Too many people act like they’re the only person in the world, and anyone else just has to work around them.

I don’t want to have to take my eyes off of the road to look at a screen for any reason.

Half hour before launch, the same happy-happy announcers pointedly said the sole objective was to clear the launch pad, anything else was a bonus. It’s not like the objective, or idea that this was a success, is being retconned to cover failure. They were very clear about objectives beforehand.

Hell, it’s a good thing people didn’t have that “failure is catastrophic” attitude during the early spaceflight era.

I watch that video. Went from “No way I’m watching 2 hours of a guy dig a hole” to “This is ridiculous, I can’t turn away.”

With the notable exception of For Your Eyes Only, which was light on both the camp and gadget porn.

I’m looking for a reason to hate this, but I’m not coming up with anything interesting.

I’m no fan of Musk...but anyone who thinks he’s the “douchiest CEO” needs to listen to more CEOs.

And the Loch Ness Monster.

I finally got a chance to drive a Tesla recently. Man, that thing was just packed with features that likely seemed good on paper, but were awful in practice (e.g. the blind spot camera, under the turn signal...that ends up blinded by the turn signal).

Norfolk Southern is offering a few hundred now. They’ll increase that somewhat. Then it’ll be increased drastically in the class-action suit - either case or settlement.

An EVRV, as it were.

If you want to be behind the wheel for a living, you can make more than that working for DoorDash.

I’m going down the rabbit hole right now - from the NYT to Cox Automotive (NYT’s source) to Moody’s (where it looks like Cox got the data) - trying to find that number, and I can’t. From what I can find, auto loans haven’t been as high as 12% in about 40 years (not the “highest in 20 years” that Cox says), and doing…

The max fine for the train/rail failure might be $200k, but when the EPA crawls up their ass, the resulting fine will be much, much greater.

Still and all, his character was very thin, and felt under-utilized.

That would be the time I took a strawberry-red 1989 Ford Aerostar on two wheels taking a turn way too fast

That thing makes me want to shout “Uno!”

K-9 units.

That this constitutes a federal crime strikes me as a bit over-legislated.