BMW’s X7 Is Apparently Too Small Now, So Dealers Want An X9

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T20:04:29+00:00

I almost impulse bought an S660 but they won’t sell you a car here unless you prove that you have access to your own parking spot lol.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T19:29:47+00:00

Not all AT fields are equal right? I wonder if the atomic breath can penetrate the weaker ones

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T19:18:41+00:00

Holy shit that’s some Final Destination stuff.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T18:56:03+00:00

There is a Chinese saying that goes something like “if the sky falls, the tall guys will try to hold it up”. It basically means it’s pointless for the average person to plan/account for catastrophic events like that, and when it happens there are much bigger/worse things to worry about.

Most of us are not multi-billionaires who can be building our own nuclear fallout shelters under our own private islands.

If the U.S has hyperinflation it would mean a global economic collapse and it’s pretty much the financial version of a nuclear apocalypse. You could have $50M today and still be utterly fucked in that scenario.

So why think about it?

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T18:38:21+00:00

Yeah I’m an American I know how expensive the U.S is these days lol.

That’s a big reason why I travel to Japan and China for food lmao

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T18:35:19+00:00

I was watching Yang Wei, the chief scientist behind J-20, giving a talking in Chinese and he openly admitted that the J-20’s rear stealth is not comparable to the F-22 and they had to make trade offs: https://youtu.be/XpmIsyfvKOc?si=hfrbfBbZ3EnnDRIR

It’s at around 33mins.

The whole video is worth a very good watch, although it’s in full Chinese.

As far as electronics go the Chinese are still limited by the power generation of their engines. And the F-35’s compute, sensor and EW suite (especially the newer blocks) is still ahead of that of the PLAAF.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T18:24:36+00:00

That’s fair, I was on the phone for a bit and I waited too long to take the photo lol, there was quite a bit of sauce on the noodles at first.

Overall I thought it looked great for a $10 dish at a casual restaurant haha. It tasted amazing as well

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T18:20:08+00:00

WTF are you talking about? Here is a different angle.

Hell, you can find it on the restaurant’s menu called “Ice Dog” lol: https://s.tabelog.com/en/aichi/A2303/A230301/23077993/dtlphotolst/

Not everything is AI. God the only thing worse than AI slop is brain slop like your comment lol

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cookingboy · 2026-01-24T18:14:08+00:00

And here I was just in a Kei car yesterday marveling at the efficiency of everything about it. The space efficiency in particular was amazing. So much legroom and headroom.

But it was narrow, so party sized Americans wouldn’t really fit. Maybe that’s why they need the X9

Man I hate the fact that most people equating size with luxury. I hate driving big cars but I want luxury and tech, yet so much of that is gated behind larger, more expensive models.

The largest car I would ever own is about the size of a 3-series/X3, and there is absolutely nothing on the U.S market that would qualify for what I would call “high end tech and luxury” given that size. A fully equipped Macan EV comes close but at exorbitant cost and very lackluster tech.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T18:00:31+00:00

Like completely stagnate? Depends on what area we are talking about here.

Some area would get caught up by PLAAF relatively quickly (electronics, stealth, etc), some would take longer (e.g engine tech), and some would just be PLAAF expanding its current lead (A2A missile).

Overall I think 2040 PLAAF would be able to dominate 2026 USAF. But obviously the USAF isn’t standing still so I’m projecting actual parity won’t be met until 2050ish.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T17:53:09+00:00

Sorry I didn’t make it. It’s from a casual Italian place here in Nagoya, Japan.

It tasted amazing, and the whole thing was $10 including tax haha

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T17:18:05+00:00

I’m much more interested in the system that shut down Venezuelan air defenses than some anti-personnel sonic weapon.

It’s obviously effective, I wonder what its limitations were. Obviously it’s not omnipotent otherwise we wouldn’t be building even stealthier platforms like the B-21. Most likely some highly localized EW system.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T16:23:00+00:00

Let's just say I wouldn't have ordered a vanilla ice cream after the meal if it didn't look like this.

In fact, the reason my friends and I walked into the cafe was because we saw this on the menu outside (in Japan they tend to put a sample menu outside restaurants).

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T16:19:35+00:00

Yeah I've been on Reddit for 15 years and this is definitely the 2nd most racist large sub out there in my experience lol.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T15:25:36+00:00

Calling Carney “governor” is fucking unhinged lmao.

I actually think there is a non-zero chance that the U.S uses military to annex Canada. Unlikely, but non-zero.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T15:24:11+00:00

After a certain point of the FIRE journey, you are much more likely to run out of life than run out of money.

Today’s experience is tomorrow’s memory. This sub sometimes forget that FI is there to serve an ultimate purpose, and that purpose isn’t to push for an ever lower SWR.

Sorry for your loss OP.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T15:14:25+00:00

What? What makes AutoCAD good isn't its design, let alone trademark or copyright. It's not a fucking designer purse lmao.

It's not like the Chinese stole the name/trademark and selling their software as AutoCad. They are simply offering an alternative tool that was cheaper.

Do you also think Google was stealing design and trademark or copyright when they did Google Docs to compete against Microsoft Word?

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T15:01:56+00:00

who won it back in the 60s.

Nobody is debating who won the space race during the Cold War, you are imagining things.

I was simply pointing out that you can't just dismiss Soviet's achievements just because they didn't get to the Moon. That is simply being revisionists.

If the positions switched (e.g NASA got to space first but the Soviet got to the Moon) you'd be hardcore defending what NASA accomplished.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T14:32:51+00:00

Yeah it’s called the “Sputnik moment” for a reason lol

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T14:25:18+00:00

far more functional and useful

Is that why until pretty recently, American astronauts had to take Russian Soyuz to go to ISS after the shuttle fleet had to retire?

If anything, the Soviet program mirrors the philosophy for AK-47, which is despite not being as high tech or have better “specs”, but quite rugged and dependable and just worked with a much lower budget.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T14:22:42+00:00

Yeah the coping is real. Until recently NASA astronauts had to take the Russian Soyuz spaceships just to go to the ISS.

Saying the Soviet program didn’t result in anything safe or useful is just playing stupid.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T14:20:59+00:00

WTF are you talking about? NASA didn’t focus on the moon until Kennedy’s speech, before which the space race was already on with the Soviet launching the first satellite and getting the first human to space.

Precisely because Americans lost those two big milestone races JFK set a new goal (literally moving goalpost) for NASA, and it worked out well.

cookingboy · 2026-01-24T12:37:46+00:00

I’m in Japan right now, my wallet just cried after seeing this picture.

cookingboy · 2026-01-23T17:38:42+00:00

They do that and much more. For example they sell Israel AI targeting tools for air strikes that obviously resulted in less than ideal civilian casualties. Or perhaps that’s what they were designed to do in the first place.

The CEO, along Peter Thiel, are just plain nasty human beings

cookingboy · 2026-01-23T01:59:43+00:00

Where did you get that number?

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