Sliced bok choy, julienned ham, julienned carrots, baby spinach, slices of pancetta… If you’re willing to pre-funk some ingredients up to a few days in advance, you can have more tasty additions such as marinated hardboiled eggs, lap cheong (shelf-stable until you open the package), chashu, crispy pork belly, Chinese or Japanese brisket curry.
I feel like this is correct approach to keep that connected, row-your-own feel. Have you seen this properly ridiculous AE86 EV conversion (https://youtu.be/DE2oDKguy3Q)?
Oh, I have (Taycan 4). The Taycan is, IMO, the best electric “sports” car, hands-down. I absolutely lust after a Taycan Cross Turismo. Besides a Taycan not fitting into any of my current or foreseeable use cases, it weighs 4700 pounds at the low end. It’s just not that tossable when compared to other ICE sports cars. You feel every one of those 4700+ pounds in hard corners. Now, I would bet that the Turbo/Turbo S/GTS/et al models are about five levels of whoopass above the 4, so there’s that. Porsches, also like most modern cars, have been lacking soul (in contrast to being completely soulless) for a long time. Fun to drive? Absolutely, but there’s just something missing, especially in EVs.
For example, for about 20 years, I owned a modded, but still daily-drivable E30 328i. Even with all the upgrades, nobody would call it fast. One really had to know what they were doing when driving that car, and it demanded full attention when things got spirited. Sure, that’s a huge disadvantage when starting out. Two of my friends promptly launched my car off the pavement on the first turn they hit. But once aware of the handling, it was much easier to get that car to sing and dance just right. Plus, the sound of that straight six, keeping the revs in the right range… no production electric vehicle can touch that experience.
The demand and ridiculous pricing on old sports cars shows that I’m not alone in missing that holistic, noisy, stinky experience. Okay, I don’t miss the noise, stink, fuel, maintenance… but pure numbers just can’t capture the qualitative experience of driving one of the classic, seething, fire-spitting beasts. Are modern cars better? Categorically so. But we lost something along the way.
I’m with @NullPointerException@lemmy.ca. Sure, (most) EVs are ridiculously fast in straight lines, but there’s something missing.
The first car I ever owned was a “ridiculously fast” muscle car that was sold to me as a favor to my parents. It’s a long story, but suffice it to say 16-year old me had no fucking business owning and driving this monstrosity. This very heavily modified, heavily customized, barely street-legal Buick could do 0-60MPH in a “blistering” 5.8 seconds and the quarter-mile in 14 seconds with my shit drag skills. My Buick was especially great at turning large volumes of gasoline into noise and vaporized tires, all while being unable to corner. And despite those very lackluster numbers, it was an amazingly visceral and connected experience. Flat-foot shifting that car felt like a cataclysm. But if you were unsure that the world was ending, the 4-inch straight pipe exhaust underscored that the Fourth Horseman of the Decibels was coming for you. My car required full attention and all four limbs acting in coordination just to drive down the street.
Now I drive a 2025 Ford Lightning. Completely stock, 0-60 in 4 seconds flat, quarter-mile in 12.5-ish. One foot in use, one finger on the wheel. It’s smooth and silent and actually fast in straight lines. Hole shots are consistent. More than that, stomping the throttle is “safe.” The tail isn’t going to snap out. The tires always link up, almost regardless of the pavement conditions. But there’s no visceral experience. Modern cars are mostly soulless, and the Lightning is a glowing example, being borderline joyless to drive, even though I love that this thing is mostly silent. But there will never be anything “classic” or notably characteristic about this vehicle. I ease away from stoplights, drive the speed limit constantly, and only ever stomp on it to pass laggards and left-lane campers.
"The thrill is gone, baby…
HJF. That guest list… That wasn’t a black tie dinner. That was an assembly of overlords meeting with the kings of their respective kingdoms. Those are the people one would assemble if feudalism is the goal.
My data MVNO is my only “home” data connection because nothing else is available that isn’t Starlink. That connection also runs my media and image servers to which my partner’s and my phones connect. Between my day job, side gig, and the de-Googled services, it’s pretty common to hit 2 to 4 TB in a month.
You know you have a cool pic when it still looks great with your finger in the corner. :D
Who else saw “Shropshire” and immediately thought of this guy?
You put it way more succinctly than I!
Okay, yes, fuck T-Mobile. But these points can reasonably be applied to all mobile telecoms in the US. Serious question: who is a less evil cellular provider to whom we can switch?
Also, there are plenty of great MVNOs that unfortunately use T-Mobile’s network. Calyx leaps to mind. Even if I were to budget $5000 per year for my Internet access, who can even deliver 250Mbps mobile access with >1TB of transfer per month? And could I do it without resorting to one of the other evil fuckers?
I also make a much higher salary than my SWE friends in the EU. But:
I could really go on. That great, yuuuuge, beautiful salary difference is deeply undercut to the point of collapse by everything all of the other costs (not just financial) that are co-requisite to working in the US.
Dude. Your long form response speaks to my soul. I appreciate that someone else gets that large topics cannot be reduced to short and quippy comments.
The toxicity is in the dose. If you’re actually allergic to your cat, it could be a seasonal change in his grooming regimen resulting in more saliva on his fur, which means more allergen proteins in the dander.
Another possibility: seasonal change has resulted in something blooming to which you’re mildly allergic. The combination of things might have tipped you over the edge of allergic response.
There are a ton of factors that could be in play, and only an allergist can tell you for sure what’s going on.
It’s like you know me.
I feel seen and understood. And I’m not white.
Although, I’m currently in the Tennessee/North Carolina cold snap panic. People are all bundled up, and I am genuinely comfortable in my shorts and sandals. About 5 less degrees or 10 MPH more wind, and I’d put on shoes.
That’s the funny thing about local elections. They shift the needle at the local level. Getting into every little aspect of local politics has been the Conservative playbook for decades. So, yeah, it’s actually a big deal. Mamdani’s win shows us that billionaires can bring all the money they want, but apes strong together. We can turn this tide if we stick together, get involved, and not get distracted by counterintelligence efforts.
And despite purity test efforts of some trolls, people were able to see past the bullshit.
They are trying to cause riots
This is my exact read on the matter. We can’t be the only ones to see it this way. What surprises me is that more analysts and pundits aren’t talking about the economic violence from this angle. And when the masses finally reach their threshold, the Conservatives will do their “Whaaaat? So much for the tolerant Left.”
Scott Murphy is so full of shit, his eyes are brown. This is exactly the bullshit I expect from a rent-seeking asshole CEO. He is literally marketing FUD in order to put subscription money in his pocket. This is one of the cases where you can determine the actual truth by assuming the opposite of what is being said. He beats on this trope of almost all bike shops being elitist when the exact opposite is true.
Notice how much he repeats that. This is called The Big Lie: repeat an extreme distortion of the truth enough times and people will internalize that distortion as true. There’s something that happens in our brains that causes this to work better with larger distortions rather than small lies.
Pizza, bagels, knishes, Jewish delis, and whitefish salad.