I’m so jealous of your adventure island.

I don’t know if they’re a dead end - if you could snap your fingers and create a process for $2.50/gallon algae-derived gasoline with no net carbon output, you’d be a very rich person overnight. Assuming you could scale it up quickly and produce diesel for trucks and ships too, you might even solve climate change.…

If I broke a bone, needed a nonemergency surgery or got in an accident right now, I would be unable to access timely medical care because the unvaccinated have used up ~200% of our regular hospital capacity (Alberta). People are going without organ transplants, cancer surgeries, and more because of them. And that’s…

The amount extra you pay in state taxes pales compared to the savings on cost of living. Paying $5k/mth for a shoebox apartment in the Bay Area when you could own a McMansion in Austin is a big deal.

You joke about the 2 cupholders, but Kimi would probably prefer cupholders to his always-unreliable drinks system.

I find it’s the total opposite of your meme - by year 4 after a major reg change, everyone has optimized their car to the point that the pecking order is very well known and consistent.

Based on the proportions (especially from the rear), I’m glad that minivans are officially back in style. They just need re-invent and re-brand the sliding doors now.

Shitty teams don’t generate money, so Mazepin’s big-bucks Russian oligarch daddy is precisely why he’s racing.

This will hopefully be a more successful experiment next year with the aero changes to support overtaking.

The problem for me with “how was your day?” is that you’re putting no effort into the question, and putting all the effort on the askee to compile a narrative on the spot.  Ask a no-effort question, and you’ll get a no-effort response like “fine”.

Tesla’s in-depth single-variable regression: is autopilot on? or is it off?

Fortunately (err.. “fortunately”?) Tesla ditched their dependence on radar earlier this year. So if the car in the article was running the latest software, it’d would’ve been optical-only.

Max, George, and Leclerc are all 23, and Lando is only 2 years younger.  They’re probably going to provide a core for the next 15 years.

I enjoyed Vettel being driver, race director, commentator, and medical car in the same half lap.

If it has the same motor mount positions, it becomes physically easy to put in any compatible car made in the last 100 years. This is for EV conversion projects.

I guess if it’s a wall you really dislike or think might need scorch marks, I guess.

Republicans are _generally_ fine with NASA - it supports their defense-contractor buddies, supports high-paying jobs in red states like Texas, Alabama, and Florida, and occasionally revs up a good round of flag-waving that can be exploited if they’re in power at the time. If you watch the NASA budget against who was…

I wouldn’t say we mastered it - it was way too expensive, only supported 3-day missions, and that entire Saturn V launch stack from top to bottom was thrown away each time. If your car only makes one trip before blowing its engine, you wouldn’t say its maker mastered making cars.

While they’re playing with formats, I’m hoping for one-lap qualifying at Monaco (or as a YouTuber suggested, one-lap qualifying in Q3 at Monaco).

This is why picking a common word for the AV division you’re hoping will conquer the future may have been a bad idea.