Brings up an interesting question: who’s weirder — fans of old computers or fans of old cars? And which group hoards compatible, numbers-matching parts more?

(btw, CA can still dictate their own standards)

Insurance payouts for medical are often orders of magnitude higher than car repairs or replacement. It’s in the insurance companies best interest to have everyone driving cars that keep them alive.

There must be more to it: EyeSight is an option on both the Crosstrek and WRX (tho not STI) but the WRX took + and the Crosstrek did not.

The build sheets I’ve seen are more like $20-25k. If you’re having a shop do the build, that could add another $25k: FF says it’s about 250 hours of work to get it going, and $100/hour isn’t crazy. But what’s the point of buying a kit car if you’re gonna have someone else put it together?

I suspect it’s a design exercise for Jiangsu: they seem to want to be a real player in the growing Chinese market, and probably decided that a niche car like this is a good place to start. If it fails, no one will notice. If it succeeds, it’s a fancy American supercar they can point to — that still has some level of…

It’s the same shift affecting Michigan and Wisconsin: manufacturing is leaving, causing economic woes, and brown people are moving in. MN started at a bluer baseline, which also meant they could enact social programs to help stave off the pain.

I always felt the President should be smarter than the average person.

I dunno about him, but it’s pretty much what Bannon and Pence want, possibly for different reasons.

It provides a bump, but not a big one. HW lost even with the Iraq war, and he was nowhere near this level of unpopular.

the person who will have to fix the screw up with America’s allies and defuse another Middle East crisis

I usually turn off the radio when he comes on, but decided to listen to this one for some reason. Even though I was only half paying attention, it was striking, but I thought it was just my imagination.

What’s wrong with shower sex?

I used to make a point to carry them around. They’re fun to pay with, especially if you’re tipping a barista or something. I should see if I can still get rolls of them...

My favorite bar in grad school only took cash. I retaliated by only paying in dollar coins. They turned out to be fine with that (I just became known as the guy who always pays in dollar coins) so I was going to up the ante to pennies. Unfortunately, one of the waitresses told me if I did that, the bar manager would…

“The betting markets give Moore about an 80 percent chance of victory — roughly the same chance they gave Hillary Clinton just before the 2016 presidential election.”

Surface Detail?

Yeah, clearly there are no deeply red areas in those states.

*right to birth

Maybe we can goad him?