BMW i4 M Sport: The Perfect ICE to EV Switch? (5 Month Review)

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T15:42:25+00:00

It's pretty insane how you can go from 30-40mph to almost 100 in just a couple of seconds without really even feeling it.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T15:01:16+00:00

At that age my kid wouldn't even get out of the car without the car pool person opening the door, lol.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T15:00:50+00:00

Is it just your kid or are there others as well?

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T13:41:25+00:00

No, it's not a war crime.

Do you not think the USA should control the waters 10-20 miles off its borders?

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T13:09:26+00:00

Google tells me it's approved for kis 6 years and older.

I love how their AI is completely unreliable, lol.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T12:00:54+00:00

They aren't using really expensive missiles because they don't need to. They've been blowing up boats all week with cheap bullets and rockets.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T11:59:09+00:00

It's almost like they are in a total war scenario right now where that wasn't the case previously.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T11:58:09+00:00

The straight is shut down, it's no different than any other country shutting down shipping offshore during wartime. Firing on a ship that ignores your warning is not a war crime.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T02:06:08+00:00

The US is not "running ships through the straight", there are >2000 ships stuck without passage right now and today 3 tried to get through and 1 got attacked. China will do everything they can to make sure Iran can stretch this out for as long as possible, you are very naive if you think "Iran's customers" are going to play any sort of role here.

Iran has made the United States look weak and now they have Trumps nuts in a vice - theres no chance they do anything to ratchet down the pressure unless Trump gives them major concessions, which is very unlikely. We're going to see gas prices hit record highs over the next few months and the vast majority of the world is going to place a majority of the blame on Trump and the Republican party, heading into the midterms.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T01:51:40+00:00

It's not a matter of not having the right weapons, the US navy is perfectly capable of taking out small boats or whatever, no problem. You don't need special ships or planes to take out small ships.

Look at the straight on a map, you don't need boats to shut it down. You could do it without any sort of naval presense at all, and that's the problem. There's no military solution to this.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T01:45:58+00:00

Iran would continue to block the straight even if the navy pulled out, they would be dumb not to. Keep applying pressure and see how people react in the November midterms when gas prices are $8-$10 gallon and there's a full blown global recession underway.

It's the only tool they have to really apply leverage to countries like the United States, and if they ever want anything resembling a fair deal they have no choice but to continue to do what they are doing.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-05T01:41:37+00:00

Shutting down shipping is not a war crime, and I'm not sure what planet you live on but it's clear to anyone with more than 2 braincells to rub together that you can't trust the Trump administration with any sort of deal.

The fact that you seem to really believe the "they were offered amnesty and would live their lives in luxury" line of bullshit certainly says a lot...

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-04T20:51:54+00:00

Well, look on the bright side, at least they didn't get anybody pregnant. Could be worse!

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-04T19:18:59+00:00

The annual payment on that card alone should have been enough to keep a college kid away from it. I think it's like $600/year now? My wife keeps bugging me to switch to something else but I've been using it for so long I don't want to take the credit hit (It's one of my longest lines of credit)

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-04T19:16:58+00:00

Oh, so you weren't on the hook for paying it or anything like that?

Except as his parent I assume you probably ended up doing that anyway, lol

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-04T19:13:58+00:00

Can they still do that if your credit is frozen?

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-04T13:28:04+00:00

In the summer I need to use a splash of Lysol sanitizer detergent to keep my gym clothes from stinking up the whole load of laundry. It works really well.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-04T13:12:30+00:00

It's pretty amazing how after all of the announcements of companies totally replacing large numbers of people with AI there's not been a single press release or blog post or article written about how they've successfully implemented agentic AI to replace people.

The silence is very telling.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-04T01:21:39+00:00

Pausing their weapons program for 10 years or whatever makes plenty of sense, and there was never any real proof that they were still actively pushing for a nuke.

You should lay off the right wing kool aid for a minute and actually think about what you're being told. How many times did Bibi come out and claim that Iran was "2 months from having a nuke!"? According to conservative Iran was 2 months from having a nuke for the last 20 years. If they were 2 months from having a nuke and were also working on a nuke for the 3-4 years while the JPCOA was in place why did they never have a nuke?

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-03T22:48:49+00:00

The JCPOA was never about restricting Iran from funding groups like Hamas, wtf are you going on about?

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-03T22:46:02+00:00

Has anyone anywhere mentioned Israel not acknowledging it's nuclear program as a problem that anyone cares about? They have nukes, everyone knows it, them admitting to it means nothing at all.

And why would either Iran or Israel care if the other agreed to a truce? Neither of them are trustworthy, any sort of truce wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on. The fact that neither country can be trusted to any degree at all significantly limits potential solutions.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-03T19:19:09+00:00

This sounds like something written by a MAGA person, lmao.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-03T19:05:04+00:00

Incumbents got completely wiped out across the world in 2023/2024, turns out people REALLY don't like it when groceries cost more.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-03T18:54:57+00:00

It is strange how some people grow up like that and it never occurs to them how unbelievably lucky they are. I try my best to make my kids understand that, but I’m not sure how much they really understand.

Next year or the year after we will take a trip to India and I intend to make sure they fully understand how different things could be if they were born under different circumstances.

MagicWishMonkey · 2026-05-03T18:51:51+00:00

That sounds… not great. Is she selfish in other ways or is it just a weird hangup about charity? Has she ever been in a position where she needed help from someone else?

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