Haven’t tried that one yet... have to give it a look... thanks for the reco!

No Such Thing as a Fish
Ask Me Another
Hidden Brain
The Bugle
Invisibilia
Criminal
Intelligence Squared US Debates
This American Life
Science Friday
The Moth
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.

That’s hours and hours of entertainment and mental stimulation right there.

The solar shingle thing to me is just absurd in hype.

They look nice. Ok, you have that.

But the entire solar industry is rife with people making financial projections on cost/value that don’t hold up when you actually dig into the numbers, and SolarCity was no different, so I can’t imagine that all of a sudden they’ve…

Especially since Tesla is going straight for hard tooling instead of soft tooling as they start production. There’s a reason no one else does that - it makes those minor tweaks needed to get high quality very expensive. And last thing Tesla can afford is to have to dump some expensive tooling to fix a problem.

And you know this about the interiors how?

It makes as much sense as their funny accounting methods used to claim profits.

No one = nearly 23 million trips last year, or almost 63,000 per day.

Yeah, no one wants that.

Oh, and evidently “all of the transportation money” = about 10% of it, when generously counting ALL state mass transit subsidies to Metro Transit (regardless of purpose) vs state money for roads.

FWIW, building more roads only…

It’s only a hassle from my experience if you’re desperate to get one of their bags of crap during a woot-off.

Heck, I once found them selling bat guano for $5.55 for a 30 lb bucket. That stuff is a magical fertilizer for vegetables, and “brewed” into a “tea” (~1 tbsp per gallon) makes a great anti-fungal for plants. So…

It’s only a hassle from my experience if you’re desperate to get one of their bags of crap during a woot-off.

Heck, I…

The one who doesnt understand that refugee and asylum seeker are two different things. You don’t get refugee status in the US by showing up and claiming to be a refugee. That will get you shown the door EVERY SINGLE TIME. To get into the US as a refugee, you MUST go through the UNHCR process, which TAKES YEARS.

You clearly don’t know JACK SHIT about the refugee process for the US.

The best you could possibly claim is that you’re confusing the asylum process with the refugee process. They’re two very distinct and different things. If you show up in the US and try to claim refugee status, you will be turned away every time. You…

Ok - so a Trump surrogate. He still has adopted the language of defiling Hispanic immigrants.

And you clearly don’t know jack squat about the process of being admitted into the US as a refugee. We only accept refugees through the UN high commission - and to get through them, you have to show up at one of their…

You haven’t? SERIOUSLY?

He’s constantly going on about refugees being dangerous, despite the fact that statistics show that they are FAR less likely to commit crimes or be involved in terrorism than any other segment of society. He claims we don’t vet them properly and they’re dangerous, despite the fact that the…

Daewoo is a division of GM.

Neutral :

First ones to pay should be those who covered up the problem - so financial penalties for Takata employees involved in this disaster. Also for automakers (ahem, Honda, according to the NY Times) who allegedly knew about the problem and also covered it up for years, thus allowing the problem to grow and drag…

“Currently, BMW is the largest car exporter from the United States on a net
basis, sending $10 billion worth of cars abroad.”

This isn’t correct. They export more than most automakers, and do a very admirable job compared to foreign makers but they aren’t the largest on a net basis...

You’re not really reading the results accurately. You have to consider what would happen absent the investment in public transportation - which is inevitably worse.

Yes, when you invest in mass transit, the roads become temporarily less congested after which they fill right back up. But without that investment,…

You’re spending far too much money...

Eric Prince is still getting rich of of most of this, and his sister is the secretary of education, getting rich off of destroying public education.

Transmission may or may not have been the same.

For the 1994-2000 Windstar, they used the AX4S transmission. That was used on the Taurus as well. Up until around the time they started using them on the Windstar, they were pretty lousy for reliability. From the 95 on, they were actually pretty average for reliability in…

I’m certainly more concerned about long term reliability, too.

But short quality tends to correlate well with long term reliability. An automaker that cuts corners on initial quality is likely to do the same thing for durability, and conversely, one that focuses on getting high quality out the door isn’t likely to…