My first thought? "Bad math and exaggeration." If it is "up to 50" cars per day, they can't be there "literally every five minutes." If it is 50 cars in a day (the max - "up to" 50), that would be an average of one car every 28.8 minutes. That's still a lot of cars being stupid, I suppose, but the problem is not as bad as it is purported to be. I do find it shocking though that Waymo wouldn't notice that its cars repeatedly get bamboozled by the same dead end. Tracking unexpected obstacles and forced turn-arounds should be very high on the list of what they're doing at this point in their development. Clearly this is a mapping error but their autonomous system absolutely should be learning, and they should be monitoring for problems like this.

Yeah. So Google tracks everything I do and cooperates with all sorts of questionable government activities. Now they acknowledge that I'm "at risk" and I'm supposed to trust THEM? Pass.

He should at least understand that you can't make investments fit into an arbitrary timeframe (he got impatient with bitcoin), and buying high and selling low is dumb (what he did). It isn't Bitcoin's fault this joker spent five minutes a day watching prices but never did any real research before investing $200 million in something he admits he didn't understand. That's some seriously `irresponsible investing, and he seems salty about it.

Lordstown Motors Endurance is supposed to start at $52,500 and just last month they said sales should begin "late next summer." It didn't make the list but it might end up being the first electric pickup to market. And they've promised not to use any leftover parts from the Chevy Cruze, which was the last thing built at the Lordstown factory before GM packed up and left, haha. They should be quick to market because they took over a site that was easy to convert and had existing infrastructure, and there was an experienced workforce in the area (who were largely unemployed - thanks GM!).

That's great, but that isn't what they're talking about here - they said Raptor then switched to some diesel model. An 850-mile range diesel Raptor isn't even planned, as far as I know.

Yeah, someone is clearly mixing and matching stats. Besides, 850 miles on diesel means probably 30-35 gallons or more of fuel, which will cost a heck of a lot more than the juice to drive an EV that far. Gas and diesel pickups certainly still have some favorable traits, like the continuous range and quick refueling virtually anywhere, but a Raptor or average F-150 isn't going 850 miles on one tank. To be fair, the 0-60 times some of the EV companies are claiming seem both ambitious and unnecessary. I'd gladly take 7 seconds and less horsepower if they could get to 400-500 miles of range (though I know that isn't how that trade-off works with electric motors).

Well, yes, powerful cars are especially dangerous on ice if you drive them like a fool, they're RWD or even FWD, don't have traction control, and don't have winter tires. But ice is a dangerous condition for all cars, since if you lose all traction it doesn't matter how much power or how many drive wheels you have or don't have - that car isn't going to stop or steer.

AWD and 4WD are a huge help in winter weather, and we get plenty of snow here. Not sure about the others listed, but the base Tesla is 2WD. My AWD Subaru does very well and is usually quite predictable even on mediocre all-season tires. Proper winter tires and knowing how to handle a car also make huge differences. The most confidence-inspiring 2WD car I ever drove in the winter was a moded Mazda RX-7 with a high power to weight ratio. It was perfectly balanced, I knew what it could do, and I had good dedicated winter tires on it, so it was always predictable even though it was fast and RWD. Now I park my RWD 3-series for most of the winter though and definitely only drive the Subie on snow or ice, because I can.

What about the Lordstown Endurance? They're calling it a 2021 model (we'll see) and say it will start at $52,500 with 600hp and 250 miles of range. Looks like a pretty traditional pickup (albeit a slick one) designed for typical pickup truck owners, not a stat queen or gimmicky toy. I'm biased because it's built 25 miles from me and I want the company to succeed, but it definitely should be worth a look, at least. Union-built, too.

Nonsense. You can if you know how to fold it correctly. You just have to think outside of the box.

In relation to our understanding of the universe, we have no clue or concept of anything that might exist outside of our universe, as we can not observe that, so we can't even begin to understand whether there might be anything bigger or its scale. And as far as our notion of reality, we have a similar perspective problem, since we really have only one data point for life-bearing planets and intelligent civilizations, meaning we can't possibly say there is nothing else out there, especially something very different than what we are accustomed to.

I love questions about the nature of our reality, and those that relate to our fundamental concepts of the universe and cosmology. But I also can't say you're wrong if you think these questions are pointless because they are unanswerable.

If we remember that any sufficiently advanced technology (beyond our understanding) is essentially indistinguishable from magic, then it becomes clear that our universe, or our reality, could indeed be a simulation. We continue to ask if computers or AI can become conscious though, so if our reality is indeed created or manipulated by some other type of beings, perhaps we will one day confirm that, and maybe we'll even escape their box. Surely they've thought of this possibility (unfortunately for us), so that having some sort of kill switch to shut us down should we become a threat would be extremely prudent.

Where da hydroxychloroquine and da Lysol at?
And if we could, say, explode a nuclear bomb far enough away from Trump that he could survive, would it cure him? "What the hell do you have to lose? Try it!"

I'm mainly just interested in one question we'll never get an answer to: how many people did this clown transmit the virus *to* by not wearing a mask?

I'll take it, period.

Because CHINA plague. Fortunately the President Of America is very Smart and a Good Businessman, while the Crooked Liberal Media and Sleepy Joe treet him very UNFAIRLY. SAD!

Well, we should all be growing our own weed, but you're right - some of the worst parts about hard drugs are how or from whom users acquire them, and everything that takes place in the clandestine distribution chain. Eliminate the black market, or at least minimize it, and you'll save numerous lives. I'm not sure methamphetamine, fentanyl, and dangerous things like that should be legal, but forcing would-be users to buy form shady back alley street dealers is criminal in and of itself. The most dangerous thing about illegal drugs is their legal status.