Pre-emptive

Give GM a little credit here. We’re talking about a huge company that not too long ago made some utter pieces of shit on wheels and had a serious badge engineering problem. What they are doing here is not only a complete re-brand but a complete product and service portfolio replacement. That is amazingly difficult for…

At some point in the fairly recent past, the multiverse split and sent the world on a darker timeline. I’d venture it was around the year 2000, when we exited the bright optimism of the 1990s.

As voraciously as I devour the show, it’s also occurred to me that someone fictionalizing your life and airing it for the world to see when the world is really, really bad at differentiating truth from poetic license (or even outright disinformation)...that could be very disturbing to the subject.

It is, without exaggeration, the most fun motorcycle I’ve ever ridden.

California’s electricity grid is well over 50% fossil fuel free.

I’d love to see your math on the 70k+ number. It’s not even close to true.

Cost to mine for battery materials is a one-time expense, but what is the cost to extract hundreds of billions of barrels of crude every year?

Counterpoint... maybe we need to talk less about Elon Musk.

She won’t even return my calls anymore. 

He's a fast hombre, that Manuel

Imagine creating an organization that celebrates conspicuous consumption and unearned wealth and then having either the extreme self-awareness, or the extreme lack thereof, to call your organization One Percent.

You mean you and your spouse went out on the front lawn and pointed guns at them.

The driver and passenger, of course, claimed that they were scared of the protesters, which seems to be a common refrain in these increasingly common attacks

Gonna need this image a lot in these comments I think.

The Venn diagram of “people who said ‘Buy American’ in the 1970s” and “people who said ‘Jap scrap’ in the 1970s” is so close to a perfect circle, you’d need a magnifying glass to see the margins.

This is why I fly a massive ‘Murican flag on my Silverado. So something ‘Murican is on it.

Isn’t the answer that the good police officers work from within the system to bring about systemic change and root out corruption?

This is great.

The FBI was so eager in asking for footage of protesters that might have broken the law but I wonder what they are doing with all the footage of police brutality endangering people’s lives.

If pedestrians cannot walk across the bridge for fear of going deaf, I'd say that pedestrian protection system is working better than could be hoped for.