before buying into the hype, I suggest you read the excellent series of articles on the feasibility and capability of electric planes (including this plane) at leehamnews.com

you forgot the air quotes around “italian logic”

once more, with feeling:

FUCK ALL “GIG ECONOMY” COMPANIES.

perfect is the enemy of good enough.

holy shitttt it is the holy grail BROWN MANUAL SHOOTING BREAK!!!!! (brake? whatever, who cares)

money says either bienemy or leftwich suddenly become the hot candidate at one of the teams that have not yet hired and were, until today, not considering them?

ACAB.

just because they had socialist in their name does not make them socialists.  they were straight totalitarian nationalists.

typo - well _south_ of the exclusion zone

leaving port is not the same as infringing the clear zone for the launch.

cruise ship company should have to pay all costs of the delay. they’d learn their lesson quick.

the personal matter was that his “fuck off to Cozumel” fund had achieved it’s GoFundMe threshold.

100k miles (most of them school bus beat down miles) on a cheby van and you want $59k? what in the everloving hell is wrong with this world.

I can’t imagine the grey market import fees to get this onto the ringworld from earth.

and what if the ringworld governor is like the dickbag in Maine and says “if it wasn’t certified originally to ringworld safety and emission standards you can’t register it here”

1st gear - likely because every other comparably sized crossover is either completely unavailable or selling at $10,000 markup.

people aren’t choosing this car, they are being forced to buy it because there are no other affordable or available choices.

there was no malfunction. there was magnificent showpiece jewelry on her nipple. it was meant to be seen. it was not a pastie or an anti-chafing bandage, it was 4" diameter gold nipple jewelry covered by a designed to be removed hunk of bustier.

fuck our prudish puritan mysogynist country. beautiful woman wanted to…

not  a pastie, decorative nipple jewelry about 4 inches in diameter made of gold.  it was meant to be seen.  there was no malfunction.  just miscalculation about public response and an attempt to blame the wardrobe department.

so spend the money saving one of them.

so, she was a big troop ship, there were literally thousands of troop ships, over 2700 liberty ships alone (which frankly are more interesting than a cruise ship). handing taxpayers the financial burden of years of neglected maintenance by a for profit tourist trap is some convoluted bullshit.

Uh, why? What is the historical significance of the queen Mary such that san Diego taxpayers should be on the hook to repair it?