The whole point was 12 days of *celebration*. What you’re talking about is two long months of *exhortation towards preparation* with a message to CONSUME.

That’s the difference between the capitalism that seemed to work so well in the middle of the last century and late-stage capitalism. I had just been thinking Bezos deserves to be rich but he should be Cadillac rich, not private-space-program rich. 

Vaccination!

And if you do want to start a car service it’s hard to see a 20-year-old supercharged Benz as being a reliable enough platform to build your business on. 

“The food-dash places are looking to be the single-source provider so that users aren’t having to sign up with lots of different places.”

This is different, though. This is getting into a quasi-legal fake taxi that’s really just some rando’s Chevy Cruze. Anything else is just phony techbro gloss on that reality.

Ever notice how the openly-partisan Republican media NEVER dooms about the GOP’s chances? Imagine if Fox News back in spring 2020 was out there saying “Trump’s gonna lose, folks, he’s saying otherwise but that’s just putting a brave face on it. Watch how he’s botching covid after having never topped 50% approval even…

2nd; It’s interesting how eager the so-called liberal media seems to be to hand not just the midterms but the 2024 Presidential election over to the GOP. 

I’ve done this before in my old Toyota Yaris when I’d locked the keys in the car but found the hatch unlocked. Get in through the back, reach forward to flip the lock button on the door handle (no power locks), close it all up and get in the driver’s seat through the door.

2nd; Musk wanting to end all subsidies including those he personally has benefited from (but will sunset soon for his company anyway) sounds like someone who’s climbed to the top and now calls for the ladder to be pulled up away from potential competitors.

My work buddy and his wife are looking at buying their Nissan Sentra when the lease ends in a few months. The buyout price is $9500 and the book value of a 3-year-old Sentra was $17k(!) when they looked last month. I told them that for the $9500 they’d probably be looking at something 10 years old with 120,000-plus…

It still needs a joystick;

My “one that got away” was manual and not a Scooter so at least it wouldn’t have been *that* slow or plain.

There’s quite a few, Trabant, Reliant three-wheeler, any full-size American car with straight-six/3-on-the-tree and power nothing...

That’s a different body style altogether. The car Torch posted is from the very early ‘50s and was made by Hebmueller. The one you posted was a standard factory body from the late ‘50s/early ‘60s and not a “Zweisitzer” by any means but a hardtop coupe in the style of contemporary Detroit iron with the same interior…

Someone made the point that even if it does go live there’s a proven track record of right-wing-safe-space social media underperforming and being dependent long term on donor funds. It’s about “owning the libs” for most users and if there are no libs on the site to own it gets boring fast. On top of that, Parler, Gab,…

For years I thought it was post-WW2 since the cops showed up to free Flick’s tongue in a 1947 or ‘48 Chevy.

Weird, since Jalopnik is technically based in New York City (is there a worse place for a car site than midtown Manhattan?) but its’ writers are based all around the country. It’s surprising the banners have that much independence. 

Ford seemed to have been onto it, when they restyled the F-series for square headlights in 1978 they moved the blinkers back under the headlights;

I always thought it was a waste that Ford came up with such an incredibly distinctive headlight signature and DIDN’T use it on the Cop Victoria.