I didn’t even realize that the Lightning’s base price was that low. Nearly every single Lightning that has gone up for auction on BaT or Cars & Bids has sold for over $90K. I just assumed that people were paying that much at the dealership given the scarcity.

They converted a basketball court in our local park to two pickleball courts, which pissed off a lot of the local basketball players who frequently used it.  It’s located within 50 yards of about 20 houses.  I drove by at 6:30am on my way to work the other morning and there were a couple assholes playing pickleball…

For most people, the physical extent of the game is just taking a few steps in one direction and waving your arm in the air. You don’t have to be very physically fit to play the game. It’s the latest fitness craze for older people who are bored with Zumba and Wii Bowling.

Meanwhile, on my last JetBlue flight from BOS to Nashville, they over-booked the flight and bumped 4 people with the earliest next-available flight occurring 2 days later. All of us passengers definitely “frowned upon” that shit. Who do we ask TSA to detain for us? Gate agents? JetBlue execs?

I hate the Wrangler simply for the fact that in my neighborhood it’s become a status symbol for people who are trying desperately to fit in. No exaggeration, there’s roughly 10 Wranglers parked within a 200 yard radius of my house and virtually none of these people use it for off-roading. One Wrangler owner has a…

Fully agree. It’s 100% on the dealer to purchase the car at auction or trade-in and then re-condition it to make it street-legal and safe for the sale. There is literally no excuse to sell Munoz the car in this condition. And it’s crazy to blame him when the dealership spent more time gaining his trust than actually…

She seems to get more attention because from a public image perspective, she’s still trying to maintain a balance between the “Nice, friendly, likeable celebrity/actress” that Hollywood expects her to be and the “Nice, friendly, likeable, anti-LGBTQ+, holier-than-thou celebrity/actress” that she actually is. Her…

Dude, the XM has only been on the road for roughly 3 months and is a total niche vehicle for the obscenely wealthy. Also, nobody is expecting the R8 to sell in high volume. That doesn’t make either of them the “Worst Selling Car in the US”.

The reality is that cars are just more expensive now and combining that with high interest rates, it’s very easy to get a $700+ monthly car payment. My wife bought a bare-bones CR-V with AWD back in 2007 and it was $23K brand new. Today that same vehicle is now $31K. When you factor in taxes, registration fees, etc,…

You’re lucky. The postal worker at my local office who reviews the passport applications is a gigantic asshole. When my wife and I were at the post office filling out the paperwork he was loudly shaming everyone in line who had a mistake or missing information on their form. He was exceptionally mean to a woman who…

It was crazy, but also not surprising, that Rush was relaying directions to the diver via the tourists. Given the number of times they had comms issues in the water, you would think they would have come up with some sort of formal procedure for when this happened again. I also can’t believe he was asking the tourists…

The huge uptick in yearly pedestrian deaths starts in 2010, right about the time that smart phones started to really take off and also around the time when most people gravitated from sedans to SUVs (cash for clunkers anyone?).

The NYT released a letter from 2018 that was written by a group of industry leaders to Stockton Rush, essentially pleading with him to improve the safety of the Titan out of fear of a catastrophic failure (like we are currently witnessing) that could ultimately set back deep sea exploration as a whole. If only he…

Same here. My wife was really excited for the release of the ID.4 and wanted to get one. Once all the car reviews came out complaining about the heavy dependency on touch screen controls and the super-laggy interface, the ID.4 became one giant NOPE for her.

From one of the videos, they did have backup controllers on-board. Though it does seem like an overly-simple design for a vessel that is intended to explore one of the harshest environments on Earth.

I usually do 3-4 HPDEs a year and I rarely see an M5 on the track anymore. I had a friend who tracked a newer M5 and he went through tires and brake pads so much more quickly than everyone else because the car was so damn huge/heavy.

Imagine being Dr. Walensky in that moment. You grew up in a Jewish household. You obtained degrees in biochemistry, molecular biology at Washington U. You got an MD from Johns Hopkins and then later an MPH from Harvard. You spent time as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School then became a chief at Mass Gen and…

Not only are the alcohol prices at the venues absurdly high but the lines before and during the events to buy them tend to be far longer than they should be. I recently went to a 2-hour event at Gillette Stadium and the concession lines were 30+ minutes long throughout most of the event.

I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing how much some stupid person is going to pay once they start getting flipped on Bring a Trailer.

That scene with Hooper is the best.  “Gentrification!!”