Slavery was once common, therefore we should forever have monuments honoring slave owners that only exist because a bunch of white people got mad they couldn’t own black people anymore. - ThatVanGuy

Always wondered about these guys. Namely how is it I can go online and watch two drunk strangers beating the hell out of one another in 4K sharp enough to count the number of teeth flying out of a looping haymaker and yet you guys can’t seem to take a even quality picture of our supposed visitors/leaders/farmers…

Yeah, I’m way more happy to hear these people focus these theories on stuff like UFOs, Bigfoot, The Lochness Monster, etc. than having to hear yet another tirade from someone about shadow governments, Big Brother, and the Giant Global Conspiracy™.

So these whales have sunk the boats, sending people into the water...and none of those people have been injured or killed by the whales. Curious.

I loved the videos from a story ~6 months ago where the bears open the car doors, driver and passenger side, rummage through the food, and actually stopped to close the one car door when they were done! (The young bear left the passenger side open. Still learning, I guess.)

Yeah, “accidentally”. Just like Clarkson “accidentally” pissed off those folks in Argentina...

Plus, the space station actually has way more interior space than that plane does. It even has specially designed exercise equipment so that the astronauts don’t suffer the atrophying aspects of living in space. Compared to that Cessna, the ISS is a mansion.

This actually came to mind this morning as I was getting out of a VW dealer’s loaner Atlas. When turning the engine off, the screeen beeps and asks if the vehicle is empty. Something to consider with a 7 year-old child who has been known to fall asleep in the third row. This is a standard feature that should be on…

This is why PTO and parental leave are so important.

fuck, you’re right. I was loading up some half-baked and non-caffeinated rant about negligence, but you’re 100% right. 

It’s easy for non-parents to dismiss it as bad parenting. Because they haven’t experienced the hell of going years without sleep.  Sleep deprivation can really mess with your head.

What’s the worst that can happen if it does? You get annoyed? OR someone sees the alert, goes out to check their car, and finds their kid asleep in a vehicle that’s quickly heating up.

Let’s pull our heads out of our asses on this one — that feature could save lives and should be implemented.

Overworked, over stressed, mind filled with things you have to get done when you’re in a 60 hour work-week deadline crunch - I’m not ashamed to admit I have forgotten my kid in the car although briefly (less than 10 minutes but yes, that alone could’ve been fatal in the wrong weather) but when I realized what I did -…

Indeed. One may think of this in terms of easy stereotypes (a parent going into a casino or a drug den or something) but it happens to smart people (one was a scientist), the very image of caring people (a social services worker on each coast). and mostly just everyday folks who proved human and fallible at the worst…

It WOULD take a highly advanced AI to figure out how to get out of the Kinja Greys...

Yup. A lot of times it happens when you are doing something different than your routine. Suppose everyday your wife drives the baby to the sitter. One day your wife asks you to take the baby. It’s easy for you to autopilot straight to the office and forget about the baby in the back.

How hard is it for manufacturers to implement some sort of warning to the drivers? A motion/sound detector that will send an alert to the drivers phone after a few minutes of constant movement/sound that way it doesn’t send alerts if something falls in the backseat or an ambulance goes by. It really shouldn’t be that…

Gotta be the OG: Introduced in April 17, 1964 at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY. Sold 400k units in the first year, 1 million units in the 18 months after launch, and almost 3 million units from 1964-73 for the first generation. It's the best-selling Mustang of all time.

I was just in Vancouver. That place is all of sudden crawling with Rivians. They’re not a Tesla-ubiquity levels yet, but there are a bunch of them. 

True. I like the early 2000s Vanquish as well. I’d say the DB9/S rear aged better than the Vanquish’s did, but the Vanquish front 3/4 aged best. But I hear the DBS is an easier car to live with so thats my dream “exotic” car in a 2 car garage.