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@cpttimtracy @ClownWorld A car meet with *too* many cars. I want off this rock.

@ClownWorld he hosted the event and lot was full and police told him no more cars or he gets shut down. So he was trying to tell people no more entry but no one listened. That’s the story. He should’ve just bought cones and blocked off the entrance. Dude is off base dragging his kid around.

Father of the year award winner 🤦‍♂️

@jarvis_best I'm so happy I was a kid in the 90s, it was the golden era of basketball.

The beginning of the end in my book was 2006. The Mavericks were the better team and won the first two games, but a young Dwayne Wade decided he could careen out of control and fall into a group of guys and go to the line every time. The Heat won 4 straight and the NBA has sucked ever since.

@elaadeliahu Where are the fucking police to arrest people for defacing public property?

Anti ICE agitators outside Delaney Hall immigration center in NJ begin digging up large bricks to add to their blockade wall

@denomic @samtayyari @SawyerMerritt My roommates are gonna get me rims for Christmas.

@samtayyari @SawyerMerritt We can install a CB radio to talk to other car-beds #iykyk

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce. • Starting price: $640,000 • Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive • Range: 280 miles (expected EPA) • Peak charging speed: 350kW • 122 kWh battery • 1,050 horsepower • 0-60mph: 2.4s • 800v • Four-door four-seater • Four electric motors • OLED screens • Weight: 4,982 lbs • Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm • Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car. • Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels • The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered • 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:

@JarvisAeneas Too bad Twitter is blocked in China, because they're the ones that need to hear it.

I’m starting to think that I’m the only right-winger on this platform who believes that climate change is a real phenomenon. Not saying it hasn’t been exaggerated in the media, but I just don’t see how you can wholesale reject it.

@9mmsmg Modern automatics are better in basically every way, but manuals will always be so much more fun to me.

Controversial, but I have no desire for a manual transmission. I can't outshift my cars automatic transmission. I can pretend I can, but my car is much better at shifting than me. It makes high speed police chase fantasies way less cool and fun in my head, but my transmission is still better than me. If i had a car just for the track, it''d be fun. For day to day? It's simply just annoying.

@marikatff I've been here 4 years. Thought it was beautiful at the start, but swedish culture has driven me to the point of hating it and I can't wait to go home to the US. Swedes are stiff, boring, and all basically do a different version of the same thing for summer.

it’s insane to me that most people haven’t experienced a real swedish summer because to me, it feels like Peak Life. makes me curious about all the things other people consider essential to being alive that i haven’t experienced

@BevansAdvocate The unions guarantee "better" wages for lower skilled workers while simultaneously hamstringing more skilled and higher earners with things like universal salary increases for all personnel and fairly stringent wage brackets. They work for those at the bottom.

The next time I hear "well actually Norway has no minimum wage"

@Adam_Asmus @JohnathonPriest @paleonormie It's almost like it was on purpose.

@JohnathonPriest @wright_rs @paleonormie Ill see your Eclipse and raise you a Dodge Avenger. Same chassis platform as the Eclipse/Talon, but no awd, no turbo, best engine was a 163hp V6. Literally arrived at the same time, but had a 4 in longer wheelbase. Absolute unforced error.

Postmodernism was seeded by the CIA but not for the reason you think, they did it at the behest of business interests to create an “artistic” movement where you could hand creative decisions to the marketing department with plausible deniability

@nichtmehr33 I saw mini splits in Europe before I saw them in the US. I just can't figure out why more people don't get one.

Is HVAC technology illegal in Europe or do they choose to live like this?

@9mmsmg Agree, but still trying to figure out how to do them properly in stainless after tossing all of our non stick.

The perfect egg is over easy. When I say over easy, I mean very easy. A quick flip just to solidify the whites. Maybe 8 total seconds in the pan with the burner off. The yolk should run all over the plate when pierced. I always see sad eggs online. Fried hard with everything crispy, and the yolk basically hard boiled. Why would you do something so terrible? It's like a well-done filet mignon. I'd write about my disdain for egg whites alone, but it's still early, and I don't want to ruin my day. An example of the perfect egg below:

@JohnathonPriest @paleonormie The gsx is pretty legendary and one guy held a record for a 7 second 1/4 mile in one.

@paleonormie Back in the day I knew a guy who had a Mitsubishi Eclipse. Thing was WAY too slow to be styled like that. 140 hp? On a good day?

@JamesMac_Fit Start early. It's easier to take things away if they've never had them or only had them a short time. We were letting our one year old occasionally watch singing videos on YouTube until I realized it was a problem. She gets no access to our phones at all.

