People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
Ascertain-a-Bagel
The engine bay pics show the standard V8; that was an LT1, right?
Ok I went fully down the rabbit hole on the build thread and his other videos and man what a well constructed story, there’s more drama here than in most things that get greenlit for streaming ls1tech.com/forums/suspe...
Maybe they’re nomex
Not the right generation, but here’s some F-body faszination on the Nurburgring Watching the passenger’s flip flops really adds a whole layer to this vid youtu.be/0AUtoT3ldng?...
Yes, agreed. And I’m not saying law has no value; it does, and we should continue to apply it, especially once we’ve solved the political problem. Just that I don’t think the particular pathology we’re dealing with here would have been prevented if an earlier Admin had been more cautious
But ultimately the problem is that we’ve elected an administration that wants to kill people, and they don’t really care whether it’s legal or justified by precedent. Precedent is for losers.
No matter how much law and process you have, it won’t save you from a politics, because law is ultimately downstream from politics Which isn’t to say that I disagree with you; being cavalier with the law can cause political problems.
It’s weird to say it as a lawyer but I think in the U.S. we fetishize law, pretend it’s something that exists separate and apart from the people living under it and applying it Which makes people think the law is some sort of wall or guardrail. It’s not. It’s a tool to help ppl do the right thing
The problem is that we’re discovering in the U.S. that it doesn’t matter how much process or law you have—making sure people of good faith are the ones in power is ultimately what’s load bearing
Wild that he was selling all three of these yesterday, closing within minutes of each other
Yeah I’m not a big fan of what Porsche calls the RS spyder wheel; just looks like a knockoff BBS RC. And the wood trim is also a mistake
(This same car was sold on BaT five years ago for$51k, a very nice result at the time from 1600veloce, one of BaTs better known sellers) bringatrailer.com/listing/2014...
BaT’s results graph shows just how absurd this is; the three closest are all Turbos and are still 40k short of this result
I missed Document but the Green tour was really magical
This run is among the most incredible runs that any band has ever had, and this was before the three albums that really made them superstars Imagine knocking these out, one after the other, year after year. Jesus.
If you’d told me back in my contour dot org days that Ford would sell a version of the Mondeo here with a twin turbo V6 and AWD, I would have been so stoked. Such a shame that car was as bland as it was
Or NWAA?
Or the NDAA
Look I’ve been skeptical of the need for the Desert Storm memorial they’re building on Constitution but I guess these guys really do need a reminder www.ndswm.org
There are only so many sub 1000 mile $600,000 special edition late model Porsches out there
Only CENTCOM can ask for that
And it’s not just sports cars; this Escape is old enough to buy beer but in terms of specs and appearance it slots pretty well right next to a brand new Bronco Sport. www.cargurus.com/Cars/invento...
Yeah, it seems mostly fine, especially compared to some of the other stuff bmw has done The steering wheel is grotesque but there appear to be a couple of possible wheels so maybe that won’t be so bad
It’s so rare anymore that I read something that actually makes me burst out laughing, but this did it
The Pirro Sandwich Art was pulled down on the West End; this went up to replace it
Are these the real lyrics to End of the World As We Know It?
Looking forward to the JSDF developing thermonuclear “road flares” for defensive use
Is this the Bismarck guy?
A station in Detroit did that with Friends in Low Places, which wasn’t as much fun to listen to for 24 hrs
Note how high up the chrome reflection from the antenna base appears in that pic youtu.be/3vBvoEdDbi8?...
Hard to tell from this angle but they might well be the OEM CB radio antenna
In my memory Ian Astbury could barely stand up; going back and looking at videos from that tour maybe he just had given up singing and decided to kind of yell the lyrics on principle?
Sonic Temple is a great album but I saw the Cult in 1992 and it was seriously one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen
Waiting anxiously for Passion8
Secretary of Wario
Not the most important thing by a long shot but has anyone thought about how much harder it is to say D Oh W than D Oh D?
The Probe is so much better
Like, honestly, no? Coupes are kind of silly, they’re fine if they have some sort of performance benefit but if not I’d rather just have the two extra doors
I don’t want an auto and I don’t want a two door without the performance to back it up and I don’t want a car that looks like a Prius, Eclipse, and Taycan wandered into the teleporter from the Fly, but other than that it’s great
Also holy shit the past two years have been rough on RFK, my god
A Model 3 with DC tags and a Robotaxi logo; not clear if this is company owned or just a fan
I don’t think I’ve gotten to the relevant part yet but I did appreciate the anecdote about Lutz’s father hating Volvo because Sweden was Socialist and hating Mercedes because they were owned by German plutocrats
Which pod?
Yeah but it’s a little weird the author used Sam Altman as one of only two examples here of “a shocking number of techies [that] now believe growing a baby can be a straightforward business transaction,” given that Altman is gay and married to a man
If you’re going 1.6 you need to put it in a Capri, for symmetry Or a Miata, actually
Anyway to be clear none of this is good and I hope the U.S. robustly and unambiguously signals to China that it will defend Taiwan. I just think that we should all be thinking about just *how bad* things could get if the current Admin decides it doesn’t want to do that
They will fall and we live long enough to build nukes
That wasn’t super clear in the first few weeks Idk, I don’t even know if it’s the wrong calculus if you’re Japan or SK. If the US is signaling it plans to sit out, do you get preemptively involved with a certain war now? Or do you let China take Taiwan and figure you can deter future aggression?
