Renee Good and her 'wife' were professional troublemakers. They probably laughed and cheered when Kirk was assassinated and would probably do the same if something happened to me and mine. It sucks, but that's where we are, so screw her. Buzzards gotta eat, same as the worms.
My first instinct as a person trying to be closer to the Lord is to say "no one deserves to die". The more that came out about the 'Good' situation, the worse it got. I rarely say things are meme bad, but you can't quite make up how awful that whole situation is. Common sense is not common to extremists.
I know, I know. It makes as much sense as "violence doesn't solve anything". Well, multiple wars and millions of freed people of the world feel otherwise.
“ they think they are protecting the American Dream for Somalis and Haitians and so on. ”
Do not worry, my daughters have been [s]groomed[/s] indoctrinated into my soft racism gently. Except behind the wheel, when they hear real, hard as it gets racism. Did I drop a casual “what the fuck are you doing you stupid ch*** c***?” in front of my daughter and three of her friends this morning when an Asian woman inexplicably came to a complete stop in the middle of icy street causing me to nearly ABS into her Hyundai? Bet your ass I did. If their parents don’t like that language around their kids, they’re welcome to drive them to school in a near-blizzard themselves (spoiler alert: their laziness and apathy trumps their self righteousness every time)
How timely....I received a few PKD books for Christmas. I've previously read a few of his long and short stories, and I'm not sure what it is, but I can't really get into his work. My brain, imprinted decades ago after viewing Blade Runner, didn't realize how wide the gap was between the Hollywood manifestation and the novel the film was based on. In my head, this is the exact opposite of 'the book was better than the movie'. This is probably due to watching the movie at a young age and really embracing the visuals; I'll always be a fan of Syd Mead.
Because I gravitate towards more hard, or semi-grounded sci-fi, when I read PKD's older stuff, it feels like his ideas of the near/distant future are totally goofball or plain just stuck in whatever decade it was actually written in.
China is a joke. Its population is likely a far cry from the 1.4 billion or whatever it claims. Its idiotic autocratic government can't do anything right. I don't believe anything I read about its claims of technological or military supremacy, because it's China, if any of that information is getting out to us, it's propaganda from the CCP whose main objectives are posturing and saving face. As they sit on a demographic implosion and the real estate bubble to end all real estate bubble, they ran out of time to exert global influence at least a decade ago.
Wasn't Venezuela supposed to be protected by Chinese technology? And our guys walked right in, snatched Maduro, and then stopped to take a shit on Chavez's portal to Hell all without even glimpsing resistance. China is the sick man of Asia, just like it has been for the past 350 years.
I read they didn't take the missile defenses out of the box. If I'm ever a communist dictator who tells the President of the united states to "Come get me bro" I will have to make sure I take the missile defense systems out of the boxes first.
They probably didn't take the missiles out of the boxes because they knew they wouldn't work in the first place. The CCP could never invade Taiwan because their ships will all sink 400 meters out of port.
I’ll split the difference. Moron-traitor. I lived in her district during the Baghdad Jim McDerrmott era. Very rich area of Seattle that could afford to elect grifters to poke republicans in DC in the eye - or so they thought.
“ This is a significant accomplishment, made all the more so because the ZR1X is fully optimized and competent for its actual life of dawdling around a retirement community in-between trips to the Cars and Coffee.”
‘ZR1X’ is close enough to ‘ZX-14R’ that it caused me a double take in this paragraph.
Wonder if Scott was always a Christian or this is something he came to as he neared the end. I hear similar things with other purported scientific atheists.
Whenever I get into discussions about spirituality with these very smart atheists, I always feel like we are quibbling over semantics...
Watching my first daughter on an ultrasound removed any lingering atheists beliefs I had. Now I'm a bad Catholic. I think Pope Bob would forgive me for missing Church for the Bears game.
I watched the Bears all the way to the end, took 2 hrs to calm down, dropped off about 12:30 AM, got an overtime call at 4:00 AM, ran it, came home, took a shower, and still made it to church (by myself- the First Lady was in Denver with grandkids).
Excuses are for children and women, Scott. Don’t make Pope Bob and me come up there.
At the risk of preaching: I can’t accomplish much of anything on my own. Once, I was going to change the world, but that was before I realized I couldn’t even change myself. Changing myself is pretty far above my pay-grade. The desire and effort is commendable, but is ultimately not very self aware. We all ultimately bump up against the limitations of our humanity.
