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My wife and mom went to Barbie. Neither liked it much. They didn't expect it to be so on the nose and to have so little to do with the Barbie universe.

If we really want to talk insanity, it's the rush to 100% lithium-ion battery powered cars instead of pushing PHEVs. PHEVs would take most drivers to all electric for practical purposes while not requiring massive infrastructure investments in EV chargers and fast charging. In addition, PHEVs are cheaper and wouldn't require mass subsidies. We could make every new car a PHEV and not put such pressure on supply chains.

electricbugs2 posted...

Maybe he thinks all SUVs are Lincoln Navigators and Cadillac Escalades or something.

Most SUV buyers are getting crossovers as alternatives to sedans. They want something smaller than a truck or mini-van but more room than a car. The wagons would be an alternative but again, they're luxury cars and they're built on longer platforms

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

You do know most Mini-Vans can lower the 3rd row of seats to give you more internal space if you want a similar configuration to a SUV, right?

But again not the same. And looking at a Honda Odyssey I don't see where it has any real benefits over a SUV. The Honda Pilot gets marginally worse combined mileage (20 vs 22 mpg) but it's also cheaper.

I'm struggling to understand the aversion to SUVs given these are all very similar vehicles.

tankboy posted...

Volvo, BMW, and Audi, all make station wagons, but most have slanted tailgate glass that makes it hard to utilize the space. Only the MINI Clubman is boxy enough (vertical rear doors) to be a decent station wagon. So, of course, it is being discontinued.

BMW axed the Touring models in the US

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

HUH? How??? Mini-Van is larger internally

Much of the space is taken by seats
Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

Best New Station Wagons of 2023 and 2024

Other than the Subaru these are all pretty expensive European cars. You can get a SUV for under $40k. One of the cars on this list is $120k. Wagons are a very niche market. We don't get mass market wagons. These are only alternatives for people already buying luxury vehicles

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I can 100% state that the movies did not do that. They reflect existing views.

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

Mini Van can carry more cargo internally, is smaller & lighter than a SUV.

A sedan can work if you get the right one.

A SUV is less efficient than a equivalent Mini-Van.

The layout of a SUV works better for animals than does a mini-van. Whether a mini-van is lighter or smaller than a SUV depends on the make and model. A sedan will not work with a child in car seat and dogs. A station wagon could work but they aren't sold in the US.

I liked them all. The first one ages the worst because it has issues with consent among other things, and the plot is just trying to get laid. The subsequent three are solid as I recall. Obviously Wedding and Reunion have aged the best because they're really about the characters

BB_mofo posted...

To be fair, the Atari 2600s was cutting edge in 1977. It only became popular in the early 80s as a more affordable alternative to more expensive consoles like Colecovision and Intellivision

I view it as could you vs should you. The tech IMO just wasn't there, and the experience was so primitive that it could have killed gaming.

Atari was such a premature console. You could absolutely recreate the RE concept on NES but anything before NES is so primitive

Noname12 posted...

I dont get it. Why do you guys hate SUVs? How do you carry stuff around? I need to be able to fit huskies in a vehicle. Golf gear, outdoor recreation stuff. Work gear

Other than fuel efficiency, which compared to SUVs of the 90s is not bad, it's mostly just blind anger at standard Americans. I am annoyed sedans are getting phased out though. I prefer how they drive.

knightmarexx posted...

That sounds like Pease pudding to me, or Jamie Oliver's recipe for "Mushy Peas"*, which I don't think fans of the usual fare would be pleased with.
Where as for "Mushy Peas" historically AFAIK:
"Detective work by the British Edible Pulse Association revealed that the birth of marrowfat peas as we know them dates back to the late 1800s. Marrow peas were being referred to from the 1820s. In 1898, an article for the Royal Horticultural Journal on the history of garden peas in England states that in the last fifteen years a whole new business had been created in Holland of growing and marketing blue boiling peas(soaked peas).
These blue boiling peas were exported dried to England and sold in major industrial and mining towns. As a cooked winter vegetable they were a good replacement for fresh peas. Stalls selling them with butter and salt found a market with workmen early in the morning."

