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they're calling it the best nissan altima deal of all time and many people say... they say to me, "sir, you can't slash prices on mid-size sedans" but I did, I slashed the prices, and I slashed the prices so beautifully as well, they havent seen prices this low since...

regarding AC as a decadent, climate-irresponsible indulgence and regarding home heating as an essential necessity is unironically eurocentrism considering that one is objectively more emissions heavy than the other.

Relatedly, the courts should absolutely be allowed to treat contempt of court way more seriously, especially traffic court.

Nona is a really interesting system to follow the impact of. Especially as turreted mortars are such a massive improvement across the board that I’m still generally surprised traditional mortar carriers are still being built.

Kind of an unfair statement given how much of that got rolled into the B-50 and C-97, and the absurd size of the theatre, but yeah.

yeah…

So like the vibe here is completely different (because everyone here who is a sleazebag of the right sort goes to Vegas,) and I don’t really fit it, but there’s also nothing for me to really go back to, so it just sucks.

After three years here the thing I miss the most about Florida is the sleaze. Which is a weird thing to say, but like Honolulu barely has any and the rest of the state just has the wrong vibes, including the rural bits which trend much more Hippie, Meth head, or Hippie Meth head than rural fl.

Semi-weird thought of the day but BMW’s reluctance to have a Mini dealer on every major island in Hawaii probably costs the brand 500-1000 sales a year, or like 5-10% of US sales, especially as they’re like one of three brands in the US selling a convertible under $50k at this point.

I wouldn’t even say that long, I want to bet we could do it in under five years if conditions are right.

It’s really weird too, because like in my old district it was the program people shuffled twice exceptional kids off to. Which 2E kids need wildly different resources than normal SPED is geared to provide, but egos had to be massaged.

As a Floridian, Buffalo, NY somehow managed to disappoint and was somehow shittier and consistently sketchier than Florida's shitholes, like Hudson.

I hope it doesn’t shut Telo out, but I definitely think it killed USDM first as a concept for EVs.

That said, I think a new Xterra is also a harbinger of the 4x4 market imploding so who knows at this point.

My dad has a Maverick and it’s a good replacement for his ranger as a commuter and household truck, and they’re great for that, but small vans usually end up as better fleet vehicles.

That said, pretty much anyone in the US who buys a Class 2 truck doesn’t actually use it, and they’re all kinda shit as actual work trucks compared to Class 1 compact/midsize trucks or a class 3+ which can haul four fat guys and a cooler and still have the ability to tow or work as a service truck.

Yeah they’re ubiquitous here in HI, but I’d rather have something a bit bigger for farm work, since a 350kg payload is really tight after including the driver. Probably closer in size/payload to a Telo, FC or a Toyoace, which is still a massive improvement in size over the new, fat Tacomas

This was down to the chicken tax killing the competition and all of the big 3 cab forwards being way more popular as vans because of that size and visibility.

Also, have you seen one irl? The Corvair 95s are fifteen feet long and six feet wide. That’s actually 3x larger than a 360cc Hijet.

The fun thing is despite that, the Jeep FC is frankly the best pickup the US has ever produced and had an absurd payload to weight ratio, even with the narrow track on early models and massive counterweight needed to keep it from doing front flips when going downhill unloaded.

I need to start giving up dairy instead of meat whenever I decide to try eating better.

The superdole was a wild success that the left and populists pretend never happened and no one gave any political credit for and really should have been an early warning sign that deliverism would fail.

Honestly the only good source of ed research I’ve found that wasn’t just demographic information was NARST, and they’re just focused on education practice. Ed policy is fucked in large part because there isn’t a path out of the trenches into policy like there is for the rest of the public sector.

And then teachers get overloaded with duties and responsibilities because that’s the cheap option, instead of actually having support staff to handle things like curriculum design, student assessment or just being a warm body so teachers have the restroom access they’re entitled to under law.

Honestly it needs to be split between policy and practice concentrations in undergrad, and districts need to be way more serious about requiring admin actually get administration degrees.

Research otoh is fucked because admins are idiots and fall for conmen because it offers cheap solutions.

I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable

The desexualisation of media (everyone is beautiful, and no one is horny) combined with an increasing hysteria around the 'pointlessness' of sex scenes is a key part of the fascistization of western culture and if we're going to fight back we're going to need to make it normal to be horny again.

I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.

Weirdest thing I found out this week: there isn’t a single Buick dealer left in HI. The only other NA brand where this is the case is Alfa Romeo. Instead everyone is running GMC/Caddy or GMC/Chevy/Caddy because I live in hell.

I guess not selling the Electra or GL8 in the US killed it here.

they want to kill your kids

That’s got more with Honda having their own product lines and BT1 just being an ungodly expensive platform thanks to the huge batteries imo.