I read your whole comment. Your second point (gathering model information, comparing it, etc) is salient, but you driving one yourself should have no bearing on the prediction model, so why do it? It’s what statisticians call “anecdata” or anecdotal data. Your single experience can’t and shouldn’t be considered with…

What would driving that one car do to determine reliability across a fleet of vehicles. You don’t seem to understand how prediction models work...

In order to get good reliability metrics on a car, you’d have to buy thousands of them and drive them hundreds of thousands of miles. That’s obviously stupid, you’d agree, so instead, they take figures from research. Remember: they’re not rating quality, they’re rating _reliability_, a metric that can only be measured…

Pretend you’re saying “fob” like it’s an abbreviation of “fobulous”. It feels way better.

Interestingly, this very thing happened to my 2015. I don’t think it’s a problem limited to 2013-2014. Thankfully they covered it under warranty at the dealer. A $6k fix O_O

I’m confused. I’m pretty sure when I read Outliers, Gladwell specifically and on numerous occasions in the book pointed out that the practice had to be continually pushing one’s boundaries in a deliberate manner, which the first quote describes pretty much the same way.

She *is* brave, but not for the reason you might think. The guy’s not fucking dangerous. Most people aren’t dangerous. Most people just want someone to talk to.

I don’t get why people care this much about the house. The entire point of the house was the non-descriptness of it, the total forgettability of it. I think I’ve seen this exact house 1000 times around Phoenix.

Indeed; carbon fiber isn’t structural, so something else is. Why would a body shop ever just assume?

They were burning alive in the car and came out with some pretty severe injuries. I’m not sure any amount of money would be compensatory.

> Instead of welding the roof, per Honda’s repair guidelines, the shop used adhesive.

It’s not a masterpiece. It’s good, but it’s overlong, muddles itself in some already-explored territory (corporate evil, etc.), and doesn’t have a “tears in the rain” moment. Dowd’s review is inaccurate in saying that it’s beholden to its predecessor — I don’t think the parts where this movie echoes the original are…

I actually participate in hatred of all subcultures (even ones akin to things I enjoy myself). They’re based on nothing of substance except for the shared un-earned pride of a thing they had nothing to do with the creation of.

This happens with any show that has an anti-hero. People with no sense of identity latch onto the show because they have nothing in their own lives to be proud of. They’ve done nothing; they’ve created nothing; they’ll never be anything. So holding themselves high on some pedestal of superiority for LIKING A…

> Its a shitty business run by shitty people trying to appease shitty customers

> and there’s lots of talk of manufacturer-direct sales coming into effect

There are many countries that use the imperial system and _haven’t_ landed on the moon, as well.

What’s your game here? What do you stand to gain by defending clearly stupid or overreaching laws?

The new Dirt game has this.

OH MY GOD THE _SOUND_. THEY FINALLY FUCKING GOT THE SOUND RIGHT.