Are you ADHD by chance?

If it isn’t obvious by now, dictators don’t have to make sense.

Testing to see if NATO will actually get US support. That’s what this is about.

They are not dead. They’re just quiet after years of scandals and corruption.

Gotta be it. The Walton family have been pro-Republican anti-labor forever. Makes you wonder how many undocumented people WalMart has working for them in stores and warehouses, plus are employed in working with all the cheap produce and dairy they sell.

No wonder Russia is suspected of planning an attack on NATO. “Quick, look over there! Something else is happening other than our catastrophic fuckup you shouldn’t be seeing!”

Bring a phone to the toilet with you and you could considerably shorten the time.

Which episode did B5 ever have farm workers running from Stasi? That said, B5 was on the nose with political commentary, they didn’t mask it much.

Oh good, a 60% chance you’ll get an ineffective or killer drug because they’ll use AI to analyze the usage and AI to report on it.

they’re more stupid than I could’ve ever fathomed.

Seeing as we elected trump (or at least ~30% of us did, while a significant chunk sat back and let it happen) I think the stupidity is a foregone conclusion. Now they’re doubling and tripling down on it.

Lots and lots of reasons.

I’m basing this on your comparison of normal cars to currently existing exotics.

Predominantly: The vast majority of people don’t want an exotic car. They want to go from home to work and the store, maybe a drive for a leisure trip. They’re boring. They want to get their stuff and people in and out of the car easily and conveniently.

Exotics do not do convenience well. There’s minimal trunk space, there’s space for only two people, often “snugly.” They require some contortions to get into and out of. Think of how out of shape many people are and see if they fit into a highly contoured, reclined, and snug race seat and can crawl in behind a scissor- or butterfly-style door with a very low roof.

Engineering-wise exotics are expensive, both for the manufacturer and customer. Those compact, low, aerodynamic bodies on exotic cars take a lot of work to pack all the mechanicals in along with having to design a body that is crash-worthy for each new style. On top of that, they’re often mid-engine, which means a lot of specialty parts like transaxles, and wildly different handling characteristics than the average consumer is used to when you shift weight to the back of the vehicle.

Manufacturers stick with the “boring” designs because they’re based on existing engineering that is safe, requires minimal cost to make the new iteration, aerodynamic, fuel efficient, and has proven to be sellable to consumers. Profit is king. They’re not going to take chances on crazy styles that may not sell because again, people are boring.

I know people are going to chime in about mundane cars in production today that have some of the features I mentioned and treat them as an exception that invalidates the opinions I’ve offered, but the point is that if they were economical and profitable designs in an exotic body they would be more widespread. “You could just take “x” engine and transmission and build a “y” around it” argument.

I would suggest maintenance is a potential cost problem, too…some exotics literally require the car be split - the entire rear of the car containing the engine and transaxle removed from the rest of the car for access because of the compact engineering and inaccessibility to some wear parts. However if Toyota made a low-buck supercar looking commuter car I’d hope the maintenance would be cheaper and easier.

So there you have it. Cost of design, engineering, and maintenance. Boring consumers, convenience, and safety. Affordability and profit. That’s why we don’t have exotics everywhere. The market has determined that the few Halo cars we see like the Supra or C8 Corvette, or even the Mustang, is all the market will bear.

Gotta be metric boobs.

This post is meta. Just like real life, instead of debating the substance of the post we have people in the weeds discussing the minutiae of subjective inaccuracies. Things that cannot really be communicated in such a limited format based on the given theme. Like the democrats discussing what brand boot should be placed on your neck instead of the fact there should be no boot at all.

The difference between binge drinking and having a glass or pint a day.

The lies happen so often I don’t know what to do with them anymore.

An assumption such a thing will be allowed to be written with the republicrats in power. Maybe in another country.

It’s about pissing off the libs.

Checking out women sunbathing in backyards or other places.

It’s probably body armor straps. No way he isn’t scared of being in public.

Strawberries and watermelon. The flavors are terrible in any way but fresh.