That’s not billionaire money, but it is more than 3/4 of US household incomes.

BMWs have turn signals? I had no idea. Does yours also have cruise control?

If you’re driving a Ford with hill start assist and you want to roll backwards a little bit before going forwards just let off the break before putting it in gear. The assist only kicks in when you put it in gear before getting off the brakes.

It’s the color and also the slash of black on the side. It isn’t hard to tell them apart but if you aren’t looking closely it’s also kinda easy to confuse one for the other.

I thought so. Being presented with a Spanish or Italian word I had never seen before I could do a better job pronouncing it and guessing it’s meaning compared to Mandarin where I would simply be clueless, so in that sense Mandarin was harder.

Eh, more people speak Swahili than Cantonese. It’s not even remotely close to as popular or important on a global scale as Mandarin. And I’ve heard Cantonese is actually really hard but my lazy ass took four different intro language classes in college and Mandarin was by far the easiest of them (the other three being…

I care about badges. My next car will have a scorpion badge on it.

It’s not even just old manuals that have the shifter up there. The new Fiat 500s do as well.

My 1.6L Fiesta is the epitome of slow car fast. I routinely put the gas pedal all the way to the floor, get 39 mpg, and have never been pulled over for speeding. I am kinda worried that I will outgrow the fun I’m having in it because it is my first manual transmission so a lot of the fun I’m having is perfecting my…

Trump is pro death penalty, thinks police are the most mistreated group in America, against education spending, against marijuana legalization, has always been in line with conservative positions on climate change, thinks the EPA is a disgrace, against all forms of gun control, against raising minimum wage, in favor…

Damn. I hadn’t realized the outback dropped the stick. I guess we’ll just have to add that to the ever-growing list of things which demonstrate that car enthusiasts are not a large enough segment of the market to influence it very much.

Subaru

Indefinitely doesn’t mean “a very long time” or “forever”. It means an unspecified amount of time. There is a big difference between finding someone guilty of a crime and sentencing them to live the rest of their life behind bars and holding someone who is accused but not proven guilty for an unspecified length of…

I don’t know where you got the idea that the plan was to simply release them. The article specifically said that seven prisons and six military installations were being considered to take in the people detained at Guantanamo Bay. When you are choosing between which high security prison or military installation to put…

Yes and no. A solid slug will definitely pass through an object if it is moving fast enough, but it will also depart a lot of kinetic energy. Check out the damage done by a bullet passing through several successive watermelons here:

They aren’t, but I was assuming since the comparison would be between conventional and railgun-fired projectiles from a ship on the sea the fact that the speed of sound isn’t constant shouldn’t matter too much for a ballpark estimation.

You’re probably underestimating the amount of damage a railgun will do even without an explosive head.

ISIS had literally nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.

Zero Dark Thirty. Argo. Anything associated with Tom Clancy.