Efforts to prevent a partial government shutdown from starting this weekend fell apart Wednesday when numerous Republicans, on and off Capitol Hill, expressed their frustration with the many extraneous provisions added to a short-term funding package.

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    18 hours ago

    Hopefully Musk will crash in one of his cars and be unable to escape the resulting fire, because he built it without mechanical door handles.

    I prefer that evil billionaires meet their fates ironically.

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      5 hours ago

      Unfortunately this falls flat if the person driving knows about the door releases which do exist. They’re a little latch that you pull just behind the window controls. So musk’s passengers would all die, but he’d be fine

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        17 hours ago

        I mean, sure. There’s always the Luigi option. But my preferred end for insurance execs is from denial of a health insurance claim. Bit hard to make that work for someone of that wealth, but it would be the ideal case.

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          10 hours ago

          Yes, but that doesn’t mean you can make blatantly false statements.

          You can just say they’re buried and non-intuitive.

          Be better.

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            6 hours ago

            You’re literally “ummm actually”-ing human immolation.

            A mechanical release that is obfuscated and not easy and intuitive to use effectively doesn’t exist. You might as well say, “well, technically, shattering a window is a mechanical action, so all cars have mechanical releases…”

            Stop trying to excuse homicide.