He had a deep discussion with his ex-wife about how people can change by pretending to act the way they want to act, eventually becoming engulfed by that personality. He had a big classroom discussion about the social circumstances of when it is okay to execute someone for the social good. There was no plot twist…

I keep seeing this take and I really don’t get it. The ending was totally predictable with multiple scenes along the way that set a clear foundation.

Then ya, there is 100% no reason for a cop car to be there outside an active emergency response. 

As someone who makes at least one 300+ mile work trip every month, sometimes up to 5 between different cities, my advice is to get a rental for those trips. The exception would be if the company will be paying you a stipend for the car. If those trips are making up the vast majority of their driving, that means they…

Not sure if this is a drive on beach, but there are plenty of those where people need to watch out for cars. There are tons of families with little kids, though, so about 99% of drivers do a good job crawling along slowly. Most of the cops are in a side by side of some sort instead of a car too, which is way better…

Any engine bay where I cannot reach the battery, filters, and spark plugs without having to remove something else. All of those, especially the battery, should be right in your face when the hood goes up. 

I couldn’t get my 7 & 10 year old to finish Inside Out, so I’m also in no hurry to see it. They like plenty of other Pixar movies, but really didn’t care for this one. Wonder Park was much more well received by them.

Nope. He said some asshole things, got fired for it, adjusted his comedy a bit, and now he’s really successful. He admits why he got fired and pretty much makes fun of everyone, including right wingers. I haven’t seen his full specials, just various clips, but he kind of reminds of Dane Cook or Daniel Tosh. Not the…

A nice rule of thumb to remember is that when an app or website are free, YOU are the product being sold to make revenue. 

The company I work for has been getting bought & sold by PE firms every 3-5 years for the last ~30 years. They varied from totally hands off, letting the execs operate however they preferred, to getting ridiculously hands on, causing employees to leave from stupid changes. Some had good changes or provided the money…

Most brands now operate in a weird space where they have some economy entry level while the top spec is a semi-premium that’s not quite as good as a true luxury brand, but getting awfully close (when new). The Telluride, Ascent, Palisade, ect have all been competing at discount luxury models for years, which is why…

$45k isn’t a high price for a semi-premium 3-row SUV when $35k is entry and most brands top out over $50k. Looks like the Acadia tops out around $55k, which is the same as the top-of-the-line Telluride. The previous gen entry level Acadia was priced similar to competition, but it was awful compared to them - smaller,…

Based on his wiki, he spent high school at a boarding school in Rhode Island before attending both Georgetown & UCLA. He never had to think of money the same way most people have to think of money.

That is absolutely poverty level. Mississippi has the lowest household median income in the country, and it is almost double that at $52k. Pretty sure I was able to make ~$17k a year working part time in a kitchen back in 2010.

Seeing that we’re in an election year, I bet businesses are scared the pushback will be even worse than last year. They want to go after the market, but also trying to stay out of some MAGAs campaign speech. 

The competitive part it is huge. Looking back on life as a straight white man with a Catholic upbringing, there were absolutely zero systematic roadblocks to my success in life. Even in a low-income house, my only real obstacles were things like trying to get good grades or save up enough money to do things. That…

In hindsight, maybe the people who burned women alive in public shouldn’t have been the founding moral values of our nation.

A benefit of the expectation for corporations to show values is that it has made some of them show their shitty values. The expansion of pride themes forces companies like Chickfila and Hobby Lobby to acknowledge they are backing anti-LTGBQT & anti-abortion groups that are actively taking rights from people or makes…

This still falls behind a Volvo, G-wagon, Genesis, Audi RS Q8, Avant, or as others have stated, BMWs own X5 M for a slightly less ugly SUV. 

GM: This union deal will kill us! How could we possibly pay for this labor and keep the jobs in America?!