Permanently lose every ally over a 1-term moron? God I hope that shiny red button has a couple layers between it and the orange coiffed doofus.

Damage control, people, damage control. It’s fundamental to the navy. Don’t let the ship sink because a dumb captain got the wheel.

Consider that Iran now has several decades of experience fighting asymmetric warfare with the best equipment of the US Military in Iraq.

And Russia would ship them as many weapons as they wanted.

... And you do realize they have several nuclear reactors to make EXTREMELY DIRTY bombs with, even if they can’t nuke us?

The US would lose every single ally in the world and viewed as an extremely dangerous rogue state if they used nukes. Well, Russia would become our ally.

You sound exactly like the braindead idiot generals in the 1970s.

We cannot use nukes except in extreme instances of direct self-defense.

Anyway, Iran is at the center…

And they probably have missles that will sink any ship in the Red Sea (any 1980s tech can do that), and the red sea means we can’t loiter our carrier groups out of range.

And Iran will immediately get Hezbollah to attack, and start fucking up Saudi Arabia and Iraq and Syria, and Afghanistan>

And the Russians would…

Because our “nation building” means “build a corrupt government that we can use to exert economic and political control” and not actually care about the people of the country, aka “the nation”.

Iraq should have:

That would be HILARIOUS. Saudis utterly failing at using their modern weapons and getting owned by the Iranians that actually want to fight.

At which point it would be 100% in our best interest to get Trump to call his good friend Putin and have him supply Iran with all the weapons they need.

We sell our weapons to the…

“It is not - by any stretch, a perfect country, but why the US reflexively sees it as a direct and dangerous enemy is beyond me.”

What are they sitting on top of? Oh right oil (you even mentioned the nationalization of the british petro company).

If a country has oil and a government that doesn’t kiss our ass, they are…

That might actually be a “welcome with open arms” then, unlike Iraq. Isn’t Iran basically all Shia? (95% per a google search). A lot of the welcome with open arms problems in Iraq was that the ethnic tensions couldn’t be contained.

But what will really happen is that the US will fuck up the postinvasion governance and…

I know, it was just a slight oversight. I’ll correct it, since EVERYONE wants to know: How did Tesla do on year-on-year?

I wanted races for the first couple pools, not just more time trials.

I only want time trials for the final pool, and that’s only for the pole. The rest get randomized in each pool for a general grid position.

Maybe, but really what matters is what the insurance companies think of them.

If automation is 10x safer overall statistically, then the insurance costs will dictate what happens.

Ambulance chasing exists already. It’s kind of a known quantity to the insurance industry.

I’m a hatchback driver right now, so you are preaching to the choir, but I suspect the usual hatchback profile has a fundamental problem with aerodynamic efficiency / CdA. That max-space squared-off rear is just hard on the eddy currents / remerging air flow that is so critical to low-drag design. 

Definitely agrees. The Model S with 2170 cells would deliver 400-500 mile range battery packs. I hear they have chemistry improvements that would go higher, which is where the roadster 2.0's 620 mile range comes from.

Plaid is coming too. They already did the Model 3 —> Model S tech transfer for permanent magnet…

As I annoying said over and over in a previous post, transportation has to go electric. In terms of global warming mitigation, it simply has to. Europe and China are all actively all-but-requiring EV development and switchover as soon as supply and use case feasibility become possible.

BMW’s CEO got fired for fucking…

Oh right, you are probably correct.

I guess fundamentally everyone is freaking out about demand, but from what I can tell they can’t make batteries fast enough, and Tesla is fundamentally a battery pack company (soon to be battery cell company) that happens to sell its packs only to its car and power subsidiaries.

So…

It really swings in the favor of the car if you have passengers.

Self-driving cars will revolutionize this calculus. A self-driving EV that self-charged could do an overnight trip while you slept 500 miles (at a conservative 60mph). If it averaged 70mph or 80mph, then... wow.

And you have a car when you get there.
And you pick when you leave.
And you can pack a lot more crap.
And....…

Soooo.... how about all dem medals in the Olympics from his runners?

Also, just remember this next time Nike does a dumb song and dance dumping a busted doper. Yeah, Lance Armstrong was a horrible cheater, and you’re running a corporate-sponsored doping track team. 

So let’s say there’s this huge industry awash with money, where people stand in front of a camera, and “act”. And it’s SUPER IMPORTANT how good looking and buff you are.

Let’s say the drugs to do that, and doctors to make sure those drugs don’t turn you into a hippopotamus aren’t really that hard to get, expensive, or…