I really don’t understand why more people aren't shitting on Walmart for this. They kicked off all this bullshit, and that tweet showcases that.

The elimination of the 3.5mm jack was done for creating demand for additional waste by a company that wraps it’s marketing message in green cred.

That's a really strange comparison to make.

It angers me that people may sit out this election because they don’t really like Biden. They don’t understand that this election, like 2016, is Trump vs. Not-Trump.

But Hillary’s emails! Benghazi! She’s not likable enough! She needs to inspire me! /s

I was planning to sell my manual 135i because I have too many cars. Yesterday, I took it out on a spirited drive in the santa cruz mountains - to pick up 50 lbs of tomatoes - with the kids. One of them threw up. But I had a goddamned blast and changed my mind on the sale.

This is a very interesting point that I hadn’t thought of before. It is kind of insane that there’s a job at the highest level of our government where people work until they die.

Yup. I have an M car with a manual. Yeah, it can pretend to be a sports car, but 90 percent of the time, i just drive it around in the city, where I live, while it’s in eco mode. And other than a choppy ride, it basically feels like a luxury car in that scenario. And in that scenario, it’s a mildly more engaging…

I am just going to say this but she should have retired in 2014 when the Dems still held the Senate and she knew she had end stage pancreatic cancer. She was an icon but that doesn’t mean she didn’t fuck us totally by not stepping down. 

Right? I’m STILL enjoying my 2008 A4 Avant with a pretty solid 6MT drivetrain on the daily (or well almost daily given COVID). I have GPS with traffic (sometimes, RDS-based TMS is sort of unreliable), leather, and all that jazz. The manual neither adds nor subtracts from the pacakge, objectively. Subjectively, it…

Who are you, and what have you done with Jalopnik?!

Agreed. I had a 2010 Audi S4, manual. Automated everything, with a nice fat short stick in the middle. It was a sublime match, much like my Chromecast audio paired with my Jolida tube amp - until the usual VAG electrical demons came for it and destroyed the experience.

US 101 from Los Angeles to Port Angeles.

Depends on how you like to play games, but at least as far as “advice I wish I had when I started playing”: don’t worry about missing some side-stuff. I played the game the way you are playing it (it would seem), and I’m like 70% through now and VERY burnt out on it.

How little MS seems to want people to buy their new console. 

It’s this. Just like Its-a Me-a Mario. Same thing.

Looking forward to my inevitable purchase of a PS5 God Of War Ragnarok bundle next Christmas. Think I'll be fine till then. 

Any for all you PS3 hold-outs, it’s finally about time to get that PS4! 

Joking aside, the actual view 200 miles in:

Good luck waiting for that to happen. I too wait for the day when this discussion can be had with a tinge of nuance. I do not expect that day to come anytime soon.