I am always dubious of claims that people were legitimately scared trying to merge onto a highway, partly because my first car was a legitimately shitty 72 vw Beetle that made 60 HP when new but by the mid 80s many of those horses had escaped the barn.

Counterpoint: none of these are terrible. They’re all perfectly adequate, perfectly average cars from their period in history.

I’m so tired of this. Helmets are safer. Loud pipes don’t save lives they just annoy the shit out of everyone else.

I think it’s deeper than that. The consistent position of the GOP since Obama has been “we need to keep those other people down”- there was a significant number of folks who reacted to an african american president, and then to the idea of a female president, and now to the idea of a woman of color as president with…

All I can really say to any crazy new Trump anecdote (just deciding to play music for 39 minutes at a campaign stop, etc) is that boy, America REALLY does not want a female president.

So as I understand it from the anecdote, Trump talked to a friend who builds “the biggest factories.” He wanted to see one of these giant factories, but they’re apparently all in Mexico. Nine months later, there are no giant factories in Mexico because “they” heard that trump is running for president.

Yup. My dad had several rangers and he loved them. Finally got an f-150 when they cancelled the ranger and he hated the size of the thing, eventually replacing that f-150 with a first gen transit connect. The ranger was a perfectly good truck that didn’t require a step ladder to get in the bed.

Fun fact- the H2 which was too big for our roads is dwarfed by modern pickups. Yay progress!

Race car with brake lights and a license plate holder beats record of other race cars with brake lights and license plate holders for record of fastest race car with brake lights and license plate holders around race track.

Basically this

I would argue that the Inuit had the best of everything- clothing designs with 1000+ years or improvement, techniques for hunting, knowing how to locate food, a method of long distance travel still in use today and boats that were perfectly evolved for the waters...

While the english had boiled wool and tinned beef.

One of my favorite stories of the arctic exploration age was that of an explorer who looked at the failures of the previous expeditions, talked to the Inuit and got them to teach him how to live in the arctic, which he did for quite a while, gathering a ton of data (or whatever passed for data in the 1800s), came…

And Child laborers in Shien fastfashion plants can make t-shirts a LOT cheaper than any american worker, so why should we make things in the US? Chinese companies can build cheaper EVs, why are we blocking them from sale in the US?

Cheapest isn’t the only metric.

I don’t know if this counts but I was riding my bicycle, on my way home after a nice long ride, dressed in spandex because you try riding for 30 miles in “man clothes”.

As I’m riding in a dedicated bike lane, some jackass yells at me to “GET OFF THE ROAD YOU F**KIN F*G!”. The car then proceeded to drive past me…

To be fair to... everyone, The CEO of Tesla is the one who added the unnecessary political baggage to Tesla. And while tesla was a cutting edge car 10 years ago, now it’s just another EV, one saddled with a lot of ugly baggage that can be avoided if one just buys something else.

I mean, they aren’t old, they’re just folks who buy the issue about cars every time they buy a new car to make sure the car they’re looking at doesn’t have some gigantic red flags. In other words, normal, non-chronically online people.

I remember, after I got my outback, dreams of mods dancing in my head. reading an article about how most of the mods people make to their outbacks- aggressive tires, lifts, bull bars, light bars, jerry can mounts, tubular bumpers, tubuar agressive looking racks to hang stuuff off- just tend to change your outback into…

All the modifications in the world are not going to change that fact that you have 2 weeks of vacation and they’re already booked out for a family vacation, the nearest race track is 6 hours away and where you live, there is no wilderness camping or rock crawling or BLM land anywhere near where you live.

OK, hear me out: the Subaru Outback.

The Toyota Prius. Honestly they did it once and you still see prius V’s around but with the new look this could be a less awkward looking and even more practical.