The GM 173 in my Jeep MJ. 2.8l v6 that had no horsepower, but made up for it with no torque. That little cast-iron pile of crap didn’t have the power to pull the hat off your head. But it loved blowing up mufflers if things weren’t tuned juuuust right.

“Crypto” is easier to sell than “Dunning-Krugerrands”

I don’t think they’d care about environmental impact.  They’re too busy grinding out dunning-krugerands

“Half again as much as it was worth when it was new”. I mean, yeah, but accounting for inflation, it’s crazy cheap. I did a wiki dive the other day to talk about “Trading Places” to someone who hadn’t seen it, and noticed three things:

“executed”? inigomontoya.gif She was in for 14 years, disregarded her oath, and decided the trump flag was the one she was willing to fight under when she took part in insurrection. Put THAT flag into a triangle box for her next of kin, and toss her ashes in a dumpster.

“... one of the officers says that Walker bit him”

I should really see if I can get an IRL version of Fire Bomber going in Elite: Dangerous

‘86 Jeep Comanche X. Long bed, The 2.8 motor, barely enough power to pull the hat off your head. But it had 4wd for the Iowa Winters and I loved it. Never got it stuck other than getting in a ditch once dodging a deer. (figured it would be better to get stuck there than total the truck)

Two people there, and one had a copy of Salem’s Lot, hoping for an autograph.  ... Of course the other person had a copy of Mein Kampf for the same reason.

Late to the conversation, but I’m nearly 39, a radio broadcaster out of nowhere North Iowa in a previous life, and a big aviation/space/science fan. I stared playing Elite: Dangerous, and discovered that a LOT of people were picking up the game, playing for an hour, leaving, and never coming back, because the learning…

Maybe 50 knots by the time it got to the bottom of a waterfall.

I’m going to be using your own argument about insufficiency of scale here, because this tunnel will realistically take just as long, and most likely *much* longer than adding one more lane to I-95, while only carrying two trains worth of people per day. The Boring Company doesn’t have anything to go for it other than…

There’s always Champio... nope.  Can’t even finish writing that drunk.

Were we invaded by Pakleds?

If the system works, why did an innocent person get killed by police?

I kindly invite Steve King and all the treasonous fuckers that support him to take a sideways saguaro suppository.  Iowa had the highest per-capita casualties in the Union Army during the Civil War, and this asshole keeps that rag on his desk.  I remember when Iowa valued an educated populace.  Now it’s proudly…

The devs’ statement of “we value your time” was already a lie, and it’s not aged well since. It was promoted on their Twitter feed, it was hyped by the devs, and the fact is that the ship’s flight plan had to be filed with frontier weeks if not months in advance.

Tesla is implying it has an autopilot, and also implying that people don’t need to do anything, and pretty much inducing delay into every decision-making chain and making things overcomplicated and forcing attention away from the road through touchscreen interfaces for most vehicular functions. Nothing’s intuitive,…

Musk has spent the last decade plus screaming “LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT THE WONDERS I’VE BUILT!” ... and now he’s upset that people are looking his way when he doesn’t want them to. Damn shame. Damn shame.

The weekend I broke up with my ex, they did this in the middle of I-5 South on the way to LA. We crested a hill, dropping down into the valley, and boom! Slammed on the brakes in the middle of the damn interstate. I yelled “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! GO!” I was told she was scared the car could fly off the road. I said it…