I agree that the United States can and should be the next candidate for refit and display (it was sooo fast!), but the core problem is that it was almost completely dismantled and scrapped. It was a great vessel as a vessel - fast, maneuverable, comfortable at sea, of course, but it was never luxurious. All that’s…

Yay! Love this ship! It’s where I stay whenever I am in LA. I know it has its issues, but there’s something about the place that’s so pleasing and relaxing. Staying aboard her led me to take the QM2 from London to NY, which was an amazing and memorable experience. I really hope they follow through on the renovations…

I honestly don’t think I’ll ever attend a sporting event in-person ever again - except maybe a baseball game - because the level of investment when it comes to money and attention is so low. It’s just so damn costly and I get to see more of the event on television.

I was talking with a couple mountain bikers a couple weeks back and they despise e-bikes on-trail. The reasons were things like crowding and trail damage, and I suppose if you’re on technically difficult terrain this makes some sense. There’s not a lot of room, and it makes for a lot of passing traffic in areas where…

I was referring primarily and specifically to fossil fuel emissions associated with a moving vehicle. Mining also creates these kinds of emissions. Ore processing in particular is very electricity-intensive (single-point), but extracting and transporting are multi-point in general. Environmental contamination and…

Aw hell, I’d disappear into anonymity for 10 million. Bargain rates over here, Tim! You’ll never hear from my woke-ass again for 10M. You have the power to change this, buddy. Look me up!

I find your ideas intriguing. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I’m still not clear on why they think they can wait 14 years for all that cheap labor. Maybe it’s not such a priority, then?

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ditto

I was really hoping for it, if only for the symbolism of the thing, I’m sad to say.

It’s always stunning to me how CEOs seem willfully blind about what pay does as an incentive to performance. Bonuses tied to delivery is a nice extra, but the foundation needs to be firm enough to begin with. This idea that poverty is an adequate motivator is abhorrent.

I’ve thought for many decades now that the aim of “conservatives” and the GOP in particular is to maintain and grow a population that is sick, poor and stupid... because sick, poor, stupid people are easier to manipulate: they’re desperate, powerless and distracted from the shell game that big businesses play with…

It’s a bit of a hot take, I know, but for me the real advantage to EVs is that they take fossil fuel emissions from being distributed & multi-point to single-point. If the emissions are happening at just one place (like a power station), it’s easier to make that cleaner and more efficient than it is to do the same for …

I think The Orange One only goes on FauxNews to get a professional application of his bronzer. You can tell by how timid he is around his eyes when he’s on the road.

This. Soooo much this.

I am shocked.

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If I had to get away, I’d like to get very far away ... a Unimog camper.

I have to imagine both that Taylor has some very high standards, and that it’s probably very hard to be the companion of Taylor Swift. It might help if she eased up on talking/singing crap about her exes. Honestly, I don’t know who would want to spend their life with her, knowing that she’d write a song about how…