I'm in favor of "AI doomer" stuff because it has the potential to slowly prick the bubble rather than let it turbo-2008 the country. It will also result in fewer Superfund sites when most of the processing moves to the desktop.
Thank you. Your link is entirely convincing that something is, indeed, up. My first reaction is that, when he get to step 4, Democrat involvement, the timing suggests opportunistic behavior, not an integral part of the initial plot. My mind remains open on that, however.
Other possible motivations include 1) scam for non-profit money 2) an attempt to get hands on levers of power, possibly anti-competitively so 3) Jack's Darth Vader coolness factor (also see Herman Kahn).
It is kind of frightening that they didn’t make any attempt to hide any of these links that some random guy just found. They didn’t care one bit if people found out if this was an op, simply because by that time the op would have already done its job and been successful, which it was.
"Nevertheless, it’s fundamentally a stupid idea because off-road trails are the places in America least likely to have a charging station nearby, and part of being off-road is that you can’t really be exact as to your schedule or timing." Exactly. Which is why I bought a JGC PHEV and not a Rivian, etc. I've been places where I worried that the 400 mile gas range would not be enough to get to the nearest gas station. EV charging station? LOL Can AAA bring a bucket of electrons to you if you run out of charge?
Hmmm, someone needs to invent a charge siphon. Drive up to a trail head, connect a cord from your EV to another EV, and suck the charge out of their battery, then drive off all energized. Maybe we can get an AI bot to invent this very useful device.
To be fair, most off road vehicles are for posers, not for real wilderness adventures. I scratched all down the passenger side of my luxury off-roader, because I am bad at driving and drove through the overhanging brush because I was concerned that putting my 8-year-old HT tires into the rut would lead to a failure. Now I have new tires and a better sense for where that far-off passenger side door is!
But all the fancy lifted 4Runners and GXes and RAM Rebels? Yeah, they're always squeaky clean with no scratches and carefully oiled sidewalls to really show off their oversized KO3s.
A good ceramic coat does seem to provide some protection against the redneck pinstriping. Unless the vegetation is really woody even the worst of it doesn't get into the clear coat. I keep a M18 top handle chainsaw with me because I hate getting turned around by a small downed tree. It makes for an OK hedge trimmer too in a pinch.
https://svensaw.com/ If you need a hand-powered harp saw that compacts down to nothing. Made in the USA, with the wonderful stink of post-war gadgetry.
Re: the Rivian, if I have to hear one more person glaze the Rivian for off-road prowess when it doesn’t even include a spare fucking tire I’m going to explode. No spare is criminally negligent in a purported “off roader”. The R1T has one I guess but the R1S and R2 are *optional* space savers. Off roader my ass.
Will the notes just be pleading for Rivian drivers to come sleep with Wes’s wife? Because most of them would rather cornhole him. Which might be a feature not a flaw.
I had a coworker leave to go work for Rivian. I'm not sure why someone would leave one corporate job for another that was practically guaranteed to lead to insecurity. I guess he wasn't as stupid as the one that went to Vinfast.
I know at least one person who went to Faraday Future. Which come to think of it, I wonder if that vapor company is still somehow flapping around alive on the beach?
According to Google AI, “the company attempts a dramatic pivot from struggling luxury electric vehicles to artificial intelligence and robotics”
Which, IF it generates 220v, will take a full day to give sufficient charge to get back to the nearest EV charge station. But maybe there is a business opportunity here.
When people joke about the DMV I just think, not here in Ohio, but in 1963 on the other hand — all registrations were handled in a one or two month period, cash only. Any you got brand new plates, no stickers yet. Sorry I couldn't read the Hyundai article yesterday....
There was a fancy Wrangler in the dealer show room here. Something north of $90k (US dollars). Astounding/crazy. Probably will sell to some Navy guy who will finance it over 8 years.
A $90k Wrangler is almost certainly a V8 (or has all sorts of dealer installed bling). My mid-spec V6 model stickered for $56k and I got it in the mid $40s with no effort other than an email.
