Everything up through Class 6, IIRC, requires no special license, as long as you’re not a commercial operator. I once drove one of those things because they were all out of the smaller trucks at Penske. I was *extremely* glad it was a very short distance that I had to go, because I didn’t feel very well equipped with…

My uncle was badly injured working as a highway worker. Nearly died. He was alone at the time; sometimes a worker is out doing some task out in a remote stretch of rural interstate, so if something goes pear-shaped, there’s nobody to call for help. I’m not sure the exact circumstances, but he got his arm pinned under…

$100,000 is for damages. The rest is for his pain and suffering. (Also, it’s a starting point for negotiation. Never start at the point you want to end at, and typically these lawsuits are capped at just under a million, so they usually start at just under a million.)

Yeah, the typo amused me too. :-)

What exactly is the point of this? I mean, you get a dually so you can use your truck to tow in a fifth wheel configuration, and not really for any other reason. Cybertrucks are luxury vehicles (let’s not pretend otherwise), so this isn’t going to be a working vehicle. It’ll be towing toys. Campers and boats. But its…

Also convenience. I like not having to walk all the way around the car just to fill it up, especially in the winter. I live in Minnesota, and in late January, it usually gets a little bit chilly here.

Yeah, I get the comparison because it’s all angular, but I’m not sure I’d lump it in with Brutalism. Maybe if it was made out of concrete and the frunk was, I dunno, cantilevered out sideways or something? ;-)

People are waaaaaaay more casual with property that isn’t theirs.  Just ask any hotel cleaning staff anywhere.

As a certified Space Nerd, I have to go with Subaru. “Subaru” is the Japanese name for the star cluster called the Pleiades, and that’s what’s on the logo. It’s somewhat stylized; the current logo is not a very accurate depiction. Earlier variants of the logo were a bit more accurate to the positions of the stars in…

Murals have definitely made a big difference to the graffiti problem in St Paul’s West Side.  That part of the city is absolutely gorgeous now.

“Then you have a Musk who just makes shit up and is over so many companies there is no way they know what is actually going on at all of them nor do they care.”

That’s exactly what I was thinking. The courts do have ways of clearing a person’s schedule in a hurry.

Voyager status page, showing current distance and light speed communication time:

This. They aggressively pursued firm fixed price contracts because those look super appealing to customers, who like the idea of knowing exactly how much they’ll have to pay. And they deliberately underbid them, knowing that would help them capture the business. The fact it then made it impossible to execute them on…

Maybe. But that doesn’t give the contractor license to charge whatever they want. The Truthful Cost or Pricing Data Act (formerly the Truth in Negotiations Act, or TINA) is serious business. There are a couple of possibilities here. If that gargantuan markup was incorporated into the original offer, as you describe,…

Just be politically agnostic and vote candidates you believe are best.

And Jack Welch’s legacy has been busy doing the same thing to lots of other companies, because he ran a little school of business teaching CEOs how to work his magic. He made GE’s value skyrocket at a scale that is nearly impossible to comprehend these days. I mean, it was Tulip Mania scale, and honestly, everyone in…

In extremely tiny fairness to Tesla, they do say the proper thing to do is to not swerve when faced with a deer at speed and just nail the sucker. Horrible, I know, but the authorities always say that it’s usually less dangerous to hit the deer than to suddenly swerve into another lane and possibly hit a car. (Of…

Well, after calling the authorities to come tag it, of course.

Oh yeah. I live in suburbia (and not even outer suburbia) and they’re walking through our neighborhood on the regular, eating the landscaping, and occasionally joining it. In the past week alone, I’ve seen at least half a dozen deer.