Contrary to what you may have been taught, overcoming the “sin problem” and following the instructions and injunctions of Jesus cannot be accomplished by working harder. You can’t “try” to love anybody, enemy or friend. You either do or you don’t. God is Love, and living as God’s child means receiving love for the unlovable as a gift (a fruit). I can’t conjure it up, I can only ask for God’s love for the unlovable to live in me.
“Working on it” is destined to be ultimately unsuccessful: if it were possible to “straighten up and fly right”, there would be no need for the Son of God to have died as a sacrifice for our sin. His death was the crucifixion of our inadequate (and craven) nature, His resurrection the power to be reborn as a whole new thing, spotless and whole. His Holy Spirit offers us power for living. It goes beyond “hope” and into “victory”.
Not living that out comes from not recognizing what we’ve already been given. The surest path to having the ability to love an enemy is by recognizing how greatly God loved us, when we were still very, very far from him.
To whom much is given, much is required. “Forgive us our debts”, and so forth.
He always bounced between atheist and agnostic at times looking for the logic to convince him one way or another. Intellect can be a real road block to understanding a great many things that even lower IQ people come to realize. It's always seemed to me that high IQ can be a bit of a burden once you cross a certain point. While there wasn't a time I didn't believe in Christ, it always seemed that I needed another proof or some other fact or stat to get me further across a line I had in my head. CS Lewis's apologetics helped a ton when I was in my teens.
It has been interesting watching people debate whether or not he was actually redeemed with that statement.
I saw a lot of mention about the thief on the cross without seeing much understanding of what was being cited. The evil thief on the cross saw that Christ was being crucified with them and even though he was suffering a similar fate mocked Christ and wanted him to do something about their present state to prove something.
The good thief rightly stated that they were getting what they had coming, but the man in the middle didn't deserve what was happening to him.
And *that* is why he was saved.
It's not a magical incantation. Repentance rightly understood is to experience the weight of your own sin and realize you're the one who should be on that cross.
One last one, since this is a racing/open thread, anyone follow SailGP? Seems like they’re trying to make the F1 of near shore sailing. As a former competitive sailor myself, I think I’m here for it. Their YouTube channel is a little too cutesy and scripted, but the season opens this weekend in Perth, I think I’m going to start trying to follow it.
My neighbor co-owns some kind of sailboat and he tells me they used to race it.....I'm thinking that ended years ago seeing how it seems like it's more of a burden sitting in the harbor and not actually sailing the high seas (all that much).
Beer can racing sailboats is absolutely a thing. Or was. Like everything else it’s increasingly unapproachable to the young 20 something’s who have the time and inclination to do that sort of thing these days.
I thought it was either Lightnings or Lasers but a google search of both doesn’t look like what I raced. Call them “generic 14’ dinghy sailboats”. I was the Captain of my little rag tag college sailing team, mostly because I was shameless about doing things like sailing across the finish line in first place while chugging a beer (twice), and unbeknownst to me at the time, hitting on Natalie Portman at a college party (once).
I’ve caught it on CBS Sports. Doesn’t it air on Sunday afternoons? I have zero interest in or knowledge of sailing, but the TV broadcast is pretty decent all things considered. Isn’t Todd Harris the announcer?
I watch it, it's pretty cool. The coverage is wisely highlights, so it moves pretty fast. They sail in irregular bull rings on a defined course I can never really follow. Keeping those boats foiling while maneuvering in light winds is what separates the critical skill. They also capsize and collide regularly, so that's fun.
If ICE put up posters tomorrow that said "Join ICE and shoot middle aged HR ladies in the head" their applications would soar. This group of women has been obnoxious for at least 30 years. We all know chicks where if they were dudes, they'd have gotten a right cross a long time ago but "you can't hit me I'm a girl"
Grown women who act like my children "I'm not touching you"
Saw a no-context exchange where an ICE agent claimed to be making $200k with a HS education and that did make me pause and consider some life choices. All that and I can abuse HR bitches?
A trans-woman I have spent some time with once said that at this point western civilizaton is just a giant failed shit test. The antidote is accountability...and naturally the people who need it most react like a vampire who just saw the sun when even the possibility is mentioned.
Every other tacky mcmansion in my neighborhood has some sort of porsche in the garage. Couldn't tell you if they're 911s or taycans though. Probably taycans
It makes me irrationally angry that they can't use their sense of aesthetics for a car that the masses could drive. I mean, you could even call it a "People's Car" if you want.
If Nissan had put the V8 from the Titan in the Z, and backed it up with a manual transmission, they'd have sold ever one of them, and they'd be literally EVERYWHERE.
