Years ago I had a bunch of enviro types over for a party. I worked in the field so everyone there was serious about environmental protection. Two of them started excoriating me for using paper towels. I pointed out that between them they had five children and I had one and that I could dress my child in paper towels…

“I’m worried it will take true systemic catastrophe to get some people’s attention.”

Congratulations! If you and your partner had more than two kids—just replace yourself on the Earth, then you are to blame for the global warming making the Earth a hellhole in the years to come. Good job! Cutting carbon emissions doesn’t do squat if people breed in such numbers that they overwhelm the carbon cuts, so…

It’s self correcting, eventually. Runaway climate change would lead to a drastic reduction in world population due to starvation, disease, and war over resources.

I can’t believe that with all of this plain and obvious change in climate we still can't get our leaders to agree on dealing with it. And unfortunately we are well past the point where getting people to switch to electric cars or whatever is going to matter. I'm worried it will take true systemic catastrophe to get…

That’s a terrible waste of a car

I shit you not, I know someone who does this with his 355. The dude never drives it. He does start it up in the parking lot at a show, waits 15 minutes for it to reach operating temps, revs it a few times, allows for a cool-down and shuts it off.

At the end of the show, he wenches it back into his enclosed trailer (he…

This whole situation is a mess of “he said, he said, they said, these other guys said, video cut #1 said, video cut #2 said”.

I honestly love Michael Collins, he’s been a hero of mine for years. I’m fascinated by the bravery it took to be the only human on the dark side of the moon, with no contact from anyone. While up there, he actually had to tell himself “ok, if things go wrong on the surface, I definitely won’t kill myself, though…

Collins is a class act, I’ve always been impressed with his roll in the missions. random side note - i remember when i was 12 (30th anniversary year i would guess) I got one of those calls you used to get from actual telephone surveys and it was a single question: who was the third member of the Apollo 11 crew?

There’s that great bit in his Giulia review where he spent an entire afternoon trying to drift it through a cardboard cutout of the car. And in the end he did it!

Harris could show up at a round of Formula Drift with a loaned press car and be competitive after learning the rules. Man can slide. And I still pine for that Valkyrie vs AMG ONE super-test.

Nah. He is a lobbyist. He actually loves this. 

I think this is literally the only thing that could possibly redeem this wannabe strongman’s bullshit partisan takeover of the Fourth of July.

The child was brutalized ON CAMERA and the parents had to get social workers to advocate for charges?? And they claimed that there's equity in law enforcement. Bullshit. Let this have been a Black or Latino man pinning a white child down like this. He would've been executed swiftly by the police upon their arrival.

Please don’t drive around your newborn baby in a 60 year old Corvair, unless you really have no other option. I feel like that should go without saying, but here we are.

What the US really needs is a fleet of far less costly AIP/diesel boats, TO COMPLIMENT the SSNs.

Yeah, the people of Naples are the most ignorant people in Italy I think. I mean, really the whole south sucks, but Naples is something special. At least the Mafia (Sicily) behaves by some sort of code, but the Camorra (Naples), they used to kidnap people and send back body parts until they got their ransom.

Yeah. The long and short of it is basically all the other countries (including the U.S.) just said "fuck it, dump it by Somalia cause there's no one there to stop us/it from happening" and then actually did that. This in turn caused environmental issues that of one was the loss of fish in the area that fishermen would…

I think I've read that the dumping of all this waste off of Somalia caused the spike in piracy down there. There were no more fish for the fishermen to catch so the took up hostage taking.