I hope they bring back the Star part of Star Wars. The universe needs the scale and reference of the space scenes. The opening shots of A New Hope are perfect for this. And to a lesser degree, the shots of the Death Star battle from afar in Return of the Jedi.

Space neutralizes some of the near-invulnerability jedis…

Yes, a lot of things are back to normal but honestly if you can, don’t catch it. Even if you have boosters and vaccines. Wear an n95 mask in crowded public places until we get vaccines that target the inner-proteins and we understand the vascular damage better.

if you’re reply-guy trolling it’s pretty good. if you’re serious... lol

Yeah this is illegal in a lot of places. Other people have covered it but it’s depressing how many people don’t know this and sit in the left lane. It’s a big problem on bridges here. It impedes traffic, causes delays in emergency response, and generally leads to a lot of drivers passing on shitty habits to their…

So if you’re a foreign adversary of a Western nation it seems pretty clear that rather than spending billions on traditional arms, 7 figures per vuln on cybersecurity zero days, or serious bank on intelligence and influence operations, you can throw money at groups of aggressively vocal and ignorant domestic narcissist…

Yeah... I used to be really on the nuclear bandwagon, but there are a few sides to this. Nuclear plants are incredibly expensive to decom. By a few different ways of measuring true total cost, they’re the most expensive form of power generation. Partly because of this, they’re getting harder staff so hiring is a big…

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200,000 lives saved by vaccine efforts in the 1st half of 2021. Despite reduced prevention of omicron spread, expect similarly large reduction in excess deaths vs non-vaccination due…

lol “it’s willamette dammit”

My old boss knew so much about this stuff. There are some rules of thumb you can follow to order wine that goes with food decently well if you’re ordering or bringing for a group. Lots of examples of this online.

For example with sushi / light non-oily cooked whitefish I like to bring or order a dry reisling for…

you seem like you watch a lot of jim cramer and joe rogan

you’re going to get a bunch of “but muh exchange wallets” replies - probably to a lesser extent than twitter which is overrun by crypto pump scammers

the mercedes stretched out 2012 Google Nexus gauge cluster is worse in person than the slightly outdated cluster here and almost everything else in the segment

the ratio on this... you’re getting shredded for this bad take lol

I’m not one to normally defend the turd-circus of GM’s design decisions, but a lot of 15-20 year old cars look bad until they age further. Around 2000-2005, 80's cars felt like this but then they got kitschy.

I’m not in favor of this or necessarily against it until I do some more research on the effects, but the wealth taxes implemented in Europe were not like the proposed unrealized cap gains tax. Additionally, they were mostly removed and replaced with punitive systems that combine VAT, land taxes, heavy local taxes,…

I mean... if you’re on jalopnik you’re probably already old and uncool anyway so what does it matter. After a certain age and unless you’re a public figure where your appearance is tied to some concept of brand perception, at no point during the car purchase deliberation process should it being cool be something that…

This seems very plausible. We have a friend who studies here and has been back and forth a few times from their home country. They have purchased a car a few times, and I could imagine scenarios where it would be easier to leave the vehicle, especially with COVID travel restrictions where it can be difficult to get…

To be clear on this... “Full self driving capability” directly states in the name that the current (at time of purchase) hardware package will eventually be capable of autonomous driving.

I can’t get over how bad the interior quality is in every Tesla model. We were looking at the Y for my wife due to ease of use and safety, but we take her car on trips sometimes. The Y interior is not a nice place to be. On a positive note, I think it will improve. They’re a relatively new car company and their shitty…

Libertarianism - the wonderfully consistent ideology of “states rights”, opposition to age of consent laws, the constant flirting with Objectivism and punishing the disabled, and all of their success stories of local small government where ideologically Libertarianism is supposed to work perfectly like…