If only she worked for the circus she would have gotten promoted. Real question, how does a woman that large live in NYC? She doesn't fit on the subway, in ride shares, and she takes up a disproportinate amount of the sidewalk. I am not mad, I am impressed.
Taking more than her “fair share” of the food, for sure. Won’t that lead to food insecurity for someone else? After she shops there really probably is a food desert.
So DEI is bad when a minority benefits from it but good when a white male benefits from it? (e.g. all the hand-wringing over BBIPOCs and dirty, stinkin’ foreigners taking away the JERBs)
Most white males in America who want a “good JERB” are lazy and entitled.
How many hours a week are they willing to work? 40? 50? 60? 70? 80? 90? 100? 110? (It’s just about impossible to work more than 110 hour a week on an ongoing basis; you’ll end up hospitalized - I know firsthand (shingles))
Are they willing to work EVERY day, at least for the first year? That means working in an office EVERY SINGLE day. No vacations. No ballet recitals or tee ball games or parent teacher conferences.
Some time ago, I came to the conclusion that the "work hard play hard, go! go! go!, sleep when you die" American work ethic produced the greatest civilization the world had ever known, at the cost of everyone's psychological and physical well-being.
"Everybody's exhausted and depressed and nobody can afford a house" is the American economy in a nutshell.
I dont think you understand what DEI means. How is it a benefit when said job is dictated not by skill, or no skill as you allude, but by the color of your skin? Did you see the lawsuit by Asian students against Stanford for discriminating against them and white students for arguably less qualified individuals?
leveling the playing field in this case simply means picking the most qualified candidate. you know all about griggs vs duke power, i am sure; removing disparate impact as a legal precedent would undoubtedly get the result we are all asking for. thats all, thats it; and if you say JERB or DEI in your reply, i am giving you a wedgie, a noogie, a swirlie, and shoving you in a locker, in that order, little man.
a horrifically obese brown woman gets paid a quarter million to reduce the number of white men hired at one of the most prestigious firms in the world is dumping trash on the street so she can take a knicks themed trashbin home
I’m sure there’s a clause in her employment contract (which she signed) about bringing shame or bad press to Chase, illegal behavior, illicit drug use, bad corporate fit, etc. Chase would have given themselves maximum legal leeway and protection.
Me and a few of the guys had a good chuckle recently after a lady visited our office and HAD to let us know that she's a VICE PRESIDENT of something something...
Not sure what compels people to remind people about their rank, title, degree, etc, but I can only imagine.
My FK8 CTR was built in England and the paint will chip if you look at it wrong. Ive got almost a tube of touch up paint on the hood in 50K miles. It's the most disappointing thing about the car.
I love it. But.....I'm a solid GenX Honda hot hatch enthusiast. My first car was a 91 Civic Si and I've owned a 99 Civic Si, a CRX, and an Integra GS-R. It's the ultimate Honda. I don't mess with V8s, but am always game to play with Focus RS and WRX drivers on the highway. I actually love the way it looks compared to the toned down successor and I'll never sell it. If you are a Honda guy, buy one. If not, take Jack's advice and buy a V8 Mustang or Charger.
Stang or charger a better bet for the big open highway or stoplight grands prix. In any sort of twisty road or track I’ll bet the ctr is far more of an engaging experience
I went for a fun drive through the hills this weekend with my brother and his son. I swapped cars for a bit and I drove his C6 Z06 and he drove my S2000.
I know the cars are not rivals of any sort, but the Honda just works better for me. I used to think I was a BMW guy but I must just be a Honda guy. The V8 sounds great and all, but there's a certain overall feel to Hondas that make them special.
I haven't even driven the modern CTRs but I'm excited to try one out.
The 60 year old me would probably appreciate a Type S as well, but he's not going to get the opportunity. That giant double wing and all those vortex generators just make me smile.
I prefer the Honda more honest looks, nicer seats.
Yeah the Acura has a better exhaust and maybe better suspension tuning.
Seems if you’re going to track these cars then you need to swap the radiator and intercooler to stay out of limp mode after 3 laps. Once you’ve gone that far shocks springs should go which looses the electric shocks but yeild both a better ride and better handling. Then you top it of with a tune for 360 hp.
