Just... pay people more?  Or we can keep begging for cheaper prices on goods while continuing to ignore the fact that adjusted wages have barely moved in 3+ decades.

I say we stop calling it a "premium" and start calling it a "punisher", since this is what it does. 

Watch your insurance premium though... It may go up drastically.

Why “ostensibly?”

Check these out. There are a few companies that are doing it there already. They would need to be bigger batteries, of course, but the groundwork is already being laid.

I was reading his statement and trying to imagine how he could have said “May god bless their souls” in a way that didn’t sound like he was reading those words for the first time in his life. 

I don’t know if this crash will get politicized, but my big fear is that the Trump folks will use the news coverage of this tragedy as cover to do all kinds of evil shit behind the scenes and hope that the media don’t have the bandwidth to expose it. For example, don’t miss out on their just announced plans to…

isn’t that a Kia EV6? they do look very similar..

Unless you’re a massive government agency, how in the hell can you get $2.3B in the hole? Either there’s incredibly stupid management involved, or it’s some criminal scheme to bilk finds from everywhere. 

I guess they know what they’re doing, but lets’ also keep some perspective: We car people tend to lean purist/artful/grace/purpose while a LOT of today’s population leans toward “Look at me! Look at me!”. Sadly the auto enthusiast world seems to be a shrinking slice of America’s passion.

Can’t un“sea” it.

KTM management made a very bad, no good, American style short term thinking decision. Business is steady, then COVID hits and demand for leisure products like motorcycles skyrockets. This will go on forever, they think. Quick, let’s ramp up production permanently and as fast as possible to build shit tons of expensive…

At that rate of appreciation, just think about what it’ll be worth in another ten years!

Beautiful car. I’ve loathed the Viper interior for a long time (it looks like a DIY interior in a kit car, even beyond the plastic/rubber aesthetic that was common in this era), but that cognac color actually makes it look decent.

The job of police officer is very demanding, stressful and dangerous, and I highly respect the position, not necessarily the people that are hired for the position.

We need smart, well-trained, well-informed cops that have passed a thorough psychological exam and background check, not former high-school bullies, racist…

4.3s to 60mph is blazing fast. I was just watching a comparison test of the Hyundai i30N and Subaru WRX and both were in the low 6s. This 8,800lb truck will basically leave those two ~300hp hot hatches for dead off any stoplight or highway drag race.

Part of the point of an electric vehicle is to be efficient, to use less fossil fuels. So efficiency is a big part of the point. It’s like making a pizza with half the fat of a regular pizza per ounce, but then tripling the serving size. Did it really help or just make a lateral move?

Police chief in my small city of 60k makes $325k per year. Most of the regular cops are pulling in $120k. They make upwards of $200k at the end of their career (in their mid 50s), then spend the last 3 years working a shit ton of OT so that there pensions are inflated based on those last few years of total pay. Then…

I give police officers all the credit in the world