incorporated retro design cues without making it feel cloying or cartoonish ... <snip> ... the DN Compagno takes some design cues from

It would be so much easier to live closer to the city or in it,

Why does an article about a Ferrari lead with a drawing of a (lightly modified) C-3 Chevrolet Corvette?

“No Haggle” is NOT about the price ... it’s about NOT HAGGLING.

Are these diners pit-stopping at a fast food joint along a highway (motorway) while on a long range drive? That’s the only scenario I can imagine where you use the drive-through of a fast food joint but don’t return to your home/hotel room/workplace to eat. Do these particular places have no dining rooms?

I am curious why they didn’t go with a conventional layout for the truck,

You mean the hundreds of communications satellites that are already in orbit, whose owner/operators would love to rent out for limited transmission time, would not work?

WHY IS THE FRONT END SO UGLY!?

mostly dads and retirees bought C4 Corvettes when they were new

Attractive car? Yes. Original design? Fuck no. Other than the grill and maybe the tail lights, the whole design is utterly derivative.

There’s no such thing as a “legitimate” emotional support animal ... they are nothing more than a pet used in place of a childhood teddy bear / favorite blanky.

Thank you David for this quick and efficient write up! I’ve been annoyed for years upon years by people who demand that those words have special and uninterchangeable meanings in the here-n-now. In this modern era, they are definitely synonyms.

This whole psychosis about “exceptional service” needs to be killed with fire. And that means getting rid of the people who create and enforce these kinds of rating systems / policies within customer service organizations. Those people are utterly and irredeemably evil.

turns out they’re monitoring

Okay, make it an Expedition then ;-)

If a Chinook is a Suburban, what is a Super Stallion?

“why China can do this and not California.”

Drone fanboi? Or just a troll? For fucks sake ...

There is no rational basis for speeding tickets (including automated ones) other than local revenue and the corrupt insurance industry

But solely in the spirit of being unpopular, I think carpooling can work more than people think - as long as they don’t expect it to work every day without compromise and a little effort.