Cool, thanks! I was honestly curious whether those were highlights or artistic additions.

Were the fenders on the 205 really that bulgy? (Judging from the highlights.)

COVID cases were rising before Thanksgiving and did NOT in fact start going up by more afterwards (they were still going up but not faster than they already had been). All the doom and gloom about a post-Thanksgiving surge turns out to have been false.

I’ll wait for the Beta release.

Awesome, thanks! I was thinking it was just artificial intelligence nonsense.

The translated website does a nice job of explaining it:

Many people, even some commenters here, seem okay with a projected 1.6 million to 3.3 million American deaths due to COVID-19 (“estimates of IFR converging at approximately 0.5 - 1%”). That’s what they’re suggesting when they point out that COVID-19 has a 99% survival rate.

Yeah, I finally got a car with a CD player, then realized that I’d already moved all of my technology over to digital, so I don’t even own any CD’s anymore.

I have a black toilet in one bathroom. Difficult to find.

All good advice. Based on my experience (spousal caregiver), I’ll add this:

...mounted rather inelegantly...

My parents had a 1969 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham that they gave me when I needed a car in college. I have fond memories, despite the cost of upkeep. A 472 ci, 375 bhp V8, I think. It was a wallowing land yacht but a perfect example of its kind.

Mohs cars, like the Ostentianne Opera Sedan

When you replace every piece of the car, is it still the same car?

I think it’s the way she does her hair and makeup. Reminiscent of an older woman who is trying too hard to look younger, but it’s having the opposite effect on her.

But use your judgment. My regular run includes a mile or so along a rural residential road with no markings and no shoulder or sidewalk; I reach the end and then turn back on the same route. Sometimes when I run in early morning or late afternoon, the low sun is almost blinding. Under these specific conditions, I run…

OMG. Thanks. I’m not really a movie watcher, and I never even realized.

I work in advertising (commercial production) and I can tell you exactly why: people take themselves too seriously nowadays.

Cool. In the museum at Checkpoint Charlie, in Berlin, there’s a Mini in which enough of the padding of the passenger seat has been removed so that someone could hide in it.

I read all this with enjoyment—nice job.