The Vegas hyperloop uses human drivers at slow speeds. Jalopnik had an article where it was basically as fast as walking.

Dubai, where ridiculous unsustainable engineering ideas come to be.

Probably why he was only there virtually.

We’ll soon be getting the prerequisite, “I don’t know him.”

Glad climate change induced sea level rise is only a myth, Dubai being at [current] sea level.

Perhaps on his way there, he can drop in on the House of Saud and talk to them about what happened to all that cash he borrowed to buy Twitter. I’m sure they won’t have any sharp or pointed comments about getting their money back.

When it isn’t your peoples slaughtered, your cities remain unrazed, and your economy is the one flushed with cash by the conflict, it is easier to be sanguine perhaps.

I’ve said this from the beginning. Electing Trump and by proxy Elon, is the result of Americans getting a little too comfortable with our own privilege. Our hubris that we will never be dethroned as the leaders of the “free” world and that the way of life in America is a permanent “assumed” state is how we got here. …

Doesn’t Dubai already have an underground rail network — the Dubai Metro? (Would this be worth pointing out in the article?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Metro

This is going to put Norway in a bind...

Oh no - instead of a multi-billionaire he may wind up a multi-hundred-millionaire. He doesn’t care, and if he gets his way (which at this point it seems like he may considering the utter cowardice of the Republican party) it won’t matter.

Most Americans who feel that way have never known enough hardship to fill a postcard; privilege has its downside.

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, but a bankrupt Nazi is a good start.

There are two expressions in the Dutch language that seem to fit exceptionally well:

World War Two still casts a long shadow,” Kraaijvanger told Wired.

“Gulf of America.” Glad to see this administration doing things that really matter.

Here’s how to fix the security issue. Take the car OFFLINE. If you need an online maps system, it should work through your phone and it gets a separate airgapped system with no connection to the important bits.

“will introduce potential security risks to our customers”