Now, now, some jellyfish are lovely. But not the purple fuckers who sting you and put you in the hospital, or so one is told as a small child to make one afraid to wade in the surf.

Photos of steep hairpin turns don’t really do them justice. Not surprised such a huge vehicle that depends on regenerative braking for every last mile of range has such terrible brakes. This is worn-out 1970 F-100 loaded to the bump stops with firewood kind of shit.

If the grade was really that steep it would of course flip ass over handlebars

That thing weighs as much as an RV and it has really shit brakes for it's size

even if it's "only" 26% and he misspoke that's still a hell of a drop

if he's correct about it being 26 degrees that's more than a 50% grade. your brakes were probably cooked driving that pig on terrain that demanding

Trying to understand why my truck tried to murder me. Hopefully the murder engineers can help me out

Ditto (though not as dangerous) for stuff like rolling down the window. Touch screens instead of knobs and buttons.

Cars should be analog.

:: cackles :: With my truck, if the engine somehow decides to ignore driver input, I can put the transmission in neutral and key off the ignition, and then use either the normal hydraulic brakes or the parking brakes to stop the thing.

yeah, a passenger unfamiliar with the vehicle with hands shaking in terror after a crash and being unable to open the door the normal way with fire building is really going to be able to find and use that

Wtf is this shit

The physical force wasn't what killed these teens. It was a ruptured power pack, lack of protection between the batteries and seats, reinforced glass, and doors without handles that needed power to open.

Any damage that kills door power and ignites the batteries, at any speed, will kill

It would be, yeah

This is the achilles heel of all Teslas: you can have the best parts in the world on there but the people building the things are fucking idiots so nothing is gonna work properly

Christians are allowed to say in any environment what they believe with certainty, whereas anyone else can state their beliefs, but in a qualified "this is what I believe" or "As a [blank], I believe."

always after he explained what he believed as a Jew, he was barraged by emails from concerned students asking why he didn't believe Jesus was the son of God. And he said,

"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."

"Because he's not."

PS: despite, or because of, me virtually begging for it in the alt text, this is of course the best Wikipedia photo caption edit ever...

for ten years, the credibility of the Nation's imprimatur added impetus for a kind of super-confident, chest-puffed assertion that neoliberal shills were committing false flags throughout Syria to tarnish the reputation of the Lion of Syria, Bashar al Assad, a non-practicing ophthalmologist.

What I usually say when talking to writing students or aspiring writers is: write what you DON'T know, but are very interested in understanding. That's certainly driven my best writing.