[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

I rented a Taurus back in the early '90s for a thousand-mile drive. At one point the window crank (which some cars still came with back then) fell off in my hand, fortunately with the window still closed as this was in December. I reported this when I returned the car and the rental place was like "yeah, of course it did" and they didn't even charge me anything extra.

I had a buddy who went to the GM institute for college and then went to work for GM in the late '80s. His first project involved tearing apart a Lexus and an Infiniti when these first came out and counting the number of production defects they found. He said a typical American car at the time had 300-400 defects. The Inifiniti they tore down had 2; the Lexus had 0.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago

Fun fact: the American Legion was founded after WWI and was intended to keep returning American veterans from becoming communists. Legionnaires were employed in their Legionnaire uniforms as strike-breakers, until public outcry forced them to stop ... wearing their uniforms while strike-breaking.

That’s about the same amount the federal government pays every year to give farmers super cheap crop insurance.

Or 1/15 of what we're paying Iran for "losing" the war.

Lol I doubt anybody reffing for FIFA needs "guidance" on that.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I just got a quote to re-point my chimney and replace the cap. Fucking $8K.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

But but ... you can hear people cheering maniacally every time one of their rockets comes back to land! It must be a legit company.

That's almost the same population ratio as Cape Verde (526,000) and Argentina (46 million).

Oh here we go again. You know that shit is why WWI happened, right?

When I was a programmer I liked wearing suits and sport jackets and Norwegian wool sweaters and selvedge jeans and the like, even though it negatively impacted my career. People in my profession genuinely assumed that I must not have been a very good programmer because of it. Now I'm a school bus driver and whenever I dress like I used to (which is very rarely) everybody assumes I have a job interview or a date.

Cole Haan

Ha ha, my residual /r/MaleFashionAdvice instincts kicked in on this one.

My 90 year old mom has been getting into World Cup this time around. Knows absolutely nothing about soccer. Very first game she was all "why are they rolling around on the ground like that? Nobody touched them."

was distracted enough to not reign-in Raban until it was too late

His whole plan was to let Raban be a monstrous asshole and then replace him with Feyd-Rautha who would be slightly less of an asshole so that the people would love him. He wasn't distracted at all.

We'll see if the Trump-Vance arc mirrors this.

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