January 31st 2029. 1st gear: GM has declared bankruptcy again after 4 years of tariffs and investing solely in truck production. Due to the collapse of the financial markets, massive spikes in fuel costs and federal interest rates crossing %20, American car buyers are buying more fuel efficient vehicles including…

if the Trump administration eases environmental regulations

Of course they will.

Generation lead also gave us a violent crime wave, and that voting block is the main reason we just elected a convicted felon for president.

Airborne lead that can be directly aspirated and also ends up on every surface, soil, food—everything—is far worse than lead exposure from plumbing. In normal conditions, lead pipes quickly develop a protective scale that prevents lead from leaching into the water.

If you were in the business, you know just as well as I do that a 121% LTV higher than a giraffe’s ass, but they’ll absolutely get it done.

Fun fact (okay, maybe not so fun): Thomas Midgely, who played a key role in developing leaded gasoline, also invented Freon and many other harmful CFCs. It is very likely that no other single person has had such a long-lasting and deleterious effect on the environment.

Going by how the front-left wheel is basically toughing the front-right wheel, it’s possible that the driver door especially was just mangled beyond the ability to open regardless of the type of door handle.

Trump is going to screw over *everybody* but himself and his billionaire buddies.

Imagine you’re a Chinese manufacturer that really wants to expand their footprint in central and south america, when suddenly a bunch of gently used automobile manufacturing plants in Mexico go up for sale. Oh happy day!

I’m not sure if Trump can execute tariffs on Mexico. It would violate the USMCA (which replaced NAFTA and was negotiated by Trump-he called it his “best deal”). If he wants to withdraw from the USMCA it would require congressional approval.

I still don’t understand how MAGAs think tariffs are a good thing.

The article is conflating bandwidth with transmission time (which is essentially lag), and these are not the same thing at all.

petabyte(bit)/second hasn’t anything to do with the transmission propagation rate, it has to do with the transmission bandwidth. Transmission delay has to do with the transmission propagation rate; as you noted, latency.

While the valuation seems insane, Tesla is, in fact, the only U.S. manufacturer that stands a chance against the onslaught of cheap Chinese EV’s. In fact, the Chinese EV manufacturers largely copied Tesla’s model of tight, vertical integration. If the future is inevitably EV, then Tesla is one of the very few Western…

I’m not really sure what the deal is. I personally know someone who is still waiting on their order of 5 or so for their business in the New England area.

I look forward to Trump stiffing him like he did Guiliani and the rest of his crew. There’s no honor among thieves.

I cannot begin to wrap my head around the beyond fucked up situation we are in. This is going to be a nightmare. The Goebbels wannabe, stephen miller, is already tweeting about quickly implementing parts of 2025- you know- that thing trump had never heard of- in the name of an aggressive denaturalization process. Yes.…

I’m always attracted to the entryish-level offerings of most manufacturers, and though the new CLA looks pretty much like the generic jellybean minisedan blob of the prior gen (and recent related offerings from MBZ). Which isn’t awful, it just makes me sigh. Gimmicky head/taillights, while maybe cute, is no substitute…

Definitely a more appealing package.