At that point your 50l Honda is +60k
And you know wheels tires pads rotors so 65k. But if the videos are correct same driver same day at vir the Honda will smoke a stang even if it’s slower down the straights.
the problem, until this model year, was intentionally tight supply of ITS. at 52k its a screaming deal; add on 10k in ADM, and mandatory dealer add ons, and TTL, and the rest, and suddenly you're asking yourself what else you can get for 65k.
good news, the ITR is now just a regular production model, and by some accounts will make up 50% of US integra sales in the coming model years. eventually, they will start to get dangerously into starter car territory (anything that starts with a 2) and there will be enough that you dont feel bad doing dumb shit with them.
CTRs will always be limited in production. it makes it the better long term buy IMHO, if you care about such things.
I watched it, no worse acted, directed, edited than the majority of Hollywood product. Maybe too many shots of people walking or climbing stairs. Remarkable to hear the words of the protagonist spoken out loud. No surprise the FSK film certification board banned it.
In my driveway sits a 2014 Ford Fusion and an 2014 Civic. Both are black. The clearcoat decay has more surface area on the civic, but deeper rot on the Fusion.
I don't follow NASCAR at all, but I'd like to see Kevin Magnussen run the table. I have no clue whose idea bringing him here was, but it's a near perfect fit and I wish him nothing but the success I imagine he'll enjoy.
Back in the Nineties I remember hearing that LHD vehicles were something of a status symbol in Japan. That may not be the case now, especially given the QC compromises of U.S.-sourced imports highlighted here.
I think that’s true, but only if the car is conspicuously from somewhere that has LHD cars, not unlike RHD Skylines and Centuries are here. It reads as exotic. If it were something like a Chrysler 300 or a Ford Mustang, it would be a sign of prestige.
A Nissan Murano in Japan is probably just an inconvenience, not to mention poorly set-up for Japanese rules and tax laws.
Similarly, my partner’s 2022 Wrangler RHD—he is a rural mail carrier—isn’t exotic; it’s just annoying. I’ve had to drive it a time or two and I find it irritating.
There's a bit of malicious compliance here: the administration wants to see more exports, so Nissan is exporting giant Muranos with the wheel on the wrong side. It is the least likely to succeed product possible.
My understanding is that there is prestige in an American-style/branded car with LHD for the Japanese market, but not necessarily in a Japanese-branded one with LHD. Ironically, when Chrysler exported the 300 to Japan, it was in RHD, which might have been to the car’s detriment.
Some of the American-built Japanese vehicles that are being exported to Japan right now just (which also include the Tundra) sound like malicious compliance to me, in order to address the trade imbalance. They don’t expect to really sell too many and aren’t interested in doing the work to make them RHD.
"noted moron Noah Gregson felt compelled to confront K-Mag after the checkered flag flew"
i like magnussen a lot more now. its not that i disliked him before or anything i just didnt have a strong opinion about him but seeing how he tard wrangled gragson was neat
"Give the man a Buc-ee’s sponsorship and set him loose!"
hell yeah
"Xiaomi is now running their YU7 around the place without a driver"
i cant even begin to care about this even a little bit. why should anyone pay attention to a chinese bugpod and its potential terminal velocity around a track? maybe it might get someone else to build a faster one but why would that matter
"the Iraqi-born Swedish member of the EU Parliament Abir Al-Sahlani"
yeah someone like that doesnt get an opinon on the state of europe or how anything should be handled
"Al-Sahlani is also in the news for claiming that she felt “unsafe” after the EU Parliament voted for some remarkably mild measures regarding “return hubs” for migrants"
good. she and everyone like her should feel so unsafe they all leave immediately
"Germany can’t just deport a Senegalese person to Senegal, because that violates Senegal’s borders"
if they did it anyway (and they should) who could stop them?
"There’s no percentage in fancy-painting mass-market vehicles"
im sure theres a study out there looking into just how terribly you can paint a car and get away with it. like putting sawdust in rice krispy treats or something
"the remarkable number of young people being caught having sex inside the Anna Engine Plant"
I get so incredibly tired of hearing about how well a machine can do something that is an intrinsically human endeavor. A calculator can add a column of figures up with dead nuts accuracy -- but if I don't ever add a column in my head, I get pretty stupid pretty fast... and the stupid bleeds over into other areas of lazy thinking.
