That is really impressive stop-motion. I’ve spent way longer than I should trying to figure out how the hell they got the spark effect with stop motion at 3:00

They wrote it about themselves. It’s definitely a PR piece.

That would be true if it were a charitable remainder trust, but it’s not. It’s a charity-focused purpose trust.

Yeah, as a hint for you, citing an entity’s PR article as proof that that entity is altruistic isn’t the best way to back your claims up.

The rationalization isn’t really that hard. When he bought Tesla he was, relatively, sane and saw EVs as the future with a pretty good payout for whoever got there first on a massive scale. And he was right.

Many rich people fill out W2s because they hire themselves as an employee to their company/foundation. That way they can pay themselves whatever salary gives them the best tax break while getting absolutely fucking rich off of having access to the “company” bank account to buy themselves whatever they want.

The law with discretion is an ideal we can’t reach until we figure out how to stop defense attorneys from using that discretion to claim unconstitutional vagueness. And I’m not blaming the defense attorneys, because their job is to vigorously defend their client using every tool they have under the law.

Sounds good to me, as long as you can figure out how to solve for the huge problem with it, which is that all that will change is the cop will now add “and due to conditions the speeding was dangerous” to the citation writeup.

Sure, but dangerous or not, if a cop catches me speeding and I get a ticket for it, it’s damned sure a politician doing the exact same thing should get the same penalty.

Yes, but when you view the only crime as being non-white and/or non-straight, it leaves you a lot of leeway to do whatever the fuck you want while beating other people over the head.

I usually don’t remember usernames on sites like this, unless they say something particularly brilliant or make a habit out of saying stupid shit over and over.

No, it wasn’t weird. It was so far beyond weird as to be off the scale. “Weird” is saying you hope kids go right back in that cave to learn how not to get stuck. It is not lobbing accusations of pedophilia against the guy who rescued the kids when your stupid plan was obviously... Stupid.

You aren’t factually wrong, but where I think you’re going off track is that you’re failing to take into account the fact that we can’t always control how much radiation we are exposed to. Sure, less than 1 mSv, you’re probably OK. But what happens if you get a below-threshold exposure from one source, and then end up…

As has been pointed out, no one saw those people die. They saw the plane go down. Pretending that seeing a crash and watching Faces of Death are equivalent is... Absurd.

Certainly people in the aviation community should be watching it. Almost every safety procedure a pilot follows is there because someone died not doing it.

Yeah, sounds like the clouds were as low as 400AGL, which at 300kts (reasonable assuming takeoff power and a dive) gives you less than a second to notice the ground’s in the wrong place before you hit it.

Nope. More than half. The people who stayed home, whether out of laziness or to punish the Democrats for the Gaza crisis, are also OK with Trump or they wouldn’t have stayed home.

This is what happens when the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and the Klan are your political base. You start feeling free to say the racist shit out loud.

Yeah, that’s true, and I do suspect that if it had been properly staffed, they might have noticed the chopper was above its required altitude and said something. Just another part of the shit sandwich we’re handing ATC, and it’s only going to get worse because Trump is trying to get them to quit.

On the insurance thing, this guy’s mistake was buying the insurance through the cruise line. Never do that. Cruise line insurance sucks and has so many outs for the insurer that you almost might as well be uninsured.