Dead brands in the three safest slots. Interesting, not sure what to make of it. They’re not necessarily brands that people are driving super carefully in to preserve, particularly Saturn. (Can I lump myself in with them even though I ended 12 years of Saturn ownership a couple years ago?)

It’s still the case that even when a model exists in the lineup, manufacturers don’t make many of them. The Venue is now Hyundai’s most base model since the discontinuation of the Accent and we’ve had, like, two on the lot in the past few months.

Oh, absolutely Saturn. Among other things, they were nice and lightweight - people talk about a “light” car at 3,500, and I’m thinking how my SW2 was 2,500. Granted, add in the last twenty years of safety advancements and it gets up there, but that idea is sorely missed. The dealer network in the 90s that was…

Nice to see something from the IIHS about it. That means that insurance rates on those vehicles will go up and disincentivize people from driving them right?

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nyc-man-gets-30-years-to-life-for-2019-robbery-that-led-to-nypd-cops-friendly-fire-death/3765091/

Point of order: you don't hear a bald eagle, you hear a red-tailed hawk. 

Yeah, that’s kind of like... their MO at times.

Aw, I missed this. I have no empirical evidence but I still would have submitted my first car, the Saturn SW2. Econobox the likes of which you don’t see anymore, reliable (in DOHC guise), light and somewhat tossable.

Yeah, this was a “bitch about the future” opinion piece disguised as something helpful. Thank you for the link!

Some gems in here. Scars Above is on my Steam wishlist for cheaper than this, but my wife showed interest in Astria Ascending - I tried it and it didn’t do much for me but it’s more up her alley. Price evens out, so I went for it.

“It can’t be considered doxxing if you just Google it.”

Yeah, like... is there currently a strike going on at the store? The article doesn’t say so it feels like they’re getting mad about previous anti-union actions, which - yeah, not cool, but it’s not like he’s crossing the picket line and doing work that actively striking baristas aren’t.

Rarely, yeah. Around town and even the next town over, all electric. I had a slightly longer drive this weekend (45 minutes out, then back, lots of highway) and use *gasp* half a gallon.

If we’re talking specifically motor vehicles, I’m gonna spitball that the Compromise Generation (born 1767–1791) are probably the worst, tied for all generations preceding them.

Yeah, I just crested 100 lifetime MPG on my Volt, and that’s working it up from the previous owner only having it in the 70s.

There are a few OG Xbox games I would love to play again that aren’t backwards compatible. I have the disc, I have an OG Xbox, but getting it hooked up to a modern display is a huge pain, and I’d love to play them on current hardware (even if it is a PC with controller support).

Musk? Out of touch? Never.

Yeah, agile is at this point particularly old code for, “We don’t have clear direction and are trying to do more with less so everyone will be overloaded.”

Gizmodo Media is based in NYC and is unfriendly to remote work, so actually there is a good reason to live there.

As someone who was a brony at the time, I just enjoyed that Tara Strong using basically the same voice she did for Twilight Sparkle added a nice transgressive layer.