Curious. What’s the purpose of driving around with the doors off …. With your foot hanging out on the sideboards? I’ve seen a number of kids driving to high school like that and it astounds me the parents let them.
My dear departed FIL had four and no sons. By the time I came sniffing around the youngest with two older ones still at home, he was highly motivated to move the merchandise.
All kidding aside, I lost my father unexpectedly when I was 18 and my FIL was like a father to me. I took his passing very hard.
When you put it like that I feel like a piece of shit and I will keep feeling like a piece of shit until I pull up to another no doors Jeep with 259 ducks on the dash and a dude wearing a NineLine shirt behind the wheel at which point I shall once again be unrepentant
My Wrangler is my every day car/daily driver. Aside from not being good on a twisty road (we have none in IL) and kind of crap long distances, it’s a fantastic Swiss Army knife. All weather capable, can haul and tow a decent amount, family friendly, has all the luxury stuff I need (remote start, heated seats and wheel, great stereo), great for city/in town driving, etc etc etc. Since I have a sports car for fun, and wife has a comfy CUV for road trips, it’s the perfect third leg in our little fleet.
Recently drove a 3 on the tree for the first time, I regret to inform you that I had to youtube it. Anyway, it was fun, in a novel sort of way. Early 60's FJ40.
I remember as a kid, my uncle had to watch me and take me for lunch after school, as my parents were away. He drove a Wrangler Sahara back then, the version with the square headlights. Doors off. What a feeling, I still remember it to this day, probably 33 years later...
And that photo of the Recon is just stupid. If one is carrying bikes, presumably one is going to go for a ride. Are you going to leave the vehicle with the doors off, so critters or vagrants can have access to the inside? Or if the doors are storable in the back (maybe, but I doubt it) where do you then put the front bike wheels, and gear, and whatnot? In the back seat where it can fall out? Morons.
I was coming here to say that the Mustang even has a shockingly better color palette than the miata. molten magenta and Adriatic blue, sign me the fuck up!
Honestly, anything under 60-70k for a new, honest hand to God street performance car is a pretty good deal. That sounds like you call around for a dealer willing to sell at invoice and pull the trigger
No. Just no. I looked at Miata’s online the other day. With 3 of the exterior colors you can get a tan interior, but not with the red exterior. Really? WTF?
Are they bringing the Zinc Green Metallic to America for 2027? The renderings on the website look bad but I remember some photos of them at dealers in Japan that looked good.
What looks fantastic is the Nissan's new Shinkai Green Pearl Metallic for the Z.
and I just went on the Nissan site, did a search for 2027 Z, green, tan interior, manual trans - there are NONE listed anywhere. There are manuals with black interiors, and tan interiors with auto trans. Grrrr.
I will believe all the AI people’s warnings if in the same posts they say they are also leaving the Democrat party and registering as Republicans since the threat to humanity from the Democrats is much greater than that from AI.
I just did a Gemini prompt on what are the prediction market odds that AI wipes out the human race. It came back with .38% by 2100 on the low end and ~5%-13% by 2030 on the high end.
I have a neighbor who works as an engineer for Stelantis, I have seen the Recon, it looks very much like a jeep, just no tail pipe…
Terminator was a documentary…. Only half kidding.
I might drop my CDL so that I never have to visit dmv again, it didn’t use to be that bad, anymore it sucks in Michigan, and next year they want to do a pilot study on charging an additional 200 bucks for ten thousand miles, glad I am retired and can control how much I drive.
The fees are high and that mileage tax would be heinous, but at least getting an appointment online and transferring titles/registering a newly purchased vehicle is easier than ever. I was 10min early to my appointment to transfer the Ram title, didn't register it at the moment but I was in and out before my actual appointment time of 5:10pm. Plus the local office is literally 5 minutes from my house and an easy stop on the way home from work. I honestly think the ONLY thing that's considerably better in my life thanks to COVID is the Michigan SoS processes.
1. The "Payout Flaw": Real-money prediction markets rarely host high-volume "end of humanity" bets because if humanity goes extinct, there is no platform left to payout the winnings. This creates a structural bias toward "NO" bets or forces traders to treat short-term derivative questions as proxies.
