Well, he wanted regime change. At this rate, he might get it, just not in the country he expected.

It’s about time standards and testing procedures came out of the 1970s when they were first established. Better late than never.

Gas is up more than $1/gal since we picked a fight with Iran, but diesel is up $2/gal. Everything we buy rides on a truck at some point, and those extra costs are going to bite us, too.

Contrary to popular belief, streaming has not killed the radio star. This is one of those times I enjoyed learning something new while I write.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

From the Itty Bitty Ducati Committee...

I lived in a cohousing community in Massachusetts for two years. I enjoyed walking to visit friends, and carpooling to the commuter rail station with neighbors who became friends and worked a similar schedule to mine. I like cars, but I'd enjoy not needing one to do everything or get anywhere.

Toyota is still trying to make fuel cells work. The technology got us to the moon (the first time, because I have to make that distinction now), but finding a hydrogen refueling station along the way is nearly impossible. That's why it's really a no-go for commercial trucking.

@jerrysmith6559.bsky.social in my travels today, seeking crosslinks for an article I'm writing, I found this article of yours on Jalopnik. I enjoyed it then, and I enjoy it now.

In my article, I wrote that this photo looks like a screen grab from a modern remake of "Space: 1999." Here's what I mean. 🙂

I spent October 2021 traveling nearly the entire length of Route 66 in my camper van with some friends. My story begins here.

“From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.” -- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot

I learned to drive in one of these.

There are few things that Boston and New York agree on, but this is one of them.

I never thought I'd be living in a time like the 1960s, simultaneously marveling at moon missions and scared of nuclear war.

"What we have here is failure to communicate."

It's because college is not The One True Way. It's certainly one valid way, but the trades have been neglected, and that's why it's so hard to find a good mechanic, electrician, or plumber these days.

Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Not that Boston drivers would notice.

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon

Spontaneous combustion is bad, but Nissan and the battery supplier used telematics data to quickly identify the problem and which cars are affected.

You, too, can peel out in your own opening credit scene. This may even be the same car that did it.

And now, from the unintended consequences department…

Nobody can afford new cars anymore, even the police.

If police are going to detain a suspect in the back of a car, they might want to think about rolling the windows up first.

When the machines rise, this is how they'll get us. It can even walk up stairs, unlike early Dalek models.

I was born after Apollo ended. I never thought I’d see a live moon launch. But here we are.

An increasing number of states are considering the use of speed-limiting devices to rein in drivers who feel the need for speed, and Illinois is the latest to consider such a measure.

I got a new house! Same location but my wife and I will be building out the interior and moving into it ourselves. The delivery process was interesting, to say the least, but all’s well that ends well, and here it sits.

When you drop your car off at the shop, you generally expect to get it back in better condition than you left it, not worse.

No, "clanker balls" are not the genitalia of AI or Trade Federation Battle Droids.

As long as they don't have a warp core breach, the way Federation Starships always seem to.

I love this story. Shoutout to @regularcars.bsky.social and @theromannick.bsky.social bringing it back into the spotlight. The video goes into so much more detail than I had time and space to cover, and I recommend watching it.

If a dissolved company makes a tow in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

I wonder how many people will try this here as the price of gas keeps going up.

This is fine.

You know what would really help in low-visibility conditions? Radar. Tesla, in its infinite wisdom, stopped using it in 2021.

I'll stick to playing @outbrkgame.bsky.social for my own storm chasing, but a 24-hour "build" to chase tornadoes in a Toronado is pretty cool. Hmm, what about adding this car to the game for an extra challenge...?

This guy has clearly seen too many T.J. Hooker reruns.

Well, this isn't disturbing at all, literally changing the words you wrote into something else. I don't need clankers replacing the headlines I work hard on with some AI slop.

You'd think replacement parts for a truck that was less than a year old at the time would be readily available. In this case, you'd sadly be wrong.

You might call it a Hyundai Accident.

It's not quite Scotty's transparent aluminum from Star Trek IV. But in today's volatile political climate, the ability to make structural castings from recycled aluminum, which isn't possible by traditional methods, could be even more important.

Even (or especially) in places without car inspections, it's important to check for a leaky exhaust. It could have deadly consequences.

The GM EV1 was never supposed to be privately owned, and most of them were crushed. This one slipped through the cracks, and GM is giving the restoration team all the help it can.

I was a bit of a nerd in high school, with award-winning science fair projects involving ham radio and model rockets. But I've never discovered even one new space object, let alone 1.5 million.

Contrary to popular belief, this is not a Subaru.

As the law is currently written, the license plate frame the dealer put on my camper van when I bought it could get me arrested because it slightly covers the final E of “Sunshine State.”