I wasn't even aware a turbo was available, although that makes an it interesting car.
I would go with pecking order over ladder. Only because I see it in action with the wild turkeys that walk past my house everyday. The base Carrera is nothing but the last turkey.
We are but monkeys underneath. I have long noted the apparent inverse relationship between expense of kitchen to frequency of actual cooking. And every sale of an expensive London house seems to be mandate an immediate replacement.
GT3 (RS) models are the most legible to me because (1) I own one so notice them and (2) they have a signature sound that stands out among the voluble cars I hear in Atlanta every day: American V8s, Huracan / R8 V10s, and Lamborghini / Ferrari V12s.
One of my clients wants a porsche so I'll look at the porsche of westmont inventory every few months. I've never seen a base 911. Cheapest one right now is 192k
There was one in Naperville and I heard it was awesome but it didn't last long enough for me to get there. I bought my Audi across the street from that dealer.
The restaurant at Standard Market is great, and so is their wine bar. I used to buy their sushi, cheese, and homemade soups all the time. Great fresh fish and meat, too. Worth a stop if you’re ever over that way.
i probably do see them all the time but honestly i really cannot tell anymore the difference between a brand new and a three or four year old 911, which is really bad, because i would imagine i am one of the few people who really does try to notice everything with cars. its definitely got to be affecting sales that you could buy an off lease base 911 or a new one and almost no one could tell the difference
I have been saying bring back manufacturing since my first MBA class. I then got in trouble with prof. for saying we can't all serve coffee and then espousing the glories of Henry Ford's vertical integration.
This was back in the before times. I recall that he assured us that we would design the products and the Chinese would build them. I further blotted my copy book by asking if he thought the Chinese might one day be able to grow their own designers and engineers.
"This is the world Renee Nicole Good thought she was living in with the woman she loved, in their final moments together on that January morning…"
I'd like to offer a different opinion... Good and her wife are the intended products of modern american feminist conditioning. As a gay couple, they enjoyed the highest social status among the "pre-privileged" urban american female class. They were fully confident in their moral authority and physical capability to join what is essentially a militia and harass armed federal agents in the streets. And ultimately, they were loyal Democratic Party voters.
This is exactly what American Feminism wants... the layers upon layers of conditioning - from super-heroine "capeshit" movies to feminist popstar activism to social media girlboss amplification to corporate executive suite favoritism - were all designed to elevate american women into a Matrix-esque surreality... you can only watch so many versions of Trinity physically defeating male opponents 3 times her size before you start to believe it...
...the point is, that's why she was stunned to find out bullets are real in the real world. A senseless, stupid way to die... and there are MILLIONS of Renee Good's now.
The federal government squashing a Northern state would greatly amuse me.
Imagine the history books "Tim walz, colloquially referred to as 'Tampon tim' or 'retard' was the last governor of the territory formally referred to as Minnesota"
I'm not sure what your context is for "the usual suspects". Remember this is a Marxist partisan movement... these people are literally trained that "your opponent's reaction is the aim". This type if high-profile incident is exactly what the anti-ICE militia wants... conversely this is the last thing that ICE/DHS wants.
I hope you're right. We endured years of "unarmed black man vs bloodthirsty racist police officer" and Main Street demonstrated how easily they can be manipulated by their sympathy impulses. A lot of long-term damage was done.. I guess we'll see if Main Street has learned anything.
People like this live without accountability or consequences of their beliefs and voting records for so long when consequences IE “why are you using real bullets” to getting raped or assaulted or killed by a semi driving illegal is something that they cannot reconcile.
As someone who grew up in relatively isolated yet affluent Massachusetts my social media feeds are full of them.
I can't figure out why feminists are so quiet about confused-man encroachment into women's restrooms, sports, etc. Apparently men can't tell females what to do unless they're pretending or want to be a woman. Or maybe the alphabet crowd has better PR.
Vette- I keep asking myself "who is this car for?" and keep getting the same response as when I think about some of these Porsches. They very obviously DO NOT CARE about any of the front engined fanbase and want to keep pushing for this type of car the same way they're continually going to be committed to EVs being the next great thing. But hey... it's not like the next generation needs a cheap car to drive around or anything.
Adams- While Adams had his flaws, I quite frequently followed him for a simultaneous sip of coffee during his reading of the news live streams. The guy definitely was high IQ even if he could be a pain in the ass. With that said, he was willing to state many times over when he was wrong and go completely 180 back on things he'd said when he felt the data presented to him showed otherwise. I'll definitely miss some of his hotter takes. At least we still have Dilbert to remember him by. Anyone that's worked in modern America should be able to appreciate it.
