Neutral: Maybe it’s because you’re younger than I am, but the shuttle was a big fucking deal when I was a kid. The problem was that it lasted for much longer than it was intended. It should have been a stepping stone to engineer better space flight, but the entire space program pretty much took a nose dive in…

Surprisingly roomy in the back seat. Decent vehicles overall. The only thing I can fault them with is gas mileage.

Not tow capacity. My bad for not being clear. The weight of the truck and the trailer was getting him close to needing a CDL. Shedding the few extra pounds of the dually gives him the breathing room. He probably wouldn’t have bothered except for the fact that he crosses state lines into Louisiana a good bit for work.…

Tell my wife I said ‘Hello’.

Neutral: I’m still amazed at the car market right now. While visiting my brother for Christmas, I went with him to swap in his 2017 Ram dually for a 3/4 ton. He’d been looking to downgrade because when he tows his trailer for work, he was creeping up pretty close to the weight limits. He’d been to a few dealerships…

“Jeff Goldblum AND Cyndi Lauper? The casting practically sells the tickets itself!”

Companies are generally myopic to things like this. They can only think of the advantages and overlook how the tech can be abused.

VW will update the software as soon as you subscribe to their Pay for Our Fuck Ups service. Only $9.99 a month.

I’m surprised no one has gone nuclear on this one yet:
Turn that key or push that button all you want. If you haven’t paid your monthly Ignition Subscription fee, you ain’t goin’ nowhere.

Don’t those systems have a minimum speed before they kick in? If so, I doubt they’d work from a stop.

Not if none of the tech was engaged at the time. If Autopilot or FSD weren’t on, the computer isn’t going to make driving decisions for the driver.

Damn you, sir. You’ve done thrown me down the rabbit hole!

M is fantastic for a lot of reasons. Besides the serial killer angle, it’s very early on in the switch from silent to ‘talkies’. Lang’s use of sound is pretty groundbreaking for its day. Lorre’s whistle as an auditory que is something that modern audiences take for granted.

I’m a fan of film. It’s a language that most…

Well, here’s hoping that he has enough money for lawyers because that is some bullshit. I won’t speak on the insurance side because who knows if what he’s saying is true or not. It’s pretty terrible of the government to try and impose a penalty onto one of the victims of the crime when it seems that they caught the…

The movie is also almost 50 years old. It’s difficult for current audiences to understand how groundbreaking something was then when everyone has copied and improved upon it in the decades since. My uncle saw Bullit in the theater and said that watching the car chase on the big screen made him nauseous. No one had…

Let’s not forget that the main character that the movie and we are supposed to root for started the whole thing by taking uppers and driving so recklessly that he almost crashed into a cop while driving on the wrong side of the road. Jean Valjean he is not.

Those movies were just an excuse for famous people to hang out together, have fun, and put some money in their wallets. And I love them for that.

It’s a weird collection of vignettes stitched together under the premise of grand theft auto to set up that long chase scene, which was spectacular for the day. It’s one of those you watch because you’re supposed to and never have to see again.

You just need the correct context. It’s not a Burt Reynolds film. It’s a Jackie Gleason film.