Waiting for J.D. Vance to blame this on immigrants.

Am I the only person who remembers the armed military guys outside the airport post 9-11 who would not let your car sit for more than like a minute before they started getting shouty and aggressive?

No, the Beetle was requested by and built for Hitler- he wanted a peoples car (thus Volks Wagen). It was literally a piece of Nazi machinery. Mitsubishi didn’t sell the zero as a private plane after the war, Ford didn’t build the model A to appease Hitler. And Edison was an asshole in LOTS of ways, but he never…

3rd gear: I wonder how long its going to take for us to realize that maybe, just maybe, the USA is not as great a place to live as we’ve been told.

I’ve got several ex-pat friends in various European countries. None of them left the US because they hated it here- a couple got assigned to europe for work, a couple got…

YESSSS just release it as an NFT- no need to build it, just make it a special $3 million token with stats attached- pay more and get special features on your NFT that no one else has...

The beetle was a holdover from the nazis that we were all ok with because, well, zee germans were white and aristocratic, after all. Not like those evil Japanese.

Now that Top Gear is finished, I doubt a single one of these cars will ever be driven more than parade speed at a fancy event.

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.