Porsche- I find these cars still beautiful but awkward proportionally. Maybe that's sort of the point as they need the greater sizing to hide that weight. I think I am coming around on the cars more than I did a year or so ago, but am left hating a single thing: The company that makes them. I could be convinced that I don't hate Porsche enough.
China- At what point do we hoist the black flag against them? The stealing of fish offshore sure seems very similar to the pirates who would go ashore and log wood illegally in central America before the Spanish would catch them in the late 1600s to early 1700s. Once these fisheries are gone, they aren't going to return to same way. China's contributed to a giant garbage patch in the ocean, helped force burdensome enviro regulations on their competition, and absolutely looted any grey area on this planet. F em. If they were really doing so well, they wouldn't have to steal. Speaking of such desperation, is anyone still buying that they have a population of a billion people? Starting to think it's probably less than half that in the 2020s. There is a near zero percent chance that they gained population at the rate they claim after wars, famines (post "glorious" revolution), and one child policy for decades. Who lies worse... radical Islamists or the Chinese? Hard to tell these days.
Guy was ahead of his time for sure, but the "two movies" and "talent stack" thing were just perfect during the era he came up with them. I've tried to continually think about the talent stack thing.
Damnit, did I miss the announcement for the hardcovers?!
Just email hardcover@cattalesbook.com to get yours! $30 signed and shipped.
I would rather have the 1976 Aerovette on its 15” wheels than the 2026 ZR1X.
The Aerovette is a beautiful design icon.
The ZR1X is…….…….not.
It looks like a hot wheels car
Still better than the Temu Ferrari aesthetic of the C8.
It’s a Lambo with room for a full set of golf clubs.
It should come with a track suit and a polish wife
I would buy more products if a Polish wife who could cook was part of the deal!
Mmm pierogis
https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/puedgg/this_man_nailed_it/
It’s not a bad way to live if you can manage to make it happen.
Is that "Polish" or "polished"?
Polish. Im making fun of my Eastern European roots
These will pull a lot of tail at The Villages.
Renee Good and her 'wife' were professional troublemakers. They probably laughed and cheered when Kirk was assassinated and would probably do the same if something happened to me and mine. It sucks, but that's where we are, so screw her. Buzzards gotta eat, same as the worms.
My first instinct as a person trying to be closer to the Lord is to say "no one deserves to die". The more that came out about the 'Good' situation, the worse it got. I rarely say things are meme bad, but you can't quite make up how awful that whole situation is. Common sense is not common to extremists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4pRe8ul7KQ
I know, I know. It makes as much sense as "violence doesn't solve anything". Well, multiple wars and millions of freed people of the world feel otherwise.
https://www.amazon.com/Sometimes-Violence-Answer-Gift-T-Shirt/dp/B07M9SKVFZ?customId=B0752XJYNL&customizationToken=MC_Assembly_1%23B0752XJYNL&th=1&psc=1
Somebody posted a picture on X of that very thing. Not sure if it was real or not.
Of which, the Kirk thing?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-watch-image-supposedly-000300078.html
No it was a close up picture with both of them. Went back and can’t find it now.
HAHAHA CHARLIE KIRK GOT SHOT IN THE NECK
oh no how could you laugh at an innocent woman dying becuase the evil ice nazi shot her
HAHAHA SCOTT ADAMS DIED FROM CANCER
honestly fuck those people
“ they think they are protecting the American Dream for Somalis and Haitians and so on. ”
Do not worry, my daughters have been [s]groomed[/s] indoctrinated into my soft racism gently. Except behind the wheel, when they hear real, hard as it gets racism. Did I drop a casual “what the fuck are you doing you stupid ch*** c***?” in front of my daughter and three of her friends this morning when an Asian woman inexplicably came to a complete stop in the middle of icy street causing me to nearly ABS into her Hyundai? Bet your ass I did. If their parents don’t like that language around their kids, they’re welcome to drive them to school in a near-blizzard themselves (spoiler alert: their laziness and apathy trumps their self righteousness every time)
"spoiler alert: their laziness and apathy trumps their self righteousness every time"
This describes 99% of the screaming masses.
Off topic: We all missed an important date last week, the tenth anniversary of Roy Batty's inception, January 8th.
And now, that moment is lost in time, like tears in rain.
For shame, group, for shame.
I WANT MORE LIFE!
*FUCKER!