2. Specialist vs. Crowd Variance: While general prediction markets hover under 5–15%, surveys of top machine learning researchers and AI safety figures often yield higher median estimates (commonly referred to as \bm{P(\text{doom})}) in the 5% to 20% range.
As for number one I wanted to say “Duh”. How do you get paid if it happens?
God, a friend of mine just got a 95 NA with that deep blue exterior and the tan interior. Put a wooden Nardi wheel it and it just looks so so good.
Always fun watching Lewis eat shit.
The Anthropic thing is even dumber than normal Silicon Valley idiocy, because if _anyone actually thought that_, they would be full on Linda-Hamilton-in-T2 mode. Everyone is going on about low probability / high impact scenarios, but if they really believed there was a TEN PERCENT chance of civilization ending, they should be doing NOTHING besides bombing the frontier labs. That they’re not shows how much bullshit they’re wading in.
You are assuming that humans can 1) understand math, 2) organize, and 3) act rationally. None of which our mass population can do -- it is a lot easier to do nothing than than to implement a Manhattan Project for something that has a 90% chance of never happening.
Since that one guy from Ohio who could actually drive and write left I haven’t spent much time on that site. Are they still all in on experiences or did they go back to trying to be a car magazine again?
In what world is *that* green? And I'm looking at the official Mazda Newsroom press photos on a Mac with two Studio Displays that have very truthful color depictions.
That's grey; you're right. I'm insulted that Mazda has bothered, really.
I’m too lazy to look, but my Dad’s 1983 Buick Regal Custom Sedan was supposed to be greener than the greenish-gray that it ended up being. Sounds like that’s the case here!
The world has become mostly desaturated. Look at the Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore website, every colour is a shade of greige with a minimal amount of colour in the mix.
It’s a Toyota color since they build the CX-50 in that joint Toyota-Mazda factory in the South. They let Toyota use Soul Red on some CUV too, which is disappointing.
That color combined with the black top and black wheels looks like it was inspired by either a late 1940’s Nash or else something that was built behind the iron curtain during the Cold War.
Max's under-performance this year shows how much the format is "all car" this cycle. Lots of passing, sure -- but it all feels like "Hey, I have some battery! Now I can pass! Oh, wait -- I used it all up, and now I must fall two places".
Mercedes has a better driver lineup, top to bottom than any other team -- but they look very much like a well run program with some really good hardware. Max and Kimi in equal cars would be quite a show.
I don't know how we get back to all ICE, but it's really what the sport is crying for.
The “AI is going to kill us all” X post is coordinated propaganda, as expected.
Here is how it went down. A total hit job. Here are the receipts. https://xcancel.com/ParkerThayer/status/2097759699626328575#m
Further proof that everything is an op.
Caveat Emptor.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this.
I'm in favor of "AI doomer" stuff because it has the potential to slowly prick the bubble rather than let it turbo-2008 the country. It will also result in fewer Superfund sites when most of the processing moves to the desktop.
I’m really tired of everything being an op.
It seems like the only big news now that isn’t an op is a weather event.
“Climate change”
Touché.
I was going for the small stuff like snowstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes that have nothing to do with the crazy theories of the greens.
Thank you. Your link is entirely convincing that something is, indeed, up. My first reaction is that, when he get to step 4, Democrat involvement, the timing suggests opportunistic behavior, not an integral part of the initial plot. My mind remains open on that, however.
Other possible motivations include 1) scam for non-profit money 2) an attempt to get hands on levers of power, possibly anti-competitively so 3) Jack's Darth Vader coolness factor (also see Herman Kahn).
It is kind of frightening that they didn’t make any attempt to hide any of these links that some random guy just found. They didn’t care one bit if people found out if this was an op, simply because by that time the op would have already done its job and been successful, which it was.
"Nevertheless, it’s fundamentally a stupid idea because off-road trails are the places in America least likely to have a charging station nearby, and part of being off-road is that you can’t really be exact as to your schedule or timing." Exactly. Which is why I bought a JGC PHEV and not a Rivian, etc. I've been places where I worried that the 400 mile gas range would not be enough to get to the nearest gas station. EV charging station? LOL Can AAA bring a bucket of electrons to you if you run out of charge?
