They still function without connecting to a phone. Mine has a few albums saved to it, can Bluetooth to headphones, and record a workout while I listen to that download all without my phone present. It can connect to wifi by itself and play games or use other apps without needing a phone, much like any internet based…

Thats because they eliminated the base S trim from a few years ago. So the current base is basically the 2nd tier of comparable cars.

That was my take with a lot of these. I’ve seen almost all of them and would rank them from forgettable to competent. None were especially great and I don’t recall any being terrible. For most, my kids were excited about it and then didn’t care once it was over. They still prefer the animated versions for all of them,…

Exxon, like other oil giants, knows the real money is being in the cartel that controls the base resources, so they want to be sure they get those rights early.

Because giant monster fights are awesome and it makes the writing a lot easier if one of them is at least willing to side with humans. 

Does anyone think they’d act this way if they had someone constantly watching them and correcting their behavior as they grew?

This seams like a really weird car to try to halo too. Are there any other examples of a common(ish) car getting a $250k+ twin? Plenty of trucks or SUVs that can swing from $50k to $100k with a lot of shared architecture, but $270k is a whole different class of car.

I bet Amazon went with palm reading because that doesn’t have the same ‘police state’ connotation as fingerprint reading or eye scans.

As someone who has spent a lot of workdays walking various roads, that was one of my first thoughts. It’s one of those very tragic deaths that was easily preventable on many levels. Roads are very dangerous on foot, always assume that drivers don’t see you. I saw plenty who would have hit me if I wasn’t paying…

The target must be highly valuable for anyone to want take a stab at making a deepfake.

I hope the orcas don’t get injured.

Only the Protestant part. The White Anglo-Saxon part could apply to a number of Catholics. While I heard various people in those groups talk shit about each other, I’m pretty sure the social/political overlap in all non-religious activities between the 2 is almost a circle, so I could see them getting mixed up some…

I suppose fraud is a slight improvement compared to how those headline photos are typically used for pastors.

This is largely off topic, but was that upbringing generally referred to as waspy-catholic in one? I had a strongly catholic upbringing and those people had a negative connotation to the wasps, and vice versa. I could see the 2 sides coming together to push out democrats though, as anti-abortion stuff was one of the…

The most disappointing part of my Catholic upbringing is that they leave out all the interesting history lessons. 

I’ve gotten a lot of rental cars for work and had used for them for a daycare drop off or pick up, so I probably moved our car seats through at least 25 or so models over the years. It definitely depended on how accessible the latch hooks were and which hook style the seats had. With the seatbelt, I can easily see…

Mining sand costs money, whereas dirty diapers are abundant and hypothetically free

With how many microchips my family and I have, we better be getting gig speed while camping soon. 

My wife had one in college. At the end of it’s life, the engine would die if the HVAC was still running after she came to a stop and not always start without a jump. She had to turn off the heat/AC every time she approached a stoplight, which was awesome in Midwest winters & summer. Multiple mechanics at different…

An early 90s Saturn SL1 for my first real solo drive at the local college campus on a summer Sunday morning. That’s where my dad took all of us for our first drives. Giant parking lots, parallel parking areas, a loop road with mini merges & exits, a few stop light intersections, and almost zero other cars around. Made…