Each day I get more comfortable saying I miss the shit out of Barack. He was probably shitty president for at least the reasons why *every* president is shitty (war criminal, beholden to the corporate world, etc.). But you know what? Having the president be a well spoken, charismatic orator is collectively so good…

like a rock

IMO what magnifies this is that while the general shapes are boring, they are clearly compensating for it by making everything that fits inside the regulatory box as angular and chiseled as possible. The humongous kidneys on BMW, the gaping maw on the front of every Lexus, it’s all terrible. Toyota’s entire design…

Pssh, its just a lazy, good -for-nothing union trying to keep its people employed. To do nothing!

I have always found this line unironically hilarious. I have no idea how accurate Victor Garber’s portrayal of Thomas Andrews was, but it’s one of my favorite parts of the movie. 

I read this comment and spent about 10 minutes arguing with myself over it.
The practical explanation would be that something gets labelled “watertight” based on how it performs against where you expect water to come from. Speaking from the construction world, we call exterior glass “watertight” if water can’t get in…

I’m curious because I’ve been out of the motorcycling world for awhile now, and haven’t really kept track of what prices have done since before 2020:

I’m more mad about the C5 slander. I am so goddam tired of how overtly angular and agressive *every* car is now. Give me back to what was essentially a Nike swoosh on wheels.

I had a family friend who was a handyman/electrician, and a panelvan-HHR was his rolling shop for about 15 years. It treated him very well, and he got 200k miles out of it. I guess the lesson there is these are great if you are using them for borderline commercial purpose.

This accident seems like an inflection point for this very problem. The sane world seems more keen acknowledging “get a load of the conspiracy wackjobs” than ever with this disaster. Which is good I guess?

Agreed, although a Town Car is playing with fire because a lot them have air suspension that is now at least 13 years old. It’s not rocket science to get that worked on, but not rock simple the way a standard one is.

I guess I’m speaking on behalf of the millennial community then, as times change. I was there a few years ago: I had taken a job that necessitated a lot of driving distance *and* using it at construction sites. An old police cruiser sounded *perfect* because I didn’t need it to impress anyone, just be cheap and…

The problem here is that this is the furthest thing from “nondescript”. I have a lot of friends who don’t know the first thing about cars, but one of the few things they are conscientious of is that people who roll around in old cop cars are freaks. Let alone this weirdo one that’s been gussied up to effectively be a…

*In theory*, the Crown Vic is the perfect jalop’s car. Cheap, simple, indestructible, and easy to work on. The problem is it’s spiritually owned by the weirdo police cosplay types, which no well adjusted person wants to be associated with.

This I know for Chrysler products because I talked with an engineer about it once: There are essentially dieselgate-adjacent situations where the boss tells them they need to get x-performance figures out of an existing engine architecture. The only way out is tuning the engine to run on mid-grade, and then like…

It’s more about the stupids they are getting that money from. People will believe someone or something is controlling the world because the thought of the whole thing being an accident is somehow more scary to them. Doesn’t matter if it’s Biden, Bill Gates, the cabal on the Jewish Space Lazer, or Tom Petty; it has to…

What’s awesome is that there is real low-hanging fruit here for a bad faith argument about how this ship flagged from one of the Trump-deemed “shithole countries” can’t make it out of an American port without bursting into flames and knocking over a bridge.

I can’t remember what exactly it was, but there was a pretty shoddily framed poll regarding lack of AV confidence presented here recently. The sort of thing where “I want to believe this is true, but I need better reasoning”.

Doing the opposite and making it really accessible sets us up for a funnier data point IMO: If every owner walks out one morning and all of sudden the option for FSD is just there, watch 95% of the new users try it like once, or never at all.