To me, it’s not even just about what it looks like. It’s what it represents. One cyber truck, if were unique, could be a legitimately cool work of art. But as a mass-market vehicle it’s just ridiculous.

Like, if there was only one cyber truck, and it was something a local gearhead had welded up in his garage, I would legitimately respect it as a cool and unique work of artistic expression. It would show that they have creativity and are willing to make a bold statement to the world.

But if you just buy one of thousands of cyber trucks that exist in the world? That no longer represents your original creative expression. That just represents having bad taste and having poor personal finance skills.

Building your own art car is cool. If Ford decides to start making them by the millions, then that would just be sad.

The cyber truck is the vehicle for the man who wears a fedora with a t-shirt.

Hezbollah clearly needs to seize a 20 km chunk of northern Israel to serve as a security buffer zone for the people of Lebanon.

Take a look! It’s in a book! It’s Readin Raaiiinboow!!

That’s like if some randos came to your area, built houses on the farmland around the town you live in, and then put up a wall preventing in your town from coming or going. It’s a slow seige.

I think she should be settled into a hole in the ground.

Are we the baddies?

This year, they exported TWO rifles!

Meanwhile in Russia, Putin has ordered the parliament dissolved…in acid.

Also the Nazis came to power. And that was just like…a huge bummer for everyone.

While we’re trolling future historians, let’s rewrite the history books to say that the Great Depression was just a period where everyone was really sad for some reason. It was a mental health epidemic, not an economic crisis.

Worse still, their MO is incredibly transparent. They want to establish a “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon, but Israel’s “buffer zones” are just a way of slowly expanding their borders. The problem is that a buffer zone like the DMZ only works as a buffer zone if you keep your own civilian population from moving in to that buffer zone! Israel lets it’s ‘settlers’ move into what are supposed to be buffer zones like the DMZ. After awhile, the settlements are retroactively recognized and made legal. Now you have civilians in ordinary communities living in what was supposed to be a buffer zone. And since they’re right on the border again, they’re now in range of attack from the angry people whose former land they are now living on.

“Buffer zones” only work if you arrest and/or shoot any of your own people who try and move into them. Otherwise, they’re just a slow-motion conquest via bureaucracy. The same thing has happened in the West Bank. Israel takes Palestinian land around Israeli settlements, declaring them to be security buffer zones. Then they let their settlers move in there. Suddenly they have vulnerable civilians within easy reach of angry Palestinians, so they need to establish a new buffer zone. Rinse and repeat.

It’s slow-motion ethnic cleansing via zoning code and bureaucracy.

Wouldn’t that make sense from an evolutionary perspective? Through human history and prehistory, think of all the common tasks people did on a day-to-day basis. I would say the vast majority of them would involve looking at things below eye level. With the exception of picking fruit from trees or hunting birds in flight, most of the tasks we evolved to do involved looking at things below eye level. Most work with crops involves looking at things below the height of your eyes. Tracking prey involves looking at things below the line of the horizon or tracks on the ground. Crafting objects involves working with your hands and looking down at your work. Raising children involves looking down at their shorter stature.

Why wouldn’t our back and neck structure be evolutionarily optimized to look at things a bit below eye level?

I would be inclined to agree. Schools themselves have wide latitude to police this type of thing, much wider than general criminal law could do. So I have no problem with the kid being suspended. The criminal charge on the other hand is another matter entirely. That seems like a clear 1st Amendment violation.

Meanwhile, Ji knocks on the door and says, “well, you could buy yourself a new Chernobyl, or you could buy these solar panels and batteries from us that will give you more power for half the price, won’t make you dependent on anyone for a fuel source, and don’t risk creating an exclusion zone.”