…my elise could clear delivery trailers parked at the grocery store; my MX-5 could not…

…there’s one clear victor and it’s not even close…

…not in fifth-edition dungeons + dragons: knowledge checks are intelligence, judgement is wisdom…

…large-language models do not comport with lossless data reconstruction in my experience; quite the opposite…

…that’s pretty cool!..

…keep right except to pass and most of your concerns will melt away; that’s how i drive rented trucks with speed limiters, slowest vehicle on the road with no worries…

…the mazda 3 is BIG, unfortunately they don’t offer the 2 stateside anymore, not even in puerto rico…

…minivans and hatchbacks: purposefully-designed suburban utility vehicles, all the respect in the world for both…

…for safety!..

…nah man, that’s on the domestic dealers + automakers choosing not to market small affordable cars in favor of big profitable road-tanks, and it’s not the first time they’ve priced themselves out of the market like this…

…does a blue sign with a white 80 mean you must travel at least that quickly?..we have minimum speeds posted stateside, although it’s not common…

…weesa no like da naboo: da naboo tink day so smartie, day tink day brain so big!..

…i dumped them like a rock shortly after the pacific bell acquisition a quarter-century ago; sadly, our current ISP was my wife’s unilateral choice…

…half that time before i realised it was only half the devices on our network, too: spent a long while chasing DNS poisoning, then the other half patching devices from a mobile hotspot…

…in the end, i never actually figured out why only half my devices couldn’t resolve half of the internet, but a hard-power-cycle of our fiber modem resolved the issue…

HE’S A PERSON AND HIS NAME IS ANAKIN!

…he blew up a droid control ship; that kind of counts…

East Asia gets a very mixed representation in western media, but it’s still better than the (effectively) no representation that is typical of SEA (bar like one or two countries).

…for all grief folks give kara-tur, they made a respectable effort to represent the breadth of pacific asia folklore and culture; no less a patois of anachronistic legendarium than D+D did with western europe…

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malatra

…my mazda 2 outhandles my MX-5s and is the only car i’ve driven which keeps pace with my elise; we’ve been waiting for an electric subcompact hatchback for about ten years now but the stateside market keeps doing everything it can not to offer me one…

…i was going to say 16 ⅔ feet based on 1 ½ meters being about 5 feet, pretty close…