The world was a better place for her being in it.
I liked Ribsy.
Nissan Z
All the Z hype is getting a little fishy. A 400 hp manual starting at 35k?
From Nissan?
Old Nissan dropped the R35 GT-R for 60k. New Nissan sells largely the same car for 120k.
It’s possible, I guess.
The Stinger is more expensive for less power. The Stinger has more seats, though. The Supra is basically a BMW, and is far more expensive for less power with the same number of seats. The Mustang kinda has back seats, and depending on how you slice it, comparable power for comparable money. That’s the only one with a decent manual.
Who else is in the running? The Miata? Totally different cars and ethos. BRZ/86? Little cheaper, much, much less power. WRX/STI? Different ethos. Also more expensive for less power. The Corvette is a wobble, and no one, not even GM, cares about the Camaro. Civic Type R? Comparable price, almost a hundred less horsepower.
I just don’t see 400hp for ~35k.
Spotify
Spotify needs an ‘incognito mode.’
Look, I need to win a Celine Dion related argument. I just don’t need anything I’m about to listen to in my recommendations again.
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The world is giving me character-building opportunities.
Studies
If someone comes up with a study that says the Earth is a sphere because oranges are spheres and the Earth is an orange, and I reject the study, that doesn’t mean I’m a flat Earther.
If they then study a representative sample of oranges, affirm that they’re all spheres, and publish the same conclusion (sphere Earth because Earth = orange, oranges are spheres), and I again reject it, I’m still not a flat Earther.
But if someone else ascertains that pizza is flat, and the Earth is a pizza, and therefore the Earth is flat, me rejecting that doesn’t underly my globe-head views either. It’s the same as above regarding a study of many pizzas.
Studies can be right or wrong. Conclusions can be right or wrong, or more often, partially one and partially the other. A bad study can come to a good conclusion and vice versa.
The Earth isn’t a piece of fruit! No fruit-based research reads on my globe-head premises!
Correspondence
My senators are Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper. My congresswoman is Diana DeGette. All of them, in theory, represent me.
However, under the old rule ‘don’t complain if you don’t vote’, I don’t think I can complain about how they represent the state/district if I don’t communicate with them. A bunch of caveats go along with that. Civility is mandatory, agreement should be sought, and I need to recognize that for every opinion I express, someone else has expressed the exact opposite.
Still, I do expect an answer, even if it’s, “Yeah, we’re not doing that.”
So I’m tabulating how many attempts I make to communicate with my delegates without response. While MB and DD have a few points on the board, JH only took his seat in January. For fairness, we’ll start everyone at zero and increment by 1 for today.
MS: 1
JH: 1
DD: 1
I write a lot of letters.
MM
Good luck, everyone.
People
A lot of people I’m inclined to agree with politically might be surprised how far I’m repelled by their personal unpleasantness.
That’s probably an inefficient or inadvisable basis for a decision, but goodness. It’s a heavy lift to ignore the particulars of everything they have to say to agree with their points.
Landscapes
So I need several hundred different shades of green.
Cack-handed
I’d never heard this one before.