Almost every mechanical system fails eventually due to wear/heat/friction. Whether or not it does in a reasonable time is down to the execution.

Exactly...if Nissan and their dealers didn’t use that buyer pool to peddle mediocre products with predatory practicecs they could carve out a market.

I don’t think that there’s anything inherently wrong with the concept of offering some inexpensive cars and extending credit to people who might not otherwise be able to purchase a car. In fact, I think it’s a great idea.

I’m kind of of two minds on this.

On one hand, fuck insurance companies trying to weasel out of paying what people are owed. As long as you aren’t literally being fraudulent, full coverage should be full coverage. Doesn’t matter if you drove it hard, that’s what a sports car should do and the insurance should cover…

As they should. Overrevving is 100% user error. Hitting redline is the engine’s method of preventing overrevving. Mechanical overrev is what happened with this car, apparently multiple times. One can mechanically overrev their engine without experiencing immediate catastrophic failure, also knows as a money shift.…

“’unknown cargo detection and evidence collection system’ designed to prevent vehicle owners from becoming a “blind mule” for drug traffickers.”

Ford helping everyone find free drugs! That’s how I’m taking this.

NO WE AREN’T.  YOU TAKE THAT BACK.

Kinda racist, though, eh..?

Odds are good it won’t be, but even if it is, they’ll have fixed it by then. Or just take lots of Sudafed beforehand to make sure you’ve got really good and open airways ahead of time! :-D

I would’ve gone with “Planes aren’t air tight like a Riley Reid gangbang” but to each their own.

A 737 climbs at roughly 1800 ft/min on a normal departure. That can be fast enough when unpressurized to rupture eardrums. Hell, most people’s ears pop even with the cabin pressurized. 

It’s real bad that I saw “January 2019" and thought “oh, this thing was brand spankin’ new.” When in fact it's probably got millions of miles on it.

darthspartan (awesome userid) conveniently gave us the flightradar24 track, which includes the tail number: N916DU. Plugging that into the website airfleets.net gives us the history of the aircraft. This is a Boeing 737-932ER, serial number 64884 LN:7379.  It was delivered January 30, 2019, so it’s about five and a…

“Raising a cop’s grump” is hilarious. Cops wouldn’t survive an hour in retail. Imagine if they were held to the same - or perhaps even a higher - standard.

My first two cars (an 89 and a 5spd 91) were 3rd gen maximas. TERRIFIC cars. 90s Nissan was peak Nissan. They were just as good as honda and toyota at the time with more personality.

Maybe its because I am in a bad mood today. Maybe its because I am now a middle aged male. I am not at company number 9 in my career. I spent well over two decades in the tech industry and now work at an older established financial firm. If I could retire today I would. None of the companies I worked for really care…

Ya, the last wave was with the stupid RTO demands because the companies had expensive leases and had pressure from local governments because local businesses were suffering. So they pressured employees to come back into office and watched their morale HR KPIs plummet. Now they’re trying to increase this metric so they…

Tech companies have been trying to downsize since lockdowns ended. I don’t feel like looking for the article, by my hypothesis about tech company RTF mandates ended up being confirmed recently: CEOs did it to downsize without explicit layoffs. I firmly believe GM is doing the same thing now. Give weird requirements…

FIRST GEAR: Ah yes, loyalty pledges. This is something that’s coming into vogue across industries. If people are deemed not sufficiently excited or enthusiastic, they’re viewed as low performers or disloyal and removed from the business. I’ve heard of this happening in tech companies already.