I would imagine that George Clooney or Brad Pitt could probably show my wife a more elegant evening than I can when we go to our favorite sushi place in the strip mall up the street, but it's something we'd both rather I just do myself, thanks. Self driving cars are like self-kissing wives -- some things are not made better by somebody else doing it for you.
just about the only time i was interested in ai controlled cars is when gran turismo debuted sophy and it was markedly faster than the very best simracers and was able to take nearly impossible lines (like using the grass as a way to make the turn larger)
genuinely cool to see becuase its the first time ai drivers were actually good
When GT 3 came out my college roommates and I would build an Audi S4, give it a massive turbo, and then there was some setting where you’d just let it run crazy laps on an oval and it would generate money. Wed park it against the wall, put a book on the gas pedal, go to class and let it scrape its way to record lap after record lap and generate in game cash. I forget the exact particulars but it was something like that and then we could buy whatever we wanted in the game.
In the past week I've read an article about how much OPEN AI was losing and another one about how pissed off developers are at AI trying to charge enough to cover some of their costs. All sort of like how Uber was a lot better when the trips were subsidized 30%
"I can’t speak for Nissan, but Honda operates a global mother plant in Ohio. It is certified to make any thing that Honda knows how to make, to any standard of excellence that Honda knows how to achieve. The NSX was built in Ohio. Go look at the paint on the NSX. My point: If you think this reflects some sort of “lazy American” business, you are flat wrong."
Unfortunately, globalism exists to destroy America as we know and love. People get lured in by cheap goods and there ultimately is a price to pay.
To me, it seems obvious that capitalism becomes tyrannical as the capital gets concentrated. That's why, I'm sure that was the goal of it existing as a system.
I don't think the problem is endemic to capitalism, or that its alternatives are excluded from the effect you describe. I think it would be more accurate to say power becomes tyrannical as it becomes concentrated. Capital is just one type of power.
Regarding power, I agree that this is not limited to capitalism. I also think each system has a life cycle and we might just be getting into late capitalism.
I’ve got a bunch of old tank tops and sleeveless T-shirts which are wearing out, and I wanted to find just plain tanks with deeper-cut armholes because the normal ones dig in around my armpits.
I tried all the American-made places shown on here and in Google. Nothing like that! Even Nike, Reebok, etc., all look a little tight, even if I sized up one from Large.
But I looked on the jungle site, and after searching for “men’s tank tops with large armholes,” a plethora of cheap options appeared, many even with a Y-back style that wouldn’t make you look like a roided-up gym rat, or a man of “alternative proclivities,” shall we say, but still shows off any delts you might have (or not have, in my case).
They’re not 100% cotton, but they’ll hand-launder with cold water or on a gentle washer cycle, and dry with no heat, or just by hanging or laying them out somewhere. And best of all, they’re damn comfortable, almost feeling like you’re not wearing a shirt! And they can be worn anywhere you’d wear a tank top or muscle/sleeveless T. And if they do fall apart prematurely, which I don’t think these will, they’re cheap as chips!
I’d pay $25 per from a U.S. manufacturer, but there’s no product available! Something that basic for guys to wear for three seasons of the year is something that should make bank being made here! So I’ll pay $15 max without Prime Day discounts.
I sometimes get surprised when I find something like an electronic item or clothing that's still American made!
Interesting how our leaders planned for the long term of this country by sending all of the manufacturing overseas. Maybe it will all work out in the end.
I saw today that Slate has released more info on their EV trucklet. Now coming with only one battery size, with a (don't get too excited) whopping 205 miles of range. Sigh.
I'd like to see Jack to a trucklet comparo article on the Slate vs the REO Roundabout and have everyone here vote on what they would buy. I already stated my preference.
Especially since the last thing the government wants is a high-utility affordable new car powered by an internal combustion engine. If the startup was making virtue signaling toys for the donor class, the government might prop them up long enough to go public.
It seems to be a poser-mobile, as the big "selling point" is that you can wrap the ugly grey color thing in any color/hue you want, and you can buy different color grilles, wheel covers, etc. Just like every F150 owner does today, lol.
Kevin Magnussen, cool to see a euro who is not a pussy, good racing too.
Cash may be legal tender by try spend more than 4k and not get reported.
Government has a love hate with cash. On one hand they hate it, because it doe not eave the same sort of trail every electronic transaction does. On the other hand it cost 5cents to make a $100 bill so the margins for gov are huge. But you just know they really woudl love to ban cash, then between your car, your phone your smart appliances, and every transaction you make you can be fully monitored. Why do you need to be monitored, for the "greater good " of course. Yes that's anti American, but the gift of 911 and our response keeps on giving, the buildings coming down was a sideshow compared to the real destruction to our society, and were doping it to ourselves, in or clamor for "safety".
