Given that the S&P 500 got outperformed by zombie company stocks by the largest margin ever in April, the inclusion of Tesla among the biggest of blue-chips is probably the least illogical thing happening on Wall Street right now. 

I have not, but COVID has done a real number on my reading list and I am a voracious reader of non-fiction in general so I sure as hell will be adding that title on in a timely fashion! Many thanks for the recommendation.

Yea the anti-sex thing especially stands out when you look at how sex-crazed the Victorian Era English were and how unbothered about sex/nudity the modern British public is despite the many other similarities between English and American culture.

The dead don’t feel regret. I hope his lifespan stretches out for at least another 20 years so as to allow a greater expanse of suffering. 

Don’t forget that most of them were Puritans, an interpretation of Christianity that was so backward, illogical and oppressive not even the British could stand them.

Fuck, man. Right in the feels.

Nailed it. He raped someone and left enough evidence for a strong accusation. It’s the only thing that would get him tossed out so quickly and so quietly. He cheated on his wife and is generally a scum-bag; not exactly a stretch to imagine him committing sexual assault 

He has an exclusivity contract with Twitch that…

“Honestly between the engines and maintaining airframes it screams of pork belly.” 

Nah, there’s all sorts of issues when you run without air cleaners. Dirty oil is just the start; you’ll also tear up cylinder walls, piston rings, skirts, valve stems, valve seats, and stuff like that significantly faster. Rebuild intervals in general for all those types of parts will become shorter. Just imagine all…

If you look at the first photo again you can see the twin-stacked LED clusters recessed in the OEM grille opening just to the inside of the factory headlight buckets. One on each side for high beam and low beam. Clean look that doesn’t interfere with the classic lines, but still gives great night visibility. WAY…

Meh. I’ll take a third-gen C/K in period-correct brown with a twin-turbo LS, thanks.

You fool! The Genesis Coupe is not a driver’s car, it merely looks like a (sometimes ugly) driver’s car. You just had to learn the hard way.

Sloppy/non-existent drivetrain mounts, mushy dual mass flywheel, final drive is too tall, hopelessly short bump travel, two-piece driveshaft, weak-ass differential, hideously…

Hyundai fucked over the Genesis Coupe as well with the BK2 facelift.

The BK1 cars were lovely. Curvaceous, understated, very unlike the PURE ANGER designs of similarly priced RWD sporty cars of the time (370Z, Mustang, Camaro, etc) They weren’t trying to copy anyone with the looks, it was a genuinely Korean aesthetic.

Ellen Forney’s graphic memoir did a great job of parsing out this conflict. As a bipolar artist she struggled for a long time to separate her creative self from her bipolar self. So many of the stereotypes suggested she owed her artistic talents to her disorder. That (very fucked-up!) insistence drove her to avoid…

Your experience is a natural side-effect of a privatized healthcare system. Therapists only make money if their clients keep coming back. Clients only keep coming back if the therapy sessions make them feel better. People like being told what they want to hear. Ergo, therapists tend to be more successful when they…

First fucking move of every fascist dictatorship. When the Soviets took over Russia after the fall of the Tsar they went after the functionally communist farming communities with every bit as much venom as they went after the engineers and academics. The Soviets were extremely conservative in their politics. All the…

It is an exaggeration, but there is some basis in reality around the idea we live in a “post-truth” society.

Also, Solzhenitsyn was widely disparaged and shunned by the academic/historical community when he transformed into an anti-semitic grandpa in the later years of his life what with the content of Two Hundred…

Proven untrue when? By whom? Which authors? The ones who worked for the NKVD? The Checka? The OGPU? The KGB? Putin himself? Name names, asshole.

There are many legitimate authorities on this subject with photographic evidence to match. Slovki, Belbaltlag, Dmitrovlag, Vorkutlag, and many others have all been…

Stalin imprisoned MILLIONS of his own soldiers from the Red Army in hard labor camps after WWII, killing most of them, just because he and his regime were afraid the soldiers would come back from the war and tell the oppressed Soviet people about what life was like in Europe. Stalin was so paranoid and so hell-bent on…

Nothing says “America” like Chinese wheels.