The recipe I described is medieval though. As described, marrow fat peas were made using dried peas imported from Holland, and the fat is basically used similar to the stock but adding a filler. Not in and of itself bad, but its historical antecedent is probably beans or peas cooked with ham hock, which is still common in the southern US. Mushy peas as served today would taste little like that, and seems to have more in common with the medieval practice of mashing some peas in order to thicken the food.

The peas I described go really well with fish and crusty bread by the way.

knightmarexx posted...

Mushy peas, aka "Yorkshire Caviar":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushy_peas

Mushy peas are a great example of processing ruining a food. The original mushy peas are garden peas boiled in water or stock with rosemary and thyme seasoning, drained, half the peas mashed up with a bit of the liquid and then it all mixed together. It isn't that green slop.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

That's a fair point.

Honestly, streaming has kind of put Hollywood in a tough spot.

The end result of streaming will be mergers and barebones offerings full of cheap, designed-to-go-viral reality TV

Requiem posted...

I guess Barbie is the last hope for breaking the bad run from major studios this summer?

Barbie will do well as it had a $100M budget

That channel is beyond biased. He doesn't just dislike cars to an unrealistic degree but basically everything is presented as better in Netherlands (iirc). Including I believe the supposed Dutch propensity to let your kids on their own are really young ages, which has nothing to do with cars and infrastructure because I recall my English wife being similarly shocked

The combination of two world wars and the depression ruined British cuisine.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Honestly, yeah. I think max is another reason why DC ticket sales haven't been amazing. Max is a great streaming service, and its subscribers know it's only a matter of months before the movie is added there to watch at no additional cost.

With huge TVs and home theater sound systems being as cheap as they are nowadays, most people will probably skip the theater and just watch them on Max 3 months later anyway.

They've actually had to make Max worse to help the cinema business lol. The WB film library is far and away the best library out there. They need to put more classic films on there. Why the hell can't I watch Adventures of Robin Hood?

Europe gets wagons still but we don't. I recently traded a Buick Enclave in and got a sedan. The Enclave was more convenient but it was big for when we were in a city or crowded environment

EthanSilver posted...

Except being German didn't play a role in the tale. Heck I didn't even know that. As for the ones the previous poster above mentioned, I haven't even watched them, and culture importance is obvious.

Snow White was actually modeled on a Jewish actress, and she has brown eyes. In order to make it marketable in Germany and get past Nazi censors, her eyes were changed to blue in marketing to make her less Jewish / more German. Bit of random trivia.

I'm more annoyed the dwarfs aren't dwarfs and there are female dwarfs. Like, that ruins the whole point of Snow White

It's vegetarian

xXfireglzXx posted...

They can't acknowledge it. We've gone so far past the point of monopolies and competitive fairness at this juncture that if we suddenly started enforcing antitrust laws properly you'd see a corporate revolt.

Corley is a new judge with no antitrust experience. The outcome is right but the reasoning and findings make no sense if you're an antitrust lawyer. She also reaches holdings that aren't necessary to the outcome, which is frustrating.

voldothegr8 posted...

If it's so bad for the consumer, why didn't the FTC win?

Judges don't understand antitrust law.

Mythtaker posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/3/AAde2jAAEnVn.jpg

This is actually wrong. Sony is a direct customer of Activision. Game purchasers are also consumers, but the FTC was correct to express Sony's concerns in a vertical merger.

My take: right decision for the wrong reasons. MS has every incentive to make COD and any title exclusive. The whole idea of "we wouldn't split up gaming communities" is silly. Yes they would. That split happens every console generation. The deal isn't anticompetitive because Sony or a third-party will make games to fill the gap left by COD.

Logan Paul has gyno

I'd prefer hand drawn sprites. But good ones not Genesis style

radical_rhino posted...

