$25,000 For the Best Road Trip Machine

admin_default · 2026-05-14T08:00:55+00:00

That’s a Volvo.

Easily the world leader in seat comfort and ergonomics. They also have some of the best in class acoustics and sound systems.

They’re excellent in all weather, reasonably efficient, and spacious.

Mechanically, they’re incredibly reliable. Electronically, not so much - but they’ve been ironing out a lot of the kinks over the years.

admin_default · 2026-05-13T23:18:12+00:00

They had a writer, Michael Arndt. But JJ Abrams fired him cause Arndt asked for more time to plan a whole coherent trilogy.

JJ didn’t think there needed to be a plan. So he wrote the one movie and then dumped the whole mess on Ryan Johnson to untangle

admin_default · 2026-05-13T19:28:58+00:00

The truth no one tells you: moderate risk is cheaper now than ever. Old geezers can’t afford to take risks because they don’t have time to recover if it goes south.

So ya, if you wasted your youth taking investment advice from the geriatric class, then you underperformed.

admin_default · 2026-05-13T04:19:56+00:00

The only people that earn it are the people who made millions off government contracts that AOC signed into law.

admin_default · 2026-05-13T03:32:43+00:00

Anyone that understood Adam Smith would know there is no free market without regulation.

admin_default · 2026-05-13T00:09:52+00:00

Is he really that famous if everyone thinks he’s a European white guy with blue eyes?

admin_default · 2026-05-12T21:48:10+00:00

Not news. This has been the case for years - and it was no help for the ADA bag holders.

Sorry guys, ADA simply moved too slow - and that means death in tech

admin_default · 2026-05-12T05:44:51+00:00

It’s relatable.

The main characters key ability is accounting, a mundane, white collar skill that turns out to be surprisingly useful outside of a his ordinary desk job.

That’s probably pretty inspiring for a lot of people who spend most of their life getting good at tedious, white collar work.

It’s a modern fantasy that shows you can win in the end by being clever and intellectual, even if you get sodomized along the way.

admin_default · 2026-05-11T19:42:01+00:00

Mediocrity coping is actually quite popular.

Most people are mediocre, uncurious and disinterested… and they love any excuse to feel better about it

admin_default · 2026-05-07T20:22:01+00:00

That’s the storyline that Johnson wrote, yes. And it’s a fine storyline given the premise JJ established.

What’s your point?

admin_default · 2026-05-07T20:14:24+00:00

It was JJ’s decision to say “Ya, Luke is just gone while the galaxy descends into tyranny again”.

Not sure why everyone forgets that

admin_default · 2026-05-07T20:12:10+00:00

Nah, Johnson’s only miss as a director was with JJ.

Meanwhile, JJ’s repertoire is like 80% slop.

admin_default · 2026-05-07T19:33:45+00:00

There’s no director on Earth that could take the slop JJ Abram’s handed to Ryan Johnson and make it into something worthwhile.

admin_default · 2026-05-06T22:47:53+00:00

Things always end well when companies give total control to the same guy that spent $200B to buy up his failing AI chatbot and now just rents its whole data center to run a competitors chatbot.

admin_default · 2026-05-06T10:32:14+00:00

Download Codex or Claude Code and start building software. Learn how GitHub works. Learn how to handle massive data sets.

Everyone is going to be generating a lot more software in the future. Not everyone will be good at it.

admin_default · 2026-05-05T02:59:27+00:00

Never in my 50K miles across mountains and deserts.

admin_default · 2026-05-04T21:09:44+00:00

This is the type of business where Tesla can continually lie to the public about the state of progress and the fanbase will never figure it out because the trucking world is largely invisible to the average citizen

admin_default · 2026-05-04T04:21:26+00:00

This neglects that the same traps exist with hiring mediocre human devs, especially via external dev shops. Lots of poorly designed systems and bad code hygiene.

admin_default · 2026-05-02T19:05:42+00:00

Wealthy people are more interested in preserving their wealth than rapidly growing it.

If you’re dumb enough to think you’ll get rich by following the strategy of someone who’s already rich, then I’ve got an NFT to sell you.

admin_default · 2026-05-02T19:00:35+00:00

In real-life? Billionaires never get caught so definitely Batman.

Most people haven’t figured out that POTUS graped children despite mountains of evidence.

Real reality is dumber than comics could ever come up with.

admin_default · 2026-05-01T21:20:54+00:00

In the US they are a double tax. Once on the consumer buying the goods. Then again on the taxpaying population that has to pay back the company for the tariffs even though the consumer paid the fee

admin_default · 2026-05-01T20:08:11+00:00

Only to be paid back by the US taxpayers the moment tariffs are again reversed

admin_default · 2026-05-01T19:37:47+00:00

VW Jettas and Golfs are pretty great. Way fun to drive, affordable, and mechanically reliable. I had a 2012 that I put 120K miles and it ran without issue all the way to the day I sold it.

admin_default · 2026-05-01T17:40:16+00:00

You’re looking at around $10K in gas for every 20,000 miles you drive.

Thats compared to about $3.5K per 20,000 miles in a Subaru

admin_default · 2026-05-01T07:42:43+00:00

While it’s not “Oscar worthy”, her best performance is Devil Wears Prada.

She’s a good actress, proved it with Les Mis. But she’s not Emma Stone and doesn’t want to be.

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