Danny Go is so weird because it sets off all of my kids slop sensors but it’s actually pretty decent. Gets the kids moving, it’s generally fine content wise, doesn’t overdo the cuts between shots or have too much going on on screen to destroy the kids’ attention span, but my gosh its stylized like so many slop channels I have to double-take every time

OH IVE GOT A MOUTHFUL OF CRAAAAABS

The last 5-10 years have been primarily reacting to buyers (and choosing not to market sedans more) but there was a specific concerted push to change market opinions toward SUVs and SUV-like vehicles, so I’m inclined to instead blame marketing with a healthy sprinkling of availability.

The last time I bought a sedan I really had to go out of my way to find the only one on the lot that happened to be in my budget and in my desired age/mileage/mechanical shape, and I happened to test drive all 5 sedans that they had on that lot. If I were indifferent towards the body/chasis style I probably never would’ve looked at the sedans just by pure math of there being easily a hundred or more SUVs, a smattering of trucks and vans and that was about it

Maybe just a quick way to fill a gap that had formed between the frame and the glass?

Damn straight for the jugular with that list!

This is exactly what I’ve been thinking about the whole satellite internet constellations that are getting launched. If governments required interoperability and open access to any network of…say 10 or more satellites we wouldn’t have 3 or 4 or 5 incompatible swarms of thousands of satellites crowding low earth orbit and threatening kessler syndrome. We could setup one global satellite internet solution and have competition on the ground for who your connection goes through while it all operates on shared infrastructure.

And instead of taking an approach to actually help fix the problem the EU is just making it worse by encouraging yet another incompatible constellation of hundreds or thousands of satellites to make LEO even more crowded?!

I also like Australia’s increasing tax on cigarettes which directly funds the national health service. Make it so it’ll get so expensive that you might as well quit sooner than later because you can’t afford to keep smoking, or for those who choose to keep smoking they can help pay for the cost of their habit up front

People stopped buying sedans because the car industry made a concerted effort to demarket them. They’ve been pushing SUVs for nearly 30 years, trying really hard to get people to stop buying sedans and were too successful. Now there’s a fuel crisis and no sedans in production (from American brands at least) so the manufacturers are getting caught with their pants down again

I do wonder if the fleet market is sufficient to keep both sedans and vans in production, since each makes a very competent fleet vehicle platform for different usecases, see the venerable Crown Victoria for example

Y’know if they hadn’t killed off all of their fuel efficient sedan models they’d have a fuel efficient small car to offer the people shocked by gas prices…

Yeah my wife and I straddle the chicken pox party vs vaccine line. I got the vaccine, my wife just got chicken pox

I recently visited Saskatchewan for a friend’s wedding in a town nearish Saskatoon. Crossing the boarder in North Dakota it was another 8 hours of driving in SK before we reached our destination…which was still in the lowest 1/3 of the province!

There’s another layer of joke to the meme that Midwesterners would rather drive 20 hours than go through all of the trouble of flying or taking a train.

Granted I’ve mostly encountered that sentiment outside of the large cities where to fly or take the train would also involve driving for 2-4 hours then figuring out long term parking and then transfer all of your stuff for the train/flight, endure all of the delays of taking a plane/train and then there’s a solid chance the destination is also car centric as heck so then you have to borrow/rent a car at the destination, and rapidly the cost both monetarily and in time starts making a lot of sense to road trip

On a recent work trip to Atlanta we had an over an hour long Uber ride to go 8 miles…in the suburbs!

The startup costs would be immense, but the cost of getting that material home wouldn’t be as much as you might think given the lower gravity on the moon. The moon’s gravity is low enough you can basically shove all of that material into a rail gun fired at about the right orbit with earth, have it escape the moon’s gravity and get captured by the earths gravity (this sounds dangerous until you remember how much energy is needed to negate the gravity of both the moon and the earth, plus the Earth’s atmosphere. Besides, it works in Kerbal space program!) , then you just need enough delta-v on board for menouvers and to deorbit your freighters. Basically imagine throwing shipping crates of ores in the general direction of earth which get caught by the Earth’s gravity then orbit and drop down at a designated site, and that’s the promise of moon mining!