I thought he said "I want more life, father..."
?
I had to look this up. This film has been cut and recut so many times the answer is 'both', depending on the release.
How timely....I received a few PKD books for Christmas. I've previously read a few of his long and short stories, and I'm not sure what it is, but I can't really get into his work. My brain, imprinted decades ago after viewing Blade Runner, didn't realize how wide the gap was between the Hollywood manifestation and the novel the film was based on. In my head, this is the exact opposite of 'the book was better than the movie'. This is probably due to watching the movie at a young age and really embracing the visuals; I'll always be a fan of Syd Mead.
Because I gravitate towards more hard, or semi-grounded sci-fi, when I read PKD's older stuff, it feels like his ideas of the near/distant future are totally goofball or plain just stuck in whatever decade it was actually written in.
China is a joke. Its population is likely a far cry from the 1.4 billion or whatever it claims. Its idiotic autocratic government can't do anything right. I don't believe anything I read about its claims of technological or military supremacy, because it's China, if any of that information is getting out to us, it's propaganda from the CCP whose main objectives are posturing and saving face. As they sit on a demographic implosion and the real estate bubble to end all real estate bubble, they ran out of time to exert global influence at least a decade ago.
Wasn't Venezuela supposed to be protected by Chinese technology? And our guys walked right in, snatched Maduro, and then stopped to take a shit on Chavez's portal to Hell all without even glimpsing resistance. China is the sick man of Asia, just like it has been for the past 350 years.
I read they didn't take the missile defenses out of the box. If I'm ever a communist dictator who tells the President of the united states to "Come get me bro" I will have to make sure I take the missile defense systems out of the boxes first.
They probably didn't take the missiles out of the boxes because they knew they wouldn't work in the first place. The CCP could never invade Taiwan because their ships will all sink 400 meters out of port.
Wait until we pay each Greenlander $100k to become a US citizen, and the Taiwanese then ask China what their offer is.
https://imgflip.com/i/ahdqcw
I love that meme!
Holy crap... same same. You reading my mind today?
yeah the people that steal everything and lie are 100% truthful on their population charts or iq or economic standing
people still actually take china at face value somehow
Why am I not surprised to see Jayapal quoted in the Civil Eats supporting cheep non citizen labor (most likely expecting votes in exchange).
She really is a moron.
Traitor, you mean.
I’ll split the difference. Moron-traitor. I lived in her district during the Baghdad Jim McDerrmott era. Very rich area of Seattle that could afford to elect grifters to poke republicans in DC in the eye - or so they thought.
“ This is a significant accomplishment, made all the more so because the ZR1X is fully optimized and competent for its actual life of dawdling around a retirement community in-between trips to the Cars and Coffee.”
‘ZR1X’ is close enough to ‘ZX-14R’ that it caused me a double take in this paragraph.
To be fair, 15 years from now that is how I'm gonna use my ZX14R.
Wonder if Scott was always a Christian or this is something he came to as he neared the end. I hear similar things with other purported scientific atheists.
Whenever I get into discussions about spirituality with these very smart atheists, I always feel like we are quibbling over semantics...
I used to think I was very smart, and used to think I was an atheist.
I've realized I'm not as smart as I thought, and I'm a failed Christian.
Watching my first daughter on an ultrasound removed any lingering atheists beliefs I had. Now I'm a bad Catholic. I think Pope Bob would forgive me for missing Church for the Bears game.
I watched the Bears all the way to the end, took 2 hrs to calm down, dropped off about 12:30 AM, got an overtime call at 4:00 AM, ran it, came home, took a shower, and still made it to church (by myself- the First Lady was in Denver with grandkids).
Excuses are for children and women, Scott. Don’t make Pope Bob and me come up there.
The only failed Christian is one who stops trying.
Love your enemies, said Jesus. I'm working on it, said I.
At the risk of preaching: I can’t accomplish much of anything on my own. Once, I was going to change the world, but that was before I realized I couldn’t even change myself. Changing myself is pretty far above my pay-grade. The desire and effort is commendable, but is ultimately not very self aware. We all ultimately bump up against the limitations of our humanity.
Contrary to what you may have been taught, overcoming the “sin problem” and following the instructions and injunctions of Jesus cannot be accomplished by working harder. You can’t “try” to love anybody, enemy or friend. You either do or you don’t. God is Love, and living as God’s child means receiving love for the unlovable as a gift (a fruit). I can’t conjure it up, I can only ask for God’s love for the unlovable to live in me.
