Wow, the word “comrade” and you went all 1950s Anti-Communist. How quaint, and how very Joe McCarthy of you.

So, corporate welfare is fine, but welfare for people is wasteful government in action, amirite?

Congratulations, we have a winner!

It’s honestly the rise of publicly traded companies. They can’t focus on 5 years from now, they have to focus on this quarter and maybe next quarter. And they need to have growth quarter over quarter every single year or else they get hammered by Wall Street and fired. They can’t be satisfied with making a $30M profit…

That gets them halfway there for me. I have two fundamental requirements for a daily driver - a manual transmission and a hatch. And of the seven new cars I have bought, five have met those requirements. The two that didn’t were a manual Fiata and a manual M235i, neither of which was my daily driver.

No joke, back when I was in high school, I wrote a report about the USS Monitor vs CSS Virginia (ex-Merrimac) battle of the ironclads and called it Ferrous Duelers Face Off.

Fuck off with the transphobia 

Call me the market for that truck. I’m married with no kids and few regular passengers. My DD is a 2015 GMC Canyon, my wife has a 2013 Mazda 3 that we do most our errands in. I haul enough big stuff for hobby purposes that I have lots of use for a truck, but even a half-ton is too big.

You mean like, medical insurance “providers”?

If you’ve got 30K that can get you a pretty good Dodge Viper, I can’t understand why on Earth someone would spend that amount on a stupid pick-up truck with the same engine / transmission. Living in Michigan, there are tons of Bro-Dozers out here and It’s a disease. What is even more scary is that folks will pay…

Until 1983 Japan had a regulation that the mirror needed to be visible through the area of the windshield swept by the windshield wipers. Once that law was relaxed, it didn’t take long for the functionally superior door-mounted mirrors to replace fender mirrors entirely (some taxi drivers kept them as blind spot…

I’m a dad of a young

Bucket list stuff is a way better use of your money than a ten year old sports car. You’re going to be unable to move or dead in a couple years spend it like it is your last chance because it is.

The VW.

5-gallon grey water (the aforementioned deuce-dropping) container

You have proven me wrong, I guess there is at least one person out there who owns $300k worth of cars but cares about 5 mpg difference between an X5 and X7 (Charitably guessing a $200 yearly difference in fuel costs considering the price of diesel)

108 is chosen because it’s a recurring number in in the Dharmic religions. Most relevantly to Spiritomb is from Japanese branches of Buddhism which hold there to be 108 temptations that must be overcome in order to attain enlightenment. This is why new years celebrations at Japanese temples traditionally ring their…

Cool, Cool.

Whatever it is, I saw an old 1/30th scale dusty model kit of the car in a back alley antique store in Prague. I didn’t have cash, so when I went back the next day to buy it, the store was gone, the whole back alley was gone. Like it never existed. Somehow I got a picture on my phone, so it wasn’t a dream...was it?

What he said.