or hell... simply having gone through COVID lockdowns and the changes that it has brought to ALL kinds of people socially. I lost a great deal of my own charm and interest in going out, doing things. A year of lockdown has done a big number on many, many people. 

That’s a gross view on this.

I have read that there is “some” observable behavior in both men and women that when they are interested in one another of if one is interested and the other is not. In photos or seen standing next to one another talking, the subject’s belly button will be pointed more toward the person…

I’m not against engineering that requires pulling the dash to reach an uncommon to fail part, but... if you had to pull the ENTIRE dash, throw it out and install a brand new dash, because the Heat Core was molded into the dash, to have “fewer parts” ...

That’s basically making the whole car into a throw away pile of…

Taking something that is “15 to 20 parts” on another heat pump design is marketing speak for, “We made a completely THROW away, incapable of being repaired system.”

I absolutely loathe the thought process that pushes engineering in that direction. Instead of being able to easily disassemble and replace a $5 part, now?…

Also, a trashed location feels fitting for what appears to be a super trashy operation. 

Is it actually a local manager calling in a theft or is it more of an automated system, notifying some “faceless” person overseas, in a “support center”, who makes the call?

I find it unlikely that a local branch manager would fail to check with staff about a car rented out, just minutes ago, before calling the police…

The publicly available information regarding his salary shows it to be REALLY tiny, compared to other companies with revenues approaching what CIG has. Last time I saw it reported? (As it’s a requirement for British Corporate law or something) was that it was around $300,000. Similarly sized companies with that kind…

Star Citizen does have a playable Alpha that does add new features and becomes more robust in several ways each release.

Some of those games, like Modern Warfare, were built upon the same engine just iterated on over a period of years, which kind of hides the total cost of latter editions. 

You don’t have to worry about that. Even if a developer has an Alpha level product out with really solid graphics, sites like Kotaku will dump hard all over them anyway.

Just wait a few more days, I heard Star Citizen, from CIG, still not released, has just hit $500 million in funding. Kotaku’s resident Cloud Imperium…

Okay, but... all of that was a hot take about how lame city based tribalism was and that some people never want to really accept or recognize that different places for differences in how people want to live are perfectly fine. Plus, it was all about making fun of the “New York Elite” and that no matter how “Liberal”…

The way they did the product placement adverts, were always in the vein of pointing out how utterly ridiculous, scene breaking and pandering such in show product placements are. 

If they figured out a way to bring back and lower the costs, on the Fiat 500e, that might go a bit of a way towards growing back some of that market share.

Right now? The only thing they have in the US is the 500X. No more Fiat Spider 124, no more 500, 500e 500 Abarth. They stripped the whole line down to one... eh…

Race tracks also have prepared surfaces that are reviewed and corrected for deficiencies as quickly as possible. Also, there is little to no risk of absolute chaos on a race track, because events, even Wheel to Wheel racing events, have rules and control of the driving surface to negate many risks.

A public road? How…

Shipping Container pools are the new hip thing. It’s a system that’s been in development for a handful of years, it allows for some decently sized bodies of water, taking up relatively little space.

I’ve seen a few of these installed off of Tiny Homes, in some of the videos that I have seen. (Tiny as in barely 1000…

Um... we don’t have storm culverts like you might be thinking. There’s no possible way to get a vehicle into those in the Detroit Area, we are not at all built out/up, like cities on the West Coast. 

For MANY Rural routes, the postal employees drive their own private vehicles and are reimbursed by the Postal Service.

You see that in Northern Michigan, outside of the cities, all the time.

They are trying the same thing in Michigan too.

The Michigan Utilities board is appointed by the Governor and can have no more than two members of any particular party.

So... the Republican Governor, some time back... installed a Republican, another Republican and an “Independent” commissioner. Other than the rare…

You’re presuming that they intend on actually educating and training engineers and scientists in Texas. They have no intention of creating highly educated and skilled people.

These problems would still exist WITHOUT EVs.

Blaming it on EVs is just a smoke and mirrors tactic. The strain is based purely on purposefully planning to under deliver so that when the demand rises, they can charge wallet crushing rates for electricity.

These systems could and should be made into publicly owned…

I don’t really understand how this was ever considered a good idea?

I can get Miles as “What if...” Captain America, thematically? Both (as) kids grew up with similar grounding in wanting to help people.

As Thor, why couldn’t they have gone the direction of him finding the “Walking Stick” and suddenly becoming Thor, by…