“Working on it” is destined to be ultimately unsuccessful: if it were possible to “straighten up and fly right”, there would be no need for the Son of God to have died as a sacrifice for our sin. His death was the crucifixion of our inadequate (and craven) nature, His resurrection the power to be reborn as a whole new thing, spotless and whole. His Holy Spirit offers us power for living. It goes beyond “hope” and into “victory”.
Not living that out comes from not recognizing what we’ve already been given. The surest path to having the ability to love an enemy is by recognizing how greatly God loved us, when we were still very, very far from him.
To whom much is given, much is required. “Forgive us our debts”, and so forth.
Hence, humility is perhaps the key virtue in all of this.
jus like me frfr
im a retarded sinner
He always bounced between atheist and agnostic at times looking for the logic to convince him one way or another. Intellect can be a real road block to understanding a great many things that even lower IQ people come to realize. It's always seemed to me that high IQ can be a bit of a burden once you cross a certain point. While there wasn't a time I didn't believe in Christ, it always seemed that I needed another proof or some other fact or stat to get me further across a line I had in my head. CS Lewis's apologetics helped a ton when I was in my teens.
I would rather be a wise man than a smart one.
It has been interesting watching people debate whether or not he was actually redeemed with that statement.
I saw a lot of mention about the thief on the cross without seeing much understanding of what was being cited. The evil thief on the cross saw that Christ was being crucified with them and even though he was suffering a similar fate mocked Christ and wanted him to do something about their present state to prove something.
The good thief rightly stated that they were getting what they had coming, but the man in the middle didn't deserve what was happening to him.
And *that* is why he was saved.
It's not a magical incantation. Repentance rightly understood is to experience the weight of your own sin and realize you're the one who should be on that cross.
Did Scott achieve that? I don't know.
No one but God and Scott know.
One last one, since this is a racing/open thread, anyone follow SailGP? Seems like they’re trying to make the F1 of near shore sailing. As a former competitive sailor myself, I think I’m here for it. Their YouTube channel is a little too cutesy and scripted, but the season opens this weekend in Perth, I think I’m going to start trying to follow it.
I don't know anything about it, but I'm interested.
My neighbor co-owns some kind of sailboat and he tells me they used to race it.....I'm thinking that ended years ago seeing how it seems like it's more of a burden sitting in the harbor and not actually sailing the high seas (all that much).
Beer can racing sailboats is absolutely a thing. Or was. Like everything else it’s increasingly unapproachable to the young 20 something’s who have the time and inclination to do that sort of thing these days.
What sailboat did you used to race?
I crewed on a Martin 24 (I think) racing in Puget Sound in the '80's.
I've watched a few SailGP races on YT. Its crazy and a very long way from small boat sailing.
I thought it was either Lightnings or Lasers but a google search of both doesn’t look like what I raced. Call them “generic 14’ dinghy sailboats”. I was the Captain of my little rag tag college sailing team, mostly because I was shameless about doing things like sailing across the finish line in first place while chugging a beer (twice), and unbeknownst to me at the time, hitting on Natalie Portman at a college party (once).
I’ve caught it on CBS Sports. Doesn’t it air on Sunday afternoons? I have zero interest in or knowledge of sailing, but the TV broadcast is pretty decent all things considered. Isn’t Todd Harris the announcer?
I watch it, it's pretty cool. The coverage is wisely highlights, so it moves pretty fast. They sail in irregular bull rings on a defined course I can never really follow. Keeping those boats foiling while maneuvering in light winds is what separates the critical skill. They also capsize and collide regularly, so that's fun.
Your taste buds infinitely amuse me.
If ICE put up posters tomorrow that said "Join ICE and shoot middle aged HR ladies in the head" their applications would soar. This group of women has been obnoxious for at least 30 years. We all know chicks where if they were dudes, they'd have gotten a right cross a long time ago but "you can't hit me I'm a girl"
Grown women who act like my children "I'm not touching you"
I'll do you one better. Instead of 'shoot them in the head' use 'put them over your knee for a bare assed spanking'.
The whole thing is psychosexual enough. Fake romance novel covers are circulating on Twitter with titles like “Detained by Desire” and “Fire and ICE”
yeah can i just do the first one instead
ive seen some women with those shit opinions and im certain trying to bend them over my knee would snap a femur
Grown white women who put their hand in your face while screaming “I’m not touching you!”
But at least I can add them to my list of people to cross the street over if I see them coming my way. My list is getting longer.
Saw a no-context exchange where an ICE agent claimed to be making $200k with a HS education and that did make me pause and consider some life choices. All that and I can abuse HR bitches?
