That roundabout looks like one of the boards in Super Mario Kart.

This is partly why Grogu (baby Yoda) in the Mandalorian is a puppet and not CGI.

Had to do the same once. Installers brought the new set and determined the old dryer was too big too get out of the basement. The only way they could haul it off, they said, is if it was partially disassembled, which they would not do. Challenge accepted! I had about 10 minutes while they hooked up the new machines to…

Are we sure this guy’s not really from Florida?

I’m not even talking about expertise, I’m just talking about a living, breathing person who works in the department I’m shopping in, who can tell me why X item is not where it’s supposed to be and where I can find it. The bar is low.

There are always exception, and what you described is a valid exception. The difference is that you are adding actual value to the purchase that the manufacturer can not or does not want to supply. Now, in a situation where I have a large, in-house IT team with hardware, network, software, etc. experts on the team, I…

Unfortunately, this is true. It used to be that Lowe’s was the place to go to get quick, knowledgeable help and Home Depot was a shitshow. Now the roles have reversed, at least where I live.

Manufacturers can’t publish prices that end users can find, because they sell primarily through dealers and distributors. That’s why MSRP is a thing. If the manufacturer publishes a price other than MSRP, the dealer will get pissed and drop the manufacturer. It’s a bullshit system where the middleman - ostensibly…

“Most likely it’s not that you just don’t have insurance because you don’t have your shit together.”

If agreeing with this take means that Taycans are going to be liquidated from dealers at pennies on the dollar, then this is a good take.

This is the root problem of the dealership model. If you sell a commodity product and add no additional value beyond what your competitor offers, you are in a race to the bottom governed by price. Some dealers get this and differentiate on service or something else, but so many do not get it.

The funny thing is, if he had a pickup truck and an orange safety vest, no one would have questioned this.

Before reading the article, my first thought was, “probably some unsanctioned music video shoot,” but now I’m not sure. Does, “the stunt was a part of a planned staged event” mean permits were pulled, insurance policies were purchased, etc., or does it mean that a notice was put out on social media?

Of all the things for Honda to mimic, the C-pillar has to be the worst choice. I like the CT5 a lot until I get to the C-pillar. 

The main problem is that the GSA needs to release the roughly $10MM in funds set aside to finance the transition. So far, the head of the GSA is refusing to do so, presumably afraid to rile up Trump.

This is a red herring. These are not the same thing. Russia interfering via social engineering (acknowledged with proof by law enforcement agencies and the very social media platforms used to interfere) is not the same thing as the alleged widespread fraud (double voting, ballots being stolen, changed or thrown away,…

Who did that AutoWeek reporter think he was talking to? Clearly, not David Tracy:

“This 1994 Century represents the model’s fifth generation, which was the first of the nameplate to go FWD.”

Yeah, this story doesn’t hold up. The car had 350 miles. I could see if it had 35,000 and he had it for a few years and it needed some work, etc. This is a new car that, after a couple months of ownership, he never drove again because he “ran out of funds?” What?

Oh man, totally forgot about those. We used to clip them to our mullet tails.