The original Honda Ridgeline flamed out with its trendy design. Trucks are not a market for cutting-edge exterior design. People want a truck to look like it works for a living, even when it doesn't.

Car design will change, eventually. We no long need the big round headlights as LEDs have reduced headlight size. We no longer need a grill on most cars as modern engines get enough air from what flows underneath the vehicle. I wonder what cars will look like 100 years hence, once we've shed the convention of headlights and grills as necessary implements on the fronts of our vehicles.

Okay, Boomer.

It isn't a truck. Where is the truck bed?

Is this one of those government classification things? Like the SUV which is technically a light truck but no one but the government considers it a truck.

Where is the truck bed?

It's in the back, were you expect it to be. It's just got a lid on it. I expect that, in the next 20 years or so, when Hollywood remakes Back to the Future instead of a DeLorean, it'll be this truck.

Powered by a Mr. Fusion.

Links to a Vox explainer? Ok, Zoomer.

I have a suggestion, Frankie: go fuck yourself with a cactus.

Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that the United States of America has “a distorted vision of the world” and Americans must be ruled by a world government, as soon as possible, “for their own good.”

https://www.frontlinesnews.com/2019/11/10/pope-francis-world-government-must-rule-u-s-for-their-own-good-2.html

Or, as Stalin inquired, How many divisions does the Pope have?

Shooting watermelons with a 152mm artillery piece? yes, we can.

https://youtu.be/xpJ8EoGmLuE

Leaving your hamster with your parrot is not recommended.

https://twitter.com/OntWtf/status/1197632972012191746

I feel so attacked right now

https://twitter.com/dw_scitech/status/1195400822433038336

https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1196539097596039169

Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that the United States of America has “a distorted vision of the world” and Americans must be ruled by a world government, as soon as possible, “for their own good.”

For the sake of the argument, let's suppose that there was a "world government" set up, and let's even let Pope Francis be in charge.

Who's going to force the U.S. to subjugate itself to this world government?

Moar pictures of the inside of Tesla's Cybertruck.

If anything this has a strong dystopian futuristic sci-fi chic from the 1980s.

It almost feels like Ellen Ripley is out there driving it while hunting Xenomorphs.

https://twitter.com/irfanz7z/status/1197738595379011584

Who doesn't want to try this?

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1197583698687930370

> Ok, Zoomer.

✓

Oh my god how can I roll coal on bicyclists with this thing?!

It almost feels like Ellen Ripley is out there driving it while hunting Xenomorphs.

*finds the queen*

We're gonna need a bigger truck.

First, "Cyber" is no longer a new and playful notion. It's what you'd hear from people who had their best sex in the 1980's and still make jokes about crack.

Second, the harsh angles call to mind the F-117. No one ever actually admired the look of that plane. It was the product of the earliest iterations of the microcomputer revolution (8087, anyone?)... When coarse angularity was the only computationally accessible design for stealth geometry. (The curvier B-2 and F-22 came from machines with a little more numeric candlepower.)

So maybe this is how Elon slides into sentimental middle age.



> The original Honda Ridgeline
> flamed out with its trendy
> design.

A quick scan of Google Image results doesn't show anything too obnoxious. What exactly was the problem?

"Americans must be ruled by a world government, as soon as possible"

Tax the churches.

The Honda Ridgeline just never caught on with truck aficionados and was roundly ridiculed. Honda’s newest Ridgeline adhered to traditional truck design and has so far been better received, although truck folks still mock Honda’s lack of a truck heritage.

https://www.google.com/search?q=honda+ridgeline+memes&tbm=isch&source=univ&hl=en-us&client=safari&fir=iOvCRyjKJ3lEHM%253A%252CfQJ-NA86nxuSFM%252C_%253BtSaXC3j8QIsbWM%253A%252CABo7xAcnJNIZKM%252C_%253BLkKQ8GYdBVbc-M%253A%252CCBawq2Ev_W0l_M%252C_%253BHLWQKSbhpVsOJM%253A%252CBwNdiZWMo2ltbM%252C_%253Bu-16_MrCjPyGLM%253A%252C0X1mskqhPYnB5M%252C_%253BrHTq46M_oYBFKM%253A%252CsIVlJK38OmRDOM%252C_%253BhEetWiZXv3axPM%253A%252CXyDnQ40QTzN7QM%252C_%253BDGbyOx6TG376sM%253A%252CkgKXsiR0ezdb8M%252C_&usg=AI4_-kQfMv35YH_q8_1Jcv-721TicN87HQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjetYTIrf7lAhVidt8KHTBvDfIQ7Al6BAgIECM&biw=414&bih=622&dpr=3

Can the Tesla truck tow a boat, or a camper, or a trailer with a riding mower? Can it haul a pallet of stone? Can it go off-road? If so, then that's pretty cool, since it's hard to find a vehicle with real utility capabilities that gets better than 15mpg. But if it's just Model X with more cargo room...Who cares?

A little more research turned up this: the original Ridgeline was unibody, like a car and not body-on-frame like most trucks.

When someone says your daughter is a thot with lewd pics on the internet and you have to defend her honor:

https://mobile.twitter.com/taaarrrraa/status/1197200145269444608

Know anyone who is in dire need of an organ transplant? Tell them to go to China next week.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Urisoli/status/1196633854544662528

"Can the Tesla truck tow a boat, or a camper, or a trailer with a riding mower? "

They claim it will tow 14,000 lbs. Since it's going to be at least two years before anyone can take delivery (a co-worker placed a deposit this morning just for the hell of it; it's only $100), we'll have to wait and see.

"Second, the harsh angles call to mind the F-117. No one ever actually admired the look of that plane. It was the product of the earliest iterations of the microcomputer revolution."

