Depending on your strategy, it can be helpful to guess common letters in uncommon placements. Especially if you are on hard mode and don’t want to get too locked down too fast.

Hate to break it to you, but a bunch of these tools have actually been created using the actual list of Wordle words. I don’t actually think the one in this article was created that way, but some people have figured out how to optimize for the words selected.

because I tend to fear the worst.

Perhaps a pod that travels along some sort of fixed rail and hauls multiple passengers?

Harley riders are the TT group; Tavern to Tavern.

I didn’t mean that as a dig at Yamaha, but a comment on MCs that look down on bikes that don’t have the right image.

Yeah, but that’s almost entirely from outside the biker community. I don’t know any clubs that push away Harley riders. There might (and probably should) be some, but the majority will always welcome a Harley.

Lego has been offering movie spoilers for years, so why not reveal a chassis?

That same agency is even doing the same damn thing for another company, Verizon, who’s giving Jim Carrey a check to exhume his Cable Guy schtick,

A lot of it is that HD is a near-automatic entry to the culture. People may like other brands, but no one questions your credibility as a biker with a Harley. You try to ride with some of the old-timers on a Yamaha or something, and they may give you some shit.

Transformers. Not only did they change Bumblebee, but every single vehicle that could conceivably be GM, be it a tow truck or a robot, had to be some sort of GM product. There were just no other manufacturers in that world, even incidentally.

I don’t think you realize how bad White Collar was. They interrupted a conversation to talk about the blind spot monitoring in a Ford Taurus, culminating in the line “relax, this is a Ford Taurus, it practically drives itself.” They included the line “the tax payers love the FBI for using the Ford Fusion, our gas…

Not a movie, but White Collar had painful product placement.

I’m kind of waiting to see a bunch of semi-exotic and luxury cars to flood the market when people decide that Turo isn’t worthwhile. Enough techbro types decided they could afford more car if they rent it out a lot, and I don’t think it’s able to sustain that kind of investment for them, even without controversy and…

Hybrid should be easy, too. They already have the Hybrid Tucson, and I believe the platform is shared. Really poor choices tying the turbo to the higher trims and leaving out the hybrid. But they may have wanted to save something to release for more buzz later, I guess.

And a few of the Crosstrek for the budget-conscious and/or child-free.

I think the case for an autopilot that does the freeway driving, but requires the driver do city driving (takeoffs and landings, in a sense), is great, but level 2 requires extra vigilance in a way that is unsustainable. Aircraft autopilot works really well because the variables are more predictable at cruising…

Oooh, let’s trick the rich into building a rail network for public transit! They want their fancy trains to get everywhere, but they don’t want to maintain the railways forever, so they’ll need to let public transit also use them just to get them maintained.

The system is made to keep the “bad apples.” Suspensions of 5 days, inability to terminate for on-the-job actions, and defenses that ignore that an enforcer “public servant” with a gun and authority might have different standards than someone’s personal choices.

Sorry, the thinner wheels, I meant the metal face of the wheel looks like really thin metal. Looking at the light coming through the front wheel, it just looks kind of thin and chintzy, though it may not be.