I had to read that R.R. Martin answer through a few times. Not because I didn’t understand what it was trying to say, but because that was one hell of a way to say that.

Total income for 2023 was something like $73k, but she wasn’t making $35/hr until more recently. 2024's going to be a lot higher, which is probably part of why she thinks she can afford two Jaguars.

Probably true; I’ll add that most nurses are compensated hourly and paid biweekly — so when salaries are negotiated its typically re: that hourly rate, which is then easier to extrapolate into a weekly/biweekly/monthly income vs an annual salary.

Well it sounds like she is a travel nurse, so unless MOST of her jobs are on OKC, which they could be, where she lives might not have a huge impact on the number of miles driven. Considering her likelihood to get into wrecks, maybe we all vote and put a GPS tracker on her car that shows her location to EVERYONE in say…

You can find Deloreans that have rust, it’s not unheard of. At this point there’s probably some survivorship bias because you really only see the ones that have been taken care of.

“Hannah, however, was created in a lab to make people very angry online,”

Yeah... don’t forget people like Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolás Maduro... with their combined efforts, ruined Venezuela. 

Technically, a car can completely and wildly *exceed* US standards - and still not meet the letter of the US FMVSS law. For example if it has MUCH better headlights that are not allowed in the US, or at the wrong height, or does not have our required side marker reflectors (but does have side marker *lights*) and on…

The automakers self-certify. What that means is that they design a vehicle to meet the standards, and then have a third party tester crash the vehicle and state that the results met the standards. Then the automaker slaps a compliance label on it (driver’s door jamb), and by that the vehicle is certified. As stated…

It has a Porsche V8 and was designed by Michael Vernon Robinson. The build quality is probably pretty good when you actually look at who worked on it.

While it is absolutely possible they’re lying about the test results, they have to follow the FMVSS crash test procedures as a part of federal law. Those results have to be submitted to NHTSA for them to sell the vehicles to the public.

Except CyberTruck isn’t that heavy.  It’s been internally crash tested.

Yes, that’s what I said. Tesla did the test, filed the results, and NHTSA is declining to do an independent re-test for now. The clickbaity headline implies that the CT hasn’t been crash tested by anyone at all, which the video in the article itself shows isn’t true.

It might be possible to see the test results by…

You have to certify to meet minimal federal crash standards (which is what Tesla’s internal tests are for). But this has nothing to do with the NHTSA star test. That test is only done on the most popular models and is optional, because they don’t have the testing capacity to test all car models.

Some key info here: The Cybertruck *was* crash-tested. It had to be, to get licensed for sale by the NHTSA. The results of that test were filed with NHTSA so that Tesla could legally affix the sticker to each CyberTruck that says it conforms to the FMVSS (49 CFR Part 567).

What NHTSA does is *independently* re-tests…

It’s engineered to benefit the vehicle manufacturer most, not the final consumer. Like you implied, many of the goals of the manufacturer directly are bad for the consumer.

Indirectly, to keep the movie rights for Spider-Man.

I don’t know, seems like Dakota Johnson seems like the perfect choice for projects like these. Case in point: 50 Shades Trilogy. All you need a photogenic recognizable name who will soldier through an awful script and only seem vaguely embarrassed to be there. She’s your go-to when you’re trying to spin hot garbage…

I mean they’re making money I would think not to mention being in a a real marvel production doesn’t mean you’ll be in a well received one either.

They don’t have Blade, no. Marvel has those rights, they bought them back from New Line Cinema; Sony never had them. Spawn was also New Line Cinema, and I think the rights were always still held by Todd McFarlane. Again, nothing to do with Sony.