ding ding. The idea that you wouldn’t want foreign entities to invest in domestic economic development (under reasonable regulatory and intellectual property control) is true “cut off the nose to spite the face” territory. Banning all non-domestic ownership of land out of hand as a national policy would be bonkers.…

a videogame has subpar copy? *drops monocle*

The first two episodes actually sucked. The only reason I persevered was because it’s a Armando Iannucci joint (The Thick of It, In the Loop, Veep.) The tone was very very off for the first two or three episodes, but then it finds itself, the writers figure out what they’re writing, and it clicks and becomes one of…

I think you’re wrong.

I know people hate Josh Gad, but people should watch Avenue 5. It’s very funny and Josh Gad is very funny in it.

Airplane 2 is excellent. Me likely all the Shatner scenes especially.

The 100% efficiency simply relates to how much energy you get out of it in heat vs the energy put in. Resistive heaters are 100% efficient, full stop. The reason resistive heaters cycle on and off is simply because they’re either on or off - there’s no “medium setting” given a fixed voltage, current and resistant…

The comparison isn’t very great between the bolt and the jag. What really affects how much the heating affects the range is the ratio of the heating usage to other energy usage (motor + whatever else is powered in the vehicle.) If the heating takes up a smaller ratio of the total consumption compared to just moving it,…

Well I hope you turn off the phone too, because your phone company has a complete log of your location history simply by dint of your phone being on. (And for that matter, wifi is enough easy enough vector for tracking too, but I assume you turn that off as well.)

“I like to have my drinks on occasion and it would never occur to me that getting behind the wheel would be a great idea. I will admit when I was younger I did it a few times which was really fucking stupid.”

But the point stands that being drunk can and often does impair your judgement and ability to evaluate consequences, so it’s probably unreasonable to expect punitive approaches be a terribly effective approach above certain levels of inebriation (disclaimer for all of this: obviously different people have different…

You’re right, it’s not that hard, which is why many people do do that. And those that don’t, well, the other people living in the house certainly don’t deserve regulatory protection. Particularly children, who really ought to be better read about the possible side effects of indoor pollution from sources such as gas…

er ... extremely? every car native gps UI makes me wanna punch my own face, and google maps is a bajillion times better imho (and also all my music is on google play so it’s nice to have it all there)

jebus people, it’s a joke

keep it real buddy

oops you just failed your police officer exam

yes, that was indeed a fuckup

comedy that pushes boundaries can be good and valuable, but community’s paintball episodes were not an attempt to engage on the subject of violence or guns in schools, but rather to facilitate a western pastiche

Who decided this?

yes, that’s the joke