I voted for Nader and at the time my political views were more republican that Democratic (I voted for Dole prior to that). I definitely would not have voted for Gore (at least not back then,  turns out he was right about that “global warming” stuff.)

I disagree that Solo is the most forgettable Star Wars movie. I didn’t care for it when I first watched it but my son insisted that it was actually good and after rewatching it I’ve come around. It’s still not perfect and there’s a couple of really dumb parts (his last name literally means “solo”, give me a fucking…

Or use a professional grade drone, that would be logistically easier and much cheaper.

2022 here and still re-watch every few years. 

Hey, leave us bean counters out of it! Management makes the decisions, the accounting department just tells them how much the decision will cost. 

The scary thing is, for this guy, it really was a significant reduction in stress! I guess ignorance is bliss. I just hope I don’t have to drive next to him or those who think like him. 

Sounds like a Bezos problem to me.

You should check out the broken window fallacy. that money would be better spend employing people to do something that adds productivity to the economy as a whole. If that money was spent on things like schools or infrastructure we would gain jobs in those sector, but at the end of the day instead of having jobs and a…

It’s all the stop and go driving that makes it so low. We’re comparing apples and oranges when we look a these numbers because we’re used to the EPA combined city/highway numbers, which will naturally be much higher. If you or I drove our cars on the same duty cycle we’d get fuel mileage closer to this than to what…

Wind resistance increases with the square of speed, so a design that might create huge amounts of resistance at higher speeds could create negligible amounts of resistance at low speeds.

It sounds like EVs would be an excellent solution in about five years, but the USPS doesn’t have five years. per wikipedia these can be converted to hydbrids or all-electric at a later date. if that process isn’t too costly it may prove to be the best compromise. 

So basically every comparison made in the article is completely irrelevant? if a ram TRX gets 12 MPG on the EPA combined I’d hate to see what it gets on the USPS cycle.

When successful people stop doing bad things because their enormous wealth allows them to do whatever they please without consequences the rest of us will stop calling them out for it. 

When you add up the carbon footprint of all the ridiculous toys that will be built to go with this I’m pretty sure it would be better to scrap it. Even worse if they get used. On the other hand whoever it was that commissioned this probably would have spent his or her money on something equally harmful anyway, so the…

He's right though.

and can be augmented with accessories like a wire cover and terra cotta planter top to amplify the heat.

Yeah but I’d take that over a poorly executed lethal injection. If they don’t give you enough of the anesthetic you’ll be awake for the whole thing and in incredible pain but unable to even scream because you’re completely paralyzed. So it looks peaceful but may be incredibly cruel. and post-mortem toxicology reports…

Musk’s comment that air traffic control is primitive is really annoying.

That’s probably why Elon chose not to pay the 50k. The initial 5K offer might have worked if the Sweeney decided to take the cash and move on, and if not it’s only 5k. But 50k is 10x the incentive for others to copy Sweeney and then there would be no end of it.

honestly, I’d take a guillotine over lethal injection or the electric chair. Those are methods designed to appear clean and efficient but the guillotine guarantees a quick death and if the drugs aren’t administered correctly lethal injection sounds like it would be quite painful (IIRC the first two drugs are a…