Movies are allowed to be fun, and I think a lot of these ‘super serious acting men’ forget that. Not everything has to be so far up your own ass take it so seriously all the time. Especially when the world is on fire and falling apart, maybe let us have 2 hours to not think about reality.

I mean, this is what I do, but the problem is... why is it on me? The cop is the one who was trained in how to do this, and it’s his job, right? If your job was to make sure computers were working properly, would you expect that the end user knows how to take it all apart and describe it to you? No, of course not.…

If this was in ANY way justified, the family and potentially the media would have already seen the body cam or dash cam footage from the cop car. The fact that it’s ‘unknown if it was recorded’ means that it was and the cops don’t want anyone seeing it.

Or the gun has to stay locked in the trunk. If you get called to a bank robbery in progress, guess what? You have the 20 seconds it takes to retrieve the gun. If it’s not literally within arms reach at all times, maybe there’d be a lot less unneeded shots fired.

Why did the cop have his gun out and finger on the…

I mean, the reason that no one seems to care is that outside of maybe aircraft pilots? The rest of those things are blue collar ‘poor people’ jobs. Never mind that its hard work that requires a set of unique skills (every one of them), it’s still menial labor to so much of the upper class.

That’s because those chuckle fucks don’t ACTUALLY care about cops, as evidenced by the Jan 6 riots. They like that cops are beating up and killing minorities and ‘others’. You can see videos on YouTube of anytime some Karen gets bitch slapped by a cop after throwing a fit or assaulting someone (or even a cop) in a…

Because if you try to do right, they’ll at best fire you, but people have ended up murdered, harassed, and in jail for exposing police corruption:

I mean, I’m not opposed to trying to slow down the sale and proliferation of guns to the general populace, either. That’s not to say we should ban guns totally, and it would take decades for it to actually like... make a difference, being that there’s already so many guns floating around, but eventually the number…

And she did EXACTLY as it said to do in the drivers handbook from where they were, too. Essentially the cop said “I don’t like the driving code, so fuck you.”

I see so many videos on YouTube of cops contemptuously mocking people for knowing the law. “Oh are you a lawyer? Where did you get your law degree?” Only to then get shot the fuck down by a superior later on because the cop, in fact, did NOT know the law.

On top of that, if ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse’, doesn’t…

I keep coming back out of habit, but Torch and David are the only writers I go out of my way to read. I like Raph, but I don’t ever see much from him thats actually car related anymore. Blackstock is good on the weekends. Everyone else .... is either fine but doesn’t stand out at all, or sucks.

Isn’t Ford UAW, too? If this is a UAW thing, not a GM thing, then UAW probably doesn’t care what you buy, as long as it’s a UAW shop that built it.

Precisely! After I get paid every pay period, we’re even. I owe you nothing, you owe me nothing, outside of any collectively bargained benefits codified in a contract.

Most places don’t give the employees a 2+ week notice before laying people off...

It’s just that easy? Walk out and find a new job? Having a union auto worker gig is a reasonably sweet deal. Good security, good wages, good benefits, pension... Why would I give that up, regardless of if I liked the cars we made or not? Maybe this person decided they wanted an electric car and the Bolt just isn’t…

It’s like that Groucho Marx saying “I would never join a club who would have someone like me as a member.”

“I would never buy a car put together by someone like me.”

My buddy had a brand new (< 3 weeks old) loaded Altima back in like...2013. He ran over a mattress that blew off truck about 4 cars in front of him and it ended up totaling the car. It went back to the dealer for suspension work initially, but after getting it back and sending it back 3 or 4 times because it just…

I had a similar (non immigrant) story happen to me once. I was driving on a road with a 50mph speed limit, and there were streets that crossed it, and they all had stop signs, but the road I was on was the ‘main’ road, so no stop signs. I was 17 or 18 at the time. It’s about 9pm, dark out, and I’m driving on this road…

Clueless Hero... same, fam. Not game development, but just general IT stuff. Sales would promise something to the client without talking to the devs, or the hardware engineers (me). Devs come frantically saying they need XY and Z IMMEDIATELY because something was promised, I say ‘sorry chief, we can’t do that, we…

Drag racing is the only motorsport better in person. And I guess like, tractor pulls and monster trucks if you count those.

Even on ovals you can’t see. The ovals are 2-3 miles around. If you’re sitting on one straight, it’s a 1/4-1/2 mile across to the other side. Without binoculars, you can see the cars but you can’t tell what’s going on.