'Not a car guy' here. I'm pushing 40 and my entire life idk if I've ever driven 90+mph. A car is a point A to B machine and nothing else, ideally without drawing the attention of law enforcement or playing chicken with a tree. Not being able to exceed 90mph is an absolute non-issue.

What is an issue is new cars, especially EVs, being loaded up with with unnecessarily fancy shit that I don't care about, jacking the price up.

There are some a la carte features that are actually applicable to that point A to B: fuck yeah I want that sound system, I listen to music while traversing A-B. But that's the cool part about a modular product like this, I can fork out for the comforts I actually give a shit about and go without everything else.

If my wishlist stacks up to an extra $10k then I'm probably better off with one of the dozens of other options that just have the fancy shit built in; but if I can get a basic-bitch EV + an an extra grand from the handful of things I actually want, then sign me up (...in like, 5-10 years once we have a good feel for the build quality of these things and can verify that Bezos's dick isn't stuck in the whole op).

It's the perfect concept for 'not car people', which I'd wager is most people. It's honestly bonkers that things like this haven't been offered by leading car manufacturers for decades, but I'm sure there's plenty of marketing strategy geared around "people will pay for loads of stupid shit in their EV if the only EVs on the market are packed with stupid shit!".

If nothing else, it might prompt other manufacturers to hop on the bandwagon and offer an actual variety of minimalistic EVs.

Kinda like how a cancerous 'boom' is at risk of being excised once it's identified by a doctor.

we can prevent it from getting MUCH WORSE!

Just make sure to wear gloves and a mask, park way the fuck off site, and leave your phone at home.

Liking the zipper look nowadays.

Orthopedic surgeon:

*repeatedly pulls string attempting to start up a chainsaw*

a saw that had sensors to know when it touched skin seems unlikely

I've never seen it in a healthcare setting, but that kind of safety mechanism is already a thing in larger saws - some pretty impressive demos on the web. Iirc it effectively destroys the machine if it goes off, but most of us would rather buy a new table saw than lose a few fingers. ...and that was the tech years ago, may well have improved since I went down that rabbit hole.

Team 'both' checking in.

If you decide to act like a Nazi, you should die like a Nazi.

...and if you're a trillionaire, you should die ASAP even if you act like Mr. Rogers - sorry duder but humanity cannot afford you.

I like to think of someone gave a trillion dollars to Mr. Rogers he would have been a trillionaire for like a day, losing the title almost immediately as he redistributed it appropriately.

I'd prefer something more immediate, but beggars can't be choosers.

Nurse here. I've wiped a cumulative mile or two of stranger ass crack, so... I know a thing or two about poop.

The answer is:

If everything's working normally, your bowels will reabsorb water until it becomes solid. They're really good at reabsorbing water.

If everything's working normally.

If you've got the Hershe's squirts, things are not working normally. So... you'll probably just shit your pants.

*snaps glove*

Now spread em.

We have outlook classic at work, and that shit takes a solid 5 mins to actually load up my inbox enough to become functional.

Outlook has always been shit, the new AI slop is just fuel on the fire.

Better idea: drive a stake 50% through AI CEO's chest. Better, faster results, not just economically, but ecologically too!

Doesn't say great things about their marketing that the first time I (a chronically online gaming nerd) am hearing about this company is their notice of shutting down.

Can't find it for the life of me... Describing a web comic vs actually posting it always feels like a flop, but...

Aliens abduct a physicist, who doesn't seem to give much of a damn about the abduction but is instead enthused to learn about the alien tech on board, so they give him a tour of the ship. They get to the power reactor and start dropping a bunch of sci-fi jumbo about "We harness dark matter to... (sci-fi Ruth Goldberg machine) ...and finally, we use the heat it generates to boil water and crank a turbine!!"

*Physicist drops to his knees in despair and let's out a dramatic 'noooooo!'

Paraphrasing heavily due to having shit memory. I thought it was a SMBC comic, but... /shrug.

Fortunately voting isn't mutually exclusive to any other flavor of activism. So, unironically: yes, please do vote, as often and informed as you're able to.

Light up some billionaire's warehouse on the way home if you want, but voting is easier and safer than pretty much any offer method of driving some rapid reform, so start with voting, and take whatever other action you feel still needs to take place.

Lots of hate on voting lately... Why? Use every tool we've got.

It might seem bad now, but later in your twenties you'll lose respect for people you don't know, too! By your early 30s you should be on track to lose respect for entire institutions, and eventually just humanity in general!

Mid to late 30s is an awkward phase of losing faith you didn't even know you had. Like, dozens of times. You'll hit rock bottom again, and again, and again, and whatever new low your brain just established for human malice and stupidity will be gut punched as your peers enthusiastically elect a pedophilic antichrist. Twice.

Eventually you realize there is actually no bottom, and you start to go numb - which is fucking great compared to the decades of getting dragged through through the coals!!

Sometimes I wish God was real, so we'd get to see him swoop in and smite these fucking hypocrites.

Hawaska left off the map again.

With different emojis... at angle and scale to match the position and distance of the original faces.

Holy fuck, the amount of effort she put into that!