Dads... I need your advice. As a young dad myself, I’m genuinely worried about my son growing up addicted to screens, phones, games, etc. It feels like EVERYTHING is designed to grab their attention these days. So I want to ask: - How do you actually manage screen time in your house? - What’s worked for you? - What’s failed? Would appreciate real answers from people who’ve been there 🤝

@tko16301630 @Mericamemed It's gold, not some obscure trinket that will sit on the shelf for months or years. The pawn shop guy can offload it and get his money back (and then some) the next day if needed.

@Mericamemed so the dude's asked how much he's looking for, without hesitation he says 29, and without hesitation the pawn broker offers him a whopping 93% of his asking price? just like that? what kind of pawn shop is this?

Definitely never seeing them again

@9mmsmg Being a relative poor, my most expensive watch is an old seamaster I found for about $400. It's obviously nothing super special but man do I feel cool on the occasions I wear it. Every other day is a citizen. Great watches for the money.

Another episode of watch-talk. I was never really into watches but when I was in my early 30s, a mutual friend had a Rolex. He had a good job, a nice car and really had his life together. I thought I should buy a watch. I wasn't a watch guy, but I really liked his Rolex. At the time, that seemed like a tremendous amount of money and it would have been reckless to buy it. I started reading about watch stuff online and saw the Citizen Ecozilla dive watch. An absolute tank of a watch. Insanely bright lume at night. It was HUGE. I figured this would be my first watch. I loved it. It never left my wrist. After a few years of wearing it daily, it wore some scars. Some dents. Some scratches. As would be expected. I wore it doing things that aren't great on watches. Shooting courses where I found myself laying in the dirt, fixing things. Just getting banged around. I just loved it. I bought my first Rolex. A See Dweller deep sea. It was huge and awesome like the Citizen, but it said Rolex on it. I threw the Citizen in box and never saw it again. Last week I saw it in that box. It's dirty, it was totally dead and needed to be charged in the sun. I cleaned it up and man, works perfectly. I packed it this trip and put it on. It needs a deep cleaning and it'll be nearly as good as new. I stopped wearing it because it was "cheap" at 500 bucks and I moved on to bigger and better things. Im over on chrono 24 looking at VC and Patek to buy and I'm just pumped I found my first watch. The one that got me obsessed. It didn't matter that it was only 500 bucks then, I loved it. That shouldn't change now that my budget is much larger. After I clean it up a bit, it's going back into rotation. It's cool af.

@GMason_83 @9mmsmg They spoil their kids then hold it over their heads during arguments. Once I figured this out, I stopped accepting large, unreasonable gifts from my parents.

@9mmsmg Funny thing is, they rarely practice what they preach. They spoil their own kids while judging others for doing the same. Every generation has had it easier than the last, yet people still resent seeing others do better. They hate seeing the generation as a whole do better.

There is such a strange phenomenon with boomers and some of Gen X. They hold a strange attitude that because they struggled, or people struggled before them, that everyone should struggle. It should be every man's goal that his children struggle less than him. To leave a world that's better than they grew up in. Even if it's futile, we must try. The whole boomer attitude is, "I suffered and lived so don't cry if you have to suffer too." It's rooted in selfishness and envy. Envy for seeing youthful people in their prime. They can't steal that from them, so deep down, they want to harm them in other ways. What a lot if these people don't understand is that much of gen z will never experience even a slice of the American dream. Many won't own a home because they were priced out by foreign labor and an insane housing market. They won't have kids because they think they can't afford them. The boomers had to struggle for periods, but they had a shot at the American dream. That's gone for many. It's almost malicious at this point.

@9mmsmg It's a huge tell that whenever they claim generations after them have it much better, it's almost always in reference to *stuff*. Consumer crap, never about basic things one actually needs in life (like a respectable blue collar career or modest house).

@MichaelAArouet But... What if one wants the state pension and healthcare systems to fail?

This chart explains why Poland, Italy and Spain can no longer reverse their demographic crisis with pro-family policies. It’s simply too late. Like it or not, smart immigration is the only solution to avoid an implosion of pension and healthcare systems, and real estate market.

@OldGoater68 @BattleByrd @RobProvince You have to scrape it off and go over with a sponge before it dries. If that's your first time laying tile though, it actually looks pretty good. Well planned out with no weird cuts.

@BattleByrd @RobProvince Damn, I’m doing the same thing, it sucks. Have no idea how clean yours is, I got thinset everywhere.

Everyone wants to be a home owner until it's time to do homeownership owner shit......

@captainpisslord Early OBD2 struck a perfect balance with port injection, closed loop fueling, and the standardized diagnostics. Carbs can be fun but for an everyday car, EFI really was pretty good at that time.

You can get pretty far with 0 computer can't you? Or am I stupid. Points ignition is mechanical, heater controls are mechanical, you could still have power brakes/steering. Obviously a carburetor not efi. What else am I missing