Yeah, bleak wasn’t the right word, but conspiratorial wasn’t either. Views that are completely divorced of everything except political implications will always just feel sort of condescending... even if they’re right. 

Extremely bleak take on 1st: this is the Biden admin picking up some moderate support before November.

Something I’m realizing now: ORD has its rideshare pickup on the departures level of the loop. Which always drove me nuts, but now I’m thinking might be a way to deter unsolicited pickups? Like the best way to make sure nobody at arrivals gets snagged is making sure *everyone* down there already has a ride (or is at…

I’m 99% sure ATL does, but these grifts bank people not being familiar with there they are, and it not registering that “hey, this person offering me a ride is not in the designated taxi/livery car area”.

Right, as long as the road is public and anyone can get on it to pick up friends/family, you have to wait until these people commit an actual crime.

“nothin’ at the top but a chevy and cop, and an illustrated book about SPEED”

Heh, Goodyear is one of the first companies I’ll look side-eyed at, but this definitely was not a cost issue:

The best scene from Vice: The lady in the think tank proposes all kinds of surveillance and whatever else as a means to prevent terrorism, and labelling it the “The Patriot Act”. The yokels love it.

I think more hybridization is just an unintended good consequence of the original EV mandates. There were a lot of mopes out there who were always going to stay away from EV’s on principle, but if you spend enough time telling them they will be stuck with one eventually, it makes owning a hybrid seem like a reasonable …

The real state senators are the friends we made along the way!

You’d probably put a sizable dent in regional air travel with this too. Any door-to-door drive of 6 hours is probably a wash on time spent at/in-transit to the airport.  And there’s probably some more time people would trade for that privacy, the freedom to stop along the way, and to have their car when they got…

Right, this would hopefully offset the fact that now they’re pretty much doing the “hard part” repeatedly. That and the downtime in-between drives.

It would be fun if this makes a scenario where truckers basically become marine pilots in big ports. They just hang out at the truck stop waiting for the next semi to roll up and take it to and from the origins/termini. You probably just need to shuttle them back to the stop if there isn’t a semi waiting to go the…

Something tells me that if they *could* figure it out for trucking, they could make it work for the consumer market too. Being legally* not responsible for the car while it’s between exits is something I think a lot of people would pay for the luxury of, and seems less sci-fi than a car that gets you from your origin…

One boat... one slip... on Pierrrrrrrrr 

She a-howlin’ about the front rent, she’ll be lucky to get any back rent.
She ain’t gonna get none of it.

I personally think you could fix it by outlawing stock buy backs (thanks Reaganomics!), or just flat out not being publicly traded. You should be beholden to your customers and you’re employees, nobody else.

You could have made that case before this guy’s death, be it suicide or “suicide”. Boeing is getting killed by the same things that would have killed McDonnel Douglas had they not merged. And I made the same point in a reply to another one of the Boeing articles last week, but this is basically the lesson we should…

Bingo, if an italian varinat of this monster is going to exist, it should be a whole different model. Or heck, a new Maserati Quattroporte?

Good rec. A couple years ago, I had the head-scratching task of helping my snowbird parents search for a convertible in Florida. Really made me realize what few options you have in this space, especially when you actually care about being able to fit people in the back. I kept on winding up in weird places like this…