Left is sun mandala, right is crescent moon mandala. Your fusiform gyrus is creating the “face”, like Jesus on burnt toast.

H-D is following the President’s dictum: they are going to build them where they sell them. And in another delicious irony, while the President can, for the moment, apply tariffs on imported goods on his own authority, he has no power to “tax” them otherwise without Congressional action, so we may have a chance to see…

Or the cee’d-based Hyundai i30 aka “Elantra” GT:

A model kit from a 1960s TV series, inspired by 1950s UFO descriptions, but possibly some production designer also saw the German drawings, because the similarity is pronounced:

But we just had a Supreme Court decision affirming that business owners can refuse to serve customers with whom they have philosophical differences. Leftists disagreed with it, but as long as it is the law of the land, they can choose to practice their opponents’ tactics, and that should be pointed out to the…

I think it’s telling about Ford’s issues with touchscreens that even journalists who write in depth about such things, let alone the ones who experience them more casually, are unwilling or incapable of distinguishing between SYNC, MyFord, and MyFord Touch. It was really only the last which was problematic, which is…

For good reasons, it’s difficult for the government to deny a permit for use of open public space on the Mall for an event. The main criteria is that the space and time you ask for isn’t already allocated to another event. If the event is a demonstration, and there are no more than 25 demonstrators (presumably not…

Like last year, the version at BB (R615 vice R617) is cheaper because it comes with the Roku standard remote instead of the enhanced remote with voice control and headphone jack.

Because it, like most of the country that wasn’t extensively settled by the end of the War of the American Revolution, was surveyed and divided according to the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and later incorporated into the Public Land Survey System. 160 acres was a homestead, 2x2…

Brushless, touchless washes seem to work just fine and charge the same or lower prices, so avoid old-fashioned ones to encourage their obsolescence and replacement.

The fob looks beautiful, but it seems unnecessarily enormous. Even the wider, flatter ones are annoying to carry in slacks’ pockets compared to keys or even the compact remotes of the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Well, in 1966, no passenger-side mirror would have been typical. Many cars didn’t have a driver-side mirror unless you paid extra for it.

If the review seems irrelevant and you can’t trust it, it logically follows that it’s actually very significant.

If the review seems irrelevant and you can’t trust it, it logically follows that it’s actually very significant.

You understand that the ubiquity of 1/4-pound sticks of butter is a relatively modern development? Butter was traditionally sold in 1-lb blocks, and butter dishes were about the size of a salad plate with a dome cover, to hold a square or circle sliced off the block. Sticks might be available, but at a higher price,…

It’s the key-shaped cake for the digital age of diplomacy.

Hondas built in Indiana are not going to have lower prices than the same Hondas built in Ontario, so prices on US-built cars can rise as well, especially as the supply of exclusively US-assembeld cars isn’t going to match demand. And prices will go up since the president’s minions indicate the US objects to…

While I have questions about why a clean-sheet design needs fillers like it was a refresh of a model that originally had much larger headlamps, e. g. GMC Acadia and Terrain from a few years ago; wonder exactly what material will be used for the fake vents in the lower fascia (Audi has used both glossy black which…

It’s not simply a trope, though. Studies show people are more likely to trust attractive people, and women are viewed as less threatening by nature as well as statistics. An attractive woman is therefore likely to be a more successful assassin in situations that require proximity to the intended victim, as opposed to…

OK, so D-B, BMW, and Audi seem to sell some 900,000 units annually in the US, and build 800,000, some of which are exported to Asia, Australia and the rest of the Americas (at least 175,000 units to China, 2/3 of US auto exports to that country). Most of their cars are expensive, so the imports are high in terms of…