Damn, I wish I’d have seen this before I placed my orders last night. I’d have totally accepted things coming after Christmas from another site, to not virtually cross the picket line... 

Absolutely not. I’ve been in Subaru culture long enough to know how this thing was driven, just by looking at the hood scoop. Future rebuild, sooner rather than later - if the ring lands aren’t already shot.

That interior is straight out of Pimp My Ride...

Don’t get me wrong, a lot of older Gen X aren’t too far distanced from the Boomers (and most of us don’t claim them), but at a certain split, we’re an awful lot more like those who trash talk us, than the bad ones.

As always, check what else is attached to the bill. There’s a power grab hidden in this one.

Starting to wonder what won’t break a Cybertruck...

Starlink is satellite RF internet for terrestrial use. It has no place in this discussion. It is in no way a focused beam like a laser and, in fact, is in every way more like NASA’s existing radio transmission than what you’re suggesting is “overpromised”, yet apparently suggest is also feasible.

I was using the 4 megabit the article noted. 300 miles of laser through turbulent air is quite different than 140 million miles filled with space dust and other objects (space is not empty, so you can’t assume line of sight will always be available). 200 gigabit is theory. 4 megabit is practice. When 200 gigabit…

Fair, but your second point still stands, as does mine - it just makes the huge numbers smaller. 31,250,000 isn’t any more feasible than 250,000,000.

For all the self glorification he desires (and insists upon), Mr. “Art of the Deal” is basically constantly giving more than he’s getting. If he feels the Heritage Foundation helped get him into office, he’ll throw as much of Project 2025 as he can at us. A lot of it is already in his “day 1" plans, from his Agenda 47…

Petabyte per second absolutely does mean the duration of the trip per packet has to be short - it also means you have to be able to send a massive amount of data in the stream. Latency would be atrocious as well, at any speed at or slower than light. You’re talking a ping of 22m22s. That’s 1342000ms - roughly…

It’s adorable how Elon Musk keeps trying to re-create trains and buses, but worse...

Rodents of unusual size? I don’t think they exist...

Having driven both, LA is somehow way worse, with way more lanes of freeway. It’s the population, no doubt. LA proper has fewer people, but it has millions more trying to get in and out of it every day for work. Plus, Seattle’s scenery is nicer.

I’ve driven that road! Such a nice driving road, but yeah... zero room for error in a few places, and definitely rock/mud slide country, under the right conditions...

Yeah it completely ends the issue, from everything I’ve heard. Indy mechanics pretty much always recommend it. Dealerships are a bit more constrained in what they can recommend without a customer request...

They should use MLS gaskets, but as far as I remember (my current scooby is an FB, so admittedly I haven’t kept up) Subaru never issued a TSB or anything for the paper ones, and paper would still be the OE replacement part. Someone in the know should be able to request them, but without prompting from corporate, the…

They weren’t reformulated for the EJ25, people just noticed they can use the steel ones from the WRX on the NA engines as well. That’s an upgrade rarely done by those who’re the sort to enjoy an automatic transmission - it’s enthusiast knowledge.

Clean shell for a swap, but the price is too high for that.

I had those kind of vented windows on a Geo Storm wagon. They actually work surprisingly well for allowing airflow, aside from either needing someone in the back seat, or to open the trunk to open them quickly yourself...