I was defrauded by Budget once.

My Pao has it on the right.

I remember having 2 kids in daycare. It was like the equivalent of paying for a luxury trip every month or a monthly payment for a supercar. 

This is tough. I suppose the most middlest of the middle gets two armrests, and I suppose the two flanking middles just get their outer armrests, and, in an ideal society, a free alcoholic drink.

The worst part is that other car makers are copying Tesla’s bad ideas because they think that they need have those features to be considered a cutting edge EV maker. I might have considered a Mach-E but for the fact that they decided to do that whole massive-touchscreen-that-controls-everything instead of just having…

And yet Elon will never notice you.

Be grateful you don’t steer with the touch screen. That wan’t a request. Be grateful.

F this bridge. Seriously. Build a new bridge that’s higher. Eight more inches isn’t solving the problem either. I know they will need to build up the land around it even more, and the cost of doing so will be even greater. Just do it.

the ability to 3D print whatever the hell we want.

A friend of mine dropped out of college because of WoW, but I ended up getting him into Halo 3, which miraculously pulled him away from WoW. He eventually went back and got his CS degree years later. 

Yeah that line reminds me of my father calling Japanese cars “tin cans” back in the 90s, though it was irrelevant even then.

Yep. I watched a friend fall down the rabbit hole, “get clean,” then relapse multiple times to devastating effect. The guy vanished from his social life and nearly torpedoed his career so he could keep up his raiding schedule. 

Find me an “American” product and most of the time it’s still made in China or comprised of a high percentage of parts made in China. I will purposely try to find things not made in China for political reasons, but it happens very regularly that the cheap brand, the mid level brand, and the high end brand are all made…

- The vehicle itself is made of spitwads and straightened-out paper clips.

Ugh, I have had this discussion in the past with some Tesla stans.

Atacama desert(in Chile) is one of the few relatively untouched places on earth until lithium mining. The response I have gotten in the past is, “who cares about a desert”, from surprisingly a lot of these posters.

Some people are born boot lickers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Yeah, no. My TLC was directed at people who clutch pearls about an abstract notion of “safety” every time a non-US market vehicle is presented as a conduit for reassuring themselves that they are socioeconomically above someone else.

It’s not about safety, it’s about pointing down and laughing. “I am concerned about…

It is nearly impossible to get many Americans to care about how Black Americans are treated by the US government. Getting them to care about people (oftentimes non-white, oftentimes poor) outside of the US seems less likely than me being vaporized in a tokamak.