You can always siphon some. :) Not that I’ve ever siphoned fuel before.
Hmmm, someone needs to invent a charge siphon. Drive up to a trail head, connect a cord from your EV to another EV, and suck the charge out of their battery, then drive off all energized. Maybe we can get an AI bot to invent this very useful device.
Best Beavis and Butthead voice, “eh, eh, he said suck and EV in the same sentence…eh, eh”
It's not fun.
Steve, well well said, EV off-road vehicles are for posers not for real wilderness adventures.
This comment is trail rated.
Wes Siler isn’t going to like reading this.
Too. Freaking. Bad.
Depends on what Mrs Wes thinks of off road EVs.
“Do you like it rough big boy”
and an ev is more likely to use those deadly tow hooks too
and more likely to actually break them
To be fair, most off road vehicles are for posers, not for real wilderness adventures. I scratched all down the passenger side of my luxury off-roader, because I am bad at driving and drove through the overhanging brush because I was concerned that putting my 8-year-old HT tires into the rut would lead to a failure. Now I have new tires and a better sense for where that far-off passenger side door is!
But all the fancy lifted 4Runners and GXes and RAM Rebels? Yeah, they're always squeaky clean with no scratches and carefully oiled sidewalls to really show off their oversized KO3s.
The shiny off road trucks up here the posers drive we call princess trucks.
Pavement/Parking lot Princess, Mall Crawler
A good ceramic coat does seem to provide some protection against the redneck pinstriping. Unless the vegetation is really woody even the worst of it doesn't get into the clear coat. I keep a M18 top handle chainsaw with me because I hate getting turned around by a small downed tree. It makes for an OK hedge trimmer too in a pinch.
https://svensaw.com/ If you need a hand-powered harp saw that compacts down to nothing. Made in the USA, with the wonderful stink of post-war gadgetry.
Re: the Rivian, if I have to hear one more person glaze the Rivian for off-road prowess when it doesn’t even include a spare fucking tire I’m going to explode. No spare is criminally negligent in a purported “off roader”. The R1T has one I guess but the R1S and R2 are *optional* space savers. Off roader my ass.
That’s bad, but are the Rivian tow hooks trail rated?
If not, I’m expecting windshield notes soon.
Will the notes just be pleading for Rivian drivers to come sleep with Wes’s wife? Because most of them would rather cornhole him. Which might be a feature not a flaw.
Leaving his phone number would accomplish both!
His wife and him are both in agreement on that
I had a coworker leave to go work for Rivian. I'm not sure why someone would leave one corporate job for another that was practically guaranteed to lead to insecurity. I guess he wasn't as stupid as the one that went to Vinfast.
I know at least one person who went to Faraday Future. Which come to think of it, I wonder if that vapor company is still somehow flapping around alive on the beach?
According to Google AI, “the company attempts a dramatic pivot from struggling luxury electric vehicles to artificial intelligence and robotics”
It's actually a dude with a flatbed Dodge that shows up with an unmuffled/non emissions controlled genset and you plug into that.
Which, IF it generates 220v, will take a full day to give sufficient charge to get back to the nearest EV charge station. But maybe there is a business opportunity here.
That's when they guy grabs a bag of sunflower seeds and a can of Skoal and says "Where else you gonna go boy"
When people joke about the DMV I just think, not here in Ohio, but in 1963 on the other hand — all registrations were handled in a one or two month period, cash only. Any you got brand new plates, no stickers yet. Sorry I couldn't read the Hyundai article yesterday....
I’m sitting in the drive through line in my Wrangler with the doors off and I’m 100% squeak free. FWIW.
i miss my wrangler for that door off experience
it was garbage
There was a fancy Wrangler in the dealer show room here. Something north of $90k (US dollars). Astounding/crazy. Probably will sell to some Navy guy who will finance it over 8 years.
Guy with 90k wrangler and a $20 burrito
“Why cant i afford a house!”