Japanese cars and paint, one needs only look at the pigsty state of the interior of many peoples cars, bald tires, tired oil to realize, yeah they don't care at all.
The product that they sell is good intentions, and the right to claim that you're a good person because you intend, you want, hope for good things. They will continue to have a lot of buyers because a huge swath of society only cares about feelings(this sounds compassionate), not about facts(outcomes).
What a "sign of the times", this loser dumps a trash can out on the sidewalk so she can steal it, but gets fired from her "exec" job as Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase. https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/business/woman-who-emptied-knicks-trashcan-on-street-then-stole-it-was-dei-exec-worked-at-jpmorgan-chase/
There is an inverse correlation between length of corporate title and job value.
If only she worked for the circus she would have gotten promoted. Real question, how does a woman that large live in NYC? She doesn't fit on the subway, in ride shares, and she takes up a disproportinate amount of the sidewalk. I am not mad, I am impressed.
welcome to America
Taking more than her “fair share” of the food, for sure. Won’t that lead to food insecurity for someone else? After she shops there really probably is a food desert.
https://youtu.be/heRCwKxYPco?is=VQlVNqAiKqBHnNUq
the dessert aisle turns into a desert isle
masterful
Exactly the sort of deranged hippo you would expect to have that gig. And easily clearing 250k a year from it, too. She could have BOUGHT a can.
Do you have any idea how much her groceries cost!
All that team gear ain’t cheap either.
Logs onto the grocery delivery service and selects “All!”
So DEI is bad when a minority benefits from it but good when a white male benefits from it? (e.g. all the hand-wringing over BBIPOCs and dirty, stinkin’ foreigners taking away the JERBs)
dei for whites is just hiring the competent whites that the job should have gone to anyway
Cope harder.
Most white males in America who want a “good JERB” are lazy and entitled.
How many hours a week are they willing to work? 40? 50? 60? 70? 80? 90? 100? 110? (It’s just about impossible to work more than 110 hour a week on an ongoing basis; you’ll end up hospitalized - I know firsthand (shingles))
Are they willing to work EVERY day, at least for the first year? That means working in an office EVERY SINGLE day. No vacations. No ballet recitals or tee ball games or parent teacher conferences.
That’s how I began my career 15 years ago.
youre telling me that you cant replace this hamplanet with a white guy or even that you cant find white guys to work those hours at those jobs?
be for real man
only incompetent people have to work 100+ hours a week.
Tell you what, you come do my JERB for sixty hours a week and I'll do yours for 110, and let's see who throws in the towel first, ya pencil-pusher.
Some time ago, I came to the conclusion that the "work hard play hard, go! go! go!, sleep when you die" American work ethic produced the greatest civilization the world had ever known, at the cost of everyone's psychological and physical well-being.
"Everybody's exhausted and depressed and nobody can afford a house" is the American economy in a nutshell.
"That’s how I began my career 15 years ago."
Me too. And there are plenty of American men in their 20s that can do that.
What parent-teacher conferences were you attending? Didn't both the parents and the teachers think it was odd that you were there?
I dont think you understand what DEI means. How is it a benefit when said job is dictated not by skill, or no skill as you allude, but by the color of your skin? Did you see the lawsuit by Asian students against Stanford for discriminating against them and white students for arguably less qualified individuals?
DEI = Didn’t Earn It
That also applies when people want to “level the playing field” to “help out white Americans.”
Ahhhh willful ignorance. That's a talent
leveling the playing field in this case simply means picking the most qualified candidate. you know all about griggs vs duke power, i am sure; removing disparate impact as a legal precedent would undoubtedly get the result we are all asking for. thats all, thats it; and if you say JERB or DEI in your reply, i am giving you a wedgie, a noogie, a swirlie, and shoving you in a locker, in that order, little man.
a horrifically obese brown woman gets paid a quarter million to reduce the number of white men hired at one of the most prestigious firms in the world is dumping trash on the street so she can take a knicks themed trashbin home
how on earth is any of this defensible
careful, if you ask those questions you will be put on "the List"
im already on several by now
It's not, that's why she was canned over the can.
And will no doubt sue Chase for firing unjustly. The article states that she has not been charged with any crime.
I’m sure there’s a clause in her employment contract (which she signed) about bringing shame or bad press to Chase, illegal behavior, illicit drug use, bad corporate fit, etc. Chase would have given themselves maximum legal leeway and protection.
