I’ve spent several days in Phoenix at 100F or so and it’s almost pleasant if you’re not in direct sunlight. I’ve spent the past week in the high 90s in Seoul which has humidity comparable to Central Japan, and as Ketchup and Sneaking say the humidity makes all the difference. I’ve had the same experience that Sneaking…

If the first gen hadn’t existed, I would think the current gen was a perfectly nice-looking car. But in a world that overuses “iconic”, the first gen truly was iconic.

Regardless of how seriously we should take them, there are basically three ways the MA’s season will end:

England englands England.

Just to clarify: 1) It was a settlement, not a fine. 2) VW didn’t bring the appeal.

Yeah, they are. They designed their device to look like a USB thumb drive to an unsophisticated parent, they made it as small as they could, and they instituted a sly “astroturf” word-of-mouth marketing campaign. It is the only e-cig to have become a verb among teenagers: “juuling.” Not vaping, juuling.

“Oh, God, oh God, ohhhh, God....”

And hangs, and hangs, and hangs. You can measure the display time of that volume screen in geologic spans of time.

And rubber floor mats. No salesperson wants to lose a sale over floor mats.

No sales of arms to foreign governments are ever fully “in place” until the U.S. approves them. There is growing Congressional opposition, but Trump favors the sale.  http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/22/fighter-sale-to-turkey-could-pit-trump-against-congress-f-35-military-pentagon-russia-s-400-national-defense-authoriz…

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Except that often selling consists of a deal to make some of the components in the customer’s country.

And the list continues:

This is meta-sarcasm, right?

I’ve been asked by the City of Seattle to make a deal for Mr. Trout.

Serious answer: I don’t think it’s correct that Democrats don’t consider this issue. Since Sanders ran for President, they are certainly considering it more. If by Democrats you mean the party leadership, I think you have a good point. I think we allowed ourselves to be pegged as “tax and spend” during the Reagan…

But anyone to the left of Jones wouldn’t have been elected in the general. Jones won by 21,000 votes out of 1.3 million votes cast.

Goddam it, yes: vote, vote, Vote, Vote, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE! And tell all your friends to get out and vote, too. No systemic reform is needed (constitutional convention, etc.) if people would just vote.

Flat-bottomed steering wheels, as part of the fakery trend. Flat-bottomed steering wheels were originally designed for the cramped confines of a race car’s cockpit. Not a problem in the GTI “but it looks so coool...”

I’m an Audi fanboi, but all the reviews I’ve read so far say the X1 is a better, more solid ride.