A $90k Wrangler is almost certainly a V8 (or has all sorts of dealer installed bling). My mid-spec V6 model stickered for $56k and I got it in the mid $40s with no effort other than an email.
Yes it was loaded, V8 engine. But still.
Lol, sailors.
Curious. What’s the purpose of driving around with the doors off …. With your foot hanging out on the sideboards? I’ve seen a number of kids driving to high school like that and it astounds me the parents let them.
It’s like a blowjob. There is no point but it’s fun and feels good.
My kid will likely get a Jeep, but she won’t be taking the doors off.
I suppose. And just like a blowjob there’s a non zero chance you could unexpectedly lose a body part while you’re enjoying the experience.
Part of the fun
Maybe stop getting your BJs in prison and you won’t have to worry so much.
The point is to not have five daughters!
Wait, when did you get your 5th?
My dear departed FIL had four and no sons. By the time I came sniffing around the youngest with two older ones still at home, he was highly motivated to move the merchandise.
All kidding aside, I lost my father unexpectedly when I was 18 and my FIL was like a father to me. I took his passing very hard.
I have no greater pleasure in my increasingly timid life than riding up next to no-doors Jeepers on my motorcycles and giving them the dead eye look.
Just because you flaunt your indifference to death daily doesnt mean normies shouldn't get to enjoy enhanced summer driving airflow
When you put it like that I feel like a piece of shit and I will keep feeling like a piece of shit until I pull up to another no doors Jeep with 259 ducks on the dash and a dude wearing a NineLine shirt behind the wheel at which point I shall once again be unrepentant
“Look at me free in the air under this helmet and protective Kevlar and gloves and boots while it’s 90° out! I’m free like a bird”
its silly
do it once and everything will make sense
It’s really enjoyable. It’s like a convertible, ya herd?
with the top and doors off its like nothing else
Until you park at the picnic site, go for a hike and come back to find the bear family inside your Jeep.
I'd rather have a 65 Valiant convertible with a warmed over 225 and 3 on the tree.
That’s why they make chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla!
My Wrangler is my every day car/daily driver. Aside from not being good on a twisty road (we have none in IL) and kind of crap long distances, it’s a fantastic Swiss Army knife. All weather capable, can haul and tow a decent amount, family friendly, has all the luxury stuff I need (remote start, heated seats and wheel, great stereo), great for city/in town driving, etc etc etc. Since I have a sports car for fun, and wife has a comfy CUV for road trips, it’s the perfect third leg in our little fleet.
there are cheaper ways to go 14 under the speed limit
Recently drove a 3 on the tree for the first time, I regret to inform you that I had to youtube it. Anyway, it was fun, in a novel sort of way. Early 60's FJ40.
I remember as a kid, my uncle had to watch me and take me for lunch after school, as my parents were away. He drove a Wrangler Sahara back then, the version with the square headlights. Doors off. What a feeling, I still remember it to this day, probably 33 years later...
And that photo of the Recon is just stupid. If one is carrying bikes, presumably one is going to go for a ride. Are you going to leave the vehicle with the doors off, so critters or vagrants can have access to the inside? Or if the doors are storable in the back (maybe, but I doubt it) where do you then put the front bike wheels, and gear, and whatnot? In the back seat where it can fall out? Morons.
2011 Miata owner here. Would kill for a BRG on tan. Or Competition Yellow. Or 90s teal....
More real colors is the one thing every Miata owner has been clamouring for years now...but nope, it's one nice red, and then fifty shades of lame.
What, not a fan of (checks notes) Baby Poop Green?
This should be the baseline minimum set of colors for the Miata: https://www.dodge.com/news/high-impact-colors.html
I was coming here to say that the Mustang even has a shockingly better color palette than the miata. molten magenta and Adriatic blue, sign me the fuck up!
Molten magenta looks FANTASTIC in person. Lovely, lovely color.
Adriatic blue has me very tempted
Indeed. I’m so damn torn about an Adriatic Blue GT Premium with Performance Pack and a 6MT… with a $59,230 sticker.
