In regards to lightweight, reasonably powered sports cars, the ToyoBaru twins are still available. The MKV Supra isn’t exactly a porker, and it has less than 400hp. And if you’re going for something to be a second car for dedicated track/weekend use, new Caterhams are between $30k-$40k for the sub-200hp models.

x1,000 on the “anything that’s not a miata commentary” (though not necessarily on the headline.) Too many “modern” sports cars are seriously unenjoyable on 99% of roads. You’re either going at genuinely irresponsible speeds or you’re basically pottering about using 5% of the car’s potential.
My E36 M3 was right at the…

If these lazy leeches didn’t want to be pulled over, then they shouldn’t have broken the law. It’s what’s wrong with this culture: a lack of respect of rules and order. It’s important that they have stricter policing and should probably have more patrols to ensure these lawless thugs don’t raid a pension fund or fire…

There’s definitely an aspect of rage bait going.

At some point, some time, somebody had to have told you not to drink bleach, or you didn’t learn until you could read the bottle. Because children need to learn things, which is why a lot of schools actually do teach primary school kids the dangers of drinking household cleaners and other substances. Ever seen the Mr.…

This show is what happens when the writing is too on the nose with the lore and acting is stifled by fan boy shouting. This show is sapped of ingenuity to appease “canon”. You can’t tell a new story anymore without the public railing for the same-old.

“Ooh, that’s bad!”

We have arrived at the crux of the issue, I think. At the question “how much violence is the state allowed to use with our tolerance and for our protection”.

All rape is (also) psychological abuse. I don't see your point. There is no good rape.

It’s not “counterproductive”. It is an abomination. Again, I understand the sentiment, but we must decide to not be like them. Not to forgive, fuck forgiveness. Certainly not to forget or excuse. But we cannot become like the rapists.

Look, we can talk about the death penalty. But there is no “rape penalty” - and there shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be, because it then normalizes rape, a thing which is not normal and has no justification ever. I understand the hate and revulsion, I feel it myself. But this narrative of “haha, you’ll go to jail and…

Rape is rape. There is no good rape and bad rape. It is all bad. Rape is not a tool of reformation or an instrument of revenge. We are not Tate.

If you can’t read between the lines of this story about a shitty celebrity coming into an unethically low-paying job and complaining about the location’s low sales numbers on his trash merch, then I’d argue that you’re more likely the person who’s never done retail work. That wouldn’t be fun for anyone but the largest…

>But there is no logical reason for her to be a Paladin, even with 5E’s loosy goosy half assed requirements.

Yes. Their inability. Because whenever someone brings up the “right to exist” question, you know they’re arguing in bad-faith.

So the Palestinians in Gaza see settlers rolling into the West Bank — where the Palestinian Authority has endorsed a two-state solution, has essentially acted as a security subcontractor for the IDF, has “played by the rules” — and thought “I know we don’t have it so bad in this open-air prison, but see how much…

Likud hasn’t exactly done a lot to win them over, have they? You think cutting off their power, water, economy, and ability to travel endeared Israel to Gaza’s residents? When ‘settlers’ marched through Arab neighborhoods destroyed shops, when they tore out olive trees standing for generations, when they illegally buil…

Would be harder to do if Isreal hadn’t immediately responded by committing a war crime on territory that they effectively control. Thus causing massive risk of life to innocent civilians through an increased lack of food, water, and utilities.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine has been going on non-stop since 1948. When is it ok for people to speak up and say the deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime? When would you grant that permission? When they’re all dead and gone I suppose. 

Condemning Israel for committing war crimes is antisemitic? What do you call the countless Jews who have called out Bibi, Likud, and the “settlers” for a decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing and provocation?