Apparently there’s something about the purity of the quartz from this particular mine that makes it especially desirable.

It is, and it’s been making the rounds at car shows since last year, but it’s too expensive for what it is. It’s cute, but not affordable enough for the people who would buy a tiny EV and too small for people who can afford an EV but need more space for their family. I mean frankly it’s just too tiny, period, unless…

I know this is a rare case, but it’s a real bummer that a state like California that’s prone to drought and wildfire has been at the forefront of championing vehicles that are better for the environment until the moment one of them catches on fire.

I was 22 and the Suzuki Forenza was the first car that was mine and not borrowed from my parents. I lived in the South and we got a freak blizzard in the middle of the day and were sent home from work early, but not before about 4 inches had piled up. I didn’t have any snow supplies like a brush/scraper in my car, so…

Honestly, I imagine the planet will be a much better place to live once all the billionaires fuck off to space.

Just like the Titan, but in space!

How did Mad Max: Fury Road not get nominated??? I’ve watched that movie more than a dozen times and it still gets the adrenaline pumping every time. Especially when they have to turn around and you realize there’s a SECOND epic chase sequence about to happen.

Several years ago I had to rent a car to drive ~800 miles. I am very short (around 5 feet tall) and had originally booked a sedan, but at the last minute I ended up needing to haul way more stuff than could fit in a sedan, and the only vehicle available was an Escalade. Brand new, had like 40 miles on it. It was all…

A fine for overweight vehicles should be increased dramatically if a vehicle causes catastrophic damage. $2500 is a joke and I imagine it won’t come close to covering repair costs.

The intro/premise of Idiocracy floats through my brain several times a week - smart, decent people wait too long to reproduce and sometimes aren’t able to have kids at all... while the idiots, hillbillies, and criminals reproduce like bunnies and neglect the kids/drag the kids into lives of crime or uselessness.…

Yeah, agree. You can’t just do WHATEVER you want on your property (although now that I mention it, whatever happened to that lady who was digging a tunnel labyrinth underneath her house - and partially under her neighbors’ houses?) unless you live in the absolute middle of nowhere. You want a custom go-kart track or…

And at least you’d have Gene Wilder to look at! Much more pleasant than Elon’s creepy face and (sorry not sorry) gross flabby body.

My mom and I were talking hypothetically about “cities of the future” (she’s got less than 10 years left in the tank and I guess has been watching sci-fi movies about a world she’ll never see) and she noted that we’ve been promised flying cars for decades now with nothing to show for it. I pointed out that human…

There’s natural-environment loud and there’s “teenagers gunning their motorbikes on quiet residential streets at 1am.” I lived in Queens for a long time and there was a lot more of the latter than the former. If you’re loud on the BQE no one cares, but there are plenty of areas in NYC that are relatively quiet and…

I’m a lady and I do this on my annual 1500-mile round trip road trip. I don’t think gender has much to do with it.

Kesha was recently doing promo for her new single (“Joy Ride”) and posted a photo of her filling up at a gas station. The price on the sign said $7.04 and my Midwestern brain skipped right over it - I assumed that was just the price of gas in California or wherever she’s based, not that her single would be released on…

I had to climb over someone on a flight from LAX to Auckland. It was insane that he didn’t wake up - I tried talking to him, tapping him, straight-up shaking him - nope, he was facedown on his tray table, basically comatose, for more than half of the 13-hour flight. Meanwhile I took an OTC sleeping pill with two…

It’s ONE banana, Michael, what could it possibly cost?

Without reading the study myself, it seems that no one’s admitting that much of this lack of enthusiasm can be traced back to the fact that EVs are bad for dealership revenue because they need less maintenance. I lease my ICE car and bring it in for regular maintenance at the (GM family) dealership even though I know…

I understand why non-Americans misunderstand the 1st Amendment, but Elon’s been here long enough that he should know 1A only limits the government’s ability to punish you for speech (with some significant caveats), not everyone else’s ability to ignore/boycott/protest his dumbassery. His inability to grasp the nuances…