Unpopular opinion: On a daily driver, I am okay with very minimal cladding. I would likely take the 4 cross Tourismo over this. Similarly, I like the amount of cladding on my Alltrack. As long as it is only on high contact points like flared wheel wells and rocker panels where they could get scuffed by people,…

A Reminder That You Can Buy A BMW 2 Series With A Manual For Less Than A New Miata

Yeah, it was awesome for the few people who could do it. Then again, Orlove would be simultaneously happy if fewer people could fly, for the environment, and mad that it was all rich people.

On most routes it’s entirely possible to get a pre-deregulation flight experience if you’re willing to pay a pre-deregulation fare. But we’re all a bunch of cheap bastards. Airlines are not colluding to keep prices high. They’re racing each other to the bottom, because no matter how much they whine about the service, t…

For context: a cross-country economy-class ticket before deregulation cost $1,600

That’s like opting for a banana that’s already going brown because the green ones that will ripen at home are a small percentage more..

“as shitty and expensive as they please.”

Or, you can buy a used Miata, and end up with an even cheaper car that will be far more reliable than an out-of-warranty BMW!

Well with the state of the US infrastructure, on road is slowly turning into off road... So I think this Mazda should be able to handle the environment people will drive it on.

I’m perfectly fine with people like Musk or Bezos coming up with useful things such as Amazon or Tesla, we just need to tax them accordingly. I don’t want to “Eat the Rich” or whatever crusade thing, I just want them to pay fair taxes.

You guys give more attention to musk than any of his rabid fans, jesus christ

I’d read C&D’s long-term test updates first. Sounds like a lot of money for a pretty miserable driving experience.

They do have private rooms, and they’re only perceived as “unsafe” because (unsurprisingly) a lot of poor people use them. They end up in bad conditions because it’s really hard to replace them, so they instead get run as long as possible.

California cities have a lot of regulations blunting people from putting up cheap housing, particularly the kind of dormitory-style housing with shared kitchen/bath facilities that would be affordable for students (and honestly anyone who is poor). That’s not exclusive to California, but it’s a big problem. 

As others have pointed out, it’s a mess of NIMBY’s, zoning, environmental law that makes it stupid easy for a single person to stop a development, the way property taxes work in CA, the fact that most people’s entire net worth is in their house, etc. These conditions actually exist in most states, it’s just being…

Zoning. And CA’s environmental laws make it absurdly easy to contest any kind of development at all.

Despite being painted as a liberal fantasyland, there are tons of hand-wringing nimbys out there who would be happy with pushing all of the homeless out to sea on the garbage raft to keep their property values up.

Exactly, the whole manual elitist thing sounds like what you’d expect a beer gutted retiree harley owner to say- “should have bought a real one,” etc.

Look chastising him for driving a luxury SUV is kind of absurd to be honest. Look if you think anyone in the house or senate are “one of us” your delusional. Most, if not all, of these people live in houses most of us could never hope to afford, fly on private planes among other things. And this isn’t limited to one…

I don’t see any lurching or threatening behavoir at all. Inching forward cautiously is perhaps the single best way to handle such a situation.