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.

One of the few occasions where I think this should be a 1 strike you’re out rule. Get caught doing it, get your vehicle impounded. Then you have to pay impound to have it serviced to be put back to factory specs before you get it back.

Rolling Coal. This is just ignorant. Nobody wants to breathe in a cloud of diesel smoke.

Harley riders are on a different level of awful for this.

“Carolina Squat” is stupid, the whole “stanced” look is dumb (and not exactly safe either, right?), but I reserve my highest level of disdain for any vehicle with an excessively-loud exhaust and their drivers who insist on forcing everyone to hear their crappy vehicle and pay attention to them.

I’m not one to make overly sweeping generalizations, but let’s be honest here — the car sales business historically has attracted “talent” that is largely non-college educated, largely people who love to talk and are full of braggadocio, and people that tend to think that the customers that come in to buy from them…

Gotta weigh the risks. I don’t engage in criminal activity, so I think the odds are more likely someone will try to sneak my passcode while entering it in public and take my phone than being in a situation where a cop will seize my phone and that will somehow lead to my arrest and criminal prosecution.

If you were really lucky,  you might find a box full of water damaged porn mags in the forest or near the train tracks.  If you did say a prayer to Johnny Porno-seed, the magical hobo who travels the world leaving water damaged porn for preteen boys to find. 

I just talked to an executive at a very smart tech company that decided not to lay off their entire talent staff during the tech recession, but instead to re-train them to do other critical tasks.  This way, they get people who know the company doing important stuff, and the talent staff will be in place to snatch the…

Of course there’s fucking stock buy backs.

Another week, another comment from Beefsquatch reminding saying bring back the guillotine. Late stage capitalism is the enemy and shareholders are the cancer 

In other, completely unrelated news:

100%. I work for a fortune 500, and it is the same cycle every time. Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth. When you lay off all of these people, it frees up reporting cash for shareholders to see. Which means when they actually do have growth, they will need to re-hire anyways and have massive…

Second, she says he purchased the EV6 for $72,000. EV6 pricing doesn’t reach that high, which also tells us that the dealer screwed him on the purchase and likely marked it up, especially given the timeframe that he purchased it in.

You forgot “America. Real Americans, not communists. Flags. Cowboys and ‘First responders.’ America.”

“Sounds like you’re a real treat at parties”

I have no way to know whether she’s fun or not, but she’s absolutely right. These ads are glamourising [sic not sic] the exact behaviours [sic not sic] and attitudes that are destroying our climate and environment and will be killing us at an accelerating rate. So I guess I don’t give a fuck about her personality.

I’m surprised it took this long. Truck commercials come in two flavors:

Bwahah. In my last year of grad school (2018), our Studio was meant to develop start-ups. I thought it was just the Professor who was being delusional, but I have gradually come to realize that the entire startup universe is made up of scammers, wishful thinking, and wealthy people looking for any place to grow their…

Nothing says “civilised” like brutal and sadistic punishment!