This is a good review of how it works: https://consumerist.com/2007/03/30/dealerships-rip-you-off-with-the-four-square-heres-how-to-beat-it/

must be a really cool (and smooth-cranking) start-up...

That’s a great story! But I have some questions:

I would have thought the simplest thing to do would be to re-run the raffle, this time under adult supervision. Now, everybody who bought tickets is STILL out the money. This was not a raffle, it was a scam. I doubt all the money from the sale went there, either.

I’ve got nothing to add, except Fuck Curt Schilling with a rusty garden tool.

It should have been you, Zack Hample.

I gotta go Uranus over Neptune. Its axis of rotation is nearly sideways! Neptune’s got nothing distinguishing it, except for being the last planet (RIP Pluto). Plus, “Uranus” joins 69 and asparagus pee in the pantheon of things that anyone who was ever 13 years old finds funny.

He was all right, I bet.

Eck’s Spicoli moment.

Most places call them editors.

The USPS sort mark is clearly visible. As for the stamp? All small mail items (letters, packages that are not thicker than 3/4″) are run through a postal machine that sprays used stamps and tracking labels with a luminescent dye of a different color than the stamps original coating to mark them as used. This is not…

I didn’t even want to star this while agreeing with it, it’s so depressing.

Please. Riggs didn’t organize the Battle of the Sexes “as his way of proving to the world that women didn’t belong in the sport”. He organized the Battle of the Sexes in order to gain additional attention and money for his favorite thing, Bobby Riggs

This is what I have always loved about Mazda. They are willing to try new things. Sometimes they don’t work out (Renesis engines), but at least they had the guts to try. To top it off, they are one of the smaller manufactures at that.

It’s wholly disappointing the amount of people who don’t understand a good Bat Boy reference.

This point is 20 years old by now, but, boxing, horse-racing, and baseball have all held and lost the pinnacle of the American sports landscape. It can happen. Over a long enough timeframe, it will happen to football, even if it isn’t laid low by its immediate issues.

I don’t even know why he’s DMing her. Everybody knows he’s a catcher.

Listen buddy, if you’re gonna go after an ex-porn star, you better make sure you can fuck. And if you’re on the DL with a strained hammy, you ain’t fuckin. But A for effort.

Yeah, but the problem is, at least “treason” is also considered a crime by the Constitution, where the “took up arms” argument is a positive one for 2nd Amendment zealots, of which I’m assuming there is considerable overlap among Confederacy sympathizers/mythology junkies.

Obviously, it’s edgy. It makes people uncomfortable. But that’s good. I want people to be uncomfortable.