Neutral: Don’t force the market to go where it doesn’t want to go. That results in unintended (usually bad) consequences.

While this seems like a good idea on it’s surface - and if actually done to promote electrics and fund infrastructure and not diverted into the general fund, is well-intentioned.

I share some of Tyler’s enthusiasm for human spaceflight as a noble challenge, but sending humans into space with chemical rocketry becomes a waste pretty quickly. Humans are fragile and chemical rockets are too slow for covering solar-system scales. Reaching Mars is possible with current or easily foreseeable tech,…

HA! What you did there, I see it.

What minimum wage job? They actually have jobs? Is Twitter paying people to compose 140 character masterpieces these days?

I agree. I think China hates this guy as much as we do, but can’t stomach the consequences and unpredictability that would come from his ouster. They can’t afford and don’t want a refugee crisis, and desperately want to keep the strategic buffer of his misbehaving client state.

Am I the only one that noticed the Excursion-brozer (Excurbro?) in front has a late model Superduty front end?

“Most likely the other commentators who say VW is angling for a huge fine, but no actual fixes, are correct.”

Good point about the incentive to diversify. Do you think when car (and truck) sales turn down again, as they always do, that Metro D will suffer badly again? (Not just with the Lions.)

The tedium that came with the pause between me barking and the car doing...

So with that voice, you’re able to call your car a f***ing a$$ and it will thank you for the complement?

Depends on what you mean by “work truck”.

Yes - bought a new 2015 F-150 XLT, 3.5 twin turbo, 4WD, crew cab, long (ish) bed, heavy tow package. Replaced my 2000 7.3 Superduty, which I bought used with 7000 miles and donated at 360,000.

2nd Gear:

I honestly think that the thought of NK’s population - starving, mostly unskilled - streaming across their border is what China fears the most. There would be no good solution for them: A hard military border closure could lead to slaughter or hundreds of thousands dying on their doorstep as their military watched,…

How about this: A fusion-boosted fission device could, I suppose, be called a “hydrogen bomb” without a full secondary. Both the US and the USSR worked on this type of design before moving on to full two stage - maybe three for Tsar Bomba - designs.

I think you’re right that they don’t have a fusion-boosted device. The first one of those the US made looked like an industrial installation, it was HUGE (building sized). The lithium parts require a whole different set chemical/material capabilities.

Cummins - Westport has been making these engines for a LONG time. They’re basically CNG versions of Cummins’ diesels. (And the fuel system is basically a computer-controlled carburetor!)

Yes, this. When a ship that flares outward rolls to one side, the center of buoyancy generally moves quickly in the direction of the roll (that widening part of the ship is going into the water), trying to push the ship back upright. Of course, at the same time, the weighted keel is moving the other way, trying to…

You mean LITERALLY make him the escape goat.