Just got to hook up with someone on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, tell them to hook up with someone else on my side, and so on and so forth. Make the creature spend the next 50 years walking back and forth across the Pacific ocean floor before it gets to you again.

Send them here to Utah. The housing on the Wasatch Front has gotten a bit more expensive, but we’re building tons of it, it’s still cheaper than New York or California, and we’ve had sub-3% unemployment for nearly seven years aside from a brief blip at the start of Covid. The approximately 47,000 new chicken tenders…

1st Gear: Full suspension of self-driving service across the whole force. That’s wild - the issue must be harder than they thought to fix.

The UAW is getting a lot more resistance from GM and Stellantis on the wage proposals than they thought, even after spreading the strike to key plants. Striking all three has been successful so far, but it’s also an expensive strategy that risks running down the strike fund too low if they keep it up too long.

Now there’s a generous bribe. I figured they were just going to compensate her discretely and carve out a safe seat for her in the state legislature, but an actual congressional seat!

They’ll be back. Pretty much anything with them that goes wrong becomes a news story, but they’re still getting better and safer overall.

Cruises are actually a lot of fun, which makes it a bummer when there’s some high profile foul-up that might deter people from trying them.

I think if the UAW manages to stick its unionization requirement on any battery plants owned by the Big Three, they’ll probably just pivot from co-owning the plants to sourcing from them. That way, the Koreans could move the plants to the South or northern Mexico and still be eligible for the credits.

What’s with these dipshits thinking that legal ordinances are magic spells, and if you somehow figure out some creative wording you can cheat the spell? Laws are whatever the judges, courts, police, and voters say and are willing to enforce - not what it says either on paper or in the fantasy bullshit version of legal…

That bodes poorly for the movie.

So they’re not going to fire him mid-production and replace him with a workman director to finish it?

Oh, and also, she released two new versions of the song last week in hopes of pushing the song to the top.

Truly widespread EV adoption is going to seriously mess with the market for new and used cars. You might have a bunch of EVs that are functionally as good as new cars except that their batteries only have  86% of the capacity at ten years age or something like that.

Screw Squid Game. Why can’t we turn Mario Party into a live-action reality show.

Stellantis and Ford seem to be taking a harder line in negotiations.

I’m hoping Stefanik gives all them the Kiss of Death by tweeting out a congratulations for each with a dorkass looking picture of her with them.

In case you’re wondering why Musk was suddenly offering Wikipedia $1 billion if it changed its name to “Dickipedia” in a troll post. Musk does dumb stunts whenever he needs to try and change the conversation from bad news.

Fucking great. It’s a pity it’s only 5 episodes, but I’m stoked.

One thing that does give me some comfort is that if the Big Three could send all their auto production to northern Mexico (like lots of other manufacturers), they probably would have done it years ago and left the UAW in the dust. But they need their UAW workers still.

She really should have hired a ghostwriter - that sounds like it could have been a compelling, raw memoir instead of this rambling, crazy shit that occasionally gets pretty raw (the stuff about her childhood sounds brutal).