What if we didn't like being around people before the pandemic either? I could go for a couple more decades of everyone staying 6 feet away.

Doctors should worry about the hysterical COVID people after they do something about the hysterical people that are worried about:

A plastic radiator on a car will be under much higher pressure and much higher temperatures.

The right isn’t sending their best anymore, to put it mildly...

I’m really pretty baffled why he “didn’t expect it to be so hard,”

Be careful at 3AM, kids, a cop might murder you because he’s a jumpy, paranoid, trigger happy waste of life.

Unless the cops can magically teleport to your bedside within a second I don’t see them helping you in time if the burglar is dead set on killing you.

You obviously live in a place where the chances that you can encounter somebody who breaks into your home with the intention of doing you harm are so high that you need armed response from the police. You’ll need those cookies. My sympathies.

Fully secured airbag subscription price of $10/month

3rd Gear: I’m surprised that VW doesn’t have a China-only EV styled for that market. I thought it was clear that Chinese buyers currently like a bit more flash in their expensive cars than Europeans (sort of like US buyers in the 1950's). You would think that VW’s marketing department would be on top of this.

I live in Ohio and can state with a sense of deep shame that our Repuke legislators are hateful bigots and fascists that suck at Trump’s withered dick. If they all dropped dead of Covid tomorrow, it wouldn’t be soon enough.

Someone came up with the argument recently that it’s “economic populism” vs “cultural populism”. The Democrats are firm believers in economic populism, as in tax the rich, increase subsidies for the poor, expand on opportunities for advancement, etc.

I spent 15 years working in social services. The amount of hatred towards the poor is absolutely amazing. “They have a cell phone!” Well yeah, they need a phone to do basically anything in today’s world. How can they take calls from work to cover a shift, how can they take calls about job interviews, how can they…

It’s pretty telling that you have to reach back 25 years to somehow come up with your “both sides are bad” argument. And for the rest of it, give me a fucking break, there’s room for nuance on all of it.

Disagree. I think this car is going against Corolla/Civic/economy cars.

You’re 25 and you need your first “real” car. Why would you choose a small sedan over a small pickup that gets better mpg, has more 100x more utility, and isn’t a boring.

Correct. A car that looks basically the same as it did a decade ago is not a “halo car” anymore, it’s just the most expensive version of a car you’ve been selling for a long time. I would be both shocked and unsurprised if they don’t have a true flagship EV in the late stages of development. The new S-Class just came…

Except Apple was smart enough to update their product regularly enough to get people to keep buying in. If you put a 2012 Model S next to a 2021, a lot of non-car people would not be able to tell you which is the newer model. Line up 10 years of iPhones and there’s a clear evolution of design.

These are cutesy references, but I wonder how many purchasers they alienate with these outdated references to marginally funny movies that are pretty much played out as touchpoints. I’ve thought the same thing with their naming strategy. The Model 3 was originally going to be the Model E before Ford asserted a…

I feel like Tesla is trying to buck the industry refresh/redesign cycle on the asthetic components of their cars and it’s kind of a risky move. The auto industry didn’t do model refresh and redesigns in a vacuum - consumers like having something that looks modern and new. Tesla can't sell the same looking model S and…