I always go back to my first programming professor on this stuff. On day one he repeatedly said that computers are stupid and they don’t do anything right or wrong, they just do. The only thing they are capable of doing is exactly what we tell them and when we tell them to do it. The output isn’t right or wrong, it is…

I think they already flipped on that

Dang, a bomb neighborhood got blown up? This must be one of those cities that got burned to ground I keep hearing about. Or was it an epic 90's themed community that’s been lost?

That’s why I said modern transmissions. I know a ton of cars made the move from 4 to 5/6 for a while. Now the 6 speed seems to have died out in favor of the 8, 10, or CVT as the majority. There could also just be a bunch of 7 or 9 speeds I don’t know about it’s not really a thing at all. 

These are the same people who think the government is full of corrupt, lazy, liars, while also thinking police departments are the pinnacle of honesty & hard work. Or people who claim to use the bible for their beliefs, but completely ignore anything from the misogyny to the basic dietary rules in there. Absolute beac…

I read mostly terrible things about the 9-speed used in the Traverse & Renegade. I’m sure they could have improved them, but those were the big negatives when I was researching both of those cars. They’re the only 2 I know off hand that use a 9 speed though. 

Is there a reason why even numbers are so common on modern transmissions? I know GM has a 9 speed for their big CUVs, but 6-8-10 seems to the norm. 

Want a used Tacoma at a good price? Fuck you, too bad.

My primary Uber use has just been to/from a hotel or airport, so that tends to be pretty simple. For a few events I’ve gotten a ride to, I’ve run into the problem where I accidently set my “drop off” location somewhere that cars aren’t allowed. I always tell them to just pull over where we are and I’ll walk the rest…

As a current father to young kids, that answer depends a whole lot on what your idea of a good role model is. In my house, I’m the role model and I teach my kids that movies are fake entertainment. I’m about as interested in a movie providing moral guidance as I am in social media influencers guiding my kids. If you…

No, these are just Prime originals, many of which are probably not very popular. There are still loads of male actors leading entire franchises. Not only that, the proliferation of international media has made it easier to choose various nationalities too. Your entire statement just reeks of “male replacement”…

Based on no evidence, I would assume the Venn Diagram of people who use TikTok and people with paper maps are 2 completely separate circles.

Hopefully Disney isn’t taking the wrong lesson from FatWS. I’m sure there are some vocal online people who don’t like Mackie in the role, but the main knock I had was that they tried to do too much. There were so many stories & character arcs rolled in there that they all felt rushed and incomplete. I’m sure there are…

The best hotels are the ones that I can just cast my phone to so I don’t have to deal with logging into anything. That’s been pretty rare though. That hotels with streaming always seem to have a previous login still active, so that at least saves time. 

I love those classic paint schemes on these trucks. 

Did he change or did he just decide to start using the world’s largest megaphone? When everything he says is the wrong thing, I’m going to assume it is the megaphone. 

Without doing anything to confirm it, my assumption is that for Europeans who called China the East, the Persian nations are roughly half-way east. Making it the Middle East. 

Seeing what cars we could pick up was always a fun game after football practice in high school. Pretty shocking what 4 fit and determined teens with nothing better to do can move.

Thanks to the Bush wars and any media channel I’ve ever heard talk about the region, I think it will remain in the vernacular and be more common to say Middle East instead of Southwest Asia. However, I had a geography professor rant about it a long time ago and decided that I want to die on that hill with him. 

The original Yule logs of the Norse or Saturnalia by the Romans was way more fun than the watered-down Christmas we get. I guess that’s just what happens when Christians take over something fun.