I have too little data to opine about other ways in which you may be an idiot, but your kids are wrong here - the first movie was just called ‘Star Wars’ there was no ‘A New Hope” in the title or the crawl or marketing or even in Lucas’s imagination, he had his reasons, but inserting “A New Hope” into the re-releases’…

I have a 50+ mile M-F commute and live where it rains some of the time and winter can include below freezing temps one and off for a few months. If - as a lot of EV owners claim, range in those conditions can be 50-60% of claimed range, then only the Kia and Tesla have enough range for me to not have to worry on…

I suspect if driver/passenger survival were a very high priority, this vehicle wouldn’t currently be in Michigan.

“No infrastructure for production” is what everyone said about Tesla too. Not that they were wrong, but Tesla proved that with enough money one can build whatever infrastructure they need. No supplier for the kinds of batteries they wanted to use? No problem, build the world’s largest lithium ion battery manufacturing…

The whole self-driving car ‘game’ is just that, a game, or a con. Google is developing self-driving cars so they can get people to pay for camera equipped vehicles whose camera feeds Google will be able to tap into and use the video to keep google streetview more up to date without Google having to fund their fleets…

Pretty sure if Bloomberg doesn’t actually deliver on the guac promise he could be sued.  Not that it would matter, given his wealth, but maybe if we all ask for guac and file a class-action lawsuit?

I’ve always given this possibility as the primary reason why anyone who lives alone should not own pets. 

If the school doesn’t expel kids for having Lisa Frank merch, then they are gross (im)moral hypocrites.     haha, just kidding, anyone who would expel a kid from school because their cake is rainbow-themed is clearly insane.

i hope everything trump has done will stick to him like crazy glue for the rest of his life, including all the events he has sanctioned leading up to an including the whole Ukraine debacle, but objectively, a handwritten note on a napkin by a shady operative saying that a 2nd person’s actions are approved by a 3rd…

to be fair, most of them never have the benefit of living a normal life where you have to interact and learn to relate to people who aren’t in the same business/social-strata/world.

There’s a lot of ‘what to do if you are arrested’ advice articles online, and the one thing they all agree on is do NOT answer any questions/talk to police without your lawyer present.

Not talking is the simplest course of action because if you don’t talk to police, you don’t have to wonder whether they are telling…

I treat police the same as anyone else I don’t know who tells me something. I don’t assume they are lying, but I also don’t assume they are telling the truth. My world view isn’t overly detailed or complicated, but it doesn’t allow for sweeping generalities like “people always tell the truth” or “police always lie”.

at least according to NPR, providence hit 70, high temp in boston was 74.

74 in boston. on january 12th. wth.

hope there’s a setting to turn off the non-screen-saveresque apps on the eInk display so everyone sitting at your coffee shop isn’t reading your calendar and emails on the lid of your laptop as you type away on the primary screen.

i want to give you more stars. many more stars.

So your advice is “If you don’t like decisions the developers make then don’t buy the games, and their bottomline will suffer and they will make different decisions, but don’t say anything publicly about why you don’t agree with their decisions?” Because I guess you think companies will magically know why people…

Given how straightforward the analogy seems, maybe the headline should be changed to the more accurate “Gizmodo writer confused about Lord of the Rings analogy”?

talk about too many streaming services, apparently there are too many search engine services as well. i first read ‘binging’ in the phrase ‘binging superpowers’ in the headline as a weird new adjective to describe MS Bing-like searching superpowers. needless to say, I was confused.

In a perfect world, yes, but if the company goes under, someone is going to buy up the company’s assets - which would include all the vehicles being rented. Don’t know if whoever picks up the pieces could legally change the terms of the lease, but I am sure they would if it’s legal.

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