Yep, I mean, I get it. It has happened to me with smaller purchases, so when you go to something this big/expensive, it is going to exist more prevalently.

It is early adaptors (or really anyone) wanting to be right about their decisions. Then when you go to something that costs this much, people really double down and don’t want to admit that something they bought isn’t really that great. Look at Tesla owners, especially early adopters for this in spades.  

Why was it easier to get to the moon back in the late 60s/early 70s than it is in the 21st century?

It sounds like she Kobayashi Maru’d herself.

We are not headed toward a UFP utopian society.

It’s ok, I’m sure ASSad is happy enough in his new Lada.

Yeah, I was going to post a picture, but I think even googling that will get you on a list of “not hireable” at almost any company.

Hmmm

I definitely read that last line with “movie trailer announcer voice” and it was very amusing for me!

It won’t cost big bucks. All the drivers will be in a place like Mumbai.  We will just have to get used to these sort of traffic patterns.

As a normally bearded guy that wear strong glasses, the only thing that fools the computer is the CPAC. I think Facial recognition looks as the spacing between the eyes, how lined up they are, spacing between the eyes and lips and the like. The CPAC mask pushes hard enough against the face to distort these spacings.

Typically, if you’re (iPhone), the recog will use your eyes, which is why they both need to be open to register. Glasses, facial hair, etc, shouldn’t matter.

The City E-Bike get away is probably a closer Jalopnik connection than a supposed job at true car. (they still have not found the bike)

Yes, one of the Andretti cars had a red system fault, so the safety team couldn’t touch it until it was properly grounded. This also occasionally happens in Formula One and Le Mans cars. 

If we’re being honest, all he really needed to do was visit an eyebrow waxer after the crime.

Fisker looked at Mr. Beast’s disastrous food company selling moldy lunchable clones and said ‘hold my 5 beers.’

Oh, the year was 1778
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
A letter of marque came from the king
To the scummiest vessel I’d ever seen

That looks more like a phishing vessel.

They probably figured out that they might actually get paid by the pirates, instead of probably getting paid little or nothing by the operators of their fishing boat.

Actually it is legal overfishing, as local authorities let other countries - EU included - to fish their waters dry of fish.