Race, and racism - explicit and hidden - is a part of everything. Including automotive culture. If you can’t see that, or don’t want to believe that, you’re a part of the problem

That odd moment of feels when you realize that the Jawa Sandcrawler is literally more aerodynamic than your own car...

Because the shuttle was a really good idea, after all - expensive, extremely hard to maintain, marginal safety rating, no way of really aborting a failed launch, complex... Yeah, that’s the idea. Gliders have problems.

I beg to differ — the Prius absolutely looked odd and a bit freaky (and still does, but especially when launched). There were actually articles covering that —some changes were purely for aerodynamic purposes, but other, more normal-looking cars had similar aero, so that wasn’t the excuse. It was because the car…

Half of me wants to say they won’t sell any with a grille that small (how will anyone know how big and tough I am?), but the other half says it’s prime real estate for something super macho like a wolf howling at the moon or nice big AR15 decal, with room left over for Calvin pissing on a Rivian logo.

As yes, those rip off artists Tesla. Somehow made a car that could do things in 2012 (now eight years ago) that the largest automaker in the world can’t get right today with the help of a trillion dollar multi-national software company.

No, that’s a myth.

You literally won’t - it’ll become second nature/habit to just plug your car in when you come home, and have it be fully charged when you leave in the morning.  

How long before he goes to rehab for “exhaustion.”

Statistics are showing that the vast majority of deaths (99% or more) are people with underlying conditions.

ICU Doctors confirm Elon’s BPAP machines were easily converted to respirators in just minutes

So, when a caretaker goes to the same grocery store as your freedom loving ass, gets infected, and then ends up incidentally killing a large percentage of elderly people at the facility, it was the old peoples’ fault?

Look man, there’s two outcomes here: We reopen, kill a bunch of people and continue to tank the economy, or we keep taking measures and tank the economy. There is no outcome from this pandemic in which the economy is not tanked.

Here’s the thing genius, in a pandemic situation, individual choice means fuck all because you will get other people killed.

Yea, my gut says it’s safe to reopen now! Why should I listen to pandemic experts who say it’s the wrong time? Muh Freedom!

Corporate taxation, wealth taxes, quantative easing, national currency reserves, re working the budget to spread money around more evenly [for example, we could easily cut the military budget in half for a few years]. There are a lot of ways the government can find money. They’ve already found several billion for…

It’s a bizarre critique that he’s playing up how much Musk is making because Tesla stock is doing well, then saying workers’ Tesla stock is worthless and stuck in the market.

And the first asshole to tell me Tesla’s workers get stock too, the replacement of actual income for money that stuck in the stock market does nobody any good in an economic crash like we’re experiencing.

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Much like the EPA’s MPGe ratings conveniently ignore the realities of how electricity actually gets made... or that electricity isn’t actually sold in “gallon” containers. Whatever.