Some of those are regular enough that I’m wondering if they’re intentional, like so that the frame can drain/vent the water that enters through the unintentional ones.

To be fair, it also has similarities to being one big company with with all of its citizens as employees when you look at it on the international level. When you zoom out that far, it’s a highly successful capitalist country.

This is giving me anxiety:

Give it another 10-20 years, the technology will be better at avoiding pedestrians than human drivers.

But they don’t publicize the studies that would devalue their stock.

Adding maybe 10% cost with a, say, a 50-75% reduction in rates will not lead to higher costs.

1st gear: So, industry group for insurance companies designs “study” to show that the need for insurance will not be impacted by advances in technology?

Yep, April was nuts. I think the time to fly with relative safety has passed, though.

I’m pretty sure airports and airplanes have counted as social distancing over the last couple months.

Then he didn’t have to make it an Eleanor, did he?

Super necro post here, but this popped up as a “Other news to read” like GMG likes to do, and seeing as how no one seemed to address it at the time...

Meh, it’s protecting her IP. If you don’t want to pay license fees, don’t try to profit off of someone else’s work.

We all support peaceful protests [...] in front of government buildings.

Runoff areas would probably be the issue there.

I’m looking forward to the North American leg where they go to Mexico city on schedule for November 1st, then travel north to Texas and on to Montreal to close the season.

And part of statistics is establishing how accurate each stat is. It only becomes a lie if it’s presented as if it’s an absolute number - which is the statistician’s fault, not the statistic.

I picked it up from my high school stats teacher, of all people.

Immune system hypersensitivity. By which I mean my throat closes if I eat the meatier parts of a paella.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2019/05/14/fatal-attraction-these-are-the-deadliest-cars-on-the-road/#77af9324e31e

I find mulch does an excellent job at stopping weeds from growing when kept in the bag. Grass, too.