I flew on a few back in the day - and for some weird reason, lucked into being in business class every time! First because I was flying to Europe and my connecting flight to NYC was super late. My friend and I were the last on the plane and our coach seats had been given away, so they stuck us in business - this was…

My hot take: The First Avenger is very, very good for the first half, and the quality drops off ENORMOUSLY after his first mission to rescue the POWs. It becomes incredibly generic from that point forward. Averaging that out, I think the movie is kind of just fine, and a lot of the goodwill comes moreso from what…

I dunno, those panel gaps look pretty tight.

The stinger is a great car. From what I have read/heard from first hand accounts there are many people who were initially interested in purchasing the car but the kia dealers sucked so hard they were put off from buying them. Anything from not allowing any test drives to dealer markups, not allowing them to purchase…

Great information. Was going to post maybe 8% of this lol. Thank you.

The shortage is a global situation. The EU is at its lowest supply since 2004, and the U.S. supply has dwindled in part due to the significant exports of diesel to the EU to assist with their shortages resulting from Russia’s war, the French refinery worker strike, and overall refinery closures due to the pandemic.…

That could have been the sales line for the Fisker Karma?  The too affordable part could have applied to the Cadillac ELR.

You’re being pedantic. Cordless has widely been accepted to mean there’s no cord going to an outlet. It hasn’t meant it’s devoid of all/every form of cords/cables/wires. Afterall, your (if you’ve still got one) cordless phone still has a cord going from an outlet to the basestation.  Your cordless drill has a cord…

someone on the Facebook group already did it and supposedly has a patent pending on the software hack he used. “allegedly”

Just looking at that thing from a truck drivers perspective, there is no fucking way I’m driving that POS. I survived the old COE (Cab Over Engine) Days. I’m in no hurry to be the first thing on the scene of the accident again. Stick that heavy-ass Cummins out there, please. No, waaay out there. Further. Extended hood…

and it’ sitting in the passing lane for authenticity

I’m so happy this is Pepsi and not something palatable. 

1. The credit is for the purchasers of the vehicles
2. The credit expires 31 December, 2032

Have you seen the people and stats of arrests and jail time? It’s not just simply arresting people, nor is it blanket jail time. The anecdotal evidence I’ve seen indicates racism, either by Hertz, the police, or both. For the most part (again, I’ve only looked at about 3 dozen), a white person arrested for Hertz…

I dated a girl once who was a manager for Enterprise. They were going to make her pay for a car because she rented to a guy who eventually stole it. The thing was everything  she did was by the book, he had a credit card is name, state ID everything. Didn’t make any sense. 

As a Chinese-American, thank you. Every time a kinja blog publishes anything that so as much as mentions China, an overwhelming amount of horrendous sinophobic takes spill out in the comments. Little more than thinly veiled racism or deliberate ignorance. Your one critic so far has admitted to being illiterate.

That just pretends regulatory capture and rent seeking aren’t super common.

International trade leads to peace. Nations that are economically isolated from each other having nothing to lose by ramping up aggression. People cheering this move are cheering for our next war.

The US made strategic as well as policy blunders invading both of those nations, invaded the latter on a lie, and left both nations without making either meaningfully better. Or even worse.

China doesn’t control it, they just have access to it... for now. The top 6 countries with the largest litium deposits are Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, U.S., and Australia with China coming in 6th. Guess who those top three are positively aligned with?