What I’m imagining is a scenario where Trump picks up the phone and says “don’t go.” Bibi wouldn’t take that kind of direction, but are Japan and SK going to go to war if the U.S. says not to (assuming China doesn’t hit them first)? I really don’t think they would
I’m sure they don’t. Poland clearly doesn’t think Russia invading ukraine leads anywhere good but they haven’t intervened and they wouldn’t without the U.S. agreeing it’s a good idea Same may well be true here
Does Japan go to war if it knows the U.S. won’t?
I don’t think that’s a corner for Trump. I think he lets them take it, as long as they don’t strike American assets. Assuming they think the same thing, their first strike doesn’t hit US assets. It’s a gamble, but the whole thing is a gamble
Will our allies be able to back Trump into a corner where he feels compelled to act and also can act without risk to his own prestige? It worked in Iran. I don’t know how you make it work in Taiwan.
I think there is, in fact, a very good chance that Trump blinks if confronted, in which case it doesn’t matter how big the tripwire force or how well they see it coming. I don’t think it’s realistic that they don’t understand what’s coming. It’s more likely they just decide not to deal with it
I found a source that suggests the only factory colors for the Fuchs were black, white, and platinum. If these are platinum, that suggests the body is too, which makes it either an 83 or 84 according to Rennbow
Like we did with the Houthis
Me and the gang singing our hearts out to Perfect Kiss
Speaking of which, I think a great karaoke song would either be Push or Alone because of the immense lag before the vocals even start
I’ve said it before but ppl forget how big a difference VANOS/VVT has made in area under the curve. They’ve lost sight of what it means to have Tenzing Norgay levels of peakiness
It’s a hilarious car bc for years almost everyone who bought one was like “I love it, I’m going to swap a new engine in immediately.” Now they’re too expensive to drive so you don’t notice how slow they are
The first time I drove an S14 I asked the same question BMW ultimately did, which was “why doesn’t this engine have two more cylinders?”
“Well, I guess she is for ‘us’ in the sense that my running mate is a gay man.”
It bears noting that in addition to being horribly corrupt, this is likely also very racist
Attack of the the eye creatures is truly one of the best eps
Was like 17 minutes late lol
Like I have to go back to a 2004 Sunbird to come up with a worse one I don’t understand how anyone test drove that car and was like, yes, I want to own this
I owned Teslas — including a Model 3 — for many years, so I am not inherently a hater. With that background, the first gen Model Y is the worst car I’ve driven in a long time and it’s not particularly close
I believe that—but I also would still like to have the option to purchase parts outside the dealer
I wouldn’t expect the info for free, necessarily, but I would hope there would be an easy and relatively low cost way to get it (that didn’t involve having to buy the parts from the dealer)
Gearing up to read NatCon transcripts youtu.be/XzfsfYnuc8c?...
This is absolutely lethal levels of cringe, you can’t post this without a warning man, come on
lol this part, re Winsome’s running mate bsky.app/profile/cian...
It’s for the President of Poland’s visit www.president.pl/for-the-medi...
“In a move that is plainly unconstitutional but likely to be endorsed by a captive court” is hard to fit in the headline but they should push the bounds of what headlines allow
Plus the model naming convention! There are at least two potentially correct answers here Cardle 5/5 Streak 23🔥 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com
It clears the way for the Rogue to finally live up to its name
This Ezra Dyer piece I saw today is how I learned the Altima is dead and now what will be synonymous with automotive chaos? www.caranddriver.com/features/col...
Would be fun to get one of these and put a SHO motor in it, just to confuse people
Autopian put one on trispokes and took it to Pebble and now the Murano bubble is building
More info. Nice spot! www.speedhunters.com/2018/02/bigg...
Wait no it’s SWGT3 rennlist.com/how-tos/slid...
I’m worried that it might be SickGT3
What does that say, in front of GT3 on the badging?
In the “what is the best car to own in Manhattan” I am continuing to back the Bronco Sport with accessory steel bumpers, bc it is small and has good ground clearance and doesn’t look big money
Fortunately we’re going to have a whole department for that soon
We had a long conversation about it after and hopefully it was a teachable moment but I do not understand the impulse to buy pellet guns that look like real guns these days
The airsoft thing gives me nightmares. A while back the kid and his buddies were walking around with a couple of airsofts, heading for the woods. Neighbor calls 911. I am very lucky (and thankful to the local PD) that they handled it well, but holy fuck that thing with Tamir Rice lives rent free
Scout will fix it Or maybe Cupra
Maybe they could Paperclip the Epstein files to the back of this announcement?
New art on DC’s West End
Do we know this is definitely their styling direction for all markets? Or is it just an alternative for Germany?
