I experience so much mental whiplash when I switch back and forth between my low slung 650 lb Vulcan and way more upright 350 pound Ninja 500, but I kind of like it. Part of the fun to me is being reminded that different bike types can offer wildly different experiences.

“2nd Gear: Not again. A court case already reaffirmed California’s ability to set its own emissions rules, per Republican Nixon’s EPA.”

I bet Putin is sitting in his volcano lair just laughing his ass off at us.

That’s a good point. Granted, at the time, I think he was bloviating about canceling consumer mandates that didn’t actually exist and/or were on the state level and not part of his purview (technically) anyway, but if he actually honored this contract....ha ha ha ha, I couldn’t even finish that.

I bid a military contract back in 2019. It was to remodel a school on an “area 51" base so they could build a new hi tech laboratory: Scientists needed somewhere to science in the meantime.

Yeah, this is one controversy that I don’t think makes a whole lot of sense. The contract was already there when Biden had full control. So while it’s still valid to ask why the state department is looking to spend $400M on armored Teslas, trying to blame it on Elon influence doesn’t make a lot of sense. The Biden…

Republicans propose a $1,000 tax on anyone buying s a new EV

It wouldn’t be a predicament at all, regardless of when the contract was drawn up, if all the American automakers had a “fair” shot at the contract (or as much “fair” as any such thing can ever be).

Although that said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump changed it to ICE anyway, given his (and his base’s) hostility to…

Europe’s taxing models for consumer vehicles would have saved us from the huge suv and truck onslaught.   Those vehicles would simply be unaffordable to own.  

We could tax fuels to the extent that they do in Europe and almost every other developed country, causing the need to consume less and add to the nation’s coffers for frivolous expenditures like universal health care and top-notch public transportation.  But fuck that.  We are America, and we think we are the best at…

In the world of military contracts $400 million will get you one prototype. Maybe.

“I’m pretty sure Tesla isn’t getting $400M. No one mentioned it to me, at least,” Musk wrote on X on Thursday about the department’s revised forecast.

They will cut all your earned benefits to the bone and send the money straight to their own companies. Trump did it last time with his hotels and golf courses. This time it will be much more direct and brazen. 

Still trying to understand how these “wins” Trump keeps talking about from the tariff threats to Canada and Mexico are bringing back manufacturing jobs to the US... because it seems an awful lot like he just did a major goalpost shift to claim some kind of bullshit victory when the original goal was never going to be…

It was more ‘Design propane torch that would normally sell at Home Depot for $50 but make it look like a gun. We’re gonna call it a flame thrower and sell it for $500.” It probably took one engineer a single day to knock that out

Actually, I think it was the year before that, when Musk came up with the Boring Co. Flamethrower gambit.

“My thoughts on her car: the suspension sucks, it’s noisy”

Lol calling someone a pedo for no reason screams “projection”, and the conservative right in america are the posterchildren of “projection”

We bought my wife’s model 3 in late Dec 2018. I regret it more each day. But my wife loves the car so we aren’t getting rid of it.  I will never buy another Tesla and won’t help my wife if she wants one.  My thoughts on her car: the suspension sucks, it’s noisy, the wiper controls are dangerous, lock/unlock with phone…

I think what people are mostly referring to with those stickers is the political crazy though. The cave rescue incident was weird, but not “I would never ever associate with someone like this” weird like someone who enjoys giving Nazi salutes.