Find a shallow sand bar, beach it, then have it declared a US protectorate.....Profit!

Totally! Reading through the application requirements was a lesson in bureaucracy. They reserved the right to put it back in service if you didn’t just outright scrap it. You had to be a non-profit, and have a slip or mooring already agreed to.

Our first plan had been to park it off the LA coast, just into…

Echoing everyone else here, fuck ‘em. No access, no repair, no insurance. They bought the ticket, let them take the ride. 

And then fine them for littering.

Back when the US was trying to give away the JFK aircraft carrier, my friends and I were trying to come up with some justifiable reason to apply for ownership. We ran the numbers to understand what fuel consumption was like, since it was one of the last non-nuclear super carriers, and it was in the barrels of diesel pe…

I was making a sarcastic comment on political power giving in to Irish destructive behavior, ie the Good Friday Agreement.

Yeah, I’d be curious if they paid taxes on their sales.

Violence neve solves....er....wait. 

My bigger concern is how the republican’s in Congress responded, by calling the trial a sham. It is extremely problematic that members of the one branch of government are calling out another branch as criminal, for doing exactly what they were tasked to do.

The good news is none of it is copywriteable! 

I mean...we should now....

“We don’t make the M1, we make it better.” Gotta love a company that somehow never developed anything of their own but was an 80s powerhouse. 

This is how Fiat leaves the US again. An inability, or intentional decision, to look at the existing market and price accordingly. In a year, Fiat will say, “Well, we tried, but you didn’t want to buy them.” Which, is both true, and bullshit. 

Eh. Fine. Just can we please have a little less saccharin over-encouragement for new recruits/ensigns? It was really hard to watch those ‘You can do it. You did such a great job. I’m so proud of you.’ scenes in this season of discovery.

Nor is it the BASF M1

Remember when Jalopnik had quality articles and was one of the best auto related sites in the world? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

I think an international law that says if you’re trying to go to the titantic, you have to put ALL your money in escrow during the venture. If you fail, the money covers your recovery costs with all the rest going towards a PBS special talking about how stupid they were, and towards school funding.

Can we finally just say that full self drive doesn’t work?

As far as I can tell, this is the first reasonable use of a cybertruck.

Very cool.