Ender’s Game was a pretty brutal book - and they really missed on that in the film. Orson Scott Card has totally gone off the rails these days, odd because in the end the theme of Ender’s Game was empathy and being able to understand people, a theme that continues into Speaker for the Dead.

I read a wrinkle in time as a child and I’ve totally forgotten it. What they did to Ender’s Game though was unforgivable.

Surprised at the CP comments so far. Looks reasonably well done. 944s in poor repair can be had for a song and this is a reasonably good way to save one. I imagine the slightly heavier doesn’t do it any favors but I would definitely give it a shot. Any fast car that can be had under 10k is NP for me. 

I’m in South Florida - the minimum rate for a boat dock in some of these places is - 700-800 per month. Gas is closer to 5-6 bucks per gallon at the fuel dock and it’s 2 200 hp motors. His boat was about 60 grand-ish...? So what, 900 per year to insure? Either way - we’re right around 1000 - 1200 per month.

I had a friend with a boat... I think it was 17 or 19 ft with two outboard motors rated at around 200 hp? The numbers he shared with me were terrifying. Insurance and docking fees were 1100-1400 per month and your average day out on the water cost like 200-400 bucks in gas. So yeah, cheaper than a lake house, BARELY,…

Are these really that much better than the cheap Chinese ones? I mean I guess if you’re underwater right?

I’ve driven several. The steering was fine, but nothing to write home about felt more like a GT than a sports car to me? I am not running the Supra down but it’s nowhere near the Cayman for me, and not particularly better than the 964, and certainly not in the same league with 70s or 80s 911s.

Not sure you know how wages work.

Hot take: Supras were always kinda heavy and not that fast. You could turbo the shit out of the A80, and it was genuinely fast, but it still weighed 3500 lbs, it wasn’t especially great in the handling and feel departments. My 1998 4Runner weighs like 3800. So for a car of the era, that’s pretty hefty. It was always a…

Does this dude ever sound informed or sincere?

Lol. No. There isn’t a metric that decides lowest salary, only a decision made by the people with the most leverage. And most of the time, the people with the most leverage have the most capital, and they didn’t acquire that capital by being valuable, they acquired it by starting out in a wealthy family to begin with.

Given the design on the new GLE and this design, it looks like Mercedes is finally fixing the disaster they currently call front headlights. Those things are currently ugly as hell. Now, I think the GLE looks better than the A in this case, the A looks like it’s squinting.

This is a false analogy and a dumb argument. Show me the equation that decides whether labor is worth 1 bit or 2 bits - wages are decided through bargaining, leverage, and other pressures. Nothing to do with the value of work. If that were the case, workers would be earning more with rising GDP. That isn’t happening.

Yeah wow - and honestly, I think Emily Blunt is a fantastic actress, but no one, and I mean no one could ever be as beautiful or sing as well as Julie Andrews at that age. Honestly they can have Sound of Music Julie Andrews, but I think she was just tops in Mary Poppins.

I’m 37 and I have a hard time keeping it together when I hear “Let’s go fly a kite”

Champion is huge. Ive been there a few times for meetups and it’s a monster. I guess we will see how it plays out but the little classic Porsche collection they have at my best guess is worth well over what they could get stealing deposits. It would catch up to them faster than they could make enough money to make it…

Do you even solder bro? Remember when you used to open laptops up and add or remove components without having to replace anything major or buying a new machine? This is why I still drive 20 year old cars. 

Do you even solder bro? Remember when you used to open laptops up and add or remove components without having to…

I’d be on board with this except for two things. I know a few people in government and not all of them are really all that wealthy, DC is expensive. Second that would mean the poorer districts would have representatives that couldn’t feed their families. I guess what I was thinking was that it would be good to give…

I see where you’re going with that but that would also disadvantage reps from poor districts.

That’s a fairly good idea. All members of congress, cabinet members, and other key positions should make the median American salary. Let’s go hog wild and make it 10% MORE than the median American salary. Maybe then they’d care a little more about labor. When they complain it’s not enough we can say they need to be…