Her CV was posted. She has an Associates degree.
It could have been worse. She could have gone full sportsball fan and painted her topless body in team colors.
Me and a few of the guys had a good chuckle recently after a lady visited our office and HAD to let us know that she's a VICE PRESIDENT of something something...
Not sure what compels people to remind people about their rank, title, degree, etc, but I can only imagine.
people that do that got their title without actually doing anything useful or signficant.
What you all fail to grasp is that she's very much a typical NYC dweller .
Her size is just her own laziness .
-Nate
My FK8 CTR was built in England and the paint will chip if you look at it wrong. Ive got almost a tube of touch up paint on the hood in 50K miles. It's the most disappointing thing about the car.
Otherwise how do you like the car, I'm fascinated by them, seems like either the best thing since sliced bread, or is the press is overhyping.
Are they still being built in UK, I know they cant be sold in Uk or Eu anymore due to rules.
I love it. But.....I'm a solid GenX Honda hot hatch enthusiast. My first car was a 91 Civic Si and I've owned a 99 Civic Si, a CRX, and an Integra GS-R. It's the ultimate Honda. I don't mess with V8s, but am always game to play with Focus RS and WRX drivers on the highway. I actually love the way it looks compared to the toned down successor and I'll never sell it. If you are a Honda guy, buy one. If not, take Jack's advice and buy a V8 Mustang or Charger.
Stang or charger a better bet for the big open highway or stoplight grands prix. In any sort of twisty road or track I’ll bet the ctr is far more of an engaging experience
I've been thinking of upgrading to the Trackday Level for just that reason.
I went for a fun drive through the hills this weekend with my brother and his son. I swapped cars for a bit and I drove his C6 Z06 and he drove my S2000.
I know the cars are not rivals of any sort, but the Honda just works better for me. I used to think I was a BMW guy but I must just be a Honda guy. The V8 sounds great and all, but there's a certain overall feel to Hondas that make them special.
I haven't even driven the modern CTRs but I'm excited to try one out.
I don’t own either one, but the Type S is a nicer overall product imo.
Better paint, better audio, better exhaust, somewhat nicer to live in, usually can be found without $10k of ADM unlike the Type R…
They’d be on my very very short list if I could afford a $60k car.
The 60 year old me would probably appreciate a Type S as well, but he's not going to get the opportunity. That giant double wing and all those vortex generators just make me smile.
I recently saw a giant (single) wing on a Camry!
I prefer the Honda more honest looks, nicer seats.
Yeah the Acura has a better exhaust and maybe better suspension tuning.
Seems if you’re going to track these cars then you need to swap the radiator and intercooler to stay out of limp mode after 3 laps. Once you’ve gone that far shocks springs should go which looses the electric shocks but yeild both a better ride and better handling. Then you top it of with a tune for 360 hp.
At that point your 50l Honda is +60k
And you know wheels tires pads rotors so 65k. But if the videos are correct same driver same day at vir the Honda will smoke a stang even if it’s slower down the straights.
Now let’s see that 400hp new mr2
Now we might need to start bringing the Nissan Z back into this substack...
If I were a sedan guy again I’d be all over an ITS. One of the very few new cars I actually really want.
Spent a lot of time staring at the last one I saw in Double Apex Blue. Gorgeous car.
the problem, until this model year, was intentionally tight supply of ITS. at 52k its a screaming deal; add on 10k in ADM, and mandatory dealer add ons, and TTL, and the rest, and suddenly you're asking yourself what else you can get for 65k.
Can the type r now not be had for msrp?
Not… really. Or at least they will generally come at MSRP but WITH “mandatory” packages like tint and ceramic coat and such that can’t be taken off.
Honda dealers get very few of them and hold onto them as though they are made of diamonds.
I think MSRP is possible in Ohio. CA? Probably not.
Type S also has a softer adaptive suspension setting, which I'd like since 99% of my driving is on public roads.
My Si is a bit too stiff on long trips....which is why the LS430 handles those jobs.
good news, the ITR is now just a regular production model, and by some accounts will make up 50% of US integra sales in the coming model years. eventually, they will start to get dangerously into starter car territory (anything that starts with a 2) and there will be enough that you dont feel bad doing dumb shit with them.
CTRs will always be limited in production. it makes it the better long term buy IMHO, if you care about such things.
Sean, Honda’s plant in Swindon closed a few years back. It was to be re-opened as a drone factory by Starmer last week, but life got in the way.
