That doesn’t make VinFast any less stupid of a name...

I stopped riding in limos (not that it was a common occurrence in the first place) when I learned how stretch limos are built. You’re not gonna be able to convince me that expanding a ship is safer than expanding a limo. I was avoiding cruises anyway out of the reasonable fear of ending up on a poop cruise but this is…

Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, not Saudi Arabia, but you’re right on the cultural stuff. My mother just visited Dubai and was just gushing about how there’s absolutely no crime... I wasn’t about to get into an argument about “yeah, no kidding, they cut your hand off for stealing, I wouldn’t take the risk…

“They didn’t acknowledge my email”

“Possible UFO” as in “this flying object is unidentified TO ME, but the government possibly knows about it.”

Yep. For Christmas a couple years back I got a bulk pack of the specific kind of fuzzy catnip balls that my cat likes best. 95% of those balls are now hiding under my fridge, stove, and couch, but it was such a fun Christmas morning dumping the balls all over her and watching her go into a frenzy trying to chase…

I feel like I’ve heard about an aftermarket solution that you can apply to your side and rearview mirrors that help make the glare more manageable. Maybe Bosch makes them? I have astigmatism and the headlights issue really has been awful recently - I left my east coast big city during Covid and went from full-time…

It only makes sense when you remember that in the post-Jack Welch era (I am starting to hate him as much as I hate Reagan), investor dividends are a thousand percent more important than actual company performance.

No, that’s it. They think they’re going sufficiently fast enough, relative to the speed limit, to be entitled to hang out in the left lane. I also suspect that people are not checking their rearviews frequently enough.

Colloquially we often refer to the left lane as the “fast” lane, so it’s hardly surprising a lot of people don’t know it’s for passing. My state has signs saying the left lane is for passing, but many states don’t. I’m grateful that my father had done a stint as a long-haul trucker and set me straight early on.

A 55% revenue drop and the stock still ends $4 up from open. I worked on Wall Street for ~4 years (in a marketing function) and I will always say “Fuck Wall Street.”

Philosophically I can see the benefit of having your car work for you when you don’t need it. But in reality we’re so far off from L4/L5 autonomy that I don’t see the point of talking about it publicly - companies should just keep quietly investing in R&D until the myriad issues can be resolved in a couple decades.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Elon throw his weight behind cancelling a high-speed rail system in the LA area (or maybe California more generally) specifically so he could profit from The Boring Company’s attempts to create a Hyperloop? And then cancelled the Hyperloop project anyway? It’s insane that…

I think I may have commented this before, but my best friend lives in NC and is very liberal on all things except unions. Her family (hugely conservative, she’s the political black sheep) has been in local government for like 4 generations now and this is the one area where she hasn’t broken through the brainwashing.…

But the kids are not guaranteed to have the same blood type as YOU or your wife. And even having the same blood type doesn’t mean you’re an ideal match for organ donation.

Probably depends on whether that dwelling can be legally considered a house, which is doubtful.

I mean I know you’re joking but just because they’re your kids doesn’t mean they’d be a medical match if you needed a kidney.

Your last paragraph points out an issue absolutely endemic in post-Jack-Welch corporate America. Carlos Tavares at Stellantis just received a big pay increase - including a 10 million euro bonus for “meeting electrification and software goals” - despite significant job cuts.

Yes, but most shopping centers and restaurant districts in NYC (and probably most downtowns of major east coast cities) don’t have parking lots. We’re back to parking garages until you get out to the suburbs.

We just don’t have the space for EV charge parks in the big East Coast cities! I think the best solution would be to update parking garages with chargers, which might actually inspire some (emphasis on some) garage owners to inspect and fortify said garages. I read an article recently about laxity in garage…