Iain (sometimes with an M) Banks books are fantastic.
the Wasp Factory is seriously creepy. his scifi is excellent (culture novels and otherwise)

too bad he’s dead. I’ve already read everything he wrote.

she was meatloaf singing “I would do anything for love” until he said he was selling his mansion and moving to a doublwide in texas, when it became “but I won’t do that”

Champagne is the Miller Light of wine.

technologically interesting, but bland and classless.

I’ll give you that Hamilton is better at playing dirty but getting away with it.

he is the king of not leaving room and false outrage.

damn good driver, but sneaky dirty.

the back seat of a modern camaro. holy fuck you need to be a gymnast just to get in the back at all, and a russian youtube contortionist to stay there.

it was a very interesting race. was refreshing to see the safety car/red flag for once not play into Hamilton’s hands (whether luck or good team strategy or a bit of both, it seems they almost always benefit him more than anyone else)

Hamilton for sure knew what Verstappen was doing when he slowed on the not quite…

unless hamilton crashes out (which basically never happens) (and Max doesn’t also crash) this is going to the last race.

step 1 - find a big flat empty parking lot - you will be spending 3-5 days here before you ever go on a road.
step 2 - have someone who can drive stick drive the car there
step 3 - get in the car while it isn’t running, put your foot on the clutch and just get used to shifting through the gears, learn the pattern,…

the whole basis of “tampering” though is that players are chattle, owned outright by the teams.

in Euro soccer, all contracts have explicit buyout clauses built in on day 1 and any team can talk to any player at any time, but if they want to sign him before his contract expires, they have to either outright pay the…

meh. tampering rules are stupid. players get fined for saying “I’d love to play with X” but teams (i.e. owners) face no meaningful consequences for actually tampering.

all the pro unions in all sports need strike to limit rookie contracts to no more than 3 years, do away with “franchise” tags and the like, do away with…

I like boutique vintage steel too (I ride a late 90s deBernardi, the poor man’s boutique) and this bike is just about the right size for me (I am stumpy)

853 is good tubing, but $700 is _waaaaay_ too much money for this. it has clearly been neglected for a long time, would likely need full rebuilds on all drivetrain…

how many megapizzles?  because my phone has alll of them.

eKarts would be cool. the races are short enough that the batteries could be small enough to not massively affect (haha see what I did there?) the power to weight.

65 hp and 15 minute races? that’s about 12kWh if the whole time were at full throttle. throw in regen and off throttle running and you are down around 6kWh.…

you mean better? because the fake/overdubbed noises in pron generally ruin it....

holy crap the cars in Fury Road were just fucking amazing.  I hope someone got an oscar for them.

it’s a shame they didn’t keep the double bars on the C window treatment and in the tail lights in the production car. they really complete the look.

I really like the looks of the new AccordCivic.  it is just too damn big.

I reeeeeealy wish they would build a new 3 door in the size category of the 2005 civic, aka the last civic that was really a civic.

I think we have to go with Porsche naming their performance versions of their electric cars “Turbo”

it’s dumb like these guys:

that’s actually a pretty big screen when you factor that if goes from the instrument panel all the way to the passenger seat.

and FINALLY!! it doesn’t look like somebody stuck a Kindle Fire to an existing dashboard design.

I have to assume that at least a fraction of these NFTs are FBI/DEA honeypots and that those agencies are extremely closely monitoring all of the places these transactions are happening.

NFTs are simply the newest way to launder money.