but most people aren’t gonna bother making their own alcohol

Technically, Saudi Arabia can arrest you for social media posts made outside of Saudi Arabia.  It’s one of the travel warnings on the State Department’s website

‘bout a decade ago, I got a chance to see the Capitol Steps perform.

One of their songs was a Johnny Rivers parody called “Secret Service Man” (of “Secret Agent Man”). Since I can’t find a Youtube video of it, you’ll have to trust me when I say that the performance came complete with someone wearing a lampshade

Will Elon Musk and the Republicans get a chance to reply on Jalopnik?

This is a post about the CEO of an automotive company. They have covered plenty of other automotive company CEO’s as well. None of them, however, are so blatantly fascist.

What’s honestly hilarious about that: a few years ago, I saw one of those “do business in [x] country” ads for Singapore, and the ad framed it as “Singapore voted for independence from Malaysia, and they were sad to see us go"

With that in mind, it’s BIZARRE that self-driving cars DON’T involve a broader networked information space.

I also remember him advising everyone to sell their shares of Stark Industries as well!

I second the G70! I have one as a rental right now, and the only two complaints I have about it are:

Hey Owen, fun fact about “aluminum”:

You definitely can get away with almost entirely electric for around town! I've posted it before, but my boss has a PHEV, and between home and office charging on a 120V outlet, he only needs to fill up the gas tank once every 1,000 miles

They did!

Huawei has set up telecom equipment near US military bases that house our nuclear arsenal and along the routes that the military and the DOE use to move warheads around the country. Many of those installations were not profitable for Huawei.

It’s referring to the fact that Apple patented “rectangle with rounded corners”

Nah. Saying that Tesla copied the movie for the robot designs is like saying every smartphone maker copied Apple’s patented “rectangle with rounded corners”. They're both humanoid in shape and proportion, and have contrasting color palettes.  That's where the similarities end. 

Cool. I’m sure that none of them have any parents, siblings, spouses, children or friends that would mourn their deaths.

No, the Department of Energy, which oversees everything nuclear-related (both civilian and military), has a facility in Vegas.

The US Navy has shipyards in Minnesota.

That, plus China has set up cell towers all along the routes that the US uses to transport nuclear warheads 

why aren’t there battle drones?