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  • Well yeah.

    I can buy a Ford Ranger Raptor for $65k or a Toyota Tacoma Trail Hunter for $65k. I know that the Toyota out performs the Ranger in nearly every meaningful way and has a history of lasting twice as long without major maintenance.

    Fords and Chevy have always been marketed as the working class car/truck, they’re supposed to be cheap, capable and tough. With the idea of the owner performing self maintenance. But now they are some of the most expensive and ridiculously out of proportion vehicles on the road. On paper they’re impressive but worthless in less than 5 years, so buy one used and hope you can get 5 more years before it falls apart.

    One of their selling points was they were mass produced American made and assembled. But now most of the vehicles are built and mostly assembled in other countries, with only the final stages in the US so they can avoid import taxes.

    Ford/Chevy/Chrysler have destroyed themselves and just because they have an office the US doesn’t make them US automakers when they don’t make automobiles in the US anymore. They never should’ve gotten US government bailouts. If anything the bailout should have come from countries where their factories are actually located. Fuck em.









  • How dare she, Lower Decks is exactly what it should be and we should have gotten 9 seasons.

    I give SFA a pass because it’s recovering from DISCO fever and is moving in the right direction and because the burn would reshape and change a lot of what we would consider Starfleet without a fleet. The actors not being physically fit I can forgive because the federation split Starfleet into separate military and science during the burn, so those left in the science part might not have been the most physically fit or emotionally mature.

    The Jem Hadar slash Klingon vice principal does seem a little weird but it could be brushed away with the time jump. A lot can happen in almost a thousand years.

    I get that a thousand years later tech has changed but the academy being a ship with wings seemed dumb and I hope it never comes up again. Having a dedicated ship for the academy seems practical, like having a bus for field trips. Having a ship built like a satellite campus of a community college that flies through space just seems odd, impractical and inefficient. Why not an actual real training ship to give cadets practical experience or are we supposed to believe that ships of the era all have an open courtyard in the center.