(quietly)

i actually kinda like the weird style of the cybertruck,

if, like, the CEO weren’t a tool, and it were smaller, and if they were made to a Toyota quality standard rather than by exhausted non-union workers hot-gluing plastic knobs to aluminum, and if the frame worked like an actual car’s frame, and if the stainless steel exterior didn’t rust so easily, and if it cost $35,000 rather than $110,000+ I’d seriously consider one

wait … am… am I just describing a Prius?

if America tries to annex Canada with a fleet of Cybertrucks we’ll be able to prevail with nothing more than a few bags of road salt and some medium-sized baseballs

i went to peru to see the nascar lines but there weren’t even any goddamned cars on them

I’ve been piling obnoxious aftermarket mods into my 14 year old Toyota Matrix - roof rack, wireless CarPlay, now all I need are a spoiler, LED lights and a “Type R” logo

I was looking for a place to park and I excitedly pointed to the back of the parking lot

I apologized to my wife. “I’m sorry, but I have to do this”

it’s always fun to create a glitch in the Toyota Matrix

Some quick math indicates that in the 14-year lifetime of my car I’ve used in the realm of 8000L of gasoline, to the tune of about $12,000.

Most people with a car my age would have doubled or tripled that; thanks to the fact that I picked the world’s most piddly ICE and I mostly walk or take transit, the cost of fuel for my car hasn’t even made up the difference between the car and an EV, yet.

“I’m gonna buy an EV!”

(Realizing that $66,000 CDN is the same as $1000/month for 66 months)

(Realizing that 66 months is 5.5 years)

“I’m gonna keep using my existing car for as long as I can!”

the tow capacity of a Miata is a sternly worded note in the manual saying “no”

“do not do this, it is an extremely bad idea”

of course, most folks on the internet perceive that as a challenge which is why there are loads of pictures of Miatas towing things, presumably out of spite

This might be one of my more controversial opinions, but…

JavaScript doesn’t benefit much from having a whole-ass type system bolted on a la TypeScript. It’s like attaching a tow-ball hitch to a Miata: just adding the capability doesn’t make it practical to use. JavaScript is not the right environment for type safety.

If you want byzantine type safety, just program in a language that was designed from the ground up with byzantine type safety in mind, like Rust, or C#, or Scala.

Yeah, I could get behind self driving cars.

I mean, that’s the safest place to be, right? Certainly don’t want to be in front of them.

My mom says that the car show had a parade last night.

“Are you sure that wasn’t just traffic?”

one of these two vehicles is mostly illegal to drive in #BC

i bet you know which one it is