What I feared was that Toyota would build us a ridiculously stylized, plasticized, and overtly twee suburban soft-roader with overly complicated and unrealistic ‘features’ that add nothing to it’s functionality but look kewl in all the pix.

SUVs ruined the sports coupe market. Marketers think that

While trying to excuse the undeniably deleterious results of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas is in poor taste, especially in the eyes of the descendants of the people conquered, converted, or enslaved, the knee jerk reaction to the ‘Nazi comparison’ is way way WAY hella off target.

derp

If any branch can figure out a way to get something out-dated, out-classed, and worn-out to still function in a combat setting, it’d be the Marines.

the military, in general, has lowered standards and expectations for each successive iteration of a training school. Maybe not for the MOS/Job Skills portions, but for basic soldiering, definitely

Goddamit ... which finger is the index finger? First finger? Then which one is the pointer finger? Why aren’t these goddamned things labeled?!?

despite the invocation of divine wisdom, has not yet lifted a ban on Syrian refugees.

school has also not explained which rules anyone on the cheerleading team is supposed to have broken

Okay. But. Where in Syria are these missiles going to land? On more innocent people? Or do we actually have a plan....?

“Construction: Canvas rather than fused” .. that entire sentence (fragment) makes absolutely NO sense to me. What on god’s green earth could that possibly mean? Seeing as how “canvas” when a noun rather than a verb is a TYPE of fabric, and “fused” being a method of connecting two or more objects to each other ...

Them Russkies been doin the weirdy contra-rotating helicapopter thing for a while as well:

Any thought on if Python is a good place to start for a kid interested in programming? My 14yo son has expressed interest in coding, but he’s not some Mr Robot type uberhacker or other matrix-y kind of guy that sees vertical lines of glowing green code everywhere he looks ... he’s just a kid that thinks it might be…

The entire “mobility” concept is a plan for complete and utter failure if they want to sell cars in the US of A.

I wouldn’t call it plain ... I’d call it inherently elegant in its understated simplicity.

Oh for christ’s sake ... all those hand wringing worry warts ... that “tornado” was about as dangerous as a frickin dust devil ... the kind of swirly breeze that I walk/drive/bike through every spring and summer.

Using general traveling common sense goes a long way.

It seems you didn’t apply food/lodging $ for that trip type.

I don’t know how I feel about the concept of tying citizenship to military service

I’m a tad bit annoyed about how so many Jalopnik writers are regularly trying to throw shade on crossovers by referring to them as minivans (half of all articles on the Tesla Model X calls it a minivan when it is clearly not a van at all, mini or otherwise).