Because he’s Soichiro Motherfucking Honda and he can do whatever he wants.

Funny you bring this up and phrase it that way... I just bought a book by Bob Lutz called “Car Guys vs Bean Counters”.

GM was an engineering company with a CEO who was a business-oriented executive. Honda was an engineering company with a CEO who was an engineer.

More broadly indeed, you are speaking of the USA in general are you not?

Funny story for sure.

they’ve encouraged Catholic parishes to accept and welcome immigrants, but the Vatican City isn’t really a place where anyone who isn’t church staff lives, so I think the criticism they’ve gotten has been unfair. It’s not much more than a few city blocks in the middle of Rome that is almost entirely taken up by the…

President Trump is gonna sign a lot of bills making it illegal for people to be “loozahs” and “hatahs”. Oh God. Just imagine what the oval office is going to look like if he wins! The most luxury oval office in the world.

Studies like this seem to rely heavily upon the assumption that interstellar travel is both possible and practical, that galaxy-spanning civilizations are possible. This is, at this point, nothing more than an assumption. We have, so far, no means of conclusively demonstrating that any species can leave its home solar…

The odds are really against it. There probably is life out there but the most advanced planets out there are planets of beasts. Similar to our own for the vast majority of its time. There was no need for the dinosaurs to become an advanced civilization. Only us, the single weirdo species evolved with our needs for…

Where is the honor? In my day...

Yes, but identifying someone as a dummy just makes the conversation adversarial. I’d rather everyone be able to acknowledge there may be value in the perspective of the “other”, that it is too limiting to just stay with what is familiar. That particular friend is probably more concerned with feeling displaced - the…

Or, hell, a place like Japan where a person of Korean descent can be seen as being not truly Japanese generations after their family immigrated. Or go to African countries where tribal differences are seen as enough to discriminate.

No, sorry, red ones are best.

I think actually what happened was the entire world learned that nurses are severely unhinged. Great. Good to know.

Vaults though, those are awesome.

I see someone here hasn’t played S.T.A.L.K.ER. Shadow of Chernobyl or System Shock 2.

They got special covert superchargers and better computers in them cop cars.

(imported from that little place in Italy called Fragilé )

The Nissan IDx Nismo Concept.

Old enough to not get hacked, or recalled on a monthly basis.