The audi e-tron has a weird shifter too, but I guess they had to make it slightly dumber here because VW is the budget brand? That’s one thing that really sucks about the VW/Audi relationship. If Audi gets something cool, VW gets the disappointing fart version of it so there’s a reason for consumers to look upmarket.

ah good another one who wants to shoot the river, i really hope you’re not in charge of anything more important than manually shuffling boxes around in some warehouse

That’s... extremely bad. You just caused an accident and someone is pounding on your car window. You perceive a threat, but not imminent. Call the police. There are plenty of bystanders and you’re talking about fucking shooting? 1, you’re going to kill someone else and probably yourself for being such a hothead. 2, it’…

I think the problem with the 300 C and everything of its ilk in that stable is they’re horrible to drive and have worse crash ratings than most competitors. Luxury cars are normally where safety features get their start, and we expect them to test very well according to modern safety standards.

this is going to flop badly

doesnt say how long you kept them or how old they were and it’s still a small sample size - basically a meaningless measure of anything.

My point is tangential to the article, that this upswell in nostalgia-fueled hobbies, marketing, social media, etc. has the same kind of stink to it that all the awful aging Baby Boomer cultural trends had. Synthwave is probably a good example.

This is cool, but I think something needs to be said about nostalgia making whatever generation it is driving this demand see things that were never there.

I always thought this thing was off-putting in how it just dripped its early 2000's-ness. It’s Pierce Brosnan in a suit with bad shoes of-the-era. And now, most of its style is dated which will probably age better in the coming years. In the present it still feels like something where moms in the late 90's/early 2000's…

The thing that sucks about this is if he’s any good, you guys will Barry Sanders him and there will be all these discussions around “what if he didn’t play for a decaying city that made him sad and couldn’t put a team around him.”

I think we’re overly focused on boomers. A bunch of my family members passed away over the last 5 years or so. I’ve been going through their records and there’s been a lot to parse since my family hoards paper. There’s this massive gap between my grandparents’ generation (The Greatest Generation - WWII, etc) and my…

This is a weird take, the Raptors have an equally awful strategy in building around Kawhi. They picked him up from the Spurs, and their success is completely built around him. If he goes so does their entire identity, and worse this time - it’s a rented identity. This isn’t like Doncic or D’Angelo Russell where…

Embiid getting SARS didn’t really help them this series. If Embiid’s not sick, sixers vs bucks is a lot better basketball than raptors vs bucks.

Oh shit, Jalopnik’s lost all credibility they’ve built up with Proud Driver!

I demand you address my fickle niche market that consists of a handful of childish backwards-looking consumers!

lol every reply to this (including this one) is about how dumb of a take it is

I’m also largely exposed to the market with my investments. I guess the answer is economics and ethics in economics are complicated?

Stock investment and IPO’s are intended to provide businesses with cash to invest and grow so our investments are arguably productive in that sense.

The vast majority of what falls under rent seeking behavior is not a productive use of economic activity. It’s usually zero sum or worse activity where you’re making money at the expense of society and it’s net non-productive because it adds layers that waste people’s time. Rent seeking inherently externalizes these…

Mercedes showing off their sick post-collision primered and ready for paint at the body shop look.

I’m not sure how you thought comparing being a democrat in Oklahoma with sharing nutty, false, and harmful conspiracy theories would help your case. They are clearly different things and just because they are both potentially controversial speech does not make them equivalent in the slightest. Furthermore, freedom of…