This also makes me realize that the single biggest problem with autonomous semis on the road is going to be the knuckleheads sharing the road with them.

Very different. The Nazis had quite a few programs to theoretically benefit the average German laborer- of which KdF, to promote leisure activities and travel, was one. (Theoretically. In practice, the laborers worked, while the Nazi party members exploited the programs intended for them.) Though corrupt, it was a surp…

Once knew a bachelor who owned a Porsche...and a Pinto, for dates, for just that reason.

And, amazingly, not a slideshow.

But what if I don’t really care, and want a reliable car thecar?

The Venetians would like a word with all of you.

Lethal Weapon never gets any credit for being a Christmas movie.  Thought it very much is.

I fondly remember the days when the JSF was the “lo” end of the “lo-high” aircraft mix, expected to come in at $35m per unit.  Thirty years ago.  Some of you reading this weren’t even born yet when the JSF was conceived.  

1) It’s not that kind of test. As clear-prop said, they’re shifting one of a binary pair to measure the result of the impact, not shifting an asteroid in its solar orbit.

Because Captain America will blow the landing by 26 miles.

Dammit, now someone has to remake the video for “Money for Nothing” with 8-bit animated dinosaurs.

In all seriousness, driving in the NYC area, most cars do not use their turn signals because it is providing intel for the enemy.

You’d think lobbyist is an easy gig...but can you imagine how difficult it is talking transportation policy to dimwits like Gohmert or Ocasia-Cortez without completely flipping your shit?

Not a Leopard Tank, or even a Sherman...but I recall, years ago, seeing on TV a clip about a guy who owned a demilitarized Scorpion light tank and somehow was able to legally drive it around the streets of London.

If you really want to have a fun time, start each with “Biden [or Harris, or Buttigieg] wants to mandate..."  Then fix yourself a drink, sit back, and watch the evening devolve.

When you consider some of the prep work Reeves puts in for movies like The Matrix or the John Wick series, that’s actually a lot of work.  

I was going to say,

That’s the most irksome sort of gift. “A donation has been made in your name to a charity you wouldn’t support by a person who does support the charity but wanted to pretend to be generous while receiving a tax deduction. Merry Christmas.”

“The end of disease, but this time we really mean it!”

First time I flew after 9/11 (about two weeks later), I couldn’t even get a plastic fork in the terminal restaurants. Couldn’t even get a sandwich cut in half, because the restaurants in the terminal weren’t allowed to possess cutlery.