Wow. You made what I was thinking sound petty and silly, and stopped me midtrack from spewing it to the world.

You’re right. Good for them. To be able to heap such lavish sums of income, roughly the equivalent of 2 yearly salaries, on to another.

Once you get into the nitty-gritty of the Joshua Tree ecosystem, it gets even more dire.
Much of the soil is held together by bacteria in the top layer of said soil, making sure it can take in the bits of rain each year and not get swept away by wind. This bacteria can be wiped out by a single footprint, let alone tire…

The title has been changed, but the link still says 1897

1897 model year should be smog-exempt by now.

Same for Georgia

I believe the only correct answer is MASSHOLE...

Why is ‘Californian’ classified as an -ian instead of an -an? The ‘i’ is already baked in.

THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT

“And strangely, in my experience, the change seemed to de-prioritize posts from friends, while sponsored posts, celebrities, and “influencers” got more screen time.”

...the fuck did Guam ever do to you?

According to Ian Rapoport, the Raiders “can’t unilaterally move” to the park because it falls under the San Francisco 49ers’ territorial rights within the market.

Jesus, camber please, I vommed/concussed looking at it.

There is one English guy here - [name, redacted] - a freelance journalist who we invited to take part in this stage. [Reacted] is more used to automatic life in Shanghai so he is stalling like crazy. He’s getting the hang of it though.

Alanis, I believe this was just a bad translation. Let me fix it.

I heartily disagree. If Geely intended to include foreigners, they damn well should have had everything in English.

To be fair we got the invite and chose her for it, because she’s a great writer who understands and advocates for the culture of motorsports. We knew she’d get a good story, and she did. It just wan’t the one we all anticipated.

That was defective. They effectively didn’t provide one.

Thank you so much! Fun fact: That PR person actually wasn’t there and never met me.

I understand Alanis is a small town girl with limited exposure to life outside of the USA so I imagine coming to Shanghai has been a major cultural shock for her at all aspects.

Great story, Alanis, glad you made it through to tell it. That sounds like a whole lot of fuckery, and the organizers look hella disorganized. I wish you secretly understood Chinese so you could say exactly what the hell was going on, and if they really were gaslighting the fuck out of you guys like they seeemed to be.