They built one near me a few years ago at a 3-way intersection. I was ecstatic and I went from sitting in a quarter mile of stop and go traffic every day to never having more than four cars in front of me going into the circle. Even though it IMIDIATELY eliminated the traffic, people talked about it like they were…

I belong to the local small town Facebook news page

I belong to the local small town Facebook news page and they can’t go more than a week without complaining about the two-year old traffic circles, despite the fact that they’ve completely eliminated the huge traffic backups we were dealing with on weekends.

As an Air Force meteorologist, with a BS in meteorology from Texas A&M and an MS from NPS, the amount of facepalming dumbassitude I encounter from hillbilly morons regarding weather is sobering.

For a good long while now, I’ve had my fingers crossed that the pandemic is essentially to the tool that will get us part two.

“sallow, hairless, bloated fascists”

My hype levels seem to have been justified. What are the chances it does well on HBO Max but doesn’t do well in the theaters (raging global pandemic/movie going experience being generally terrible without a pandemic)? If it gets streamed to high heaven, will that greenlight the conclusion? Real nail biter over here.

I will happily wear a mask for 2 hours and 35 minutes to go see this on a big screen. Can't wait.

As a weather enthusiast (and NWS-trained tornado spotter), this makes me lol.

Hillbillies are just so damn afraid of anything that’s different, including things like science, art, technology, foreigners - and apparently traffic circles.

Don’t forget that they look awesome in North Pole/Iceland spec

Toyota HiLux, obviously:

I’m in the market for a non-Tesla EV, and Electrify America has been building out pretty aggressively. Unless you are in the big hole in their network in the Dakotas / Montana / Wyoming, they have chargers located in a lot of Walmarts and Targets along major highways.

Battery EV fanbois keep saying they are superior products. Government subsidy should not be required if that were true.

That is the thing though, I don’t have to do any research to keep doing what I am doing. It is working.

If I go buy an electric car, now I have to plan my route, I have to know if there really is a charger where the internet says there is one, what used to take five minutes tops now takes an hour.

And that assumes…

I get hitting the back roads all long and not having enough range for that, but going to places (even cabins in the woods) has never been a issue about the lack of charging... it’s just a lack of forethought and spending 10 minutes finding a charging station along the way in most cases.

For a substantial segment of the population, the drawbacks of seeing a movie in the theater outweighed the advantages, pre-pandemic. First of all about 10 years ago I stopped going to any theater at all where I couldn’t reserve seats. Then there’s travel, cost, the random chance that someone sitting near me is some…

Range anxiety is still real. I still can’t depend on there being a charger at my destination and short of a Tesla most E cars don’t have the range to make a three hour drive out and then make it back.

Coincidently most of my vacationing is about three hours from here.

I can’t do that without refilling my WRX, but I…

1st Gear: I don’t think having to use government subsidies to get people to buy EVs is a good plan long term. They need to be made well enough and useful enough to have people buy them regardless. Giving a big discount to the automakers gives them no incentive to figure out how to make them better and cheaper. This is…

And you know for a fact that when they remake Hunchback, Hellfire will get the axe. 

I rewatched the original for the first time in years not long after this film came out and loved it. It’s a relatively simple story, but it’s really beautifully told.