You’re carrying water for the hassle and indignity of modern air travel when you criticize people trying to avoid it rather than the people inflicting it.

Sure they do. That’s why they only drive 500 miles per year.

That was my first thought as well.

“But there is no—” “Exactly.”

It’s much worse than that. They’re claiming that it’s impossible to do what lots of other companies have been doing for decades.

“Demand is too low” would have been a better excuse than “we don’t know how to make a manual transmission.”

What on earth is he talking about. A Tremec is lighter than their DCT automatic or any torque converter automatic and it shifts very well. And none of this technology is new.

The non-autonomous car coming the other way seems not to have had any problem stopping, and with considerably less warning.

A touch screen has no business in an automobile, no matter how pretty the execution. These are a usability anti-pattern.

Paragraph after paragraph of leaden sarcasm. Who knows if there was a story in there.

1. The on-air staff at that station all appear to be teenagers.

Military and geopolitical reality is that the USA would _have_ to retaliate against an adversary that sunk a carrier and killed thousands of sailors. Even if that meant starting a greater war that we didn’t otherwise want. There would be no way to prevent it. In game theoretic terms, this understanding is a big…

It’s even harder to do any of those things if you never do any of those things.

Something might happen, in which case something else might happen. Ergo “all of a sudden those EVs can’t seem come soon enough?”

It’s possible he was born wanting to do horrible things, i.e. he was a psychopath or otherwise predisposed to terrible behavior.

Or he told the truth and there is an armada heading to North Korea.

And lest we forget, catering to the lowest common denominator (read: boners) sells on Instagram, too

these Instagram sellouts are really auctioning off their time and energy

It’s a little goofy, but it’s tradition.