I’m going to the Caucasus in a couple weeks and renting a Dacia Logan, which I expect to be the worst rental I’ve ever had. Driving up the highest mountain passes in Europe in a gutless Romanian shitbox should be entertaining at least.

for those of you that are gonna say, ‘Guns, guns’ — Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the United States, okay?

Fair enough - I guess I should have said “in Europe,” since that’s where my experience is.

Hilariously, a nearly-indistinguishable group of beers all of lowish quality would be much more like the USSR than a wide selection of craft beers.

Outside of the US, anthems never get played outside of the World Cup and Olympics. They play it here on National Day, and the only other time I’ve heard it is seeing the national football team.

Well, his twitter feed is a pretty bad place to get the nuanced discussion - a lot of his feed is not serious (the Yang thing, for instance). The longer articles and discussions actually include real back-and-forth, where the twitter feed is just quick responses to individual things.

If you read his twitter or listen to his podcast, it’s absolutely on brand. Fivethirtyeight isn’t a polling aggregator, it’s a polling commentary site.

Remember, this is the same set that said “polls prove Sanders would have won,” while simultaneously saying “you can’t trust the polls at all because they said Hillary would win!”

If you listen to his weekly politics chat, it’s pretty clear that he’s neither a centrist nor a hack. There is a hell of a lot more nuance in his arguments than you’re giving him credit for.

I hate the Bentayga in person, and the first Cullinan I saw made me want to gouge out my eyes.

Where I live, a car as fast as the C8 will just get you arrested if you actually use it. I guess I could drive over to Germany and screw around on the Autobahn, but derestricted zones there are disappearing as well.

If you start counting the “if Obama/Democrats did it” game, your head will explode pretty quickly.

Historically white does not mean no racial divide, not even close. There’s plenty of anti-Turkish racism in Germany (I lived in Germany for a couple years and saw plenty myself), and a huge amount of anti-Algerian/Tunisian/African racism in France, and plenty of anti-Congolese racism here (there have been a lot of…

Poland or Hungary, also Italy.

The clip of the guy getting arrested made the news a few places, found a clip which shows the aftermath of my car getting destroyed:

I had a manual Corolla stolen from me by a guy who just robbed a bank.

Like several analysts have said, Musk basically “discovered” the concept of a subway, only much shittier.

Like so many CEOs, Musk is convinced that his past successes mean he is a supergenius whose every idea is pure gold. He decided he could reinvent tunneling, and no amount of evidence will convince him otherwise at this point.

Absolutely right. The ability to win a debate (or an election, for that matter) is an extremely poor proxy for the ability to run a giant bureaucracy.

She’s terrible, and people treating her like a fun sideshow are normalizing her appalling ideas.