Haha true. Bets on when that goes away?

Seriously. I learned a lot about racing history while reading the book. I also found myself googling each new driver to see what became of him. When I got to Musso, I discovered that I was literally at the top of the page where he dies when I googled him.

With so many people telling you it’s a deathtrap, you kinda have to delude yourself into thinking you know something they don’t before you can really start convincing strangers that you’re right. Especially if you’re going to be getting on board the thing.

Neutral: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died in 1826. Jimmy Carter was born in 1924. That means that there’s less time between the death of two signers of the Declaration of Independence and Jimmy Carter’s birth than between Jimmy Carter’s birth and the present day. That’s a wild thing to think about.

If it’s a short one, sure! You could also maybe fit a T-shirt and pair of pants if you folded them neatly. And wear the same shoes again the next day.  Practical!

Fuck this thing.

Also unsurprising that he was among the victims of his corner-cutting, truth-bending, and denialism. Unfortunately, he took other innocent people with him.

I know, you could machine new parts and make as many new XK120s as you want.

I laughed!

Dunno why it filed my post under yours, it was supposed to be a non-specific one. Kinja gonna Kinja, I guess.

I read the biography that the movie was based on and was just appalled at the number of people who died in those machines.  So few of those drivers ever reached a normal life expectancy, even for the times.

This is correct. Making minerals in a lab is almost always less efficient and more expensive than digging them out of the dirt. It does offer significantly more control over the composition of the final product, but the throughput still can’t compete with large-scale refining of mineral ores for general purpose uses.…

Counterpoint: The concern should always be about the human beings, not the hunk of inanimate metal parts. Even if it’s a particularly interesting configuration of inanimate metal parts.

Well stated

That sounds kinda rad, honestly!

My company just gives us a six week pool of PTO per year for sick days, vacation, whatever. It's pretty awesome. People honestly work better when they take more PTO, a fact my wife always reminds me of. Like you, I'm the one whose last week off was last November.

I laughed!

I wish I could go back to your system haha

Ah, Kinja gonna Kinja haha

I mean, it’s got two doors and a bed.