came to say this is extremely tame markup for a porsche design product. It’s usually something like a $700 blackberry in a metal enclosure selling for $2k and also it will be obsolete in 3 years

Professional Widow (2016 Remaster) (youtube.com)

yeah, “i respect and praise what beyonce is doing but am just not into a pop star’s country album” isn’t the spiciest take out there

from the photo it looks like the cover slides forward and gets pinned under the gap where the lower dash/bulkhead meets the floor, holding the pedal down. Not sure how firmly it holds it/how hard it is to dislodge, but “any” is the wrong answer for a car driving in real world situations

i thought of volvo too, but they fell victim to corporate consolidation/parts sharing with ford on stuff like the lousy s40

thought the same thing, any company close to this is likely exclusively developing/selling low volume, “cost is no object” cars, which yeah- given that they should all be good. Among “normal” automakers? Porsche maybe? 

Given i’m dropping off of invincible due to the cheap “yeah that was a big, impactful moment where that character died, but guess what? they didn’t really die” fakeouts, more heroes is the hardest pass for me

NYC also let ben chen off scot free after driving like a jackass on drugs (and on film) and hitting a bunch of parked cars with a gemballa carerra gt

hahahaha, yeah that’s up there with the ferrari FF handling 4wd by having two independent gearboxes

Wild to think that the time has passed for “i wouldn’t buy it but still want it to come to the US” euro cars. Weighs a million pounds, no stick and priced into 911 GTS territory? CP, I’d get the GTS or two hellcats if i had to have that much horsepower

I agree (and given the biases this site has for musk/tesla it’s worth a thought for “is this unique to tesla or common and we’re cherrypicking”) but for how few cybertrucks are in owners’ hands this seems like a high hit rate for issues far beyond interior fit and finish quirks

or you could go the german route and make maintenance on a pedestrian car brutal in service of the center of gravity being half an inch lower...a top consideration of the avearage crossover buyer

i see you live by the volkswagen principle: “is this issue minor enough to live with or do i take it in and run the risk of different/more things going wrong”

The simple reason people keep using the service is because it’s convenient and what they’re already doing. The ubiquity of amazon, despite their negative employee management practices being fairly well-known at this point, is a good example.

I agree with your take on the gatekeeping/social nepotism in comedy and would extend it to any art at any level. You are also correct that art, unlike something like sports, has no (or at least very few) objective measures of value and there is no rhyme or reason to why or how a new idea is successful or not 

It’s a kinda inverse of the conservative construct that military and police are automatically and inherently virtuous, good people incapable of wrongdoing instead of... a collection of individuals- some very good, some very bad and a whole lot of average

true, especially the corporate fandom. I guess this would be like steve jobs’s going all out bigoted asshole in the early 2000s when ipods were shaking things up

thought the same thing: very well could be a producer, etc. but those aren’t big names that drive clicks

it’s the perfect storm: celebrity self-victimization timed with a memoir release and a healthy dose of hot-button issues like gender and body image dynamics.

at this point it feels like some sort of office betting pool for wedging things like “boeing, cybertruck/musk, republicans” into articles that don’t require it