This is why we have primaries and don’t just let consultants nominate someone the billionaires won’t just step on with a media hurricane. Oh wait.

I mean, I’m glad Mamdani’s in, I just don’t see anything substantive happening to the rest of the dynamic, at least until Elon et al run out of money.

…and the fact that their history is eventually adjudicated in a decaying number series until it is gone forever. Much better that the artists survive more consistently for at least a few skips before diving back into the pool of memory.

American illiberalism (in all of its forms) is very much a deeply-rooted force in US politics, but it is not some inert backdrop...it is constantly being renewed and remade by new generations of rhetorically savvy haters like John Kasper...haters of diversity, haters of equity, haters of inclusion.

You’re not one of them determinists is you?

There is an itch that is scratched every time the bad people do a bad people to each other

Is this a reliable source? International Business Times is a project by a Syung Myung Moon wannabe.

Now, now, some jellyfish are lovely. But not the purple fuckers who sting you and put you in the hospital, or so one is told as a small child to make one afraid to wade in the surf.

Photos of steep hairpin turns don’t really do them justice. Not surprised such a huge vehicle that depends on regenerative braking for every last mile of range has such terrible brakes. This is worn-out 1970 F-100 loaded to the bump stops with firewood kind of shit.

If the grade was really that steep it would of course flip ass over handlebars

That thing weighs as much as an RV and it has really shit brakes for it's size

even if it's "only" 26% and he misspoke that's still a hell of a drop

if he's correct about it being 26 degrees that's more than a 50% grade. your brakes were probably cooked driving that pig on terrain that demanding

Trying to understand why my truck tried to murder me. Hopefully the murder engineers can help me out

Ditto (though not as dangerous) for stuff like rolling down the window. Touch screens instead of knobs and buttons.

Cars should be analog.

:: cackles :: With my truck, if the engine somehow decides to ignore driver input, I can put the transmission in neutral and key off the ignition, and then use either the normal hydraulic brakes or the parking brakes to stop the thing.

yeah, a passenger unfamiliar with the vehicle with hands shaking in terror after a crash and being unable to open the door the normal way with fire building is really going to be able to find and use that

Wtf is this shit

It would be, yeah

This is the achilles heel of all Teslas: you can have the best parts in the world on there but the people building the things are fucking idiots so nothing is gonna work properly

Christians are allowed to say in any environment what they believe with certainty, whereas anyone else can state their beliefs, but in a qualified "this is what I believe" or "As a [blank], I believe."