I personally like to click on a thing exactly one time so you won’t see slideshows from me unless I get yelled at for not doing it.

Manchin won his last primary (2018) by like 40 points. He’s the only dem in the state. He also isn’t up for re-election until 2024. There’s a less than zero chance he gets primaried from the left. And even if a progressive were to somehow beat him they’d get killed in the general election. Then we get McConnell back…

the lack of photographs is criminal.

The band is made of a whopping 224 two-and-a-half karat rubies, and set into 18-karat rose gold.

Rules of the show says that she now owes them $23, 291. It’s a risky show. Lots of post-credits suicide. 

In the context of this article, Federal spending on highways in 2020 was $65 billion. Typically states, and lower levels of government (city and county levels of government own about 75% of roads by mileage) collectively amount to roughly another two-thirds. Their maintenance standards vary, sometimes by quite a bit,…

You mean other than the story, which Jalopnik covered last October, regarding the report from the NHTSA saying that risky driving habits during the pandemic was spurring an increase in traffic accidents that were spiking injuries and deaths to levels higher than 2019 levels — even though there were less people on the…

A full 33 percent more people were killed on South Dakota roadways in 2020 than the previous year.

The Lexus is a big change. The neighbors and code enforcement will think a new person is living in the house.

She is a shit person who says shit things that no one should see or hear. I’m glad I forgot about her and a little sad that I am now reminded of her existence.

My spell check, obviously.

My ‘55 has a cool two-tone scheme that is a nice hybrid between a uniform color and the more aggressive contrast of two completely disparate colors.

Not true. EVs are cleaner no matter what the energy source: https://evtool.ucsusa.org/. They also get cleaner as the grid gets cleaner over time.

3rd gear: Ah, so I guess FedEx is really making the US Postal Service look bad by...

We’ve taken several 600 mile trips in Joulez, our Tesla Model 3 LR, across the southern USA, so I’m getting the feel for long distance EV travel.

Speaking of stans......

It really does sound like it’d make for an interesting movie soundtrack, perhaps performed on strings rather than piano. Similar to how Sheppard’s Tone has been purposed for soundtracks of late (notably in Dunkirk)

Oh, that’s not nearly enough for me to be mad at. It’s still ridiculous, of course, but hey, if people are willing, more power to him.

Alice Cooper is one of those guys who doesn’t exactly age, he’s just become more Alice Cooper as he’s gotten older. You look at him in 1972 and it doesn’t look like he’s quite done yet.