Speaking as someone leasing a then-new Maserati, I can tell you why I bought mine - a combination of looks, performance, interior luxury, and not really being concerned about reliability (advantage of being able to work remotely combined with having any store I need in walking distance - if I’m suddenly without a car…

It looks amazing. I just wish they’d do away with the arbitrary faction barrier so we can play with our friends, without needing to make an entirely different character. That might have made sense in 2004, but it’s really an unnecessary anachronism now, even from the in-game storyline perspective.

Sad but true.

Must’ve missed that, then. That sort of BS is exactly the kind of thing that RWNJs traffic in though - make up a million excuses why reality isn’t real, and then demand that you disprove the negatives.

You see this also in the attitudes of so many middle aged-to-older people in things like how they view minimum wage jobs. “Well I worked for $2 an hour and it was more than enough, these people are just lazy/greedy/etc” - ignoring the fact that inflation has made that completely irrelevant. $2 from ‘back in the day’…

Not really seeing why any Jalopnik readers would/should be upset by this - the guy was pretty clearly violating any number of traffic laws just to get there in the first place, and at least from what it says here, I don’t see how anyone* could think it was anything but 110% deliberate.

He wasn’t the only (Republican) one to say that, sadly.

That works for some animals, but not others. My dog would eat himself into serious obesity if allowed to simply eat as much as he wants. This is because he’s from a working breed, and does not nearly get the amount of exercise as a pet that he’s built for. Many humans are this way too, where our modern sedentary…

No, but Universal Studios Japan did sell bottles of “LCL” in an entry-plug shaped container, during the Anime themed Cool Japan promotion they had a few years back (among other things, including a popcorn bucket in the shape of EVA-01's head, complete with light up eyes and moveable jaw).

Some people just have to learn things the hard way.

Even those “intel guys” did way more than Trump’s entire extended family, let alone Cadet Bonespurs himself.

It matters in America. Unfortunately Trump and his ilk prefer Amerikkka.

Speaking as a veteran, I can attest that the military becomes more and more political the higher up in rank you get. I don’t necessarily mean that in a Republicans and Democrats sort of way, but rather in the same way that pretty much any large organization has its own internal politics. One does not advance beyond…

Things like this just add to the argument that what we need to do is break the link between employment and health insurance - that is, that your health insurance should not be tied to your place of employment, and that your employer should not get to have a say in how your health insurance dollars are spent.

I’m okay with large vehicles that serve a purpose. An 18-wheeler is pretty damn big, but it’s there for a reason. If however I decided I felt like driving a big rig cab as my daily, solely because I want to be the biggest thing around, people would consider me nuts for doing so - and they’d be right. While it would be…

Yeah, while I may not be a fan of dealerships and their practices generally, I don’t have any issue with this. They’re businesses that employ workers, plain and simple.

I’m okay with numbers on something like a super sports car type deal, where it evokes something like a fighter jet. But on a mallcrawler SUV or a family sedan? No thanks.

Something I learned a while ago that helps make sense of things like this is to understand that there are two different Americas that people talk about.

Consider why it might be that some people dislike an excess of size in Trucks. You cite them as safe, and they are quite safe for the driver, but I would venture that many here seem to not view them as safe for other drivers on the road, given their size. Do you not see that as a valid concern, somehow?

Depends where you’re at. In more rural or exurban areas it’s probably not bad, but when you start getting into parking garages it’s a nightmare. Those can be bad enough for even a normal mid-size car, usually because space is at a premium, and every extra parking space the owners can squeeze in is one more they can…