He seems like hes trying to assert his own emotional relationship needs in a way that he probably worked on with a therapist, but he cant help but be a big asshole.

This. He's using therapist speak to still be an asshole. Because that's mostly what the mass use of therapy lately has led to: people using therapy speech to manipulate or attack one another.

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At the time, Europeans were invading and conquering more "primitive" people then falling victim to local diseases. Wells didn't know how aliens or anyone would protect themselves from pathogens, and knowledge of germ theory and antibiotics isn't really a prerequisite for knowledge of even interstellar space travel.

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Sure. It doesn't exist there, and they don't expect it. The aliens in The War of the Worlds meet a similar end, dying from earth pathogens, and I'm confident that's what Shyamalan had in mind

I had iPhone for a few years and hated it. My pixel has a better camera and I can control file structures, transfer files, etc.

If you'd end a relationship over someone using apple products, the guy got lucky

I can promise cars are way more dangerous.

Ruvan22 posted...

Why do you believe this law will be properly enforced, given that many laws of this nature have not been properly enforced and instead used to profile and stop any brown looking person?

The Tweet claims that non-documented immigrants that worked illegally in Florida were leaving en masse. That would be a consequence of the law actually being enforced properly.

TMOG posted...

You can't honestly believe that's what the law is about

You can't

I explicitly said the law is for the wrong reasons. But the outcome is the same as if the law were passed for the right reasons, assuming it is properly enforced. Creating a slave workforce out of people from distressed areas is wrong.

Even if it's for the wrong reasons I'm glad to see laws prohibiting slave labor. This country has quickly embraced turning Hispanic peoples into a helot class

Requiem posted...

Really, I find this pretty interesting, because I was under the impression that the five conservative justices (so excluding Roberts) were pretty gungho and locked-in about overturning the case.

Kavanaugh wrote a separate concurrence that basically justifies his decision to Roberts and Tony Kennedy. Kavanaugh was seen as likely to uphold Casey/Roe because Kennedy did, and Kavanaugh was hand picked by Kennedy as his successor. Reversing Casey tossed one of Kennedy's two seminal decisions (the other being same sex marriage) into the dustbin of history. That's also why Kavanaugh was seen as a vulnerable vote.

Requiem posted...

I still think so.
My theory is, the leaker thought it was going to be their big moment where an information is revealed, people will rise up after viewing it, and the protest would change the course of history.

We have plenty of successful examples of it in the relatively recent past, no reason for the leaker to think it wouldn't work again.

Except the entire conservative legal community went from calling for blood to ignoring it, and the investigation produced no result despite the Court having full access to the FBI if wanted.

There isn't a recent successful example of a leaked opinion changing the justice's minds.

Conservatives shut up about this when it came out Roberts believed he was swaying Kavanaugh prior to the leak

Euripides posted...

Roberts. Wanted to see how the public would react before officially ruling

Roberts didn't join the opinion. He wrote that he would have found the law in question legal under the Casey/Roe framework.

GranTurismo posted...

yeah supposedly most people thought it was a pro choice person who saw it and was angered by it. Most of you believe that?

That line of thought quickly vanished. Some racist people were accusing Sotomayor because she's Latina and they hate her.

Questionmarktarius posted...

What purpose would that serve? Stretching out the protests and shitposts over a few months, instead of everyone being suddenly pissed off?

Roberts was trying to sway Kavanaugh. Leaking the decision was seen as locking him in. If it got out that he backed repeal and then backed out, that would have hurt his standing among the rich conservatives he's relied on to pay for the home and lifestyle neither he nor his wife have ever been able to afford.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Every studio tried to skip directly to step 3 of enshitification, only to hit the hard realization that the general public doesn't want seventeen different $15 streaming services. Thus, they all make less money than when everything was on $9 Netflix or free Hulu.

Hopefully we see some mergers or killing some apps off

Alito or Thomas through someone else

That would have to be approved by the UK parliament, which is not going to happen