This is a good take

A nation is about to give command of a nuclear arsenal to an automotive journalist.

Lemons 24?

It’s a bad Mamma-Jamma! -Real Human

Nah

Thats cool and all, but half their customer base would beat you to a pulp for being gay, and the other half would send you to christian conversion therapy.

That’s exactly what I did?

As an engineer, my guess is that it’s saved 3 seconds on the production line. Even more likely is that they were able to twist the arm of the strut manufacturer to include it as part of an assembly as opposed to having to make the bracket seperstley themselves.

Not to be confused with Late State Jalopitalism, which is begging corporations to build brown diesel manual wagons with no intent of buying them new.

In Soviet Russia, Customers advertise to YOU!

Trotsky is spinning alongside Marx and a bunch of others who share the same grave. Together at the same time.  

Late Stage Capitalism is begging corporations for the privilege of buying their goods.

If you don’t ‘care about politics’, then try this:

Tough shit, chuckles!

rubber and plastic have drastically different melting points.

BFG could have played the tough-guy card. “We’d be happy to replace your tires, but tbh they still look fine. Give us a call in another 60k miles and we’ll talk.”

If they’re all widebody, none of them are widebody.

There was one deployment we went on. The air wing flew an F-18 on and it sat in the corner of hanger bay 2 for the entire deployment. They brought it out as the designated “spare” because it was at the required number of flight hours needed for an inspection that the squadron couldn’t do underway but usable if we…

He does not know how close to the truth he is. We often picked one aircraft to down for as long as they would let us and made it a “parts bin”. Aircraft 12 has a bad radio? Grab it out of the hangar queen. 22 needs a driveshaft? Go to the hangar queen. Sometimes that poor aircraft went through three or four radios…

I used to wonder the same thing, then I watched Race of Champions a few years back. Schumacher, Vettel, Coulthard all wiped the floor with the other racers. You watch the onboard video and you see an absolute economy of movement on the steering wheel and lightning response times.