BromSwolligans

Yeah. It's a great looking car and all the upgrades sound great. I don't think I could go for that model though due to the lack of CarPlay. I don't think companies replacing existing value with enshitified subscriptions should be rewarded for those decisions. Then again I could never afford a new one anyway, haha.

Chevy Bolt EUV (sorta kinda bigger than a normal Bolt) Premier without self driving: very good.

Cheap feeling like any American car. Infotainment is trash; you can't skip tracks on CarPlay using the steering wheel controls most of the time because it's always indexing. A problem no other OEM or even the cheapest of aftermarket radios I've ever touched has had. Remote climate control (essentially what we always mean when we say remote start) is locked behind a $50/mo OnStar subscription. Spies on you to sell data.

But, it costs like $30-40 a month to drive, it's zippy enough, I've got front and rear seat warmers, it's a hatch, and most importantly, it was a steal. We got it like four days before the tax credits were eliminated. Before that I'd have said EVs were the only deals to be had in the automotive space. Now there simply are no deals. My $18k Bolt Premier was the last chopper out of 'Nam for getting anything resembling a decent deal of a car.

We like it. Charging at home is nice. We hope it doesn't break. Hybrid is a smarter buy because of the added flexibility afforded by gas but again, you weren't getting any 2022 fully* loaded hybrid with 60k miles for $18k. Since this isn't our only vehicle this was the easy choice.

Adorable. Anyone got the source? I'd follow this kid's adventures.

When life hands you a snowy parking lot on a quiet day, it's pretty cool.

That's lucky for them. I'm the the least of their worries (although statistcally, they have no worries, because they are scrolling TikToks while doing 12 over the speed limit)

fuck ICE

Got tailgated by a Genesis on the way home from family's today going 55 down a highway that is 55, but on which people regularly get away with going 75. Eventually an F150 squeezed in between us and if you can believe it (and you should because luxury car drivers often outdo full-size truck owners in driver cuntiness) actually gave me a little more space than the Genesis. But regardless, they were both following like...less than 20 feet off my ass? I mean that wouldn't be safe in 70-degree weather with no salt or moisture on the road.

I am not a perfect driver. But I do know that practically everyone else on the road is a worse driver than me. Staring at their cell phones. Close follow distances. Short stopping distances. Stupid fuzzy fucking things strapped over their wheels to guarantee the worst possible grip in an emergency situation. Not signaling and cutting off, of course. Just all of it. And the same solipsistic elements in a person's personality that lead them to behave that way under desirable road conditions gives them the self-confidence to go out there and drive in 7 degree weather with thick clumps of packed-down snow and invisible ice on the salt-slicked roads with the precisely-same behavior as they would on any other day.

Fuck 'em.

I like it.

That's great. I wish Visio/Vizio were not such common names for software and hardware. We done did those already. Do something else.

I can't find the interview now or remember who it was with because of my brainrot but roughly than six months ago this woman was saying in no uncertain terms things will get progressively darker and more violent. And I've thought of that when every one of these moments has arisen. She was speaking more to the need of a parent whose health premiums quadrupled and SNAP benefits were cut having to care for and feed a sick child and what that might do to their anger and willingness to go do something against the elements foisting this upon them, but of course we never can predict what the precise hinge point moments are going to be during turbulent times. We just knew they were coming. And now they are. And will continue.

I care. I have Ring because it was the fastest way to get cameras on my property after trouble with neighbors. I found out how liberal they are with user data and handing it over to law enforcement but I couldn't justify the expense in upgrading. For me this isn't a bridge too far in a moral sense but more like a powerful reminder I've been lax in my responsibility. I'm pricing out some Reolink cameras I can host locally at home and put on a private subnet I can just VPN into. I'll have to buy the kit piecemeal because I don't have a lot of money to toss around but I am firmly committed to getting off Ring cameras in light of this news.

there's more than one amendment that has an opinion about that