Rory,

I mean, you were drinking coffee in someone else’s $200K car with leather? In the twisties? I will never understand folk’s need to have a beverage to hand in all situations.

The staff here was introduced to the new system yesterday and it’s pretty cool. The big advantage for us is that we have more control over how and where stories appear on the site, stories don’t just get pushed off the homepage as new ones appear. All the little content blocks you see on the site are modular and…

Yup- still impossible to get through any story that contains more than a couple photos that need to be loaded, along with the 27 ads. (And yes, I once counted 27 ads in one story- it took about 8 page reloads to actually get through the story to count all 27). 

you may have noticed some of our sister sites have been given a similar treatment over the last few months

Fail - still unusable on my phone from all the ads. You could just rename the site Taboola at this point. I doubt they’d mind since they are 90% of the content on each page.

Yeah - my keen sense of financial matters tells me that when you sell your house to pay your debts, things aren’t going so hot.

Was going to say, “who would buy this?” But sell and lease back makes some sense, although I don’t see how long term it makes sense. Sounds like they need liquidity to service debt or for R&D. I would say it isn’t a great sign, at the very least.

Donut Media kills brain cells. I submit your comment as evidence. 

Honestly, after watching the Grand Tour with the old boys vs the new cast with Chris Harris, I find Jeremy Clarkson so tiresome. It’s still entertaining but something about Clarkson playing a douche bag AND actually being a colossal one in real life makes it not as entertaining. 

I’m sure there will be a bunch of comments here shitting on Top Gear but I think if you haven't given this current lineup a chance you should. Freddie, Chris and Paddy have a good rapport and bring a little more youthful energy to the show that it really needed. It feels far enough removed from Clarkson, Hammond and…

fortunately I, Elon Musk, am not the litigious sort. 

Please submit your resume. 

I think there was an article about how police shouldn’t enforce traffic laws, but it didn’t say to end enforcement altogether- rather, it should fall to civilian traffic enforcement officers.

Having someone (or something like a camera or a sexy robot) other than armed police performing traffic stops isn’t abandoning enforcing traffic laws.

If they’d stop measuring the cars speed, there wouldn’t be as many speeding tickets.

Well, that didn’t take long.

They should remove the national anthem entirely. 

bUt MAh fReEduMZZZ!

I’m guessing you haven’t seen what the typical Sturgis attendee looks like if you think they still have grandparents.