That video was excellent!
You know he's got a lifted f150 at 1,200 a month
You say that like it's a bad thing, Scott.
Embrace your inner hick, baby.
I'd love one. I don't have room for one. My S4 barely fits in the garage. I wouldn't lift mine.
3" lift makes it F250 usable, and no taller. Put Firestone bags on the back and load range Es and you have an F225.
A leveling kit on the front and 33" A/Ts is the best stance for them, IMO.
Orrrr drop it to the ground but that's a different thing entirely.
He's the superhero Brodozer! Protecting us from treasonous Karens!
https://x.com/alx/status/2011141453398098158
No way I would have the patience the ICE agent shows to the two theater kids taunting him.
shit sign me up for that yesterday
A trans-woman I have spent some time with once said that at this point western civilizaton is just a giant failed shit test. The antidote is accountability...and naturally the people who need it most react like a vampire who just saw the sun when even the possibility is mentioned.
“This is a car without a buyer. And you never see them. So maybe the correct answer is: Who cares what it costs?”
I see them all the time. And I’m sure JB does too every time the PCA books Mid-Ohio.
You can get a lightly used new Z in the middle of the US and no one ever sees them. Sure seems like a better "deal" for the money.
Every other tacky mcmansion in my neighborhood has some sort of porsche in the garage. Couldn't tell you if they're 911s or taycans though. Probably taycans
It makes me irrationally angry that they can't use their sense of aesthetics for a car that the masses could drive. I mean, you could even call it a "People's Car" if you want.
a folk wagon
If Nissan had put the V8 from the Titan in the Z, and backed it up with a manual transmission, they'd have sold ever one of them, and they'd be literally EVERYWHERE.
I wasn't even aware a turbo was available, although that makes an it interesting car.
And there needs to be a ladder so the GT3 buyer can look down on lesser mortals?
I would go with pecking order over ladder. Only because I see it in action with the wild turkeys that walk past my house everyday. The base Carrera is nothing but the last turkey.
We are but monkeys underneath. I have long noted the apparent inverse relationship between expense of kitchen to frequency of actual cooking. And every sale of an expensive London house seems to be mandate an immediate replacement.
We look at all these houses with kitches we can only dream of and none of the wives cook. Some of the husbands do.
I never said as much.
GT3 (RS) models are the most legible to me because (1) I own one so notice them and (2) they have a signature sound that stands out among the voluble cars I hear in Atlanta every day: American V8s, Huracan / R8 V10s, and Lamborghini / Ferrari V12s.
Base Nine Elevens? Absolutely not.
I would bet it’s impossible to order one from a dealer.
One of my clients wants a porsche so I'll look at the porsche of westmont inventory every few months. I've never seen a base 911. Cheapest one right now is 192k
I used to live right by that dealer. I had to take my 944 to them for service once.
Have you ever been to Standard Market next to the dealer? That’s a great grocery store. One of the few places I miss from Illinois.
There was one in Naperville and I heard it was awesome but it didn't last long enough for me to get there. I bought my Audi across the street from that dealer.
The restaurant at Standard Market is great, and so is their wine bar. I used to buy their sushi, cheese, and homemade soups all the time. Great fresh fish and meat, too. Worth a stop if you’re ever over that way.
i probably do see them all the time but honestly i really cannot tell anymore the difference between a brand new and a three or four year old 911, which is really bad, because i would imagine i am one of the few people who really does try to notice everything with cars. its definitely got to be affecting sales that you could buy an off lease base 911 or a new one and almost no one could tell the difference
The new ones have been at the muffins!
Orf’s channel on YouTube is worth a look when it’s not getting throttled. This is one of my favorites:
https://youtu.be/1kKUye23KBQ?si=Sxj1f7pg7hiwDisj
I have been saying bring back manufacturing since my first MBA class. I then got in trouble with prof. for saying we can't all serve coffee and then espousing the glories of Henry Ford's vertical integration.
The truth always hurts!
Most MBA profs have never worked outside academia. How they think they have any clue about the real world is baffling.
whos payroll is your prof on
theres no way hes that dumb for free
This was back in the before times. I recall that he assured us that we would design the products and the Chinese would build them. I further blotted my copy book by asking if he thought the Chinese might one day be able to grow their own designers and engineers.
so he thought there would just be that same relationship forever?
fascinating
"This is the world Renee Nicole Good thought she was living in with the woman she loved, in their final moments together on that January morning…"
I'd like to offer a different opinion... Good and her wife are the intended products of modern american feminist conditioning. As a gay couple, they enjoyed the highest social status among the "pre-privileged" urban american female class. They were fully confident in their moral authority and physical capability to join what is essentially a militia and harass armed federal agents in the streets. And ultimately, they were loyal Democratic Party voters.
