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BMW’s R&D teams have been busy “innovating.” Unfortunately, they aren’t focusing on the things that actually matter—like stellar engine performance or legendary driving dynamics.

Instead, the C-suite execs decided that the best use of their engineering budget was to design a proprietary security screw specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.

At first glance, it’s almost cute:
a screw head shaped exactly like the BMW logo.

But the novelty wears off the moment you consider the physics.

Because this head prioritizes branding over utility:
neither the bit nor the screw head can withstand the torque of a standard Torx or Hex fastener.

The result?
Broken bits, stripped screws, and more time spent on what would otherwise be a simple task.

It’s a masterpiece of anti-functional design.
To the casual observer, it seems to serve no purpose other than to look “cool”,
but when it comes to the nitty gritty of DIY repair,
it ensures that a standard toolbox is useless for basic maintenance.

In fact, the patent explicitly states this as a function of its design in section [0006]:
“…to prevent being loosened or tightened…by unauthorized individuals.”
https://www.ifixit.com/News/115528/bmws-newest-innovation-is-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair

Hundreds at scene of ICE shooting chanting name of the victim

Hundreds of protesters have packed the intersection near where the shooting took place and are chanting the name Alex Pretti
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426

America is numb to this infrastructure problem

Maryland needs to replace the Chesapeake Bay Bridge,
as everyone who has driven on it knows.

Yet construction to replace the structure is only scheduled to begin in 💥2032.

The most shocking aspect of this story is that locals aren't more shocked.

Tens of thousands of drivers cross the Bay Bridge every day. -- It’s a vital link to the Eastern Shore.

The bridge has no shoulders.
No new lanes have been added in more than half a century
while the populations of the counties it connects have grown
by 82 percent and 175 percent.

Authorities began to study how to replace the bridge in 2016.

The board of the Maryland Transportation Authority approved a proposal to build a new bridge last Thursday.

This is yet another important infrastructure project Americans needed yesterday
that will take decades to complete
— and only in the unlikely event that it stays on schedule.

People have become numb to the absurdity of these timeframes and the language around them,
but the consequences of this delay are too real.

While government officials spent the better part of a decade studying the project,
the existing bridge grew older and more overburdened.

The proposal that has finally been approved is twice as expensive as previous estimates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/22/maryland-bay-bridge-replacement-expansion-widening/

The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars.
Both were discovered by women.
Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967.
Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell.
Louise Webster, the co-discoverer of black holes, has been largely forgotten.
Unless, of course, you remember her name.

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6296

Elon Musk is having a very bad week.

The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.

Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos.

Musk’s response?
Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question
“why are you gay”
—the rhetorical sophistication we’ve come to expect from the richest man-child on the planet having a public meltdown

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/elon-musk-discovers-what-hierarchy-actually-means/

For Trump, it’s not about hate speech, but about speech that he hates
— namely, speech that is critical of him and his administration.
He has suggested that a clutch of protesters who yelled at him in a restaurant be prosecuted under laws targeting mobsters.

He demanded that multiple late-night comics who mocked him be taken off air.

He threatened to shutter television broadcasters that he deemed unfair to him.

He sued The New York Times for allegedly damaging his reputation.

And that was just last week.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/us/politics/trump-free-speech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare