... and calculator!

May have been an infomercial, one half of a 30 minute block with the other half going to some other low-end car or whatever market they figured watches this stuff at 3am.

I haven’t come across these but the skin reminds me of the Cosmic Crisp apple that debuted a couple years ago. Delicious - best apple ive had - but somewhat expensive.

I think there was a jalop article awhile back about the challenge of making tasteful looking RVs. The swoops were a response to the slab-like designs you see this unit having. I guess it is hard to make something that is a bus not look like a bus.

My guess is it’s the random “malfunction” feature they gave it. The acceleration is enough that a person’s head and back needs to be pressed against the seat before it launches. But, to keep things scary, they have a feature where randomly sirens will go off and it will “malfunction” only to launch a couple seconds…

Exactly. Level 5 is science fiction stuff. It’s building a brain better that works better than a human’s. Perhaps one day... and the implications of such an invention will go far beyond something quaint like a self driving car.

I’ve been saying this for years and I used to work on autonomous driving in the early years of the mid-00s. Probably *because* I used to work on that. I stopped because it was obviously never going to reach usability for a long long time and I had other ambitions. Silly me, I could’ve kept going on putting lives at…

not to mention ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

I mean, yes and no. The first moon missions were the equivalent of sending a rickety raft across a stream. Most missions had near-disasters occur and some were actual disasters - Apollo 1 killed its crew without ever leaving the ground and of course Apollo 13. Apollo 11 almost crashed and had only a little fuel left…

yeah that’s the read I get on many of these incidents. An insecure person picking on people they perceive as weaker than them, in this case very possibly for racist reasons. And there’s others - younger people, people of perceived lower social class like retail workers or some combination of all the above. Many of…

I think mental health is a component of it. It doesn’t have to be an either/or thing. Judgey racist assholes are everywhere but its a uniquely odd one that goes on someone’s porch to tell them they don’t like their Tigger flag. I bet the rest of this lady’s life is morbidly bizarre.

Currently 250k is the cheapest you can get to space. It takes about 5 times the velocity to get to orbit and the challenge and cost goes up vastly. The difference in energy is exponential. The craft also must be able to slow down from that speed and bleed off the heat - spaceship two will never be used for an orbital…

Snozzberries are penises found in other Dahl book. It was a dirty inside joke.

This is very much a “Despite the incredibly racist things I say and do, I am definitely not a racist” kind of response

Maybe its just nostalgia but I feel like 90s games hit a sweet spot in fun and playability. Machines had enough ram and storage to not have insurmountable limitations on the dynamics but not so much ram and storage that developers could run wild and make 100+ hour “games” that are more like a job. They had to focus on …

I have a weird love of golf games but my favorite tops out in the 90s with Links. I’d consider that recreational enough. The original Golf game on the gameboy is also surprisingly good for a short diversion.

I guess this is pure centripetal force on the belts. Are there any weights attached? I could see them flying off and penetrating the tire from within. On the ground with a load it would fail much earlier from friction heating which is why jet cars don’t bother with rubber - just metal wheels.

Some EV’s use DC motors. But they cost more and are difficult to assemble due to the large permanent magnets in them. Their efficiency is only slightly higher. The choice of which to use comes down to balancing a bunch of factors regarding cost, performance and assembly issues.

Right? I remember going online for the first time as a 13 year old and writing the most dumb immature things because that’s what a 13 year old is. Thankfully it was long enough ago that when those sites shut down the data was gone for good and not in some permanent cloud archive. As a society, we gotta evolve the…

I love this picture. The Leica with inexplicable Nikon D-something strap and of course, a Mighty Ducks hockey shirt.