That Rey’s parents were nobodies, eh, not exciting & not new. Jedi & Sith didn’t have bloodlines, they came from all over the galaxy already. The Skywalker and, now, the Palpatine family lines having strength in the force is something unusual than the idea of the force users coming from anywhere.

Either way, the environment apparently trumps safety, and VW may still end up paying a lot for its criminal case; not to mention all those lawsuits.

This is a classic bullying tale.

There is no magic number per week. If you look at things that way you’re almost guaranteed to fail. First pay attention to what you’re doing to yourself and then start making small changes. Get used to that and keep making changes and watching how your body responds to them. These changes take months or years to set…

33,000 over 20 years? With how many billions (trillions) of miles traveled and billions of travelers on the roads? That’s essentially nothing, it is so far within the margin of error that it is statistically irrelevant.

Free Market sorting things out is a long view take, the long view is that VW either materially changes or it goes away. The Short view is that stupid people do stupid things and f’ stuff up for everyone involved in the worst way possible (alternatively smart people doing stupid things, or even smart things at the…