Honestly, anything under 60-70k for a new, honest hand to God street performance car is a pretty good deal. That sounds like you call around for a dealer willing to sell at invoice and pull the trigger
Same with the interior. Would you prefer the black cloth interior or the other black interior in your new Miata?
No. Just no. I looked at Miata’s online the other day. With 3 of the exterior colors you can get a tan interior, but not with the red exterior. Really? WTF?
That tan interior also seems to come with nicer leather.
sunkist orange or maybe a mariner blue (metallic?) would be neat
would only ever choose soul red metallic tho
Are they bringing the Zinc Green Metallic to America for 2027? The renderings on the website look bad but I remember some photos of them at dealers in Japan that looked good.
What looks fantastic is the Nissan's new Shinkai Green Pearl Metallic for the Z.
https://x.com/7NnpIGjJAdwmMR7/status/2092906116107866122
https://x.com/wataryrz_aria48/status/2096361660235792678
This is absolutely gorgeous. Only problem is the black roof means there's less of it to ogle. Why?
OH YEAH that green is incredible
there is a video on the Nissan site: https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/sports-cars/nissan-z.html
green with tan interior and stick shift would be perfect. now how to get my wife to let me buy a Japanese car??
and I just went on the Nissan site, did a search for 2027 Z, green, tan interior, manual trans - there are NONE listed anywhere. There are manuals with black interiors, and tan interiors with auto trans. Grrrr.
I assume they're just getting started with the 2027 model run. They're probably on a boat right now...
Typically not a pearl paint guy, but that green is a beaut.
If ever there was a car that should come in a variety of colors, it's the miata.
Does anyone know the prediction market odds of AI wiping out the human race? I’m not interested enough to check.
How would you collect if you’re right?
I will believe all the AI people’s warnings if in the same posts they say they are also leaving the Democrat party and registering as Republicans since the threat to humanity from the Democrats is much greater than that from AI.
You’re welcome.
The only thing saving us is that the Dems are mostly incompetent.
And they’re neck and neck with their fellow Unipartians.
Dems are arguably in a much better position to rally their base and spread anger/discontent among the lower classes. Actual competence is overrated.
Jacob Coxon's post has 119.3M views in 22hrs.
Sydney Sweeney could only dream of that
He is clearly being boosted by a well funded campaign
We need to ask: do we want the US government to merge with Anthropic and OpenAI and ban all other AI's?
They have totally lobotomized Claude, so I would say fuck no.
I just did a Gemini prompt on what are the prediction market odds that AI wipes out the human race. It came back with .38% by 2100 on the low end and ~5%-13% by 2030 on the high end.
I have a neighbor who works as an engineer for Stelantis, I have seen the Recon, it looks very much like a jeep, just no tail pipe…
Terminator was a documentary…. Only half kidding.
I might drop my CDL so that I never have to visit dmv again, it didn’t use to be that bad, anymore it sucks in Michigan, and next year they want to do a pilot study on charging an additional 200 bucks for ten thousand miles, glad I am retired and can control how much I drive.
The fees are high and that mileage tax would be heinous, but at least getting an appointment online and transferring titles/registering a newly purchased vehicle is easier than ever. I was 10min early to my appointment to transfer the Ram title, didn't register it at the moment but I was in and out before my actual appointment time of 5:10pm. Plus the local office is literally 5 minutes from my house and an easy stop on the way home from work. I honestly think the ONLY thing that's considerably better in my life thanks to COVID is the Michigan SoS processes.
It also came back with this.
Market Incentives & Biases
1. The "Payout Flaw": Real-money prediction markets rarely host high-volume "end of humanity" bets because if humanity goes extinct, there is no platform left to payout the winnings. This creates a structural bias toward "NO" bets or forces traders to treat short-term derivative questions as proxies.
2. Specialist vs. Crowd Variance: While general prediction markets hover under 5–15%, surveys of top machine learning researchers and AI safety figures often yield higher median estimates (commonly referred to as \bm{P(\text{doom})}) in the 5% to 20% range.
As for number one I wanted to say “Duh”. How do you get paid if it happens?
I am happy to sell you, and anyone else, extinction insurance.
