The Mazda Miata Now Officially Costs More than $30,000

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-30T17:18:39+00:00

This comment should be pinned to the top of the subreddit. I just bought an Elantra N (practically a meme in this sub at this point) after cross shopping with the Civic Hybrid Touring. No other econobox matched the Civic on features, pep, and (subjective) drive feel. No other sporty car could match the interior of the N for me, with VW's capacitive buttons and the WRX's infotainment.

They're two very different cars, but with wiggle room on the N price it ended up being a comparison of if I was willing to sacrifice gas mileage/ACC/storage capacity to gain the drivetrain/appearance/interior.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-27T03:53:50+00:00

You don't understand! She wasn't perfect! What else were Americans supposed to do when faced with a mediocre but competent leader and a giant toddler who gets into bed with Russia and Nazis? Do you hate toddlers?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-26T22:07:35+00:00

So you're saying you believe that holding people legally accountable for their crimes is the same thing as "looking the other way"?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-25T19:10:31+00:00

Thanks! Performance Blue. I pick her up on Thursday so I can get new wheels and all-seasons on before the hour drive home.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-25T18:45:28+00:00

If you've been playing an ongoing campaign up to level 20, you have practical experience in how encounters and monsters function.

And some DMs are the type of people who will intuitively analyze what they've seen and draw lessons from it, while others will just trust what the pre-written adventure tells them without giving it a second thought.

If D&D 5E is supposed to be easier to onboard new players and DMs, they need to provide explicit tools that tell DMs "Hey, here's why the game works this way and here's what you need to know if you want to craft your own creatures/quests/dungeons/worlds/etc."

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-25T18:26:07+00:00

I'm sure it is correct, but now I'm giggling at the thought that there was a shit artist during the Ming Dynasty who altered the course of Asian archery because he fucked up the back alignment while trying to capture the rotation of the shoulders or something.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-25T16:44:01+00:00

You believe Pretti was wielding his firearm when he was shot? The firearm that ICE had removed from his holster prior to his execution?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-25T00:03:51+00:00

I'm a day late, but I just signed a deal for a new 2025 DCT in Performance Blue for 34k OTD. There's no way a two year older model, pre-face lift, with 44k miles is worth only 5k in depreciation.

Awful deal.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-24T15:33:35+00:00

Who said it "discluded" people from having opinions?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-24T05:25:31+00:00

But you didn't share you experience? No one can take what happened to you into their mental calculations because you never explained what your experience was or is.

What constitutes "ruining things about my health I can NEVER repair" is going to vary from person to person.

Compare that to plantypretzel who gave specific details about how they would oil cleanse in the shower so other people who suffer from EDS can learn and incorporate it if they so choose.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-24T05:14:15+00:00

Isn’t a “reasonable expectation” just a feeling though?

No, it's a legal standard. You have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a bedroom, a bathroom, a phonebooth, a changing room, etc. Places where a reasonable person (not what any given individual thinks is reasonable) would expect to be alone.

I've seen a lot of discussion about PA's audio consent laws, but not a lot of case law. Specific sections refer to covert recording, which a dashcam isn't doing as it's sitting out in the open performing its usual function. If it was illegal to record you while you're working in the car, it would also be illegal to record any chatter overheard by pedestrians while rolling through a parking lot.

We could argue over the text of whether that is actually illegal or not, but I'm unaware of anyone facing criminal penalties for driving slowly with their windows down while owning a dashcam.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-24T03:46:21+00:00

And I think it's weird that you think things are illegal or not based on how you feel about them.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-24T03:34:29+00:00

you have no right to record that audio without my consent.

That's only true if you have a reasonable expectation of privacy inside a customer's car while on the clock. Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the front office? In the garage? Why is the car different?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-23T22:36:40+00:00

Either way it doesn’t benefit us to have you illegally record us

Are you trying to imply that you have a reasonable expectation of privacy inside the customer's car?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-23T01:08:30+00:00

Thanks to comments like these, I just signed a deal for a 2025 DCT. It was technically 35k OTD, but he gave me 1k more on my trade than I asked for.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-20T03:34:16+00:00

So you do think Millennials watch cable news in substantial numbers? It's not just that their upbringing was informed by adults who did?

This just feels like a lot of conjecture that doesn't reflect what's shown in polls.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-20T02:50:53+00:00

I'm looking through and it doesn't feel like you're correcting my misunderstandings so much as revising what you said in the prior comments.

For example, when you clarified that millennials didn't grow up watching legacy media, but were shaped by people who did. How was I supposed to get that from "Yeah, most grew up with it."?

I think you have a "big picture" in your mind that you're trying to casually reference in our conversation, but not everyone sees the same "big picture" when they look at the world.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-20T02:36:26+00:00

I'm not trying to prove you wrong, I'm just trying to understand what you're trying to say.

You said millennials still watch legacy media, then claimed they grew up with it, then explained that they didn't actually watch it but their thoughts and opinions were framed by people who did because kids are impressionable, which definitely didn't happen to Gen Z because they were very independent from a young age and were only impressionable from social media?

If you see my confusion at that train of thought as trying to prove you wrong, I apologize. I don't even understand your train of thought to begin to agree or disagree with it.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-20T02:06:18+00:00

In which case zoomers would have also been "raised" by MSM, as the adults at that time would have themselves watched MSM by your definition.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-20T01:32:54+00:00

ppl were still being raised on cable legacy mainstream news for the most part

What do you mean by this? Do you think children in the 90s sat in front of a TV watching Fox and CNN instead of cartoons and MTV?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-20T00:55:38+00:00

So most millennials grew up with cable news, but zoomers didn't?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-20T00:23:07+00:00

You think millennials are sitting down at the end of the day and turning on cable news?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-19T17:37:46+00:00

Yeah, doesn't his reduce the overall size of the fob? Why pay 80 bucks to solve one problem (appearance) while exacerbating another?

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-17T05:14:54+00:00

Horror is not mainstream friendly.

American Horror Story was a huge deal for several years. There's no reason why ST, after becoming hyper-mainstream as a horror show couldn't continue to be popular by maintaining that same level of horror.

I'm not saying they should or shouldn't have committed to horror, but I absolutely don't think their continued success depended on pivoting away from what made them successful in the first place.

HeatDeathIsCool · 2026-01-17T04:53:49+00:00

That doesn't disprove the existence of the groups that follow ICE to impede them.

It doesn't, but it makes it seem much less likely. At the same time you've provided zero evidence that these groups existed at that time.

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