This isn’t about Americans’ obligation to pay. It’s about hassle being forced upon foreign companies that have fuck-all to do with America (except for having American expat customers), to make them help collect the taxes on the US’ behalf.

Creating more mainstream use-cases is how you get people to donate more bandwidth.

Still has a stupid Windows logo on the super key, though.

TIL Cueball is Alton Brown.

I’ve been thinking about getting a Slate truck eventually, and I’m suddenly realizing a generator on a trailer might be good for overlanding, since there aren’t any chargers on remote trails.

I’m willing to bet it would’ve been more efficient (but less maneuverable/flexible in its direction of travel) with a sail, just because that would avoid the electric conversion losses.

There’s a real easy solution to this: use strong copyleft instead of permissive licensing, and don’t require copyright assignment. You won’t be able to rug-pull even if you wanted to!

When project founders refuse to do that, well, now we know their true intentions.

The “pretzels” are the tire plugs. They’re actually sticky rubber strips. You poke them into the tire, then pull the tool out quickly so that the plug stays behind:

(Also, I’m aware that you were probably just joking, but I figured somebody reading this might be genuinely curious so I gave a sincere reply anyway.)

What I had in my head was something like this, a street-tuner Impreza that’s been lowered:

The point was that just because something’s AWD doesn’t inherently mean by itself that it’s a good idea to take it off-road.

Nah. The Impreza doesn’t even have a weird roller top for its cargo bed, let alone a fragile and poorly-designed one. No way it could break as stupidly as the Cybertruck managed.

things that any AWD vehicle can do.

Not any AWD; you probably want high ground clearance too.

I wouldn’t go fording streams in a Subaru Impreza, for instance.

Which is only possible for those who can afford to be, because their privilege insulates them from the consequences.

I admit I used to think that, mainly because I picked up on the conservative persona before realizing it was satire and immediately stopped watching.

“[English doesn’t] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” – James Nicoll

Ironically, that movie is French.

“I’m not political” is an expression of privilege. It disingenuously pretends to be ideologically neutral, but it’s not.

More like a tool for inserting a tire plug in an automobile tire, maybe, but it’s not quite the right shape for that either. (Or at least, if it is that, it’s a really cheap one because usually they’re made of metal.)

Doc Brown wasn’t kidding; that’s some serious shit!

You’re the one making it personal and lying about my motivations. Regardless of what you think of the merits of my arguments about the actual topic, everyone can see that you’re being an uncivil asshole.