The “tea party” was never a third party. They were a faction of the republican party.

Then you’ll have GOP for decades as the non-GOP vote splits between parties.

The US is solidly a two party system and you need to work within it.

Personally, I think the problem the Democrats have is that they’ve become corrupt. Becoming more corrupt isn’t going to help them.

They rationalise taking bribes from corporations as “fund raising” and say that it’s the only way to win elections. Well you know who wins elections without lobbying? Bernie and AOC. Both run through publicly funded campaigns., and this is why they can represent the needs of the people and not corporations and billionaires.

Oops. I meant divest not digest.

Damn you autocorrect.

Pancake day

In England those are pancakes. Flour milk egg to make a batter that you shallow fly in a pan for about minute. I serve with sugar and lemon juice.

Watched it a couple of months ago. Still funny and divorced enough from what is going on that it doesn’t give PTSD.

Also, people are boycotting because he owns a lot of stock, not because he’s CEO. They want to hit him in the pocket. What this investor really wants is for Musk to digest his position, but there’s no way he’ll do that.

Spotted Dick is not a bread. It’s a sponge pudding that you cover in custard.

People forget the JSF project had a multinational aspect to it.

My recollection of danish food was, you can have meat you like as long as it came from a pig. Wouldn’t surprise me if the beer was similar.

It’s the prospect of kicking Russian butt that keeps them so happy.

Evolution isn’t aimed.

I realise that, but the use of tools and sharing of ideas may well have had advantages against the T-Rex. Just as I’m sure they’ve helped us against things that would eat or kill us.

We seem to be the only animal that solved “scavenging is dangerous” and “hunting is hard” with talking to each other rather than by getting bigger and getting claws or vicious teeth

Right, but why are we the only ones to solve it that way? Some lesser “dinosaur” could have evolved tactics to fight bigger predators through basic weapons (sharp sticks), but no evidence of that exists.

An advantage is an advantage, so I think it’s reasonable to ask why mammals and not murder chickens came up with it.

Us elders be here designing the shit that does crypto.

Gesundheit!

I hadn’t realised the USB committee had found new jobs.

Which makes me ask, why were mammals able to evolve to produce an apex predator that relies on it’s inventiveness (Humans) in quite a short time, but no similar “dinosaur” got to that point in a much longer period?

We’re searching planets for signs of life as a pre-cursor to intelligent life, but there’s no guarantee that life will evolve in the same direction as ours.

Not saying you’re wrong (because I’ve always found it suspicious how Tesla always seems to report that autopilot is disengaged for fatal accidents) but there’s probably some people asking themselves “how could it detect the wall to disengage itself?”.

The image on the wall has a perspective baked into it so it will look right from a certain position. A distance from which the lines of the real road match perfectly with the lines of the road on the wall. As you get closer than this distance the illusion will start to break down. The object tracking software will say “There are things moving in ways I can’t predict. Something is wrong here. I give up. Hand control to driver”.

Autopilot disengaged.

(And it only noticed a fraction of a second before hitting it, yet Mark is very conscious of it. He’s screaming. )

Sidenote: the same is true as you move further from the wall than the ideal distance. The illusion will break down in that way too. However, the effect is far more subtle when you’re too far away. After all, the wall is just a tiny bit of your view when you’re a long way away, but it’s your whole view when you’re just about to hit it.

He said he tapped the brakes on one of the earlier non-wall runs.

Whilst I agree on the wall, fog and rain are not extreme weather conditions. I’d rather he’d used a level of rain that was less intense. However, the fact is lidar still worked even though it was not clear it was going to.