I believe I see a white Suburban in the lead pic. I’ll go with that. I’ve always wanted a vehicle I can haul full sheets of plywood inside, out of the weather.

If we stopped using private jets today, the reduction in carbon emissions would be unnoticeable. If we did all the little things we’re told to do, it’ll make barely a dent, because individual consumers aren’t the problem. If you can’t see that, you’re not trying.

Doing small things, while the big polluters do nothing, isn’t really worth doing.

100 corporations are responsible for 71% of global carbon emissions.

Wow, it sounds like average people are being taxed unfairly, while the super-wealthy don’t have to worry about that.

If they paid their employees and suppliers more, their profits might go down to the level they wouldn’t be facing this billion-dollars-in-profit tax anymore. 

My house is appraised now at more than I paid for it. I pay taxes on money I haven’t received every year.

This is a cool design and props to the guy for machining such tight tolerances.

I think you mean Gypsum is the trademark of Drywall.

Property owners pay taxes on unrealized gains every year. I’m taxed on the potential sales value of my home, not what I paid for it.

That would be very costly to implement.

An Apollo program Moon Rover that had been driven on the moon.

Is it just me or is that concept rendering giving off a modernized Hot Wheels “Power Pad” vibe?

That’s what she said!

They could go full Buzzfeed and source content from Reddit, if that would make you feel better.

I just did it a couple days ago, it works very well. So much better than the old “back it up to iTunes and pray it works” method. Make sure you have a current backup to iCloud just in case it doesn’t work. Down to stuff like tabs I had open in Chrome and Safari on my old phone were open in my new one. Apps in the same…

Oh, there’s a couple of Mitsubishi models that would be very collectible if they were in working order. G4M, A6M ...

The naming thing has to do with insurance and crash testing and stuff like that. A new model of an existing line has less hurdles than an all-new line. Or somesuch.

The Rivian engineers also performed heroically, keeping those things moving after breakdowns in areas with limited resources. 

Check out the motorcycle-adventure documentary “Long Way Up” for some pre-production Rivians with physical buttons. Comically large “arcade video game cabinet” size buttons.