1 guy and 9 out-of-State activists shut down a planned Micron fab in New York.

Here's a video of it. Sounds like AI put it together, but whatever. It's a real thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What're you, my wife? I think you're in the wrong forum. Nothing is nerdier than dangling wires.

I put a 3.5 in my dash but have been having a hell of a time finding floppy discs to put in there.

Oil companies don't get subsidies. I don't know who decided that this one industry should be required to cover externalities, and that they could call it a subsidy if they weren't, but they were full of crap. It implies a rule that doesn't exist, and calls something a subsidy despite not meeting the definition in any way.

A subsidy is when the government gives a business money to cover costs. Nothing else.

Looks like the bed size is at least average for the size of the truck. A little bigger than a Maverick's or an '82 S-10's.

There's a discussion about it with photos on Slate's forums - https://www.slateforums.com/fo...

Really? Hey, want to throw me $1800 so I can get my wife's car fixed?

Did that asinine bit of legislation become a damn law? Ugh. "Let's make ever car more expensive! The people will love that, it's good for them."

Pricks.

I don't understand the decision to put a phone in your back pocket. That just seems like a recipe for disaster. And a boon to pickpockets. Butt, I never put anything in my back pockets, so maybe I'm the weird one. I don't think so though.

Actually... are you a lady? You don't write like one, but most of the people I see with phones in their back pocket are women. Including my wife. Although this may just mean I'm more likely to look at lady butts than man butts.

The torque is helpful; the weight is not. Driving a heavy truck through mud, or even a lawn after heavy rain, is not entirely wise. There are some heartbreaking ruts in my yard that attest to this. Also, every pound of truck-weight is a pound it can't haul.

Not really. That'd be cutting off your nose to spite your face. Bezos has done things that upset me, but the CCP is far worse than he could ever be. I'd rather my money go to another American then a pack of genocidal slavers, no matter who that American is. At least the money stays here instead of going there.

No. Why should we allow unfair competition into our market? Chinese auto prices are artificially low so they can drive competitors out of the market and then raise prices. Screw that. Don't do our competitors any favors, especially those that would hurt Americans.

Most of those cars were not so tall though, and you could see out of them. If there is a 7 year old standing in front of your 70's GM A-body you can see them.

Belt-lines in cars got really high because that is how you achieve that roll over safety rating.

As a driver I hate that every sedan and SUV has these super high belt lines and wide as my head A-pillars now. Every time I get in my 80s classic on the weekend it reminds me how much my visibility is in fact impaired in my daily.

Do and realistically am I much safer in my 2020's car - yes, do I also belive I am more likely to be involved in some for of accident because I can't see as much also yes.

Most common case country T intersection with yield on one road and no stops. (Probably the most dangerous type of intersection) There will be a 30 yard long space along the perpendicular road, that is a blind spot because of that thick pillar. Obviously that leads to the only safe driving practice being, be slow enough to come to a complete stop at the intersection until you are near enough to see completely down the road looking over your shoulder. Which by extension forces you to approach quite slowly or subject you and your passengers to uncomfortably short stops, should there be another vehicle approaching.

Meanwhile in the vintage car with A-pilars just bulky enough to hold up the roof, there basically isn't a blind spot large enough to conceal a vehicle or cyclist for any period of time, so they will be detected on the second look if not the first, and you able to see for miles down the perpendicular road over top of the soy beans..

Modern cars kind of suck for driving..

There are ethical questions here thought.

Some might argue that as the purchaser the vehicle owes its safety optimizations toward those owners/operators. You bought the machine the best product should do what you ostensibly would want it to, and that is safely transport you and yours wherever you are going.

Others might say we operate cars/trucks in public space some of which belonged to pedestrians first and buying a car does not confer upon you some right to impose safety risks on them.

I would argue that we are car-centric society. We have 100 years of social decisions that went for the automobile, the default policy position on subjects related to automobiles should go in favor of automobiles and their owners/users until we have had a broader debate on if the collective we "General Welfare" remember *want* a society/economy built less around the automobile.