Yeah, that was my thought too...

I drove city bus for two years, and while I’m no teslabro I love driving my wife’s i3 and it is anything but disconnected from the road. All the time you spend double clutching an old greasebox is time I spend intimately focussed on driving without having to drop out my engine and mess around with tickling a gear box. 

Is that the chance he goes or the chance someone goes? I think the second is true, but Musk hasn't even been to the Moon, which we know is possible with existing tech. 

Other than time, how much does this review cost? I am guessing Musk could sell 20,000 Boring maglev winter or mars themed model trains for 10k a pop and sell out overnight. Assuming maybe $500 in actual costs that should still cover a lot of costs.

As people have said, the EIS for the whole is not the same as the sum of smaller EIS’s. Nobody is saying Musk has to do the whole project at once, they are saying that since he plans to eventually do the whole project, he needs to show that the whole project as a unit has minimal impact. That's reasonable. He can then…

What DOES it mean? I mean, Zuckerberg, who probably deserves credit for making the idea popular seems to think it means ‘move fast and break things’. There’s evidence Musk does too. That’s fine if it’s test models, and maybe okay if it’s a satellite or overly trusting early afoptor or two. It’s maybe not ideal for a…

Deep breaths. Okay, of all the evils in the world, -this- is the one where we get worried about someone (who is rich, popular, and extreamely privileged) getting taken advantage of. Hm. Hmmmm. Okay.

Are we talking population density? Because I know lots of people would agree with you otherwise. 

Yes. Unlike all the people before him who championed public transit. For them it was easy, they were just lazy, and didn’t ever accomplish anything except major and effective public transportation in at least 2/3 of the other major cities in the world. All hail our savior Musk, who does things no one has ever done…

Ah, sarcasm mixed with subtle notes of angst and misanthropy. A fine vintage indeed. 😁

It’s not at all different. He literally just bought a tunnel boring machine.

I drove city bus for two years for a reasonably major west coast transit system. Sure, some people got on those busses that were unpleasant, a few to the point of not making it to their destinations, but an awesome number of people got from A to B without a hassle.

Yeah. Horray single track, single destination private transit! All the problems of the world are solved! And by all the problems, I mean mosty the problems of having to share public transit with people who can't afford cars. 

You know what that balance is? Using the existing green-lit project as a proof of concept and doing the damn environmental impact statement for the longer tunnel. Those laws aren’t arbitrary, they exist because of past exploitation. If Boring does the review and shows that the tunnel is fine, then great, but ‘Musk…

Of all the takeaways of the alien spacecraft discussion, the most salient one is that we wouldn’t know an interstellar exploration craft if it smacked us on the nose. The people saying ‘why haven’t we seen evidence of aliens yet?’ need look no further than the many huge question marks surrounding this object (much…

Computer! Enhance!

This. Where can I donate to your campaign?

Nope, and that goes both ways. Also, should the principle of a school get to say terrible things without repercussions but a middle school boy be called out, while the administration activily pursues policy of exclusion? If that were my kid’s school, I would pull them out, and if this is the new standard for the how…

Ah, yes. Because Crenshaw totally downplayed that war injury. Dark glasses all the way, no pirate mercinary look for this guy. Oh wait, nope. Bonified eye patch all the way. There’s a clear style choice here, and the joke wasn’t really ‘haha, this guy got injured’ it was like ‘dang, dude rocks an eye patch’. It wasn’t…

I mean, okay, but one joke from a show whose bread and butter is sex jokes with the more than occasional toilet humor should not be met with more enthusiasm than the entire discourse of the republican party leadership.