Nah, see I know that is bullshit because I've been to Outback plenty of times and ain't never seen any damn coral! The Bloomin' Onion is pretty decent, though.

I guess you hadn't heard of a toaster that will list itself for sale if you don't use it often enough.

People have kids for the same reason they play the lottery: because they're terrible at realizing how badly the odds are stacked against them. Big Bang Theory actually said the quiet part out loud and played it for laughs.

It's not really about protecting children though, it's about making adults have to prove they're adults by providing ID.

At least in Florida, I-95 in Jacksonville and Miami is a lotworse. Pretty much the nastiest part of I-4 is by the attractions area and it's really just your typical crawl along and don't rear-end anyone sort of traffic. It's something Tesla's consumer FSD would probably handle just fine.

The main thing that makes that part of I-4 a bit less awful is that you're not traveling through a high density urban area, so aren't a whole lot of on ramps and exits through that area, and most people tend to just stay in their lane and chug slowly along.

That's not what the article actually says though. It sounds like the gas stations are run by someone (or perhaps a group of people) who are willing to lose money to promote Trump. My guess would be that their business holdings are more diversified than just gas stations that sell gas at a loss, and Trump's other policies are making them money.

Though, I wouldn't entirely rule out that they're just rich and stupid. That's always a distinct possibility in this timeline.

Their point was supposed to be "Hur hur it was actually the Biden administration that all happened under!", but there's easily a whole bunch of examples of the current Trump administration suppressing/chilling speech they disagree with, too. Let's see:

The administration has repeatedly targeted late-night hosts such as Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, with Trump personally calling for Kimmel's firing.

The administration has directed federal agencies to eliminate DEI programs and has threatened funding consequences for schools that continue certain diversity or gender-related initiatives.

Shortly after Trump taking office, agencies removed thousands of pages discussing climate change, LGBTQ+ health, gender identity, HIV resources, and related topics from government websites.

The administration has supported efforts by the Department of Transportation to discourage or prohibit decorative crosswalks, including rainbow crosswalks, on roads receiving federal funding, arguing they should contain only standardized traffic markings for safety.

The White House has, at times, declined to respond to reporters who list pronouns in their email signatures or biographies, stating that such reporters cannot be trusted to report objectively.

Except that the average American wouldn't be caught dead in a car that looks like an exhibit from Epcot. It's been known for quite awhile that you can make an extremely efficient vehicle by making it smaller and more aerodynamic, but at the extreme edge of that design philosophy, the vehicles start looking more like a wingless airplane than a car.

As to the solar aspect, what problem are they trying to solve that we couldn't just adequately remedy by running wires to the places people park more traditionally designed EVs? L1 charging is good enough to replenish the same average daily commute's worth of range with most economy-oriented EVs, so what we're really admitting is that it's too much trouble to install some standard 120v outdoor outlets. Then, you can also relocate the solar panels to somewhere where there's more room for additional PV modules and can potentially offset even more electrical usage than an EV typically consumes - such as on the roofs of homes. Now you're riding on sunshine regardless of whether you're plugging in a Ninebot scooter or a Tesla.

People say this, but I was riding with one of my friends awhile back and he stalled out on a green light and I couldn't help but bust out laughing. He'd been driving a standard for years and just had a brain fart. It just seemed hilarious to me because it's an experience I never have driving automatics (and as of the last few years, an EV).

Driving around town, I occasionally see people with standard transmissions rolling backwards or having a hell of a time just trying to keep up with what I consider to be gentle acceleration in my Chevy Bolt. I get that some people might really enjoy that archaic way of operating their vehicle and find the quirks endearing, but personally I prefer the instant responsiveness of an EV - the "go pedal" really just goes.

In an EV, when the traffic slows down, some of your kinetic energy actually gets put back in the "tank" via regenerative braking. I'll take that free refund any day over some nebulous feeling of being more "connected" to the act of driving.

Plus, many modern vehicles now have driver assistance systems that can react much faster than a human anyway.

Anecdotally, no. I had a '19 Versa with the CVT and it was starting to get a bit squirrelly before I traded it in. It wasn't even close to having enough miles to need the tranny fluid changed. It also had those absolutely obnoxious fake shift points, which was another aspect that motivated me to be rid of that car.

I'd venture a guess that the majority of Americans don't love driving, because it's a monotonous chore that was forced upon us by car-centric community designs. We tolerate the endless strings of traffic signals in town and the stop-and-go pace of overcrowded highways because there's no other viable option to get from A to B, not because we enjoy it. Plus, the proposed fix for this situation always continues to be "just add more lanes", because the only thing worse than being stuck in traffic is riding public transportation next to someone who hasn't bathed in a week.

This is entirely why companies like Tesla have been pushing self-driving so hard (even if they've been less than successful at delivering on their promises) - a lot of Americans would gladly pay to nope out of having to deal with the act of driving completely, while still being able to retain their own little personal bubble separating them from the rest of the public while they travel.

I think the OP was going for satire. It's hard to tell these days.

It's not copyright infringement. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, only the specific form an idea takes. This is why, for example, there's many sci-fi seafaring tales, but in space books, TV shows and films.

Heck, I finally got around to watching that Wednesday series on Netflix and they basically did that whole school for exceptional outcasts trope, which is so heavily used that it actually ends up divided into several sub tropes.

Your UID is too low to not be aware that mergers and acquisitions always end in enshittification.