I watched the mailman hammer my mailbox open, while I looked it my window sipping coffee. It was rough

The real reason for the delay is that they have to scrape the side windows so the pilots can see anyone sneaking into the blind spot. Those things have a ton of side windows and the pilots only have those little pilot badges so it takes a long time.

It wasn’t just 11,000 flights. My mailbox was also frozen shut. I had to pull fairly hard to get it open.

They actually hit a recently-finished raw sewage main. Sewage has been diverted and now that mais will be restored. 

Yeah I want to know more about it. This post would have worked better on Gawker.

The AC in this scenario is dealing with feedback from the engine cooling system. It never gets “fully charged” and maintains it. The harder it has to turn against a heat soaked high pressure side, the more load put on the engine, the more heat the engine dumps into the radiator for their shared fan(s) to relieve, etc.

Well, now I just know that you don’t understand how A/C works in a car.

The benefit of having your own train is that you can decide yourself where to stop. Imagine you’re in your luxury pullman car (good choice!) and you’re sitting, waiting because of delays...
Nope. If i were filthy rich, i’d have them clear a path with a good amount of margin for me. Hell, perhaps just buy two time…

My experience riding trains is that they’re only boring if you find your own company boring

Why not? Pretty sure they’ll be happy to take your money to use their tracks as long as it doesn’t screw up their operations. That’s exactly how a lot of Amtrak operates. I’m sure it would be hilariously expensive, but also $350 million train. 

Yeah, data:

This isn’t normal urban traffic. This is drive 60 ft, stop, drive another 60 ft, stop.... All day long. I’d bet your Fit wouldn’t get 20 in that scenario.

It’s all the stop and go driving that makes it so low. We’re comparing apples and oranges when we look a these numbers because we’re used to the EPA combined city/highway numbers, which will naturally be much higher. If you or I drove our cars on the same duty cycle we’d get fuel mileage closer to this than to what…

FWIW, a 4-cyl/auto RWD S10 (upon which the LLV was based) gets basically the same fuel economy as a 4-cyl/auto RWD Colorado. To some extent, fuel economy gains have been negated by extra size/capability/comfort/speed/etc.

The new recruits here lately have been confusing stunning engineering with the rich people who own them, and that their job should be to cover the vehicle first. Almost everyone who reads Jalopnik already thinks Bezos is a scumbag, piling on is just annoying. Spanfeller’s plan for G/O seems to be to turn it into a…

They should implement all the measures that they used during the G8 summit... including ‘kettling’ them in place with the riot squad then tow/impound each vehicle one by one. 

I mean you can make fun of the guy for having a “toy” like this but you know what? This project has employed hundreds of people in the hard hit marine sector and will continue to employee lots of people for the substantial on-going maintenance that will be required. Captains, engineers, all the other crew, the ports…

So basically every comparison made in the article is completely irrelevant? if a ram TRX gets 12 MPG on the EPA combined I’d hate to see what it gets on the USPS cycle.

A Ford Transit 350 gets a 16mpg combined rating and it just as tall if not taller than this thing.

It's the USPS cycle. As I noted elsewhere, just shutting off A/C moves the estimate to 14.7.