If they’re smart, they’ll do nothing but pivot from every question onto Trump’s handling of the coronavirus.

Listen, and understand. He is out there. He can’t be bargained with. He can’t be reasoned with. He doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And he absolutely will not stop, ever, until he has built you a house.

I wish I could remember the guitarist, but there’s at least one who upon buying a brand new shiny guitar will get out his keys and put a visible scratch into it.

Speaking as a guy who’s been gaming since the days of green-fan-fold paper Hunt the Wumpus, do keep it up. While there’s a vocal contingent of losers out there threatened by women, there are more of us who enjoy smart, capable women and like seeing those characters in games.

They really aren’t more complicated than an ICE car though when you consider the entire package. Take a look at the Prius’ transmission- it’s vastly simpler than a modern DCT. It’s basically a single planetary gear with the ICE and two electric motors. That simplifies the powertrain while also removing the starter and…

You really have to wonder about the fate of Jeep in this merger. There’s a long history across various industries of new management not understanding how an iconic brand can be a profitable niche and trying to force it into a larger space while neutering what made it valuable.

Toyota is an even bigger surprise IMHO. The company that more or less perfected the hybrid drive train, offers it on the biggest sellers in their lineup and outsells every other maker of HEVs combined? You’d think they’d be happy to have the standards keep increasing since they have a major advantage in the space.

Point of order: DC has had *3* baseball teams, and one was popular. The Washington Homestead Grays of the Negro League started out near Pittsburgh but adopted DC as their second home. Fan numbers were high enough that by the end of the Negro League they were playing more than 2/3rds of their games in DC.  They even…

Yeah, but it’s Miami.  Nobody there knows how to pass

And right next to this article is Kristin’s fawning review of the Lincoln Navigator, a 3-ton massive truck based SUV where she happily comments about the feeling of power it gives her and how smaller cars would move out of its way.

As someone with 2 of them (2017, 2019 AWD) it’s a couple of things

Interestingly, the 4th gen has mostly gone over to lithium, except for the AWD variant. My wife’s ‘19 AWD model still has the NiMH pack because Toyota figured that people who buy them are typically going to be living in cold climates where lithium batteries don’t do as well.

A friend in grad school had an early-70s VW campervan with something over 300k miles on it. (the seller wasn’t sure how many times the odometer had rolled, and if you smelled the inside you’d understand the memory issues)

I went back to visit my folks a few months back at their retirement home and they turned on the 11 o’clock news with Gardner. It was like I was transported back to my Star Wars (original) PJs- wearing 8 year old self. Dude’s got to be like 107 now.

One note on the adaptive controller. It’s $99.99

Re: astronauts being total science-doing robots

Umm, parachute? Here’s a picture of Venera 13. See the disc around the lander? That *is* the parachute.  When you have a surface pressure around 90 atmospheres you don’t need much to slow you down.