Maybe it’s more fun to try dying in a helicopter crash than it is to safely drive a tractor around an orchard drying cherries?  Especially if helicopters are just falling out of the sky on top of you.

Man, it’s a great thing that the FTC goes after these anti-competitive practices with the force and fury of an agency empowered and staffed to make sure that near-trillion-dollar corporations can’t bully smaller companies for their own benefit!

I enjoyed that show, but some of their heavy-handed product placement was nauseating.

but that’s pending rule changes at ERCOT, which doesn’t currently allow residents to participate in the state’s energy market

hey, look..... they’ve been installing air conditioning on houses for over 70 years... ok?... 70 years! it’s not like they’re gonna figure out the electricity problem overnight.... /s

It’s important to understand that in Texas’s deregulated grid, these shortages and price spikes are a feature, not a bug. Power plants that sell electricity into the wholesale market only turn a profit when they sell during these price spikes. The system is working as designed, since its designed to make money for…

a: Lordstown is still in business?

The way Lordstown has been going, he might be their last CEO.

Maybe, and I know this is crazy considering nothing bad has ever happened with their grid in the past (/s), they should improve the grid a bit? Are they just learning Texas is hot as fuck and electric cars have been gaining steam for nearly 15 years?

“This Hyundai sure rides smooth, and the stereo is banging!” Or something like that.

I love classic architecture like this. But let’s be honest, the bridge cannot really handle the rigors of modern life. Continuing the allow automobile traffic over it will eventually destroy the bridge.

Burn Notice and the forced product placement Hyundai in every episode.  It was...bad.

You never saw an Aztek before seeing Breaking Bad? That’s impressive. They were everywhere for a while and, since they’re peak turn of the millennium “Chevys run badly longer than most cars run at all” crap, I still see them from time to time despite living in the salt encrusted shithole of North Hoth.

I remembered the Jalopnik article and then seeing the car in the show and wondering how a kid in a blue-collar Pennsylvania coal belt town could afford a $50K First-Gen Bronco. But then, after reading your comment, I did some actual research and realized that $50K might get you a car that is in decent running and…

Here it is a year since Jalopnik pointed out how wildly wrong it was for a teenager to be driving a restored you-would-not-believe-how-expensive-they-are-in-the-real-world Bronco on Mare of Easttown:

If they didn’t see that their actions have unforeseen consequences when the whole state went dark in the middle of winter, they ain’t gonna see it now...

Legacy taxi businesses were definitely not using technology the way they could or should have. That left the door wide open for something like Uber, no debate from me there. But coincidentally enough, I used a taxi this weekend on almost identical metrics as your experience. 18 bucks, decent tip-in for about 10…

Uber was always nothing more than an unlicensed taxi business. But they just said the words “app” and “disrupt” often enough back in their early days, so users felt like they were on some imaginary cutting edge of technology and supported them. But mostly because it was cheap. I never downloaded the app and not once…

Interesting. Although, are we just shocked because we are seeing how all huge global companies act? I think there is enough smoke around Uber to assume there is some shenanigans, don’t get me wrong. But I bet if we saw how other big corporations do things in plain sight, we’d be less shocked about Uber’s tactics here. 

If the seller managed to blow the engine before 50K, how else has this been abused? And how do you get a split in the seat that quickly? Something ain’t right here. ND.