A couple takeaways:

David Tracy’s track record on fixing friend’s cars: https://jalopnik.com/i-tried-fixing-my-friends-mini-cooper-s-but-i-screwed-u-1841575009

Some people need to get together to make an app-based ride hailing company that runs itself as a driver-owned cooperative. Seriously, it could work.

“They aren’t glamorous jobs, but neither is driving around drunk randos in a beat up Sonic.”

I have a couple of friends who ride share and the main reason they do it is because of the flexibility of work hours and they get to “work for themselves”. I always tell them if this is what they plan on doing quit being lazy and get your CDL already.

I really must disagree. I work in a construction-adjacent field, and there is SO much need for decent labor. Not only am I talking about actual construction labor, but reps and supervisors and office staff. Suppliers need clean-cut people who don’t stink like smoke, can answer a phone, and can show up to meetings on…

“Also, despite what the internet fanboys will tell you, every car on the market has its little nasty quirks, the Sonic included.”

Yeah, I read this climactic paragraph several times trying to make sense of it:

I get the frustration of not having Lyft and yes, that leaves people with one fewer option for getting around, and yes, they are being particularly pig-headed about it, but let’s not pretend that anyone has any entitlement to a ride-sharing service that didn’t even exist a few years ago.

I think they would be best served by reframing what they should be talking about.  In the midst of an ongoing pandemic, they should not be about communicating about the underlying science of what is going on, as that is fast moving and full of uncertainty.  What they should be communicating is a public health message,…

I agree, but to be fair, the press is going to spin anything they say into the most sensational, outrageous take possible and no amount of clear messaging is going to fix that.

Maybe broaden STEM to STEMPR: science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and public relations.

This is great advice for when I buy my Lamborghini later this year.

They’re probably talking about an external safety as opposed to a trigger safety and there are many reasons people prefer a trigger safety to an external safety. One big reason is this exact issue regarding the holster. An external safety can be actuated accidentally by things like holsters and clothing making the…

It’s online streaming that really sheds light on DS9's brilliance. I could understand why the TV run was challenging for some viewers — 7 years of a slowly unwinding story (with plenty of bad episodes in between). By the time the final season rolled out, you were required to retain information from several year’s back…

If one takes the series as a whole, the central theme at the heart of Deep Space Nine is an examination of how “good” the Federation actually is. Ideals and principles are great, but they only mean anything when they are tested and held to when made inconvenient.

“Voyager’s the flagship show. You guys are doing great work, but, you know, you’re in the shadows and you’re going to remain in the shadows.”

Congress shall make no law respecting...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The in-universe reason Voyager had variable-geometry warp nacelles was that the Intrepid-class was designed with them to counteract the damage being done. Didn’t matter much on the other side of the galaxy though. 

It should really be unlike the plague :P