Yep. Even so, against the air defenses of the day, it was one hell of a night fighter.

Thanks, Obama

https://mobile.twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1197167978997014528

"Elon Musk."

Sounds like a drug-store men's cologne.

They claim it will tow 14,000 lbs. Since it's going to be at least two years before anyone can take delivery (a co-worker placed a deposit this morning just for the hell of it; it's only $100), we'll have to wait and see.

Cousin Dave at November 22, 2019 10:42 AM

For how far and how long?

Nice work, if you can get it.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/09/18/after-failing-prosecute-bankers-obama-cashes-wall-street-speeches

Maybe we can get Lizzy Warren to work on Instapundit's "revolving door" surtax.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/01/28/revolving-door-government-ethics/1868597/

It was just a typo

https://mobile.twitter.com/jdmaccoby/status/1197923319879745542

First, there was Florida Man. Then it was Florida Woman. Now it's...Florida Dog?

Well, it was, until a dog hopped in its owner’s running car, kicked it in reverse, drove in circles for an hour and smashed a neighbor’s mailbox before safely exiting the vehicle without so much as a scratch.

https://wtkr.com/2019/11/22/florida-dog-puts-car-into-reverse-drives-it-in-circles-for-nearly-an-hour/

Now, let me introduce to you Florida Judge.

Florida man jailed for cursing out judge in letter — sparking First Amendment fight.

This was a letter. Florida Man didn't disrupt a legal proceeding or get in the judge's face or anything like that. He just wrote a letter to a public servant in search of redress of grievances. The law is on Florida Man's side this time, or at least it ought to be.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/florida-man-friday-saves-the-first-amendment/

This college professor loves to live dangerously:

https://twitter.com/SheRatesDogs/status/1196866956718002176

A Cambridge college has removed a 17th century painting from its dining hall because it offended vegans.

Hughes Hall received complaints from students who said the painting, depicting a pile of dead animals, was putting them off their food.

The Fowl Market, from the studio of Flemish artist Frans Snyders, features a striking collection of animals, including a boar and deer, caged hens and game birds strung up on hooks.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7713117/The-dining-hall-painting-thats-putting-Cambridge-vegans-dinner.html

> it was one hell of a
> night fighter.

The tale of the Skunk Works team awaiting the outcome of the first attacks of Desert Shield as CNN flickered incoherent pictures of conflagration in the night sky is one of the great narratives of American business.




You wouldn't believe how much I've learned about the pickup truck business in the last hour.

> This college professor
> loves to live dangerously:

I very strongly recommend you listen to this podcast. There and elsewhere, Thiel is articulate about the damage done to our culture & economy by conventionally bright people who insist on leading conventionally bright lives.

> I have a suggestion, Frankie:
> go fuck yourself with a cactus.

✓ Affirmed

Or, ̶✓̶ not affirmed.

It's so easy to believe the worst about those people... They've taught us to.

"Not affirmed"

Much like the "Michael Richards Dead, Gnawed On By Wild Animals" nonsense.

But, tax the churches anyway.

Let's go for a ride.

My dad brought up a good point on the Tesla truck. It may sell well overseas. Especially in asian areas. A lot of the negatives aren't as important in Japan and Korea where there just isn't as much rural area as in the US.

> But, tax the churches anyway.

Arriveste.

I very strongly recommend you listen to this podcast. There and elsewhere, Thiel is articulate about the damage done to our culture & economy by conventionally bright people who insist on leading conventionally bright lives.

I have to lay in bed and cover my face with a pillow so I can listen to the podcast because I couldn't stop staring at their crotches.

I get Eric's visual format, it's more relaxed without the need of weed like Rogan's, and it's also less confrontational than a desk or a table.

But oh, my God, the moment their fingers twitch, my eyes tune in onto them and I can't stop staring at their bulges behind the hands.

And Eric has very expressive hands, the problem is that when one of the two dances in the air, the other one covers his crotch and its fingers twitch, and, well, it's sending the wrong message.

Plus, I'm squinting really hard trying to see if I can see Peter Thiel's bellybutton, I so want to press my lips on that round, manscaped tummy and blow raspberries.

Oh, and the podcast is on point. We're screwed, deep into a mine, choking on the carbon monoxide, but the people in charge of keeping an eye on the canary are too busy having fun throwing stones at the cage to notice.

Awful. The then-kid involved in the brawl some 8 years ago apparently has Aspergers, also.

Disney World lawsuit: A brawl at Epcot’s Candlelight Processional led to a 4-year court fight

> I couldn't stop staring
> at their crotches.

You are a really strange person.

No more plastic bags for you, hon!

Baltimore’s Answer to High Homicide Rates and Low School Performance? Ban Plastic Bags

BTW, they are here.

Prior art.

The corporate scum are out of touch AGAIN!

Pro-Trans Advertising Doesn’t Reflect Most of America

The biggest threat to America, it seems, is the modern Democrat party.

Nancy Pelosi Is Already Attacking the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election

Greta Thunberg will be deeply saddened.

Climate Myths Perpetuated by the Alarmists

DANG!

Sad story.

New Jersey Woman Sentenced to 6 Years for Fatally Stabbing Her Identical Twin Sister

Feel-good story of the evening:

How This 27-Year-Old Ran a Marathon While Undergoing Dialysis Three Days a Week

Go ahead. Eat up.

Avoid the Most Common Weight Loss Mistakes With These 4 Strategies

You are a really strange person.

Vidyagames and TV raised me, so I react to the faintest movement and their twitchy fingers are a distraction to me.

This is strange. This has over 50 posts and it's not about people bitching at each other. Friday was indeed a productive day.

Oh, there's all sorts of cynical snickering and accusation. It's just that the noise has become so loud that we don't even hear it anymore