A shifter like that - with no indication that it’s in park - killed Anton Yelchin. (Though that was a Chrysler product.)

They should be illegal. The thing that puts the giant machine in motion should be a big fucking lever.

GDP measures the value of all goods and services produced in a country. A legal scam can hide as a service and get counted.

This is why cars are good for GDP but mass transit isn’t, because a lot more cost goes into a car than a bus on a per rider basis.

The same goes for health insurance. Simply paying a doctor for services is far less GDP than paying an insurance company who then pays the doctor after taking a cut.

Once you realize what GDP measures a lot of what countries do makes sense.

They were moderately popular around the turn of the century. They held 100-250MB but were pretty fragile. There were others called Jaz disks that held 1GB.

But once you could burn a CD or use a thumb drive they weren’t worth the risk of data loss.

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Scams improve GDP

Good UX greatly reduces the need for documentation.

If you were a real pervert like me you needed zip disks

The John Titor writers/hoaxers said that the Time Machine had two quantum singularities. They added the second one to lock the travel to earths gravitational field after their testing put the machines miles away

I used to live in a small town who successfully kept out a Walmart and Cracker Barrel. The former because it would have paved over a historic farm and cost millions to extend the sewer, and the latter because “we already have restaurants.”

I miss that place.

I imagine it would look a lot like the open source intel (OSINT) that folks are using to report on various wars.

That would reduce quarterly growth and therefore will not be done.

I think I’ll let the rich folks beta test the skinny drug for a few more years.

Getting divorced and married. (The second time)

I’m not thinking of any Adobe competitors, actually.

The children yearn for the shrimp

Sorry, all electric cars must be giant SUVs or crossovers with bland styling, built in iPads instead of knobs, and mandatory data harvesting

Even if all they’re doing is tracking the flavor preferences it will guarantee that the weird flavor I like will be discontinued.

I bet if They Might Be Giants wrote the song more people would get the joke.

One major failure of our species is that complete morons end up in charge of armies unacceptably often.

And luxury car parts, which are more often than not from ordinary cars.

My VW is running Bugatti parts, for example.