That really depends on how much money he has.

I could t afford to bet nearly much against it but I would if the returns wouldn’t be enough to buy a soda.

I’ve been blocking ads for like 30 years. I see so little advertising I feel like an alien.

I don’t like paddle shifters. There’s no element of risk in missing a gear and blowing up your transmission

But even the biggest trucks out there don’t have 1,000 horsepower, and they’re built to haul heavy loads uphill in bad weather.

There are places in the US that, instead of banning giant trucks, are banning Kei trucks.

I hate this country.

My peak torque is around 2500 rpm. Horsepower peaks around 5k for me.

And I like weird, complicated things I have to think about, which is part of why I drive a manual. Downshifting from sixth to fifth, hearing the engine go up in pitch, and feeling that extra torque feels like it would be more fun than just mashing a pedal.

Do they make manual transmission electric cars?

I have the same sort of fun in my manual transmission gas car

I guess I’m really lamenting the death of the shitbox econo car.

My parents had an original Prius and it was a weedy little car that made those two hippies really happy. If that was his only experience with electric cars I can see why he’d think that.

But the new ones are fucking rockets. I just don’t understand why they need all that. Can they make a cheaper one that’s got 300 horsepower?

I would take a team of moderately-skilled, emotionally intelligent people over a team of expert jerks who like the smell of their own farts.

I wouldn’t want to work with a low-skilled team of anyone.

She talks to the customers so the engineers don’t have to.

She has people skills. She is good at dealing with people.

I also vaguely remember the quote you’re referencing and I think you got the gist of it.

The best programmers, sysadmins, and other techies I’ve worked with had humanities degrees. Being a STEMlord who can’t be nice or express yourself well in words will put you at a disadvantage in even the nerdiest of jobs.

He’s definitely an expert, I just thought it was funny they redacted his name like we wouldn’t know who he was.

Scott Manley has a one hour video going over all of this, including the ridiculous redaction of James Cameron providing expert testimony by first saying he directed The Abyss

Which is also a vector. Speed is a scalar.

If you can find an electorate who’d be okay with this you might have a point.

Those cameras would come down in like a month, what few a local government could afford to put up, anyway.

They could do this easily on major highways and yet they haven’t yet, precisely because the local government knows it would be electoral suicide.

A better solution would be pace cars that drive the speed limit with big gates so nobody can go around them. Then people literally can’t speed.

Of course I wear my seatbelt because other people are shit drivers. Even at 35 mph I could be seriously injured if someone crosses the center line.

Because of the acceleration, not the speed.

I’ve hit two deer but one literally jumped on top of my car from a hillside and the other I hit at like 15mph.

Then why haven’t they put speed cameras everywhere?

Because a local government wouldn’t last an election cycle if they did that.

If everyone is doing 250 they won’t hit each other. But if one person is doing 125 things get a lot less safe.

The rest of it is not what I’m talking about. I am aware that all of the rest is true, but is outside of what I’m describing.

Maybe we just eliminate all transportation that can exceed walking speed. You know, for safety.