I don’t know that picking on teenagers who simply want an inhabitable planet makes him a good writer.

Yeah, I’m using liberal as a substitute for neoliberal. Unfortunately most people do not know what neoliberalism is and the bad that comes with it.

Classical liberalism is whatever, not my preferred political ideology but hey its a thing.

Handler is a liberal. (She registered as an independent bc a democrat is ‘too divisive,’ those aren’t the actions of someone with strong ideological views)

By liberals I meant ‘centrists’ and ‘moderates.’

Again, you can simply choose not to defend the guy credibly accused of sexual harassing or assaulting multiple women from a position of power. The same guy who we know covered up deaths in his state to make himself look good/sell some books/gain some more power. The same guy who is blaming cancel culture and him being…

He was never adored by ‘the left.’ He was popular among very certain groups of liberal Dems who would tie themselves to anyone who said anything negative about Trump (ie: BrooklynDad)

There have been hundreds/thousands/tens of thousands of tweets calling for his resignation from ‘normal’ folks to AOC, to Schumer, etc.

Absolutely no one put you under any kind of pressure and you felt a need to defend a dude with a pretty solid track record of treating women poorly (and underrepresenting deaths!!). Not a good look.

Yeah, I reckon that’s all true.

Though the bit about there being no chance anyone keeps it past warranty pretty well argues my point as well. Consuming a new car every three years is massively consumptive! They don’t generally explode at 36,001 miles (to be fair, I’ve only owned Hondas since 2011 and may therefore…

Extra cost.
Extra complexity (“more stuff to break,” ignoring that the screens will freeze at random intervals within a year).

Those are inconveniences.

I agree with your post, but I’m not sure that the target audience for this would consider inconveniencing themselves in any way to reduce the harm they’re doing to the climate.

Alternatively, go to a parking lot for two hours with a manual car and an experienced manual driver. Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Repeat dozens of times.

Yes, I have been personally affected by it. Even if you haven’t gotten the virus or known anyone who has, people are generally social creatures and isolation is hard.

Yes. More than half a million people in the US have died of this specifically in less than a year.

Millions more have not been able to see their loved ones.

I’ve driven from Wisconsin to Montreal in an eight year old Fit with no A/C in the middle of July.

It wasn’t bad at all.

Conversely, Nebraska/eastern Colorado/Iowa are miserable. 

Oh totally agreed. I saw the results for the Daytona 500 and the guy who won the race got less points than the guys in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. I am not a total pinhead (despite what some commenters may say), but that doesn’t make any sense! No rule should make winning a race less valuable than finishing 4th and doing so…

The power isn’t the thing that makes the S2000 special. The shifter in the S2000 is better than that in the ND Miata. The engine sounds are much cooler. The experience of revving to 9,000 and 6,000 RPM being where the car really wakes up.

It is the best car I’ve ever driven by a fairly large margin.

My S2000.

Feel much more comfortable in my ‘commuter’ Fit, than I do in my rather flashy S2000.

I appreciate that NASCAR saw the collective outcry of anger from fans of the NFL/EPL/etc., over rules that require hours of reading to understand and thought, “yes, this is what we want to replicate.”

I don’t often attend motorsports events because so many of the attendees are people I just don’t want to ever associate with (as justified above).