I bought an Integra over a Civic almost entirely due to past experience with Honda paint.
Citizen Vigilante is on the job to help the remigration process. Btw, talk about a filmmaker lucking out with his release timing.
I watched it, no worse acted, directed, edited than the majority of Hollywood product. Maybe too many shots of people walking or climbing stairs. Remarkable to hear the words of the protagonist spoken out loud. No surprise the FSK film certification board banned it.
I have seen early TSX's with clearcoat that would make a equivalent age Civic blush.
Heavy irony: those were Japan-made.
There is a fork at the end of the Acura line in Japan - the ones that fail QC get exported.
"We should do that with people"
call that civic nationalism
In my driveway sits a 2014 Ford Fusion and an 2014 Civic. Both are black. The clearcoat decay has more surface area on the civic, but deeper rot on the Fusion.
I don't follow NASCAR at all, but I'd like to see Kevin Magnussen run the table. I have no clue whose idea bringing him here was, but it's a near perfect fit and I wish him nothing but the success I imagine he'll enjoy.
Agree.
Love seeing KMag race and he can hold his own off the track too.
I'm confused. Aren't Japanese cars RHD, so they drive on the left side of the road? So these Murano 's are different than usual?
Are the US-made Murano's less expensive over there than JDM units?
Back in the Nineties I remember hearing that LHD vehicles were something of a status symbol in Japan. That may not be the case now, especially given the QC compromises of U.S.-sourced imports highlighted here.
I think that’s true, but only if the car is conspicuously from somewhere that has LHD cars, not unlike RHD Skylines and Centuries are here. It reads as exotic. If it were something like a Chrysler 300 or a Ford Mustang, it would be a sign of prestige.
A Nissan Murano in Japan is probably just an inconvenience, not to mention poorly set-up for Japanese rules and tax laws.
Similarly, my partner’s 2022 Wrangler RHD—he is a rural mail carrier—isn’t exotic; it’s just annoying. I’ve had to drive it a time or two and I find it irritating.
I was in Tokyo in January. You do see LHD vehicles, but like you said, they tend to be conspicuous (think GWagons, American grey imports, etc)
There's a bit of malicious compliance here: the administration wants to see more exports, so Nissan is exporting giant Muranos with the wheel on the wrong side. It is the least likely to succeed product possible.
My understanding is that there is prestige in an American-style/branded car with LHD for the Japanese market, but not necessarily in a Japanese-branded one with LHD. Ironically, when Chrysler exported the 300 to Japan, it was in RHD, which might have been to the car’s detriment.
Some of the American-built Japanese vehicles that are being exported to Japan right now just (which also include the Tundra) sound like malicious compliance to me, in order to address the trade imbalance. They don’t expect to really sell too many and aren’t interested in doing the work to make them RHD.
We need to make Seiko SSK's a popular choice for laundering... buy them from Jomashop and sell them at MSRP. we'd be thousandaires!
Every time I go to Japan, I bring a Marlin Casio Duro watch, a Trader Joe's tote, and some vintage Levi's. I make 88 money
"he will tell you he was racing in the fog"
the fog was in his mind the whole time
"noted moron Noah Gregson felt compelled to confront K-Mag after the checkered flag flew"
i like magnussen a lot more now. its not that i disliked him before or anything i just didnt have a strong opinion about him but seeing how he tard wrangled gragson was neat
"Give the man a Buc-ee’s sponsorship and set him loose!"
hell yeah
"Xiaomi is now running their YU7 around the place without a driver"
i cant even begin to care about this even a little bit. why should anyone pay attention to a chinese bugpod and its potential terminal velocity around a track? maybe it might get someone else to build a faster one but why would that matter
"the Iraqi-born Swedish member of the EU Parliament Abir Al-Sahlani"
yeah someone like that doesnt get an opinon on the state of europe or how anything should be handled
"Al-Sahlani is also in the news for claiming that she felt “unsafe” after the EU Parliament voted for some remarkably mild measures regarding “return hubs” for migrants"
good. she and everyone like her should feel so unsafe they all leave immediately
"Germany can’t just deport a Senegalese person to Senegal, because that violates Senegal’s borders"
if they did it anyway (and they should) who could stop them?
"There’s no percentage in fancy-painting mass-market vehicles"
im sure theres a study out there looking into just how terribly you can paint a car and get away with it. like putting sawdust in rice krispy treats or something
"the remarkable number of young people being caught having sex inside the Anna Engine Plant"
engine plants are filthy so ew
"𝘪 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵. 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘨𝘱𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬? 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳"
Hear, hear!
