People, when the engineers tell you, “This thing will not work, and I’m not getting in it,” listen to them.

It’s expensive to be poor. That’s a feature of this country, not a bug. Bootstraps! 

Clearly there’s a market for these things, though I’m at a loss to guess who it is.

If you visit the r/airbnb subreddit, you’ll see this situation is hardly remarkable. Gunfights aren’t even the worst thing that goes on. 

Greece played host to a record 33 million tourists in 2023, and estimates indicate that record will be stretched to around 38 million this year, with a quarter of them arriving by cruise ship.

The problem for NASA, as well as DoD, is what are their other domestic options? There really aren’t any.

One has to wonder just how the hell an automotive lifestyle brand founded by the late Ken Block wound up over a billion dollars in debt just over a decade after it was founded.

How are these people actually sleeping with Autopilot on? I have a Model 3 and Autopilot yells at me if I look at the screen for more than 2 seconds.

My understanding (I’ve been looking at these) is that the 2022 and 2023 models had some annoying bugs that drove people to dump them quickly.

I mean, it’s barely even a “warship.” There are dozens of super yachts that dwarf this thing. It’s only 1800 tons and not even 300' long. Not exactly the Bismarck.

I suspect not much if at all. They’re clearly going after the minivan market with this thing, and it’s well above the competition in terms of pricing. A fully loaded Sienna Platinum tops out around $58k.

HD has been on life support for years because their core customer base has been shrinking for decades. This will just accelerate the decline. They’ve failed in growing beyond their traditional market, and when that’s gone, HD will go with it. 

Need to take a dump? Bury that shit.

It’s analogous to interviewing someone, because you go into it assuming you’re seeing them at their best. If they arrive having made little or no attempt to present themselves professionally, show up late, generally seem unprepared, etc., you know you’re seeing how they would approach the job.

I’m curious how many F40 owners are going to take the risk of doing any work on the car themselves, given the community’s obsession with dealership service records.

It’s not just dealerships. There are entire industries whose basic business model is preying on people who lack sufficient financial literacy.

It’s very easy to mock what Trump is doing, but it’s even easier to miss what he’s actually doing.

Yawn. Call me when they’re having a NASCAR race and a baseball game at the same time. Imagine a home run knocking Kyle Busch out of the race, or Denny Hamlin losing control, crashing into the outfield, and running over Manny Machado.

I have been on a couple of cruises, and my wife and I are going on another this fall, but I don’t get the appeal of these mega-ships. The ships we’ve gone on held about 3,000 passengers, and even that felt like a lot. I can’t imagine dealing with 2-3x that number. 

Generally, yes it is, and it’s the same reason why container ships have gotten so massive. The bigger the ship, the cheaper it is to move the same amount of cargo.