I shit you not. I had that engine in a wagon when I was a kid. Didn’t change the oil for 25k miles. When it was changed, it was still bullet proof. When my parents got rid of the car 2 years later, it ran another 8 years.

NOO! My E Wagon was exceedingly rare already as is.  I’ll go and hug it later.

You obviously don’t have a STEM background, but any scientist or someone with a research background wouldn’t be so cocksure in making such claim about the virus’s provenance. It’ll take quite some time to determine origin.   (e.g. - the “Spanish Flu” has now been studied to likely have originated in the US, and the…

As I’m a forecaster (buy training, and paycheck), and am interested in numbers; plenty of models are saying that it’s a possibility. I would even argue that a portion of increases in other causes that aren’t attributed to covid-19 (such as delayed cancer diagnoses, suicide, etc) should still be attributed to the…

Even if China did squat, plenty of competent governments did something to bring their mortality down. the US did worse than squat. The Federal government actively told states they were on their own; then worked against the states that Trump didn’t think were supporting him. That’s fascist bullshit.

Actually most countries are underreporting due to testing limitations. When you know that death rates trends are easily predictable at a population level, any excess mortality (well over 200k in the US alone this year thus far) vs prior years can be attributed to an externality (in this case, Covid-19).

That said, I’m…

Regardless whether or not you’ve done something, there are reasons why the treatment has to be the same and above board and by the book. Otherwise, it’s the fucking Stasi all over again.

This is why I left it as “government”, but should’ve noted incompetent/authoritarian/fascist/libertarian . But point taken. Competency in government bureaucracy exists (and isn’t uncommon), but it has to be done by design.

35-45k/year die from driving in the US. The death toll is multiple times that in a few months already here.

Government takes the vast majoirty on the blame. They eroded the trust of the people through incompetency and opacity. The countries that did well in this pandemic had 2 major factors:

Churchill was very racist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Churchill

If it ends up like Sweden, or Norway, Germany, France, New Zealand, most of the EU, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan; or basically every other competent modern developed social democratic country not run by narcissist WASPs, then I’ll take my chances.

Personal responsibility matters in issues like what you eat, or brushing your teeth and other factors. But it’s like every libertarian just can’t seem to understand the concept of collective action problems.

When every other modern country has gotten it under control, and we haven’t (and now we’re in the company of Brazil and Russia), you know we fucked up bad. America in its current condition is borderline failed state.

When am I getting my Chrysler Regal TourX Hellcat?

Friend worked in Africa for a medical NGO and had to drive those. He said that they were still always broken; and that they rode like crap when they were working, especially spending hours on rutted dirt roads. His happiest times were when he got to drive or sit in the LC 200s that they used to shuttle gov officials…

So, the US.   I mean, isn’t that what Trump is celebrated for?

Since I’m at a tech company, I’d say a huge % (maybe 30%) of my coworkers drive Teslas. Free charging for everyone. A lot of them have plenty of problems, less so with the drivetrain rather than the body hardware like door handles, etc. They love their cars regardless since the service is good.  I wonder how that’ll…

I was thinking about the Polestar 2 (and Ford, and Rivian) the other day. As appealing as the Model Y is from a performance perspective; would I rather buy a Ford/Rivian/Polestar instead because it has close-enough specs; but with better reliability? It’ll be interesting if the China-built Polestar 2 has significantly …

They’re so alike, sometimes it’s hard to tell at first glance. But regardless, the allegations stands that it’s just taking another rolling stock and it’s pretending it’s new