As someone who’s extremely left leaning, it’s so goddamn infuriating, because there are so many pro-gun Dem leaning voters that wind up voting ® down the ticket, almost solely because the Democratic candidate went on an idiotic speech about AK-15s and their 30 caliber per second clipazines. It’s not like the anti-gun Dems they’re pandering to are going to vote Republican because the Democratic candidate said nothing about guns during their campaign.

It’s literally one single issue that the Dems could just not say a word about. Literally, no work involved. No campaigning, canvassing, or fundraising. Just don’t bring it up, and it would massively improve their odds in some of the most critical swing states. But no, they just have to virtue signal to the areas that are basically ultramarine blue, and it fucks them over every goddamn time.

I adore Fury Road, and re-watched it the night after seeing Furiosa, and it’s definitely the far superior film. That being said, Furiosa is alright for what it is. It has far more plot and dialog, which I really don’t think was needed given what they managed with Fury Road, but was decently well written and fun enough.

It definitely lacked a lot of the stronger feminist themes of Fury Road, which is honestly pretty funny given they’re almost 10 years apart. I’m 100% sure if they came out in the opposite order, Fury Road would be heavily criticized now for being “too woke” compared to Furiosa.

It’s pretty uncommon though. Aviation uses far, far more leaded fuel than classic cars.

Getting hardened seats isn’t really all that expensive either. I took the head off my MG and a shop only charged me about $300 for a full teardown and rebuild of the head, including all the machining and installation of hardened seats. It’s way cheaper in the long run than having to add a lead substitute every fill-up

I mean, you can’t just not tell us some of the top-10

Also, check your local library, as they likely have a subscription you can use!

This had an interesting part in Westworld, where at one point they go to a big database of minds that have been “backed up” in a sense, and they’re fairly simple “code books” that define basically all of the behaviors of a person. The first couple seasons have some really cool ideas on how consciousness is formed, even if the later seasons kind of fell apart IMO

I don’t think it’s necessarily bleak or selfish though, it might just be overly succinct. Sure, you can look at it as wanting power purely for selfish reasons, but I think they just boiled it down to the most basic aspect of “more responsibilities = more power = the ability to do more”. You can use it however you want, hopefully altruistically, but at the end of the day a pure altruist who is well connected person with unlimited financial resources can help a lot more people than if they were broke and destitute on the edge of starvation.

No, Dumb and Dumberer is not the same as Dumb and Dumber To (2). The latter is actually the “true” sequel, as it actually stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, and is singlehandedly the most painful and cringey movie I’ve ever had the displeasure of sitting most of the way through. The humor went way, way too hard into “gross out” territory. I walked out when they had the scene of Jeff Daniels having his memories broadcast and show a dog licking peanut butter off his junk to a TED talk audience.

I like stupid humor, and I can do gross-out and cringe just fine. I love stuff like the “Scary Movie” franchise, so it’s not like I’m above enjoying dumb humor, but JFC that movie just had some of the meanest and cringiest humor I’ve seen and it was just way too much for me to bear.

The “must be portrayed as the good guys” thing hasn’t been the case for a long time. However, I’m sure it would make it a lot harder to get them to give you equipment for your next movie.

Imagine you’re already terrified of the dentist, and then the ice skate dentistry scene comes up. Yeah, I can definitely see peoe walking out because of that scene.

It was so hard to watch, even just on the TV as background noise. It took my wife and I 3 different attempts in the same day to try and watch it, and we never spent more than 10 minutes on the couch before we got up and started doing something else. My wife has a much higher tolerance for the more recent mediocre MCU movies, but even she wasn’t able to watch it.

Yup. Remade a couple of years ago as “The Suicide Squad”. Haven’t seen it, but heard it’s pretty decent

Because it grabs attention and sounds scary, which really what media outlets care about. My other favorite is when they talk about someone having being caught with “hundreds of rounds of ammunition”, which clearly indicates that’s how many people they were planning on murdering, and isn’t just a pretty typical range day, or in the case of reallly common stuff like 9mm, 22LR, or even 223, can literally be a single box of ammo.

But that really makes no sense. Unless you have them all set up in a row pointed exactly where you want, you’re probably not even saving half a second vs reloading. The old “switching is faster than reloading” thing doesn’t apply nearly as much when you’re at a static position and can have all your mags out in the open at arm’s reach.

One pedal braking makes this a bit tricky for people who are not used to it and/or panicking. You spend decades of your life having a seperate “go” and “stop” pedal, and then suddenly they’re the same one. You have your foot over the accelerator, lift a bit and feel the deceleration as if you’re pressing the brake.

Suddenly, something darts behind you, and your brain says “I’m feeling deceleration, so your foot is on the pedal that stops things” and you slam on it like you would the brake pedal. I’ve done it with the clutch/brake after hopping back and forth between a manual and automatic a few dozen times after a very long day of vehicle testing. Muscle memory is a powerful thing and your brain’s mental model of the world is not always correct.

Good thing Teslas are known to not leak at all

Working in the industry on these technologies, this is a horrible idea. I’ve driven vehicles that already have it, and it’s nice when it’s optional, but would legitimately be a hazard if it was on all the time.

What happens when it’s dark and/or rainy, and it reads the 45MPH sign on the side road you were on, but misses the 70MPH sign when you’re actually on the highway? It limits your ability to actually accelerate to the flow of traffic as well, since it generally won’t change the speed until after you pass it. Or even better, you’re doing 70 and it catches a 35MPH on a side road adjacent to the highway? What happens if you just cover the camera and it can’t read anything? Does the car just go into limp mode and limit you to 25MPH?

This isn’t a hypothetical, I see it happen very, very regularly in even the best systems available. They also probably won’t work for the lighted school zone speed limit signs by me, or the express lane type signs.

Map based also eliminates school and construction zones, which is where you want this most,

All of them? Absolutely not. The problem of these shitbags being armed and wanting to use them to install a dictatorship? Yeah, being on somewhat equal footing of arms definitely helps.

I can tell you that nothing has changed about him. I personally know people who worked with him at that time, and he was just as much an arrogant and insufferable egoist as he is now. Legendary screaming matches and him talking completely out of his ass about absolutely everything were the norm and expected in every meeting.

Do any research on his tenure at Zip2/PayPal or any relationship he’s ever had, and you’ll see Musk has always been a petulant child, he just had a lot of people around him to try and hide it, but it seems like he’s scared basically all of them away.