Across the table fan here. I like gazing meaningfully into the eyes. Read more

The legacy of the Puritans lives on in 2022. I personally think the average German view of sex, in a social context, is a much more realistic model than what we get from the American mainstream. We’ve got people who are recommending abstinance to teens with a straight face. Like, they are actually serious. Read more

I have a feeling you and Voltaire would have got along famously. Read more

Wait... a performance oriented design gets worse mileage than one designed to be a grocery hauler. Are you serious? How could this possibly be?

The reason is really simple. Humans are still just selfish primates, that evolved to prefer social groups of about 50-60, organized such that the biggest, baddest monkey beat on the others regularly to keep them in line. We are xenophobic by default, and can only kind of / sort of be educated past these inbred… Read more

This. Management at larger American automotive corporations has only rarely understood who exactly they were selling to. Iacocca had some idea. So did Bob Lutz. The rest of them, mostly, I wouldn’t want to bet my family’s economic future on. They just have too much herd mentality. Read more

Is this a James Bond movie theme? Because it should be. Read more

Considering its diminutive size, and the fact that a human produces about the same total power, it seems this would be an excellent candidate for a bicycle transplant.  I wonder if anyone has attempted it? Read more

Not at all.  Merely commenting on your preferred idiom and style. Read more

Clearly, contemporary American democracy works best when, special interest PACs give big money to legislators for special deals. How is a corrupt politian expected to make their millions, if they can’t get kickbacks from the car dealers for their ‘re-election campaign’ funds? Read more

Are you so used to being disagreeable, that you can’t take a compliment when someone agrees with you? ROTFLMAO. Read more

Much like the Gom Jabbar test of the Bene Gesserit witches of Dune, you can tell a master wrencher, by whether or not they can initiate a dreadful project, willingly endure the pain which they know is coming, and still persist to eventual conclusion of the repair. Read more

This is why I love reading your comments.  Never change. Read more

There is a little more info from this article in ‘The Drive’ : Read more

This is a good argument.  I like it.  Agree about the Challenger entirely. Read more

A true legend amongst all lawn chair afficionados. Read more

“..The cutting edge shouldn’t be making things worse for no obvious benefit...” Read more

It sounded European.  Sort of a vague essence of ‘we’re cosmopolitan’. Read more