I get so incredibly tired of hearing about how well a machine can do something that is an intrinsically human endeavor. A calculator can add a column of figures up with dead nuts accuracy -- but if I don't ever add a column in my head, I get pretty stupid pretty fast... and the stupid bleeds over into other areas of lazy thinking.
I would imagine that George Clooney or Brad Pitt could probably show my wife a more elegant evening than I can when we go to our favorite sushi place in the strip mall up the street, but it's something we'd both rather I just do myself, thanks. Self driving cars are like self-kissing wives -- some things are not made better by somebody else doing it for you.
just about the only time i was interested in ai controlled cars is when gran turismo debuted sophy and it was markedly faster than the very best simracers and was able to take nearly impossible lines (like using the grass as a way to make the turn larger)
genuinely cool to see becuase its the first time ai drivers were actually good
When GT 3 came out my college roommates and I would build an Audi S4, give it a massive turbo, and then there was some setting where you’d just let it run crazy laps on an oval and it would generate money. Wed park it against the wall, put a book on the gas pedal, go to class and let it scrape its way to record lap after record lap and generate in game cash. I forget the exact particulars but it was something like that and then we could buy whatever we wanted in the game.
I used rubber bands to ride the walls at the Super Speedway 100 Lap Endurance Race in a Escudo Pikes Peak Version to earn cash.
And yet not "having to drive" seems to be the societal goal. All while 25-40% prefer to drive, and joy driving and hate adas, yet we have zero voice.
The same is true for the broad-scale infection of large-language-model "AI" into every product.
In the past week I've read an article about how much OPEN AI was losing and another one about how pissed off developers are at AI trying to charge enough to cover some of their costs. All sort of like how Uber was a lot better when the trips were subsidized 30%
“Having a machine commute for you” IFIFY
Ever seen a clean machine shop?
"I ain't payin' my guys to waste time cleanin' when there's payin' work they could be doin'!"
i mean yeah ive seen them becuase at some point the chips and swarf get in the way
also theres oil everywhere
frankly i hate it
I was in and out of machine shops for two decades working on cars and I NEVER saw one that didn't look like a used catbox.
Which GR Mr Burger, there are 3?
5181 Northland Dr. NE, Grand Rapids, MI
Yeah that place looks awesome! Next time you're around Detroitish I'll have to treat you to Nikola's!
Burgers/vibe kinda reminds me of Griff's Hamburgers in DFW.
I'll be there next week - maybe I can sneak in a visit.
"I can’t speak for Nissan, but Honda operates a global mother plant in Ohio. It is certified to make any thing that Honda knows how to make, to any standard of excellence that Honda knows how to achieve. The NSX was built in Ohio. Go look at the paint on the NSX. My point: If you think this reflects some sort of “lazy American” business, you are flat wrong."
Unfortunately, globalism exists to destroy America as we know and love. People get lured in by cheap goods and there ultimately is a price to pay.
Capitalism works till it hits a national border. Then it turns on its host with a vengeance.
To me, it seems obvious that capitalism becomes tyrannical as the capital gets concentrated. That's why, I'm sure that was the goal of it existing as a system.
I don't think the problem is endemic to capitalism, or that its alternatives are excluded from the effect you describe. I think it would be more accurate to say power becomes tyrannical as it becomes concentrated. Capital is just one type of power.
Regarding power, I agree that this is not limited to capitalism. I also think each system has a life cycle and we might just be getting into late capitalism.
Unfortunately, sometimes you can’t buy American!
I’ve got a bunch of old tank tops and sleeveless T-shirts which are wearing out, and I wanted to find just plain tanks with deeper-cut armholes because the normal ones dig in around my armpits.
I tried all the American-made places shown on here and in Google. Nothing like that! Even Nike, Reebok, etc., all look a little tight, even if I sized up one from Large.
But I looked on the jungle site, and after searching for “men’s tank tops with large armholes,” a plethora of cheap options appeared, many even with a Y-back style that wouldn’t make you look like a roided-up gym rat, or a man of “alternative proclivities,” shall we say, but still shows off any delts you might have (or not have, in my case).
