The NBA CBA revolves most importantly (this is, when the union is willing to fight) around % of revenue that goes to the players.

Whether those revenues then get allocated to players with guaranteed contracts or nonguaranteed contracts is really a secondary issue. The players obviously opted for guaranteed contracts a…

THIS.

The absolute economic sense starts to fade rapidly when all the economic benefit goes to the top 1% (property owners, city leaders, business owners), and the cost (higher rents and housing, cost of living, getting more aggressively policed to “encourage” moving away) is all born by the poor. Sure, there may be some…

Bezos just wants to reopen the bidding so he can also do a nationwide search for his next mistress. 

The AAF piggybacking on college football is the big difference in my mind. NFL veterans on their way out of the game may be a prop in the short run, but the real success of leagues like this is “good college football” players that the NFL won’t sniff.

Since quarterbacks sell the NFL and college, and there aren’t…

That cannot possibly be stable. Rollover risk must be worse that 90s SUVs.

KEEPIN IT REAL. It is also a nod to the fact that there are people that drive in a clueless manner (“idiots” in George Carlinese), not just the people that aggressively drive as fast as possible damn everyone else (“maniacs” in George Carlinese)

Don’t IndyCars mount a 2.2 liter turbo vs F1's 1.6L turbo? I get that the regs will really affect the ultimate power output, but shouldn’t the larger engine give IndyCar a massive advantage?

I guess F1 is currently doing about 850HP, and Indycar is 500-700HP. Well, there’s the difference. Is it the fuel? Are there air…

Oh my god, someone modifying their car and it doesn’t really do anything practical in the big picture of things?

You’ve just described literally every and all enthusiast subgenre of cars is pointless by your arbitrary personal standrads. Cars ultimatel exist to go point A to point B.

Should I go around demanding…

Trying to max your gas mileage is an interesting exercise that makes you realize how wasteful we are, and how lucky we are to be able to deliver hundreds of horsepower at the minute exertion of pressing down on a pedal with our feet.

In some parallel universe where the oil all was destroyed by some oil-eating…

The Ford hybrid is PHEV too. The all-electric range sucks, but it’s a cheap way to tell the gas companies to go fuck themselves, at least for city driving.

The rear trunk is kinda ruined and the rear seats don’t fold down though.

Look at the photo: flatfooted defender vs Boban on his toes and possibly about 2" off the ground if you average both feet. Between the height diff of five inches plus 6-8 inches of vertical and being on your toes, that is a solid foot of head height.

Edit: oh, and Al is bending his knees in anticipation of absorbing…

The NBA definitely refs the game vastly in favor of perimeter play. If you are a preeminent perimeter player, you will get foul calls for being breathed on.

If you are one of the top two or three post players in the league, defenders get to basically tackle and mug you with or without the ball and even while shooting.

T…

At least that is “progress” from the Mark Chmura days.

Also:

Ford will get a truck to market first. Will it be good? Eh. They won’t design a good cell-based truck (even though the pickup flatbed would be a great place for that, puncture concerns aside), they’ll slap some pouch battery design and an okay-ish electric motor.

For the trade war, how long before people just NAFTA…

It’s a joke, don’t you get it? They “killed” someone with their car. That is absolutely hilarious. And considering that you’re driving around bragging about it, I’m sure that won’t remind people who have actually had loved ones die in cars or killed someone while driving around.

Also: global warming is fake! Check out…

Amazon has too many games by the suppliers to trust that. A new 0-review brand could be a bad product re-launched with a different logo to ditch the old ones.

A good, trusted product with 1500 reviews and a 4 star rating for a fake apple power brick? Well, it at least means it isn’t terrible.

The specific rated stars…

I think the best platform for this would be RPG video games. You can start with basic dual-language at the start for dialogue, and then as you progress in the game and into other areas, the vocabulary and bilingualism starts to fade until you are almost entirely in the language, both spoken and read. 

I thought there was a NYC cab test of 3,000 vs 5,000 and then they took apart the engines, and there was no difference.

thank god there is someone else that cannot resist typing start instead of star