“EVs would sell better if some of them had actual controls - on the dashboard...” Not all EVs are Teslas. Most of them have at least some kind of (digital, of course) instrument cluster. And of course, plenty of ICEs these days have digital instrument clusters and/or nasty cheap tablets glued to the middle of the…

I agree with your post (except maybe the last sentence), but my star is purely for your profile name.

“Q: what could Tesla have done with $56,000,000,000 in assets to improve the quality of their cars? A: a lot.”

“Much of these gains likely come from the non-vehicle AI industry, which is absolutely totally going to revolutionize the world with its ability to (checks notes) summarize articles badly.”

Sag Harbor’s really making the news these days, eh?

Do you think anyone who writes for Gizmodo sites is old enough to know what the AFL was?

Voting Biden (read: voting against Trump) won’t make America the shining light on the hill... but it least it won’t continue to get darker nearly as quickly.

“If you attended Donald Trump’s latest rally in Virginia, you’re probably a touch dumber than you were before” Which is saying something, considering how dumb you probably were in the first place.

“which, unlike the Patriots’ stadium, is actually in Boston” Why would the Patriots have to be in Boston? They’re not the Boston Patriots. They could be in New Haven, or Burlington, and still be in New England.

What “weird space metals”? All its parts were built on Earth, you know.

Last two cars were GTIs, which I loved. But they were leased. This last time, I decided to buy, and then hold onto it until the market for BEVs or PHEVs produced what I wanted next. When I looked at the price of the GTI vs. a GLI, I was quite surprised to find that, for the same trim level, with the same engine,…

Yes, AIUI many bulb-type thermometers use alcohol these days, at least for normal human temperatures. And that mercury-on-aluminum thing is no joke:

A thermometer is a device that measures temperature. There are many kinds of thermometers, including both mercury and thermistor.

WTF, really? A “thermometer” is a device that measures temperature. “Thermo”, “meter”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermometer  Are you really saying that, if it doesn’t have mercury in it, it’s not a “thermometer”? Of course there are different kinds of thermometers, including mercury but also many others,…

Oh OK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forces_on_sails

80 grand? Hm, the family isn’t named Chow, huh?

Um, what’s with the picture of a cruiser from Edgartown, MA? I’m pretty sure Sag Harbor is in New York.

Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a truck across my head...

Yeah, this thread is really coming to a head.

Was it a Cybertruck with the trunk lid open? Slice!