They’re not 100% cotton, but they’ll hand-launder with cold water or on a gentle washer cycle, and dry with no heat, or just by hanging or laying them out somewhere. And best of all, they’re damn comfortable, almost feeling like you’re not wearing a shirt! And they can be worn anywhere you’d wear a tank top or muscle/sleeveless T. And if they do fall apart prematurely, which I don’t think these will, they’re cheap as chips!
I’d pay $25 per from a U.S. manufacturer, but there’s no product available! Something that basic for guys to wear for three seasons of the year is something that should make bank being made here! So I’ll pay $15 max without Prime Day discounts.
I sometimes get surprised when I find something like an electronic item or clothing that's still American made!
Interesting how our leaders planned for the long term of this country by sending all of the manufacturing overseas. Maybe it will all work out in the end.
I saw today that Slate has released more info on their EV trucklet. Now coming with only one battery size, with a (don't get too excited) whopping 205 miles of range. Sigh.
I'd like to see Jack to a trucklet comparo article on the Slate vs the REO Roundabout and have everyone here vote on what they would buy. I already stated my preference.
How does REO plan on delivering an entire truck for roughly the cost of regulatory compliance?
I don't know. Other than sounds like they are going to try to make it very simple and low featured.
At least they are trying to make a product that people in the US might want.
If someone is looking for a good way to lose a huge amount of money very quickly then a startup automobile company is an excellent way to go.
Especially since the last thing the government wants is a high-utility affordable new car powered by an internal combustion engine. If the startup was making virtue signaling toys for the donor class, the government might prop them up long enough to go public.
They’ll lose money on every truck they sell, but they’ll make up for it with volume.
That was Amazon's business model, but they had the help of USAID.
i wonder how much that 205 mile range drops when you load it down with stuff in the bed
you know
like a truck
don't worry, the payload capacity is also low.
oh good i was afraid it might be useful
It seems to be a poser-mobile, as the big "selling point" is that you can wrap the ugly grey color thing in any color/hue you want, and you can buy different color grilles, wheel covers, etc. Just like every F150 owner does today, lol.
"Wow I wonder why auction houses keep these obviously fake 'Eric Clapton' Daytonas on the catalogue even after 3 independents point it out them."
"I wonder why Rolex hasn't hired any experts in the recent years to replace the ones retiring from their l'Atelier de Restauration"
Why indeed.
Kevin Magnussen, cool to see a euro who is not a pussy, good racing too.
Cash may be legal tender by try spend more than 4k and not get reported.
Government has a love hate with cash. On one hand they hate it, because it doe not eave the same sort of trail every electronic transaction does. On the other hand it cost 5cents to make a $100 bill so the margins for gov are huge. But you just know they really woudl love to ban cash, then between your car, your phone your smart appliances, and every transaction you make you can be fully monitored. Why do you need to be monitored, for the "greater good " of course. Yes that's anti American, but the gift of 911 and our response keeps on giving, the buildings coming down was a sideshow compared to the real destruction to our society, and were doping it to ourselves, in or clamor for "safety".
Japanese cars and paint, one needs only look at the pigsty state of the interior of many peoples cars, bald tires, tired oil to realize, yeah they don't care at all.
The whole "OMG we need to give the Govt more powers to keep us "safe" or something" thing is, as you say, completely descructive.
But think about the type of people asking for that. For them, it makes perfect sense.
Seigniorage!
'or used an intact white family in a television commercial.'
If only it were not so funny, because it's absolutely and shockingly true...
A great drinking game you can play: wait for a television ad where a white woman is sexually involved with a white man.
It's how I've stayed sober since 2017.
Drink twice if the dad isn’t played for a lackey, a fool, or both!
https://youtu.be/6hyOLydRFfU?si=NI1q8ZK3amEPtka-
I think that does occasionally appear but only if the man is also obviously gay or a goofball upon whom to play jokes.
We laugh because it’s funny, we cry because it’s true!
That's exactly the case!
MI food tip - If on I75 near Birch Run, skip all the chain places and go to Tony's I75 Restaurant. Classic diner. Portions are LARGE so be warned.
If only it were actually GOOD :(
A select few here might be happy that more Democratic Socialists won primaries in NY yesterday.
Was it because establishment Democrats have nothing to offer but attacks on Trump?
Yeah basically.
Same happened here in MD, I believe.
The old way is dead, and the DNC is the last to realize it
The product that they sell is good intentions, and the right to claim that you're a good person because you intend, you want, hope for good things. They will continue to have a lot of buyers because a huge swath of society only cares about feelings(this sounds compassionate), not about facts(outcomes).