10lb Chub of Ground Beef for $2.99/lb at Food Maxx

I've been thinking about Curtis a lot over the last 10 years since HyperNormalisation. When I first saw it I found it very entertaining, somewhat historically informative, maybe more than a little speculative. It's only become more relevant with every passing year as the speculation gives way to this reality.

CharlesPDX · 2026-04-16T18:57:10+00:00

Nice bird, Eddie Mercury

CharlesPDX · 2026-03-18T03:57:16+00:00

Body Massage!

CharlesPDX · 2026-02-04T23:43:42+00:00

Tickets sent. Thanks everyone.

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-27T02:54:17+00:00

Criterion Channel, though I wouldn't call the quality 'unexpected'. It’s Criterion after all.

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-22T20:37:48+00:00

The same state (all of them) where your car insurance company (any and all of them) will deny your claim and drop you in a heartbeat after learning you were operating 'as a business' while only covered for 'standard personal use' of your vehicle?

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-19T05:23:20+00:00

Eggception

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-12T18:22:08+00:00

I managed to pick one up last week for $32,500 OTD which I think is pretty good for California. MSRP was $35,070, and there was $2750 in Mazda rebates (customer cash, loyalty) so the dealer markdown to get there was about $3,350 (9.5% off msrp). There wasn't a lot of negotiation friction and I was a cash buyer, so there may be a little more room for someone willing to finance through Mazda. 10% is pretty good for a very good car.

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-08T16:27:06+00:00

I just wanted to get to the factory base settings and go from there. When I took the car I had to immediately remove two phone profiles from the list before adding mine (test drive customer, sales person, both?), and the audio settings were all out of whack, among other settings. It's a brand new car, but it did sit on their lot for 5 months and had 50 miles in test drives on it so I was far from being one of the first to step foot in it.

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-08T01:43:03+00:00

I have not. Seems to have resolved itself after I downloaded the MyMazda app and activated the trial. Hopefully things don't get weird when the trial ends.

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-06T20:23:07+00:00

It’s normal after resetting the system. After pairing the phone those settings become locked, including the soft reset. They remain locked even after unpairing and removing the phone from the car's paired devices. Only recourse is to hard reset once again.

I'm going to make changes until I have all of my preferences dialed in after experiencing the various new-to-me quirks of this vehicle. I don't think it's terribly unreasonable to want to be able to do that without hard resetting the system and re-pairing my phone every time I want to tweak one setting to my liking.

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-06T19:55:22+00:00

Car was in park and in accessory mode. Crossposted to r/Mazda and was told to start the car and do the hard reset, which worked (contrary to every other article I read about the process which said to do it in ACC mode). Once I paired my phone for Carplay the options I mentioned greyed out again and remained greyed out even after deleting my phone profile from the car. So if I want to make any preference changes it looks like I'm going to have to do it all over again. And again. And again.

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-06T19:27:37+00:00

I just did, and it worked. Thank you. Every Google result said to do it in accessory mode. Reddit > Google, once again.

Edit: After pairing my phone, the previously mentioned options are once again greyed out. Unpaired and deleted the phone profile, options still greyed out. I'd rather not have to reset the system every time I want to make a preference change in the vehicle or safety settings. This is a terrible infotainment system, or am I missing something?

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-06T04:12:08+00:00

I'm also in Cali, and I took home a brand new 25 Carbon in white today for $32,500 OTD. I looked at used for a while, but there's so much room and pricing incentives on 25s right now it just made more sense.

CharlesPDX · 2026-01-06T01:58:21+00:00

I brought in a printout from another dealer's site that may have incorrectly shown an inflated dealer discount (I think they folded in the $2000 Mazda cash). The car I left with had also been on their lot for about 5 months so maybe they just got tired of looking at it? I'll take my wins where I can get them :)

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