Wow, are you off-base. I neither hate nor objectify women. And why do you assume "nudity" implies "female nudity"? What's wrong with nude guys?

I don't think nudity per se is a problem as long as it doesn't objectify or degrade anyone. It's perfectly harmless. Even depictions of sex, IMO, are quite harmless unless the depiction exploitative, degrading or violent.

Nude != Sex. That's a false equivalency you're raising there.

I ragged on them for using inadequately tested components. Part of their secret sauce is their test program. It's not saucy enough.

That doesn't mean the ol' Musketeer won't experience some setbacks on his path to Mars. What they're trying to do is also difficult. I think it's also more worthwhile. Time should tell.

Right, you've almost got it. Very very close.

Look, where did hip-hop come from? It came from the music programs getting shut down which affected black students before it affected white ones because there was more money to wring out of parents and communities in white neighborhoods — due to the weight of history, and public policy. So "that's not music!" came from being too cheap to have decent education in the poorest neighborhoods. But moreover, the majority of advertising which is targeted at anyone is designed to make them unhappy. The companies that spend the most to make people feel good are car companies, which also spend a lot of money to make people unhappy — but about half of their advertising actually targets their current customers, and is intended to make them feel good about their past purchases that they're living with today, in the hope of avoiding a negative association.

So yeah, actually, you make money by making people feel bad. By tricking them into buying your shit. Anything they actually need sells itself; these days there's google, these days there's siri, these days there's amazon and ebay and etsy, barring someone trying to trick them into buying something they don't want, they'll find you if you take the least effort to make yourself available. Most advertising is designed to make people feel inadequate if they don't have a product.

When hip-hop was new, they didn't have their own labels. Today a black artist can make music on a black label and sell it to black and white people alike without any trouble; back then, virtually all the labels were owned by old wrinkly white men who pocketed all the money. But moreover, it was these old white guys decided which black artists were going to get a record contract. It wasn't [necessarily] based on what would scientifically sell, it was based on white prejudice — which artists were signed, how much money was spent promoting them. More money was spent promoting gangsta rap than socially conscious music. But that's a relatively minor way in which racial prejudice influenced black culture. The influence of the news media is far larger. And even they had massive influence on black music; do you think there's more evening news eyeballs for KRS-One talking about social progress, or for 2 Live Crew rapping about S&M, and/or eating ass? And do you think the nightly news gives a shit about reporting the spectrum of what is newsworthy, or just about attracting eyeballs?

Luckily, television is fading away, albeit slowwwwwly. We'll be getting more news from the internet, and so there's more chances for less-entrenched media to capture eyeballs as long as people are in the habit of going to search engines for their information. The proliferation of mobile internet use has surely driven this trend forward, through voice interaction going to keyword searches.

Hey, I'd be happy if you had to report facts in order to be called news.

Anyway, nowhere have I alleged some unified conspiracy to "keep down the darkie", etc. It's just about not enough substantive effort to check the momentum of the past. It's a big job; racism didn't begin in America. Slavery didn't begin in America, although we clearly did maintain the institution well beyond the limits of good taste. But now (ha ha, "now", like it's not damned late) it's [past] time to take substantive action to correct the institutional racism which constitutes ongoing unfair abuse of humans along racial lines. If most of the money is still in white hands, and the money buys the laws, and controls the cops, and the laws and the cops are still unfair to black people, who do you blame? The black people who don't have enough money to buy their own laws?

Is that a new series from Piers Anthony? No, wait, you didn't say pre-teen androids

Or we could even come up with a system that works the way ours works without even understanding that this is how our system works as well... and maybe apply that information and learn something about ourselves. I was hoping that sentence would be a lot more coherent, but I'm not going to edit it now. First espresso in a while.

You mean, program your sex robot in bytecode?

There's nothing subtle or immeasurable about blacks being more highly targeted by law enforcement, courts, and the penal system than whites, and this leading to a general downward spiral in their quality of life; or in how blacks were property, and then were effectively prohibited from owning property, for a massive slice of the duration of the history of the nation. (Hence this proclamation of agitation? In b4 masturbation.) This leads to being penalized in any capitalist society. When capital controls the means of production, and whites control the capital, then blacks will suffer and nobody should be surprised. You can follow the money, that's the one good thing about capitalism. You can figure out who to burn and impale on pitchforks.

The F-Series is the world's second most popular vehicle, and the world's most popular truck, both historically as well as right now. Chevy trucks are well-reputed both far and wide. Now Dodge... I don't know what they're going to do now that Nissan is getting Cummins diesels. That was kind of the last reason to buy a Dodge Ram. But in general, the US light truck strategy has been highly successful.

Ummm... wtf? Actually, religiosity in the US is correlated with teen pregnancy rates.

Top 10 states by percentage identifying as "very religious" are Mississippi, Utah, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and Oklahoma.

Top 10 states by teen pregnancy rates are: New Mexico, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nevada, Delaware, South Carolina and Hawaii.

So 5 of the top 10 religious states are also in the top 10 for teen pregnancy.

Now please cite studies showing that "bombarding children with sexuality" (whatever that means) causes teen pregnancy,

it costs more to stock multiple gauges of steel, let alone to build different bodies. normally they just have one body with variations, and the chassis vary significantly. But in some years, the F-Super-Duty is just literally a F250 or F350 (depending on year) with a single-I-Beam front suspension and a frame stiffener bar.

Same platform, different shocks and plastic. But the EVs just tend to have a more solid ride than other vehicles in their class because they're heavier. The price they pay is handling. As good as some of those cars handle, they could handle even better if they didn't have to carry around the excess weight.

The easiest thing to retrofit into existing vehicles will be 1-2 motors. You can eliminate the engine, transmission, and transfer case by using two motors. That's a big win all by itself. Mounting the two motors side by side in the space formerly occupied by the transfer case should be simple. There's lots of places batteries can go, I'd spread them out quite a bit throughout a truck.

However, you're still going to need a CV or similar, to keep your motors off of the suspension arms...

No, no they don't. In most cases, the cabs are the same between 1/2, 3/4, and 1-ton trucks; sometimes they offer longer cabs exclusive to 1-ton models; often the full 4-door model is only available that way. But they're made out of the same stuff as the cars, let alone the lighter trucks.

The primary difference in whether steel vehicles rust away is the galvanizing, second is probably paint, and third is where they're run and fourth is whether you wash the undercarriage if you live someplace where that is necessary. Even in California, most of the 240Zs and Nissan hardbody PUs have rusted away. But my 1992 F250 has only surface rust, absolutely no rust-throughs. My grandfather's 1971 F100 only had one rust-through on the side of the bed where it was thickest, and a bunch of rust in the cab drip rail.

That works even without a valid cellular subscription, though.