s. Because that’s what every super stiff aluminum frame needs, tiny tires. I recently built up an old school road bike with a pair of 21s and I will say, it FEELS fast. I mean, it’s not because I’m not but those rock hard tires definitely make you feel like you are flying. Also, if…