Thanks. Haven’t read any of these and you make em all sound pretty rad.

Honestly, probably the most enjoyable series of novels ever. The jokes are so layered and absurd while being witty well setup. It’s been a few years since I’ve read them, may be time to start over…

Trump is too stupid to be deterred by a nuke.

I have a crochet toast holding a sign saying “cook the toast, butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life is relentless.”

Same energy lol

I am one of the OG hydro homies and it legit changed my life drinking more water. Skin cleared up (acne wasn’t terrible, but there was almost always some blemish), lost weight (less soda, less hunger in general), reduced stomach issues (helped with getting regular and not binging, just better general gut feeling), no more UTI’s.

I also get to pee like 4 times throughout the day at work which just helps break up the day.

I don’t have any issues with autonomous driving, I have an issue with the marketing associated with it. Word choice is important and the words Tesla uses imply it can fully self drive and it can’t.

Honestly I agree with the rest of your sentiment, don’t tell me I can’t because of some other dipshit.

It doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out 1/4 people sitting in the plane don’t understand that. Most Tesla drivers understand that FSD and autopilot aren’t as robust as their titles imply, but you’ve gotta remember how stupid the average consumer is.

Anecdote: last night I was talking to a childhood friend while gaming and he just rented a new Tesla on a work trip and was talking about FSD. The overconfidence in the system after a few easy highway miles was palpable. The phrase “the future is now” was used. This is a high achieving, high earner in a stem career. A smart guy for sure, and he hadn’t taken the time to understand the system he was using; my expectations for a grocery store manager with a GED is lower.

Pilots are highly trained professionals, Tesla drivers are not.

With names like autopilot and full self driving, there’s a reason people are overconfident in the cars abilities.

Any complication in emergency door releases is a critical failure and tremendous design flaw. Emergency features should be incredibly obvious and easy to use, because when you go to use it there’s a huge chance you’re disoriented or hurt. A system you need to look for as you burn may as well not exist.

The exterior handle design is just awful. There’s a reason other countries are making them illegal and it’s not because they’re a safe choice.

There’s a reason Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate in the US despite having some of the best crash test results. You survive the impact to die a slower more painful death.

They’re incredibly expensive to use, drones aren’t. They’re using patriots to fight drones because our military is a bloated corpse that hasn’t won a large conflict in decades. We’re going to burn billions and it’ll cost the Iranians millions. The Iranians learned from Ukraine, the US appears to have not.

They got way too comfortable killing non combatants and lightly armed Palestinians. They made the blunder every major military power seems to have made in the past century of greatly overestimating their own ability to wage war. Just because you’re good at handing out beatings or doesn’t mean you can win a war.

I honestly believe the education system is more to blame than anything besides the anti vax people themselves. There’s so much nonsense pseudoscience posted online by uninformed and grifters, then their cult of stupidity fills the holes with comments that reinforce the legitimacy of their quackery. Even reasonable people get sucked down the rabbit hole.

When my son was born my wife had been fed this bullshit and suggested delaying vaccination. I sat her down and was able to address her concerns and get her to understand the science and statistics so he stayed in the doctor’s recommended schedule but not everybody is going to have a spouse who cash reel then back in.