I think you need to recognize the difference between real hate and ‘sports hate’. Yeah, there are some people who can’t separate the two, but for a lot of fans, they (we) can easily silo the real world from the sports (entertainment) world. It’s kinda like WWE. You root against the ‘heel’, but you don’t show actual…

Let’s face it, the NFC East and AFC East have, in sum, by far the worst fans (in terms of being assholes). Which makes it even more amazing that Bills fans are so nice. The NFL should realign the Bills into the AFC North and bring the Ravens into the AFC East, just to further consolidate the douchery.

Just curious why you hate the Bills? Like there are way more hateable teams out there. I hope it’s not because of the fans. I actually find the Buffalo fans to be the nicest group of fans as a whole. Yeah they are obnoxious on TV, but in person they are much nicer than most other fans. And its not even close. Probably…

I agree here. Except it’s almost too low of a mileage. Stuff has been sitting around too much. (oil, gas, seals, gaskets etc.) I’d be more comfortable with like 30-50k miles and some documentation that it didn’t sit around doing nothing for too long.

I agree with all you say here. And all your examples are a great thought experiment. Say everything was employee owned…you would have both collective ownership and private ownership. I think if there was some sort of equality mechanism across all industries and between all companies, you would have…

Very true. Especially the window dressing part.

I just transitioned from a RWD car with ok winter tires to a FWD car with Blizzaks and the over-confidence-in-snow thing almost just bit me. I can only imagine what it would be like with a WRX.

Didn’t know this. But it’s obvious why. If gotten wrong, could have been bad news for the stunt driver…Jane Mansfielded (yes I know she wasn’t actually decapitated). So I’m fine with it. Bottom line is the car actually did that.

Not correct.

EVs do currently work for a large portion of the population who can charge at home and/or at work. And they are particularly attractive to those who have medium to long commutes. This is especially true when buying smaller vehicles such as the Leaf, 3, Bolt, Ioniq 5/6 where the higher price relative to an ICE/hybrid…

Part (but not all) of the problem with ‘The Green New Deal” was that the primary faces of it were two people who call themselves ‘socialists’ (Bernie and AOC). Which is profoundly stupid, since neither of them are actual socialists. Neither of them are calling for state ownership of the means of production. High taxes…

ND. But I’ll play devil’s advocate here just for fun.

I had a few cars that had ABS, but no stability control, including, similarly, a 1992 S-10 Blazer. With the Blazer, I distinctly remember needing to smash my brakes on a snowy curve once because some moron pulled out in front of me. ABS activated, and I was still able to still turn while the ABS kept the wheels from…

fuck...I forgot buses...

George presented zero evidence about how 3 extra trucks will prevent hydrogen from being used widely. Zero evidence. First show me that the trucks would be volume constrained and not weight. That is the first requirement. Then give me some numbers showing that the costs of shipping, and then that requiring 3 extra…

For the supposed genius that Elon is, he quite easily fell into Oliver’s trap. Oliver (and his writers who he gives immense credit to*) were obviously baiting him into responding the exact way he did.

Series hybrids have already come and gone

Regular density is irrelevant here. We are talking energy density, where you need to specify volumetric or by mass (gravimetric). And I was careful to distinguish between the two in my analysis (and will continue doing so).

The fact that it takes more energy (or actually a lot more energy) to produce it is not the issue. If the energy making it was theoretically super cheap (and of course carbon free) then it doesn’t necessarily need to be efficient. Of course that doesn’t really exist, thus we don’t have it. To make it economically…

But it is energy dense (by weight). Let’s ignore cars here. What powered the space shuttle? It was hydrogen. And that is a rocket, where every ounce matters. If hydrogen sucked so bad as a fuel, why did NASA use it?