There is a saying for this: “there is nothing worse than partial automation”

In that case it’s even worse. Outside the USA it might look cool or exotic. In the USA it’ll be like “ugh...not this shit again.”

That’s another good example. So on the one hand you have jerks that won’t let you merge and on the other you have nice guys that yield for absolutely no reason. Sometimes they are one and the same driver. So you end up focusing more on some etiquette that makes no sense, rather than just driving safely.

Don’t get me wrong, the US is far better is some respects. For example in Russia, you’ve got some drivers pushing you off the lane on purpose and doing lane slalom at 60 mph and ignoring half the rules (those that make sense); you also have a road system which is several decades behind the US. So when you drive there,…

Silly. Why not using the curb the curb space? In Russia, drivers would quickly make it a three-lane highway.

The US is insane. No other country has this lane ownership mentality. Drivers will actually speed up to enforce their ownership of the lane, because continuing at normal speed would allow the bad guys to “cut them off”. Gotta love that term tho.... What’s being “cut off”? Your view of the Camry up ahead? Or is it your…

You need to drive in Russia to get any idea about the zipper merge. The zipper merge happens continuously. And know what? It speeds up traffic for everybody and generally safe if the driver is not an idiot. Traffic becomes evenly distributed between lanes, poorly designed exists become much faster, and hardly anyone…

is maltodextrin really glucose in “condensed form”? what does that even mean?

No, he’s about 1.09 (+/-.15) times worse, which is bad enough. The reason my number is different is because I factor in the baseline quantity of evil inherent in our political system (in metric tons).

But that’s an absurd summary of the history. The sources—a few propaganda articles written during Stalin’s last years (i.e. 5 percent of Soviet history)—are not enough to support it. Consider the fact that a mere 6 years after they were written, the USSR launched the first satellite into orbit. Consider that the motto…

The comparison isn’t really because it’s just one street, so it does not tell us anything about policy. Massive road work is happening all over moscow and it is not especially quick, leading to lane closures that can last a year. These are not so much road repairs but extra lanes, exits, bridges etc. This road work…

Glad to see that those women are useful to the Dems as a tear jerkers. Anything to win, right? Anything to keep scary Republican monsters away, right? Just means to an end.

But this is all a bunch of of bullshit, you know that right? You’ll tear up, you’ll vote, she’ll get elected. I don’t know what she’ll do in office, but here is her record so far: repeated imperialist mass-murder abroad, gaping inequality at home with economic insecurity for the majority, deregulation, cops killing…

BTW what is this shit here about cars getting rationed to Stakhanovists and party activists, waiting 10 years etc.? That’s not the whole story at all—only a small part of the story. Take my grandpa. He got rationed a shitty Zhaporoshetz in the 60-ies (and a free apartment). He waited one or two years to get it. Was he…

Or the movie Blue Collar (1978). That’s one great fucking movie!

The problem with copyright is that it is literally a gold mine of inefficiency and perverse incentives. Copyright means you get paid for distributing content—not for producing it. It is a terrible system even if the distributor and the producer is the same entity, which is not all that common. People should get paid…

Really? You need to think about what it was like to be a young GM worker in the 1970's. Making a quality product never crossed their mind. People really forget the “take this job and shove it” mentality of that era. Soviet workers in the 1970's had the same mentality.

QC was better, but it was still the same car.

It’s basically a myth because people lump comfort and tech specs along with everything else: car being right for the roads and climate, ease of maintenance, cost etc. People complain that they were unreliable and that’s true, but how would Western cars (cheap or expensive) fare under those conditions? They’d break…

Half the truth is a whole lie. The article claims that cars were rationed out to deserving workers, presumably those who also were communist “activists”. That’s only half the truth: you could always buy the fucking car from any fucker who was selling. My grandfather bought a lightly used Peugeot in the 1970's, which…