This is exactly what American Feminism wants... the layers upon layers of conditioning - from super-heroine "capeshit" movies to feminist popstar activism to social media girlboss amplification to corporate executive suite favoritism - were all designed to elevate american women into a Matrix-esque surreality... you can only watch so many versions of Trinity physically defeating male opponents 3 times her size before you start to believe it...
...the point is, that's why she was stunned to find out bullets are real in the real world. A senseless, stupid way to die... and there are MILLIONS of Renee Good's now.
The amazing part to me is that people continue to block the roads in MN.
Do they not understand that death is a real possible outcome if you make similar choices and mistakes?
The federal government squashing a Northern state would greatly amuse me.
Imagine the history books "Tim walz, colloquially referred to as 'Tampon tim' or 'retard' was the last governor of the territory formally referred to as Minnesota"
That's my point... I don't think they do. That's the power of the conditioning.
And the usual suspects got what they wanted: a dead white woman. The young mother and lesbian parts were a bonus.
I'm not sure what your context is for "the usual suspects". Remember this is a Marxist partisan movement... these people are literally trained that "your opponent's reaction is the aim". This type if high-profile incident is exactly what the anti-ICE militia wants... conversely this is the last thing that ICE/DHS wants.
Except that the anti-ICE militia is not swaying Main Street's opinion no matter how hard they swing for the martyr fences.
I hope you're right. We endured years of "unarmed black man vs bloodthirsty racist police officer" and Main Street demonstrated how easily they can be manipulated by their sympathy impulses. A lot of long-term damage was done.. I guess we'll see if Main Street has learned anything.
People like this live without accountability or consequences of their beliefs and voting records for so long when consequences IE “why are you using real bullets” to getting raped or assaulted or killed by a semi driving illegal is something that they cannot reconcile.
As someone who grew up in relatively isolated yet affluent Massachusetts my social media feeds are full of them.
I can't figure out why feminists are so quiet about confused-man encroachment into women's restrooms, sports, etc. Apparently men can't tell females what to do unless they're pretending or want to be a woman. Or maybe the alphabet crowd has better PR.
This should be pinned.
Vette- I keep asking myself "who is this car for?" and keep getting the same response as when I think about some of these Porsches. They very obviously DO NOT CARE about any of the front engined fanbase and want to keep pushing for this type of car the same way they're continually going to be committed to EVs being the next great thing. But hey... it's not like the next generation needs a cheap car to drive around or anything.
Adams- While Adams had his flaws, I quite frequently followed him for a simultaneous sip of coffee during his reading of the news live streams. The guy definitely was high IQ even if he could be a pain in the ass. With that said, he was willing to state many times over when he was wrong and go completely 180 back on things he'd said when he felt the data presented to him showed otherwise. I'll definitely miss some of his hotter takes. At least we still have Dilbert to remember him by. Anyone that's worked in modern America should be able to appreciate it.
Porsche- I find these cars still beautiful but awkward proportionally. Maybe that's sort of the point as they need the greater sizing to hide that weight. I think I am coming around on the cars more than I did a year or so ago, but am left hating a single thing: The company that makes them. I could be convinced that I don't hate Porsche enough.
China- At what point do we hoist the black flag against them? The stealing of fish offshore sure seems very similar to the pirates who would go ashore and log wood illegally in central America before the Spanish would catch them in the late 1600s to early 1700s. Once these fisheries are gone, they aren't going to return to same way. China's contributed to a giant garbage patch in the ocean, helped force burdensome enviro regulations on their competition, and absolutely looted any grey area on this planet. F em. If they were really doing so well, they wouldn't have to steal. Speaking of such desperation, is anyone still buying that they have a population of a billion people? Starting to think it's probably less than half that in the 2020s. There is a near zero percent chance that they gained population at the rate they claim after wars, famines (post "glorious" revolution), and one child policy for decades. Who lies worse... radical Islamists or the Chinese? Hard to tell these days.
I value him for introducing me to“two movies” and “talent stack.”
Guy was ahead of his time for sure, but the "two movies" and "talent stack" thing were just perfect during the era he came up with them. I've tried to continually think about the talent stack thing.
Agree. Talent stack especially. I think about it as well when I meet new clients.