I know the older VW’s used to say “leather seating surfaces” meaning ONLY where your ass touches and your back touches. The bolsters and seatbacks were all vinyl/pleather. You couldn’t tell when they were new, but after a few years they faded at different rates and it was pretty noticeable.

I dunno, look at the leather seats in some of the old Lincolns. They’ll look like nicely-broken-in leather furniture, with that lovely graining and exquisite comfort but in fantastic shape and looking like they were genuine money. You won’t see that in most modern luxury cars.

To put it more compactly: if you change Obamacare’s name to Trumpcare but leave the rest of the program exactly the same, Trump’s poorly informed, cult of personality supporters will immediately reverse course and declare it the best thing ever.

Beef McLargeHuge?

Yeah, I worked in a veterans home for a while, and some of the families would talk about how the behavior changes were so heartbreaking. Their parent had been a super nice person, but then as the dementia set in they became increasingly paranoid - which led to a lot of fear and anger aimed at anything that felt…

I had to chuckle when Bernie Sanders was made into a second incarnation of Joseph Stalin. What, because he wants student loans to be forgiven? Finland and Denmark pay every young adult a monthly salary to go to university, which is also tuition-free. Because Sanders is for universal healthcare? Some developed nations…

I agree entirely, but then it all comes back to class. As long as there is money, power and agency derive from money and, due to the effect of interest on debt, some people accumulate infinitely more of it than others over time, vast power imbalances are so inherently baked into the system of human self government…

Some guy literally just replied to me and said “Thank god people like you don’t have a choice in where the money goes” lol like anyone is gonna get to take a ride-along in an F-35.

Sadly, the Republican Party (and the Democratic Party, and the media to a degree) has actively cultivated and encouraged people to move towards the lowest common brain denominator.

“Allegedly” should stand, as infuriating as that may be....

From one Minnesotan to another may I say Oh yah, that was a corker.

Yes, the security aspect should not be underrated. If you give your cleaning lady a key, that key is only one copy. Even if she cleans for five people, she’s not a big fat target. If a million people give Amazon a key, that is exactly what it will be. Someone breaking in (or getting data from a crooked person working…

Right? People laughed and said it would never be possible. Nowadays? I know people who aspire to own a Tesla. They are calling it their “dream car.”

Oh, totally agree there. But even though noone planned it, it’s nice that it’s there for others to study and see what they got right.

They did have the flair to change the Frank Burns character into a different sort of antagonist. Or change the loose Henry character into a very stern Col. Potter.

Noone knew it would…

The only way it’s our fault is by continuing to watch garbage programming.

No need to pretend, that’s probably exactly what happened.

I like to pretend that Pininfarina had some decent designs going in the early stages, and GM focus-grouped them all into oblivion, until we got this rounded rectangle

I would drive the car for at least a couple months and interview owners who have had the car for 3+ years to understand how often repairs and maintenance is needed. Then compare this to the brand itself and similar vehicles at other companies.

“Every generation of Skyline is the best generation!” - Internet

Remember those laws about not locking people in planes until the lemon-soaked paper napkins arrive? I’m pretty sure they were getting the passengers out onto the terminal and Williams wanted to push the baby instead of carry, andthe staff knew that there was no viable way to go digging through the checked luggage…