I think it’s really dependent upon the details of the situation whether such an arrangement is worthwhile (I suppose that sentence can apply to pretty much anything).

WarnerMedia tossed a huge pile of money ($550 million) into the mix to secure exclusive streaming rights of South Park for HBO Max

I really think you may be on to something there.

I try to airfry almost anything now that I’ve learned that there’s really no “frying” involved (I pictured some sort of dangerous hard-to-clean oil mist). Actually, I just use the “airfry” setting on my convection toaster oven, and the results are pretty great.

“How to write complete headlines at your job as a professional writer, because yours suck”

I like looking at these, but I’m certainly not enough of an extrovert to drive one. I would certainly admire it at a car show, though, and I think it’d be cool for a VW dealer to have in the showroom as an eye-grabber.

It’s a bad deal for the mid-career employee in your example for sure, and I wouldn’t expect him/her to jump at this deal.

...deliver the Ford+ plan.

His cousin Sal Minella is a real piece of work.

It’s become really hard to be an optimist this past year-and-a-half, but I’ve been doing my damndest to try.

I know this is not the accepted Car Guy take, but I really like Prowlers.

I remember learning as a kid how bees communicate with each other by “dancing” and then encountered a bee in the car on a road trip. When we shooed it out of the car, I wondered if it could just fly to a new hive, do its little waggle dance, and fit right in... or would the other bees take a look at it and ask: “Hey,…

Paging Claire!  Claire, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Lord help me, I’m starting to like this Safari style of cars.

David Puddy approves of dip as an entree.

Y’know, I’ve been toying with the idea of breaking up with this entire family of sites for some time. Most of the good writers left for better opportunities when they saw the writing on the wall, and Lifehacker in particular went way downhill posting clickbaity nonsense like advertisements for contests disguised as…

I thought “laundry stripping” was my process of getting undressed in the laundry room and throwing my clothes directly into the machine in an attempt to have just a moment of zero dirty clothes in the house.

I sure hope so.  Every restaurant has a friend chicken sandwich on the menu -- what sets B-dubs apart are their interesting sauces. 

Is this the “chip shortage” I keep hearing about?

The bit about PRs is interesting and timely for me.