They’re surprisingly good, particularly BYD cars, in my experience.

Americans’ vehicles tend to be huge, wildly inefficient for their daily usage, and they throw off externalities like pedestrian and cyclist risks, road damage, and support for countries who use our gas spending to make the world less liberal.

VW, Honda, Toyota, and Datsun capitalized on American vehicle bloat to build massive, multinational companies with products in every segment. The Chinese are going to ruin our domestic manufacturers, once they decide to build bridgehead plants here.

Today, I’m driving an Acura that is made in Marysville, Ohio. Not assembled; it is substantively made here in the States. And, the chain reaction that led to Honda, a Japanese company, exporting profits made from American productivity in 2024, started with the Big Three making massively bloated, inefficient, expensive, poorly designed cars, leaving a gap in the market that foreign companies exploited with right-sized, efficient, affordable, reliable vehicles, starting in the ‘60s and exploding with the ‘73 oil crisis.

I don’t have time to find a link, but there have been studies that demonstrate that the exact choices being made by American manufacturers today—to not fully serve the bottom of the market—sow the seeds of their own future declines in the middle and upper markets.

I hate to admit this, but I’ve started using Reddit again. It pains me, but there is stuff I just can’t get here.

Funny you should ask. They’ve got a good model in a certain emerald mining scion turned chronic safety measure evader.

I like Conan, but his interview skills are nowhere near Ferguson’s.

Pro-tip: If you’re pitching a Taiwanese company, saying “West Taiwan” is almost a guarantee of winning the business.

Maybe this is the equivalent of defending ethical capitalism, but an ad-supported model can enable poor users to access content they couldn’t afford if it were paid.

FWIW, it was grey as fuck, the time tax to get basic life done was pretty absurd—and typically fell on women, and the controls on movement were suffocating.

I wouldn’t wish the GDR or USSR back into being, nor would I wish this capitalist shit-show on anyone.

Kamandi is posed like he’s Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein.

The lack of nipple is also disturbing.

Wonder if Surovikin was along for the ride.

His flexible quickness of wit was incredibly impressive in the ‘80s and early-‘90s.

But, he’s become brittle. You can see it in his interviews and conversations now, where he often makes interlocutors repeat something before understanding it and responding to it, even though it was said clearly.

I suspect he’s lost a few steps and is running mostly on muscle-memory these days. He has lost the flexibility of thinking to make truly insightful jokes; he relies instead of stereotypes and is irritated that those stereotypes are increasingly being rejected by the left.

I have a suspicion that Tim Scott, if given full up-close magnification as a front runner, would creep people out with his unmarried, maybe-a-virgin, obvious Christian closet-case routine.

Refusing to be who you are, and instead allying yourself with the very people who hate who you really are, is some Stockholm shit by way of South Carolina.

Elon's hairplugs. Joe Rogan's roids. Trump's hair-replacement surgeries and shoe lifts. Andrew Tate's beard. Tim Pool's beanies. Little blue pills in every nightstand.

Right-wing men love to address their own dysphoria.