Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good boat at your side, kid.

Agreed, on both.  When I typed “eventually,” I was envisioning 15-20 years.

And eventually, Tesla and others will sell that monitoring as a “service” that reduces your rates, and then the government will mandate - after considerable industry lobbying, of course - that every driver purchase said “service” in the interests of safe driving, because “think of the children/troops!”

Eventually, your choices will be to own a Tesla or some other car that monitors your driving behavior and reports it to insurers, or own a non-monitoring car and pay an insurance premium for being unmonitored.

I’ve dealt with quite a few unions.  Some are good - steel workers always springs most directly to mind.  Many exist only to perpetuate themselves, and only pay lip service to helping workers.  A select few are awful, like the grift that keeps the Al Shanker Memorial Wine Cellar fully stocked.

Make sure you pronounce them differently too, i.e. “Col-ohm-BEE-ah” vs. “Col-um-BEE-yah.”

No, we are not the baddies. Dressing people up as Stormtroopers as a backdrop during a general’s swearing-in doesn’t make us the baddies.

And under the current DoD organization specified by Goldwater-Nichols, there are truly good, valid reasons to have the space functions split off in to their own service branch.

Conversely: I’m 6'4". It hurts to fly. Actual, physical pain.

I’m not talking about the technical issues of battery swaps, I’m talking about the psychological issues of gaining acceptance for it in the US.  A “subscription model” isn’t going to make the average American abandon their deep-seated notions of car ownership, it’s going to make them avoid owning a subscription-based…

I can’t imagine battery swapping catching on widely in the US in my lifetime, simply because of the prevalent American attitudes of independence and ownership. Many car owners will not want to swap “my battery” in their car for “someone else’s.”

So Amazon sees fit to share my network bandwidth with my neighbors? Wonder what Verizon thinks about that, as their TOS forbids me from doing so?

The Mach-E above (god, what a dumb name)

Which one? There’s two up.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is everything wrong with the movie industry in one film. A perfectly good mid-budget film, of a type that was an industry mainstay 20 years ago when a night at the movies was $12/person including concessions.

Hudson Hawk is in no way a good movie. I should know, I’ve watched it about 30 times.

Most sociopaths are very charming. The lack of empathy makes manipulation very easy for them.

So Tesla’s monitoring the driver to ensure the driver monitors the autopilot.

Not just intellectual maturity, but social maturity as well. I started a year younger than everyone, but intellectually was two years farther along. Never struggled with keeping up with “learning,” but was always behind socially (turns out the social gulf between 4 and 5 years old can be pretty significant.)

True, but it’s rarely so “I’m going to amend legislation to just hand you money” blatant.