She’s not there to have knowledge. She’s there to get a target demographic to click on stories about her being there. Once they do, the people that hired her get to show off their increasing engagement with said demographic.

100%. I live not far from the Glory Holes of 42nd, 34th and 36th (Midtown Tun). Any time - like yesterday - an unnecessary street fair closes the artery avenues of midtown, the population of Manhattan pays an unholy price for the congestion (air pollution, increased travel times, noise pollution) that occurs. If…

What’s up with That? needs to be shot and buried in a dump. It’s not funny, it’s just lazy filler so they don’t have to write anything for the cue cards for a few minutes. And I have an INTENSE hatred of people getting interrupted by others.

“Unless you enjoy sitting in traffic or shopping within the deafening levels of sound that traffic brings, Fifth Avenue is not suitable for purpose.”

I’ve lived off the BRP and I live off the merritt, the upper BRP and lower TSP is far better because there is a real threat of danger after nightfall, because it’s much narrower, much twistier and there’s no shoulders, and generally speaking the ratio of cars-to-turns lets you have actual fun. The threat of danger on…

Minus the flooding, your BRP is my Merritt parkway. The stretch between Stamford/Greenwich to the NY state line is particularly fun.

I can certainly see it mattering with something as critical as the batteries. It’s hard for me to imagine someone choosing a vehicle because it comes with Goodyear tires and a Bose stereo.

give yourself more credit than a foggy morning thought, what a beautiful analogy of candies lol. In all seriousness, I think it could end up as important as maybe the brand of tires or the branded stereo equipment in a car. “Our’s comes with Goodyear tires!” could transition to “Our’s comes with a Samsung battery!”

Ford is 100% the Cheddar Bob of the automotive industry.

3rd gear: She sits on the board of a Lidar company. Kind of relevant.

You seem to be under the impression that the department doesn’t have an entire staff of career bureaucrats whose job it is to do the actual work of the department.

Way cool vid.  Thanks for posting.

every time a man tells me to "stick to racing," my power grows stronger and I post two more articles about politics

The good old ground nail. So vile there was a movie made to promote it sixty years ago, and thirty years ago Mystery Science Theater roasted that.

Hate to break it to you, but capitalism doesn’t fear anti-capitalist messages, it monetizes them. Anti-capitalism is a brand.

Say what now?

Totally agree.

couple things...

people in Europe are much more likely to use public transit than people in the US, even when you compare places in the US with good public transit.

in general distances in europe are shorter than the US and if you live in a city in europe and are travelling to a city in europe it is much more likely to…

Close one is Ford, who is organized in a two-tier stockholder system. Upper tier (Class B) comprise of 86 Ford family members who has 40% of the voting rights with 2% ownership and all other shareholders with 60% divvied between them.

I have lived in the Detroit area, and “Bob” is an asshole.  You will have fun.