It’s obviously not what, it’s where, they’re consciously shafting customers in rural areas and smaller remote cities. There are recent message board posts with hundreds of pages of similar complaints already, and established magazines have already begun reporting on it. I can tell you that when I called their CS…

This is a great example of Bezos’ genius: Amazon stopped even pretending to try to fulfill the “2 day delivery” promise they used to induce most members to join Prime in the first place (I haven’t had a delivery arrive in less than 5 days since summer and my last Prime purchase, a $20 olive oil sprayer which was…

There’s also the inconvenient fact that it hasn’t demonstrated any real ability in the snow, at all.  Kind of a problem for everyone north of the Ohio.  

It isn’t. I live in a far northern city and have had multiple AWD vehicles (Toyota and Audi) that I ran in winter on name-brand all-season tires (Michelin, Conti); my current winter car, a Gen-1 Mazdaspeed3, even lowered on coilovers, with the cheapest winter tires I could find on eBay (Federal), is way more…

Considering Toyota refuses to accept custom orders, meaning at best you'll get whatever your dealer can snag from the vehicle configurations they deigned to build, fantasy is a great descriptive word choice.

My friend, let me introduce you to the Tavern League of Wisconsin...

Well, there’s the whole thing with Elden Ring being a legitimate contender for the single best videogame ever made, which is not something anyone with intact faculties has ever said or felt about an Ubi game.

Just go to a broker and tell him to find the best package rate on all your lines, you'll save more than that without having to submit to any nonsense. 

They’ve already been doing it for years with their OBD spy device programs like Progressive’s “Snapshot” (I love that they didn’t even try to hide the Orwellian nature of the product, they literally gave the game away with the creepy name itself and suckers still bought in). No matter what data or privacy laws are in…

The 80s were insane. I used to go the new mall near my house all the time to hit the Aladdin’s Castle, alone, with whatever quarters I could scrounge (plus I would almost always find some tokens in the returns of the machines). I was in first grade. No one batted an eye; today that’s probably a near-certain arrest…

Yeah, well, you may be right, but it’s awfully difficult to LARP as a super bad-ass soldier (with their own fellow citizens, who can’t shoot back, as the “enemy”, of course) in a minivan, unless you’re hyper secure in your masculinity, and of course American law enforcement is far, faaaaar more Scot Peterson/Pete…

And how did you arrive at that conclusion, pray tell? I’m connecting via 5 GHz band WiFi and have at least 400 Mbps of bandwidth according to my phone, but please, tell me more about my BT connection...

Yes, it should be returned as the Egyptian people clearly remain in place (even if the culture that produced the artifact is long dead) and have expressed a desire for its return, but I would caution that quite often this issue isn’t as cut-and-dried as some of the moralists here seem to think. Should modern…

Oh, thank you, it does sound like it would be a great option for most people, but unfortunately almost all of my driving is in far northern MN, WI and the UP, and outside of “cities” like Duluth/Superior, Hibbing or Ashland, the cell coverage is appalling, you can drive for miles without a signal.  

It’s a competent system and was professionally installed and tuned, with Dynamat, the works. It doesn’t really matter, though, because my home system is based around a bi-amped pair of 140-lb Ushers with multiple DACs to choose from, and as you can probably imagine I’m only keeping one library, ripping 2000 CDs and…

Yeah, at this point it’s looking like Sony is the only other option I’ll consider, I just wish they were better about pushing out OS updates.

An AudioControl D-6.1200 amp/DSP actively driving a full set of Hertz MPK 163.3 Pro Mille component separates, with a powered sub. Stock system in my car was complete ass, it was in a cabinet in my garage within four weeks of taking delivery.

Has anyone confirmed yet if the goddamn thing will have a SD card reader? I’ve seen conflicting reports, with some saying that the SIM slot is labeled “MICROSD TRAY”, suggesting it could be a dual-purpose slot that would allow SD card use if you have an eSIM. By far the most important aspect of a phone to me is the…

Pretty much all quality office chairs (and esp. American-based brands that still build at least some of their models domestically, such as HM and Steelcase) start around a grand, or near as makes no difference. If your employer is buying cut-rate Chinese crap at Office Depot, you can take it as an ironclad sign…

The local Pigg closed decades ago, before I even left for college, but I still remember their bakery being light years ahead of every other grocery stores’ in the area. The bismarcks were particularly decadent.