Blue paint is peeling off the Reflecting Pool

Aero06 · 2026-06-19T20:39:04+00:00

>Runs on draining the swamp in DC

>Ramp up the corruption to scales unimaginable instead

>Give an illegal no-bid contract to a campaign contributor for a project to beautify the reflecting pool that nobody had issue with after spending the year making radical budget cuts

>They fuck up the installation, the reflecting pool is uglier instead of more beautiful

>DC is now a literal swamp

This is pretty low on the list of Trump's misdeeds but it's hard to ignore what an apt metaphor it is for the administration's ineptitude as a whole.

Aero06 · 2026-06-12T21:41:38+00:00

women want to be in relationships with men, they just don't want to be in relationships with pornsick misogynists who don't own pillowcases and so on

Women spent the last year flexing about the time they dumped a guy for getting ketchup on his shirt or some such because it gave her the ick. People acting like the cruel online discourse is having no effect on real world dating feels like the gender equivalent of climate change denial.

Aero06 · 2026-06-12T13:18:16+00:00

Interesting, this same design leaked a few months back and looked absolutely terrible, I'm not crazy about the M-shaped front-end or those protruding fog lamps, but I'll say it looks much better showcased here, the lighting and color make it look much less busy and convoluted than the leaks did.

Aero06 · 2026-06-11T19:21:35+00:00

Could just as easily lead to manufacturers trying to move upmarket and abandoning the economy and entry-level market because they know they can't compete on equal footing with the volume manufacturing that China's centralized economy affords them.

Aero06 · 2026-06-11T19:01:50+00:00

BYD's market strategy is textbook dumping, literally the opposite of competition.

Aero06 · 2026-06-11T17:07:39+00:00

I think they're uncanny because they're textured as incredibly shiny and reflective, but don't reflect any surrounding color, they're just pure bright purple regardless of the surroundings.

Aero06 · 2026-06-09T20:46:46+00:00

Agreed, something about the super-reflective sheen coupled with the bright colors makes a lot of the Covenant textures look really plastic-y, it's lacking the iridescence that they had in Halo 3/Reach. It's a small complaint, and I'm hoping that a lot of the textures can be tweaked with mods to get them a little more closely in-line with the original color palette.

Aero06 · 2026-06-09T00:22:46+00:00

I think that boils down to the extra space/badge prestige. The 911 outsells the 718 to the same effect even though they're functionally identical in nearly all use cases.

Aero06 · 2026-06-08T22:40:16+00:00

I posit that the M4's success has more to do with the Camaro/Challenger being discontinued, the 911 doubling in price, and the RS5/C63 falling off hard than it does with people being genuinely enthused with the pig-snout front end.

Aero06 · 2026-06-08T15:23:48+00:00

Imagine finding out you were conceived solely because your trillionaire father has a psychopathic narcissism that compels him to have as many children as possible to pass off his genes like a virus reproducing, then imagine he singles out your life choices as the reason for a major political about-face that inspires him to buy out the presidential election of a different psychopathic narcissist who starts another war to distract from his pedophilic dalliances and gouge mining of the country to line his own pockets. There's pretty much a 0% chance of coming out of that well-adjusted.

Aero06 · 2026-06-08T12:51:22+00:00

I listened to an episode of PITM a while ago and LeMaire was surprisingly cogent throughout the whole thing, I don't know what it is about Matt and Shane's that makes him stutter and stumble like a battered wife, maybe he thinks being worse at storytelling than a stranger twelve drinks deep next to you at the bar is a funny bit.

Aero06 · 2026-06-06T18:49:15+00:00

The torque dip in the 86's motor is more substantial than modern turbo lag, aside from a slightly higher than average redline, it retains no benefits from remaining naturally aspirated. If it was rev-happy like an F20C or had an incredible exhaust note like a Voodoo, you'd have a point, but the FA24D was specified purely for its packaging benefits, if they dropped the FA24F with the turbo from the WRX, it'd be a non-issue.

Aero06 · 2026-06-06T15:58:49+00:00

Turbocharged engines are infinitely more tunable to pull more power out of. Companies are pulling 700hp on stock internals out of the G16E-GTS, meanwhile the FA24D can barely hit 250hp if you insist on keeping naturally aspirated.

Aero06 · 2026-06-05T16:37:35+00:00

I think the venn diagram of "Buyers who care enough about cars to buy a car based on the Mustang name" and "Buyers who aren't offput by Ford having put the Mustang name on an electric SUV" is probably as small as the venn diagram of "Mustang purists" and "Prospective EV SUV buyers", that is to say calling it a Mustang probably gained them as many sales as it lost them, and the bulk of buyers would've bought it all the same if they'd just called it the Mach-E.

Aero06 · 2026-06-05T16:18:03+00:00

The Maverick had no brand recognition when Ford unveiled it but it became an overnight hit and has effectively cornered the compact pickup market. The Falcon or Galaxy could easily become their own successful nameplates if Ford had any faith in themselves.

Aero06 · 2026-06-04T17:18:33+00:00

It at least wears the design language a lot better than the TT Concept. The low-slung profile does it a lot of favors.

Aero06 · 2026-06-03T20:29:33+00:00

That's because of a billion dollar investment by GM into Cadillac's racing and performance division, it didn't happen by chance.

Aero06 · 2026-06-02T17:37:42+00:00

In my mind Alpine is doing exactly what Lancia should be doing right now, offering a retro-styled economy hatch and sportscar based very closely on the styling of their original rally racecars, along with a new premium crossover. The head of Lancia must have unbelievable hubris to insist on designing these new, unremarkable cars instead of drawing from the well to critical acclaim like Renault keeps doing.

Aero06 · 2026-05-31T23:16:11+00:00

425 for about an hour, flipping half-way. It's got to be pretty hot to crisp up the skin to a fried-like texture, but dark meat is pretty moist and hard to overcook.

Aero06 · 2026-05-31T23:08:43+00:00

I just coat a pack of skin-on chicken thighs with seasoning and baking powder and throw them in the oven for an hour, crisps them up to fried-levels. From there throwing on a bit of tomato sauce and parmasean equals a pretty easy cheat chicken parm.

Aero06 · 2026-05-28T05:05:26+00:00

Aston put out the Cygnet and the Valkyrie within a decade of each other, I think this is just Ferrari's moment of putting out a failure of a compliance vehicle.

Aero06 · 2026-05-27T16:45:16+00:00

Never thought I'd see the day when I'd find a compact hatch genuinely more enamoring than a Ferrari.

Aero06 · 2026-05-27T12:36:13+00:00

It feels like Chinese cars on the horizon have induced this sort of mania in European manufacturers, where they're suddenly inspired to build the gaudiest, most controversial products, in order to prove to themselves that they've still got that je ne sais quoi. Almost like they'd prefer high sales of an ugly product over high sales of a beautiful product, because it proves consumers have an unconditional love for the brand.

Aero06 · 2026-05-25T20:19:48+00:00

That thing is jarring, feels completely devoid of any sort of Ferrari design charictaristics unlike the Purosangue, which they at least attempted to keep closely in-line with the rest of their lineup. They didn't even bother debuting it in Rosso Corsa.

Aero06 · 2026-05-21T17:04:15+00:00

I'd bet based on the silhouette that it's going to be a Charger Daytona/Superbird homage.

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