Here are several other ways of saying that.

The Angles

I think everything you said pertaining to hypercars being more about bragging rights than performance is absolutely true... but simply blaming a horsepower figure I think is kind of missing the main issue.

For the HP vs. Torque crowd:

we, as a society, have too much horsepower.

People in the comments already calling this a hot take but we love to bring out that old saying:

Tom’s writing is so shiny! So chrome! While Kinja AV Club has become MEDIOCRE.

So when I’m getting down to my N.W.A. or Wu-Tang, which I’ve been listening to and singing along with for 20 damn years, you’re saying I can’t say the word that they say in the song? That’s ridiculous. It’s a song.

Cost. Mazda has the engine and trans in another car. It fits in this car. Developing a manual that works with this engine is a lot of cash.

Socialist pimples look exactly the same on video as capitalist pimples.

You can agree to disagree, of course, but I do not see the ethical issue with what she’s doing, why she’s doing it and how. There IS an ethical issue afoot here, though. That being our inhumane healthcare system, which she is doing some small part in helping by offering these procedures for free. Her patients clearly…

“people are adults and they routinely trade things that others consider degrading or power-imbalanced for consideration.”

I confess to watching videos such as these all the time. Pimple popping, tonsil stones, ear wax removal, etc.

He’s never quite all there, which makes blowouts watchable:

Howard’s shooting numbers are better than Ewing because Howard takes 80+% of his shots from 5 feet and in. Howard was a much better athlete than Ewing (at least the NBA Ewing) but Ewing was an overwhelmingly better player with more skills than Howard had even in his prime. Ewing developed more as a player during his…

I will gladly concede that point, as I alluded to in my post. I’m just saying if all you care about is success on the court, there is very little difference between the two whether you measure by individual or team results.

It’s a win-win for Jennings. The NCAA would applaud him, since there’s no way a student-athlete should engage in anything resembling professionalism. And since he’s demonstrated a marked lack of professionalism and awareness of how to handle the situation, he just jumped to the top of Tennessee’s coaching search.

When you put it like that it’s unironically not that bad of a statement. Extremely unprofessional, but not bad.

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