Every turd you release into the wild is another chance for an unsuspecting potential buyer to step on it, say "eww" and remove the vehicle from their wish list, no matter how good your future pooper scooper plan may be.

It’s probably a matter of logistics. With thousands of Ford dealers around, it would be hard to keep track of where the good tops are going and tracking the disposal of bad tops. For example, look how long it took for OEMs to take care of the Takata airbag issue. It took YEARS. It’s sad for buyers, but it’s a more…

It sort of looks like when MDF suffers water damage, which checks out as Ford says it’s humidity that causes it:

Should have gone with Lego or IKEA.

Too much liability, on top of it being easier to have one centralized depot or assembly plant to repair the vehicles already built but not yet shipped.

Always and forever

As someone who has looked into Webasto products in the past, and backed out after hearing feedback from other customers, I’m not at all surprised that these tops are not up to snuff. What surprises me is that Ford partnered with them in the first place.

It’s not a defect, it’s a value-added feature for extra rarity!

I think that a cruise would be the perfect setting: public opinion on cruising is at an all-time low: and cruises are perfect encapsulations of privilege meeting the serving class; sailing on a well-oiled capitalism-driven behemoth. Throw in a potentially darkly hilarious COVID outbreak narrative and you’ve got a hit.…

I seriously am tired of “What if Superman were Evil?”. It’s been so overused at this point for the past decade that the idea of Superman played straight seems more like a genuine subversion.

Wow. Superman, but villain. Fresh take.

It was deliberate storytelling, that we often are not granted narratives by Indigenous people. And instead we are given the same stories again and again like Rachel’s, that seem to garner more sympathy than the much bigger tragedies like those of Kai’s.

Yeah, but I think it was intentional that people were duped into sympathizing so much for her, and then Belinda was like nah, no more of this white women nonsense. You were just ahead of it (Rachel is still a victim of class structure, but marginally so).

So, were we supposed to understand that Rachel was struggling the whole time with the temptation to stay? Because she was literally shuddering at his touch the previous morning. The whole time, I thought that she was struggling with the temptation to leave. Is the idea that, had Belinda given her even a small amount…

All the white people on the island have committed burglary of the Indigenous lands and continue to do so. Kai wouldn’t have to steal if the White Lotus hadn’t literally stolen his culture and identity. 

Save for him first asking, they invited him. He went from “we need the dead weight” to encouraging  him to participate because the kid proved himself and they needed him. Kind of a hard diss to call it cultural intrusion when it just boiled down to rowing an outrigger canoe.

I think it’s supposed to be both? Quinn can sort of break his families patterns, but there’s something wrong about him getting a happy ending by literally inserting himself onto the boat and a culture that isn’t his.

Yeah she could have admitted she had goaded Kai into it and explained why. She was never going to be turned in to the police by the Mossbachers, and she and Olivia could have probably convinced them not to press charges.

1. I might be in the minority here, but while I sympathize with Belinda for Tanya flaking on the investment, she did hand her an envelope with what appears to be $20K in it (2 straps of $10K) and she didn’t seem the least bit appreciative. I know it’s a downgrade from what she was promised, but it’s a hell of a lot more…

After Shane Paula is the worst person on this show.  She ruined Kai’s life and if she had any courage she would have admitted that it was her idea.  Instead she feels sorry for herself.  I found her a terrible person at the end of this show and not at all sympathic.