I want to be clear about something: I am a hardcare gearhead and car enthusiast, and I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with technological innovations that prevent intoxicated or distracted driving. It can save lives! Just that this specific technology does not work and is not it.

They're actually just Protestants. Hope that helps.

If anyone's curious: this is a closeup of my left eye (my right eye has a similar issue, but not as severe). Note that my eyelid is blocking part of my iris, and thus blocking part of my vision. I've gotten used to this over the years. But this particular tech would keep me from ever driving.

The frustrating thing about this is that this was almost entirely the result of intentional decisions made by both Trump Administrations. Manufacturers were completely on board with advancing EVs until Trump created a Calvinball regulatory market that prevented it from being profitable in the U.S.

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

User was blocked for this post. Look, I understand people are anti-car and I get it, but come the fuck on.

As noted in this thread, a problem with this technology is that it doesn't actually work. Example: because of a medical condition I have, I cannot use GM's SuperCruise highway self-driving system, which uses similar tech, because it thinks I'm not looking at the road and so it shuts itself off.

UNEXPECTED CONNECTIONS ON THIS LIST: Current Yankee Ben Rice has a very real chance to overtake former Yankee Red Rolfe as the greatest baseball player ever who graduated from Dartmouth.

LOL, LMFAO even.

Hey, you know who couldn't do this when he was 41? Michael Jordan, that's who.

Ben Rice's OPS is up to a nice and shiny 1.211.

Easy mistake; he's actually the son of Denzel Washington.

I mean this with all possible sincerity: I would rather die.

This man on the left held the National League single- season home run record until McGwire and Sosa broke it, and still holds the MLB single-season RBI record, with 191 in 1930. At 5'6" he's also one of the shortest center fielders in MLB history.

My senior prom song was My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion, which was the Billboard #1 song 22 years before my son was born. 22 years before I was born, the Billboard #1 song was... well it was the Alvin & the Chipmunks Christmas song, but this was the number one song before that:

There's this whole genre of clickbait where they refuse to actually name the thing they're talking about until 1,000 words into the article, and it's worse than bubonic plague.

Today marks the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the 1916 Easter Rising. #1916Rising

There is now an entire generation of extremely online people too young to know about the greatest reply troll of all time. They're missing out.

I only just now realized that every time I've seen Hasan Piker's name my brain has read it as Mehdi Hasan and I'm only now realizing that these are two different people.

Lenin was a theorist who wrote an extremely interesting economic philosophy treatise that has valuable insight, some of which is praiseworthy. Stalin was a monster. Stop being a Stalin tankie.

One of the best feelings of my professional life: the judge invited a law school class he teaches to watch today's oral argument. After sitting through 3 hours of summary judgment arguments on esoteric FLSA issues, all of the students got up and clapped. Yes, really. (They were not clapping for OC)

Fornit some Fornus.

Ok this is amazing

Aronofsky made banger after banger, including my single favorite movie of all time, but The Whale is inexcusable.

You gotta hand it to Fetty Wap: truth in advertising. Got famous off a song about dealing drugs; just got out of prison after a 4 year sentence for dealing drugs.

A public University cannot teach about the AIDS crisis? How in the world do they expect this to hold up to First Amendment scrutiny?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you're reading over 100 pages of your own briefs to prepare for an oral argument, you will discover a number of typos which is frankly astonishing in light of your belief in yourself as a capable writer.

Granted, the Yankees' bullpen sucks, but that doesn't really matter when Cam Schlittler is throwing 8 innings. And if Cole and Rodon can come back on schedule-ish, the Yankees will have extra starters they can push to the bullpen.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

If you want to know how much of a driver's field of vision is blocked by the hood of a modern pickup truck, I am begging you to watch this dashcam video of somebody in a Chevy truck running over an entire Lamborghini because it was too low for them to see it.

A friend of mine is a quant who lives in New York. About ten years ago, he was offered a job with Citadel, but was told he'd have to work out of the Chicago office three days a week and the NYC office two days a week. They flew him to Chicago three days a week on a private jet. Fuck Ken Griffin.

The fuck does that even mean? Like, personally?

We know, Donald, we know.

My mother is a lifelong minimum wage earner. Over her 50+ year working life she's been able to accumulate a 401(k) worth about $35,000. If only she'd thought to save more money decades ago - like, say, in the early 90's, when we couldn't afford heat in Detroit and used to have popcorn for dinner.

I've been reliably informed that Donald Trump is the most energetic President in American history.

A thing I see all the time is when some big firm does employee interviews and then says "the Plaintiff's allegations cannot be true; we interviewed a dozen workers and all of them said they were happy and nothing bad ever happened to them at the company." WTF else do you expect them to say to you?

When I tell people this, they either find it mildly interesting or it causes a philosophical crisis: When my mom was pregnant with me, I was twins. My father beat her up and she miscarried the other one. If the twins were identical, and I had been the one to die, would the other twin now be me?

This mindset is so firmly ingrained in people - including women! - that I've had to tell my kids' teachers at least a dozen times that I'm the primary contact for everything and they should always reach out to me before reaching out to my wife. They just default to "call mom."

Ok look. I have been driving in New York City for my ENTIRE life. Since I first learned to drive in the 90's. Every borough, every part of the city. All the time. I have gotten two moving violations in NYC in my entire life. What are these people doing? How is this possible?

Good thing they're finally getting around to looking into that.

As somebody who really really wants to see a woman play in a major professional sports league, I think the most realistic way for that to happen is for a woman to learn a knuckleball. There's no reason the best knuckleball pitcher on earth can't be a woman, and that person deserves a roster spot.

I have an oral argument tomorrow in EDNY that the judge has blocked off the entire day for. He's having a labor law class from the law school he teaches at come and listen to the argument. So, you know, no pressure.

Political historians: has there EVER been a supposed liberal democracy that's even remotely as corrupt as this?

I thought I'd seen everything there was to see with respect to horrible workplaces, but I've never seen sexual harassment *enshrined in formal written policies.*

The only series work I can think of that integrated multiverses in a comprehensive way that was actually successful and aided the story is The Dark Tower. But that series is a postmodern meta- reflection on the nature of the creative process, so the plot is largely irrelevant.

This is actually tautologically true of every disease.

I wrote my senior thesis on the detrimental effects on the Swedish economy of lowering the top marginal estate tax rate from 70% in the 1980's to 30% in 2000. I wrote it when I was graduating in 2001; in 2005 Sweden abolished the estate tax entirely, so I guess they didn't listen to me.

Have to tell this story about the dumbest heist ever: a guy who's related to me distantly through marriage (like a cousin of mine is married to a cousin of his) was addicted to heroin and stole his grandfather's Civil War gun collection and then used those guns to rob a bank. But not just any bank.

Aside from being evil, this is stupid. The terms of members of Congress expire at set times. There will be no House of Representative members next January to be in a position to refuse to seat any other members. The Constitution doesn't work this way. How do you put out this garbage?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that any other sport can compare to baseball in terms of dumb blooper reel highlights.