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I saw one! A living Dodge Stratus in the year of our Lord 2026!

Is it weird that I live in a metro area of 4.5 million people and have absolutely no idea where the nearest Cheesecake Factory is? I always just thought it was an overpriced bullshit machine designed for the armies of tasteless weirdo McMansion owners.

Sat down in the car after the start of a candidate interview on Stateside from Michigan Public Radio and whoever this was I kept thinking "fucking YES, who is this guy saying every true thing we all know is the right way to fix stuff? WHO IS THIS GUY!?" Turns out, Abdul El-Sayed. No surprise really

Hey, remember when Ted Cruz ate a booger on TV? Good times.

It's funny to me how millennials all played games and watched movies populated by comically ridiculous evil companies and the stuff those cautionary stories told are just reality now and it's the news from any Thursday.

"Leveraged ETF" will be the term you hear when the current stock market bubble finally pops.

I miss when I could wake up and not think "oh, Jesus, guess I have to find out what dumb, corrupt, racist bullshit the president did overnight?"

Remember how much we hated pandemic scalpers? The toilet paper and hand sanitizer A-holes buying up regular stuff and cranking up the price? That's Private equity. That's the Warner Paramount deal. That's the end result of all M&A and why we're here now. But they also make quality and service worse.

I find myself in an odd place where the stars might align and in a decade I replace my current EV with the electric 3-series. Aside from the late 90s classics I have had zero interest in ever owning a BMW, but this new one is pretty slick.

I have so much to do before winter sets in and all the time to do it, but I just want to nap.

My favorite part of this moment is how every asshat uncle bloviating about communists at the upcoming Thanksgiving can be met with a response along the lines of "Didn't your president just gargle the balls of the Communist Marxist Chinese President when he met him on the tarmac with a flyover?"

$5/gallon for regular popping up in the Detroit area. Closing on $7 for Premium.

Hey reporters and Democratic politicians and economists, can we just call this what it is? Crony capitalism.

Nobody in Detroit cares what Tiger's Stadium is officially named, it's Tiger's Stadium. Like Sears Tower or The Gulf of Mexico.

I "filled up" today at my local municipal parking garage during free charging Sunday. Zero dollars except what I spent at the coffee shop and later the sandwich place (the whole point of the program). Used EVs depreciate like crazy and are very cheap and easy to live with.

I hate that I am cheering on Ukraine and Iran and the Houthis as they all simultaneously destroy oil infrastructure. Whatever it takes to get us off this bullshit oil industry merry-go-round.

I've been listening to a lot of radio over two weeks and it's hilarious how journalists are reporting on AI as an existential crisis rather than just another classic case of hunter sellers for bagholder prey. We are in the 90s dot com bubble again, founders are hedging on the last idiot to buy.

For a party so obsessive compulsive about the nuclear family and increasing the birth rate (for white babies) the GOP sure as hell are working their asses off to make all of the input costs unsustainable for young people.

Lol, Trump just said said gas prices will tumble below $2 if Republicans are elected in the midterms. You said that last election you hoary old pedophile.

If the Saudis are giving up on sportswashing with LIV golf I have a terrible feeling they might give up on carwashing with Lucid pretty soon. Lucid has shown incredible potential despite a bunch of warts. I want to see what they can do with a second generation but the world is a disaster right now.

It's really interesting living through these times as a parent to a young child, trying to judge what to shield and what to share. We've generally gone with full shield for now, she's just a kid and deserves a normal, happy childhood. The weight of a world coming undone can be put off for later days

Are we all in agreement that rucking guys are weirdos?

Well I guess Google is fully now the IBM of our time, bending over backwards to help fascists. Lake America. Fuck you Google. And fuck you again for Gulf of America.

China has $20T in national debt. In the last 20 years it lifted 600M people out of poverty, built entire cities out of dirt road nowheres, created a whole high speed train network, and become the dominant player in the world's industrial supply chain. We have $40T in debt and... school shootings?

I'm toying with the idea of the scarcity/resource hoarding part of our brains being intrinsic to functional human society, it leads to cooperation, empathy, long term planning prioritizing survival. As a corollary, when someone becomes so wealthy this motivation evaporates they lose their minds.

There she goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered angel of some kind never even considered for mass production. So happy to live, and too legendary to ever really die.

Man I feel great knowing that DOGE killed off outbreak containment funding and now the ebola outbreak in the DRC has claimed 2300 lives and is rapidly becoming out of control.

Sometimes, heroes do wear costumes!

It's funny how Reddit has made logging into Reddit mandatory to use the site after the absolute orgy of purging and IPO banning users who said anything controversial after the IPO. Good luck dorks, see you when you're tumblr

With all the illegal tariff refunds starting to go to companies instead of back to consumers, it would be amazing for some enterprising reporter to calculate all the working class money the Feds have just given to private companies over the last 20-ish years, starting with the TARP bailouts.

Geopolitically speaking, sure seems like this is the current situation.

The weirdest part about this Trump catering cart story is that it exists. Presumably this is an extraction plan the Secret Service has for an emergency. Why would an administration official disclose means and methods like that?

Funny how Bluesky stopped caring about Mitch McConnell once the midterms and August 4th passed. Is he still dead? Alive? Are we still mad about it?

As a person who drives a car, a bicycle, a tricycle, a motorcycle, uses feet, and trains and streetcars and buses and airplanes and the occasional funicular: Nothing gives me more pleasure than blocking bicycle lunatics.

You think people would line up at theaters if studios gave a whole shitload of weird film school grads with dicey portfolios a couple million bucks and a debut date with little interference rather than dumping $200M into every movie? A grindhouse 2 era would be ... fun (and very streamable).

Hey, uh, AI data centers are probably just a huge asset hedge against inflation that can be liened for future acquisitions and also insured against any losses.

"Man Pixar movies really really get the waterworks going in me now that I'm a parent, I'll put on a fun Don Bluth movie for her on this rainy day" Don Bluth movie: "Hold my drawing pencils"

Zero percent of the Sunday morning pundits confronted the administration directly by asking "Why did you issue false statements to the courts to justify levelling illegal and false charges against innocent citizens?"

Today I learned my high school now has a competitive fishing team. And that competitive fishing is now a thing in high school. And that I am tired of this world and its people.

Wow it's so weird that the primaries are happening in the next week and the Republicans who have an enormous roster of garbage grifters on the ballot are trotting out Fauci for a nonsense clown hearing. I'm sure those things have nothing to do with each other.

Fatherhood is being in your min-forties and summoning every bit of the last few decades of culinary experience to impress a six year old.

I haven't charged my car in 11 days... Yeah, that pretty well tracks with my recent productivity levels.

If Canada is going to burn down their forests every summer they should really pick something that smells better. Hickory or pecan or cedar. "Oil-soaked fence post and discarded IKEA pressboard" stinks to high hell.

"Oh thank God, the smoke from the drought-driven wildfires in Canada is cutting down the hundred degree heat here in Detroit" is a phrase from a dystopian nightmare novel of the 1970s that nobody would have taken seriously.

Anybody else think it's super duper great that a massive new piece of economically critical international infrastructure is just sitting idle because a babyman is having a fit? Yeah that Gordie Howe bridge is done. Trump is strangling Canada and Michigan right now. Intentionally.

Really enjoying GOP weirdos lying about their chats with McConnell

Bluesky using the Supergirl movie as a vehicle for virtue signaling sure is weird.

Science has gone too far.