They are, because we all knew that a new Miata was coming. The Prelude is a dead nameplate that’s being (somewhat unexpectedly) revived, hence the greater excitement around that. They’re both worthy of praise and the world would be a better place with both cars in it, but I understand why there’s greater hype around…

The Prelude is almost guaranteed to be a viable production car at this point. The Mazda is very cool, but it’s more of a longshot given the styling, powertrain, and Mazda’s lack of a Honda-sized budget. I would bet it’s more of a styling concept for the new Miata. 

What gives with the wires? That seems purposely built to troll people into thinking those are bombs.

like parking further away from other cars and walking the extra 20-50 feet into the building you’re going into.

And I’ll add, since you mention insurance fraud which this almost certainly is, the ironic thing is no insurance company would accept a $35K quote for this type of damage and this guy is under no obligation to accept that quote either. Guy 100% needs to get a very vindictive lawyer to go after this scammer.

I do see the occasional IG video of Turo renters bragging about how they make big money by overcharging renters for repairs.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Somehow the owner knows that the ‘renter’ declined insurance ?

“Does anyone else find it odd that the perpetrators come down the street and only target that car?”

Always get the insurance. Always. Sooner or later you’ll need it, and you’ll be really glad you had it. One incident will likely cover all the costs have and will ever spend on rental insurance and then some.

Musk bought Twitter because he’s addicted to it and he wants total control over it. There’s a lot of kerfuffle about some article about “How Musk can declare war on the ‘global elitists’” by buying Twitter, but I think it’s more that he’s addicted to the dopamine hits he gets from using Twitter to hurt people while…

Entire generations of workers have internalized the idea that working yourself to the bone and ruining your health and family life are the only way to be productive and successful at your job. (That was the prevailing culture at the time, so I suppose for many people, it was difficult to avoid.) But with Elon, it’s…

To be fair, Musk’s relationship with Twitter is a lot more like Gollum with the One Ring.

You have to look at it from Elon’s blood emerald mine owner mentality.

I listened to the call - the really good stuff is at 48:30.

The whole argument about “fairness” of WFH is just a thinly veiled way to make the working class argue with itself.

Steve, I know you haven’t been with this publication for years and years, but there was this guy named Nick Denton, and he relentlessly went after a billionaire, and…

Showing any political preference is completely stupid if you’re trying to sell a consumer product. There was a time I would’ve bought a Tesla, but now it feels like a car version of the red MAGA hat. 

Wait, a company with a reactionary idiot CEO who also happens to be trying to be CEO for multiple other companies at the same time is struggling now that there are actual problems to resolve and competition from other companies?

Elon’s famous for saying that if factory workers can’t work from home, software engineers shouldn’t get to either. But that doesn’t apply to him, does it? He’s in an intense leadership role in multiple companies. If I told my management “Hey, I’ll be spending eight months of the year working at other companies, but I…

I might be able to muster up some empathy if all his problems weren’t knowingly and willingly self inflicted.