If they are leaving the market, you can guarantee that they are losing money (by whatever definition of losing money they care to use). Otherwise, why would they?

“Dopamine rectangle” is a fantastic name for a cell phone.

“There’s literally been studies that show trucks are more lethal to pedestrians and other cars”

1st Gear: If these “experts” are “concerned” about the Cybertruck, then they should also be “concerned” about trucks like these:

1. Tired of superheroes.

That wasn’t what he said. Sanderson literally spells out his magic system like a D&D rulebook, Martin just handwaves it. I know which I prefer honestly.

“...supernatural is presented as inscrutable by nature...” Guess you missed the whole dragons and white walker things. The Red Witch, the flaming sword, Catelyn Stark being resurrected from the dead, Lord Beric being killed who knows how many times, and too many other things to bother remembering. I mean come on! …

He says it is his decision as if that is within his power at that point. Nuh-uh, fella, that ain’t how it works. When you die, your heirs get to decide whether or not they keep your stuff. For every Rhianna Pratchett who abides by her dad’s wishes to have their hard drive crushed, there are thousands who just want a…

I think y’all just need to realize that he’s going to die without finishing it and some other author will be brought in to go through his notes, finish it, and make it publishable.

And then many of y’all will always be wondering or saying how much better it would have been if he had finished it instead of the other…

Gizmodo should continue to publish biannual updates, even after GRRM dies. Years and years after his death, we should still get a “George R.R. Martin Has No New Pages” story a couple of times a year.

Ok so we’re assuming Aardman has factory-buying/operating money lying around in a drawer?   

100% guaranteed that someone in management moved the exhumation forward to avoid a negative PR event with crying relatives and annoying press coverage.

Whenever the issue of speeding comes to the fore, I think of Jeremy Clarkson’s sage advice: “Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.”

Hard cases make for bad laws.

If I were the call center employee, I’d have paid the $150 on my own card, except that, as a call center employee, I probably couldn’t have afforded it.

IIRC, wasn’t this an outside contractor running the telematics and VW already said that they have made it very clear going forward that they were to help regardless of subscription status? I am VERY sure that VW did not have a policy that said specifically “even in the case of a kidnapping, no subscription, piss off”,…

For all the disagreement that exists in the automotive space, I think we can all come together on this one:

...”In 2021, a group of Black sovereign citizens engaged in a hours-long stand off with police after their vehicle broke down on the way to a private “training” facility”

I mean, as an IT guy, this is how I feel trying to buy almost ANY technology.