What makes an ICBM a “ballistic missile” is its flight pattern—it goes way up into space, then arcs back to come down with such immense speed that it becomes extremely difficult to counter with conventional missile-intercept tech. We have some systems that can counter ICBMs once they reach the descent stage, but these…

This is from a document published by the CDC on January 7th. As you can see, cloth face coverings do provide some level of protection—approximately 20 minutes’ worth, when only one party is wearing one, and that rises to 27 minutes when both people are wearing one. Surgical masks fare a little better, providing 1 hour…

Yeah, I was thinking the same. Someday relatively soon, electric power trains, batteries and solar panels will be evolved enough to make a feasible off-grid, all-electric RV a reality. Something you could take out into the wilderness and camp in for a few days while the batteries recharge.

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You act like driving a car on vacation and camping in a tent are the MORE expensive options worth considering here.

Uh, what? I’m in my late 20s, and I’m solidly a millennial. Generations span 20 years; only the oldest of us are close to 40 right now.

Now more than ever, Apple actually appears to be targeting, well, Pros with these machines. Now that the minimum price for a MacBook Pro is $2000, I imagine a lot of users with more modest needs will gravitate toward the product that’s actually targeted at them, the one that starts at $1000: the MacBook Air. I’m…

Something that activates an audible alarm and flashing lights would be cheaper. The posted speed limit through there is 35mph.

An airline can really only ban a passenger... on that airline. Do you want these people to just cycle through every airline out there, wreaking havoc all along the way? Because that’s what they’ll do without some kind of centralized list.

My ex had a late-model Subaru Crosstrek. They’re exceedingly practical vehicles that get good gas mileage due to the CVT transmission and relatively small engine, and they do handle bad roads and mild off-roading quite well. We actually did get to utilize those capabilities fairly often, too, since we live in an area…

And also according to all the companies involved? Like what do you think they’re about to do, swerve at the last second back to proprietary standards for no reason at all?

There is no way car manufacturers are ever going to agree on a standard.

Odd. Might be hardware-specific?

We use LastPass, and I’m not seeing any crashes yet on an iPhone 11 Pro running 14.7.1. Is there some specific action that seems to trigger a crash?

I absolutely love Mazda’s red and always wanted a car in that color. I finally got to own one in my red 3 hatch... for about 2 months. It was nighttime when my accident happened, so I don’t know if the color was a factor there.

It’s definitely hard to find the exact spec I want in the best of times, but you can usually find at least one good example if you have a little patience, particularly if you’re looking to buy/lease a brand new car. Mazda also makes this easier than most, because they only have like 5 trims to choose from on the 3 and…

I hear you about the torsion beam, and I do personally wish they’d gone with IRS like the last gen. But, having owned a 4th-gen torsion beam 3 and third-gen 2016 3 with IRS, I can honestly say that they’ve engineered the hell out of it and I had a very hard time noticing the difference, except maybe in the absolute…

I owned a 2019 Mazda3 hatch (Soul Red, Premium AWD) and absolutely loved that car until it was totaled after I was rear-ended at speed. I just picked up a CX-30 Premium because it’s almost the same car, and I’m a naughty enthusiast who decided I wanted just a little bit more headroom and practicality this time around.

There’s no such thing as the “center” of the universe, because the universe is homogenous and isotropic at the largest scales and is constantly expanding in all directions.

Yeah, getting real tired of reading these articles by (almost universally) New York-based writers tsk-tsking at people for driving. Because, well, they don’t own a car, so obviously the rest of us don’t need one either! Meanwhile, in the real world, it’s not just “flyover states” that have shit public transportation.…