Good warning article.

These days...the distinctions aren’t so clear.

Boeing didn’t have the advantage of governmental funding like Concorde or the Tu-144. They invested in the 747 instead and that worked out fairly well for them.

(yes, the American government NASA, is there any other kind?)

Yeah, it’s just Cadillac trying to be something they’re not. It’s like a nickname, you don’t get to choose your own, the world around you decides what it is. Your nickname does typically have something to do with a characteristic or behavior you have though.

Fuck yeah it’s a yacht.

I wrote a very polite, reasoned response today that disagreed with your thesis but was absolutely civil about it. It seems to have disappeared.

I don’t know if I’m a sucker for punishment, but staying there through the winter sounds awesome.

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IDK enough about supercharging to know if that’s true or not but it sounds perfectly cromulent to me.

In the most overly-complicated, most delicate and least-serviceable way Germany’s finest engineers could make it.

You wouldn’t think so, but teenagers are eating detergent packets “for the lolz” so at this point everything is fair game.

Nope, I guess not.

It’s “made do”.

Damn the brightwork around the windows is kickass

Mainly because space is at a premium and these guys are doing street level pickup. In addition to that, single homes basically don’t exist in the city. Skyscraper apartments and in this case, businesses make standardized waste bins pointless as they are too small. Dumpsters can’t sit on the sidewalk either, so you get…

This is what happens when you try to domesticate the Duke Boys, make them drive Kia SUVs, and move them to the city.

Most dashcams have a mic mute option.