God, a friend of mine just got a 95 NA with that deep blue exterior and the tan interior. Put a wooden Nardi wheel it and it just looks so so good.
Always fun watching Lewis eat shit.
The Anthropic thing is even dumber than normal Silicon Valley idiocy, because if _anyone actually thought that_, they would be full on Linda-Hamilton-in-T2 mode. Everyone is going on about low probability / high impact scenarios, but if they really believed there was a TEN PERCENT chance of civilization ending, they should be doing NOTHING besides bombing the frontier labs. That they’re not shows how much bullshit they’re wading in.
That's the second best color combo, after BRG / tan.
I expect an AI Doomsday Clock to appear soon from the Union of Concerned Programmers.
except said clock will display a blue screen ...........
The time is 404…
Perfect capstone!
Is your friend's Miata a 94 M Edition in Montego Blue?
You are assuming that humans can 1) understand math, 2) organize, and 3) act rationally. None of which our mass population can do -- it is a lot easier to do nothing than than to implement a Manhattan Project for something that has a 90% chance of never happening.
OT - who is going to be the first here to rush out and buy the new folding iPhone, which costs ONLY $1999 to $3200 ?
Not me. I finally got around to activating the S25 ultra i bought last year!
Got a S26 because it was the small. Nice to again have a one hand phone.
I had a Galaxy fold for a while and it was useful but not life changing. I’d rather have something more like the Flip.
(Also, iOS is hot garbage. There, I said it)
Anything worth doing is worth doing in a computer. I text and write poorly spelled comments here on my phone
Few things frustrate me more than typing on a phone's virtual keyboard. I have a Bluetooth physical keyboard I use for it when I'm at my desk.
Mazda announced that it is bringing out a green color for the 2027 ND, but it has turned out to be another grey:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71460279/nd-mazda-mx-5-miata-finally-adds-green-paint/
BSG edition.
(Baby shit green.)
SIG
Sinus Infection Green.
I have a sinus infection green Ford Maverick. Officially 'cactus grey.'
I suspect there is substance abuse in the Ford marketing department.
Nah, PPG sells that color at 5% less than other colors.
goat vomit green
What did R&T do to their website? That’s terrible.
Their program of scraping the barrel as hard as possible since 2020 has really paid off!
Since that one guy from Ohio who could actually drive and write left I haven’t spent much time on that site. Are they still all in on experiences or did they go back to trying to be a car magazine again?
Lifestyle experiences.
In what world is *that* green? And I'm looking at the official Mazda Newsroom press photos on a Mac with two Studio Displays that have very truthful color depictions.
That's grey; you're right. I'm insulted that Mazda has bothered, really.
I’ll wait until I see it in person, but it looks kinda good with the gray top imo.
I’m too lazy to look, but my Dad’s 1983 Buick Regal Custom Sedan was supposed to be greener than the greenish-gray that it ended up being. Sounds like that’s the case here!
The world has become mostly desaturated. Look at the Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore website, every colour is a shade of greige with a minimal amount of colour in the mix.
They had a cypress green color for the CX-50. I just saw one today for the first time ever.
It’s a Toyota color since they build the CX-50 in that joint Toyota-Mazda factory in the South. They let Toyota use Soul Red on some CUV too, which is disappointing.
Just saw one this week. Very attractive color.
That color combined with the black top and black wheels looks like it was inspired by either a late 1940’s Nash or else something that was built behind the iron curtain during the Cold War.
Discarded-Sandwich-In-An-Abandoned-Locker Green
"... 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧."
I'm not sure even that would stop it.
True. The aliens might let the championship continue to see how close Max can get.
Not close enough.
Max's under-performance this year shows how much the format is "all car" this cycle. Lots of passing, sure -- but it all feels like "Hey, I have some battery! Now I can pass! Oh, wait -- I used it all up, and now I must fall two places".
Mercedes has a better driver lineup, top to bottom than any other team -- but they look very much like a well run program with some really good hardware. Max and Kimi in equal cars would be quite a show.
I don't know how we get back to all ICE, but it's really what the sport is crying for.
Just need to get Briggs and Stratton as the lead sponsor. LOL.