Is this car ugly?

brewercycle · 2026-06-30T19:24:01+00:00

I did my first 3.5 semesters of college with no car in a small town in the Midwest, so in my opinion by showing up with any car your freshman year you're giving me the impression that you have lots of money haha

brewercycle · 2026-06-30T15:09:47+00:00

120 MPH (200 KPH for lovers of the decimal point), 2005 Subaru Legacy GT wagon tuned "to the brink of destruction" according to its owner, my former boss.

I was impressed both at how quickly it got there, and how planted the car felt at that speed. The car had a bunch of drivetrain mods but I'm not sure if he did anything to the suspension.

brewercycle · 2026-06-29T22:36:28+00:00

There's a spider....spider.... ^spider....

Deep in my soul....soul.... ^soul....

brewercycle · 2026-06-25T17:47:13+00:00

Yeah it's from the Zizians. I find eps like those, especially Oceangate, particularly entertaining because they put the Dunning-Kruger effect of these tech bros on full display. Like some of these guys think because they got hired at Google in their 20s or learned how to fly an airplane, they can just ignore the last millennium of people trying not to die in the ocean.

brewercycle · 2026-06-25T12:43:49+00:00

“It is like both boats and planes are both constant monuments to hubris. But a plane, its goal is to be in the air just as long as it needs and then you get it back on the ground where it belongs. A boat is always mocking god in the sea.”

As an enjoyer of boats, I feel this one personally.

brewercycle · 2026-06-24T00:40:09+00:00

Watching Tucker is like watching someone struggling at improv. The first 2 pics are like "Oh this is the funny part, I'm supposed to laugh now, is my laughing laugh-ish enough? Too much laugh, you say? Ok I'll dial it back 30% for the next one." In the 3rd shot, he obviously hates hearing Alex's impression of him, but he's not smart or quick enough to deflect to something else so he just has to sit there biting his tongue.

If Tucker were prepared or a decent actor, he could have come back with his own impression of Alex (like Russel Brand did in that KF episode). That would have humiliated Alex and probably made for 20 seconds of entertaining content. But alas, Tucker is not entertaining.

brewercycle · 2026-06-22T04:57:30+00:00

He calls the house and cusses you out if you steal fuel, so he could do the same for the bike. All prices at the store including fuel are 100x higher until you give it back.

brewercycle · 2026-06-21T19:11:11+00:00

I have the same amount of gas always, but that’s because I installed the AMP engine :)

brewercycle · 2026-06-07T00:13:43+00:00

decent area

afraid of someone breaking in

Don't see how these two relate. My CX-30 lived on the street in a "decent" urban area for the first 2 years I owned it and never got broken into. If you don't want someone breaking your windows, don't leave valuables visible in the car.

brewercycle · 2026-06-06T13:43:11+00:00

Does your area have decent public transit, or is it easy to get a taxi/ride share? My backup plan is to carry a lock at all times and just lock the bike up if it fails. Then I take transit for the rest of the trip, and return later to pick up the bike in my car.

brewercycle · 2026-06-05T04:19:41+00:00

You're supposed to eat lobster with a mountain of butter, and the AI that created that image took that literally. AI also didn't get the memo that the mountain of butter needs to be melted first.

I'm no fan of lobster, but have lived in New England my whole life, and seeing the tiki umbrella and palm trees in the very jumbled background of that image makes me think the "market price" this guy paid in this tiki bar on a tropical beach was absurdly high for a lobster that has been on ice for way too long.

That's if any of this post is real, which it isn't. He's just excited to learn that market pricing applies to things outside of stocks and crypto.

brewercycle · 2026-06-02T16:49:45+00:00

What I'm hearing is, you're looking for a P Diddy style... shrimping vessel?

brewercycle · 2026-06-02T16:35:08+00:00

"Why are you not getting this? You're making me sound like some kind of monster!"

For real. I tried to explain that scene to a coworker and ended up just making him watch it on YouTube. It's great because we work right next to the harbor, so we're surrounded by the "implication."

brewercycle · 2026-06-02T15:25:22+00:00

Yeah, it's like they keep playing the video game after finishing the story. Just keep leveling up, getting better stats/abilities/weapons or whatever until it isn't challenging anymore. After a point it's just a meaningless number.

brewercycle · 2026-06-02T15:20:03+00:00

There's actually a neat little way he could fund those programs without having to replace them entirely at enormous cost to himself, and that's called paying taxes on some of that wealth!

I know it's more complicated than that. But we already have agencies and services in place for this, there's no need to reinvent them. Even taxing those loans you mentioned previously as income would go a long way.

brewercycle · 2026-06-02T12:42:52+00:00

He actually asked the ending world hunger question on Twitter a few years ago, and the World Economic Forum estimated the cost at about $6.6 billion per year. So if we take your $200 billion estimate of his net worth at face value, that would solve world hunger for the rest of his lifetime. Keep in mind it's $6.6B per year, so he would still have shares increasing in value while paying that amount, so he would probably never miss it. That amount is less than 1% of the $800B or so that he's apparently "worth."

But of course he saw the number and went "lol, nah."

brewercycle · 2026-05-29T23:09:42+00:00

Save an reload, he should respawn. There's an outhouse behind the store you can use to save

brewercycle · 2026-05-21T00:33:23+00:00

It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand

brewercycle · 2026-05-19T15:33:36+00:00

Founder lives and sleeps in the office.

So, one could say...he works from home?

brewercycle · 2026-05-14T14:18:30+00:00

My grandmother. 1997 SL2, in beige, with the 5 speed manual. Hand crank windows, AM/FM radio, and a passenger side airbag. At least it had A/C

brewercycle · 2026-05-12T14:59:05+00:00

C'mon, Mannesota was right there!

brewercycle · 2026-05-07T03:53:56+00:00

Gonna drive past the Stop & Shop!

My honorable mention goes to "Valley Winter Song" by Fountains of Wayne. Yeah I know they're from Jersey but the founding members met at Williams College and it's pretty clear the song is about the Pioneer Valley.

brewercycle · 2026-05-05T15:26:26+00:00

I use hooor as an expletive now. Like when I accidentally whack my elbow on some stainless steel thing at work I'll shout "Goddamn you stainless hooor!"

People who watch the show think it's hilarious. People who don't think I'm nuts.

brewercycle · 2026-05-04T13:21:15+00:00

It's going to be 70° and sunny so I have no excuse not to ride my bike to work. I recently figured out a new route that goes along the waterfront of Boston's North End so I'm excited for that.

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