It's super close ratio but also has so much torque that I need to get used to just shifting directly into third or fourth from first around town

Rebel Green/Chili Red is kind of an obnoxious color combination and if you put it in sport mode you can probably set off any ShotSpotter systems in your neighborhood.

A dyno chart showing a torque curve that maxes out at 236ft/lb at 1250rpm and stays at a flat line all the way to 5000rpm.

The only real negatives I have at this point is the super tall shifter is a little goofy, there's only apple carplay and no android auto, and this car really needs a limited slip diff. Still made out better than buying another mk7 GTI imo.

A 2017 Mini Cooper JCW in Rebel Green with a Chili Red roof.

A 2017 Mini Cooper JCW in Rebel Green with a Chili Red roof.

A 2017 Mini Cooper JCW in Rebel Green with a Chili Red roof.

Wound up buying a '17 Mini Cooper JCW off BaT. Spent last Saturday taking the train up to DC to put a check in a guy's hand and drove it home. Big lol, lmao at the torque curve on this thing being a flat line.

a man in a trenchcoat and hat, wearing shades, is clearly committing computer crime by using a computer inside a city building, late at night. a janitor is hiding, peeking out of an entrance/doorway. a window shows a cityscape and the moon and stars.

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how else you doing shower selfies

My mother would say to me 'look for the gamers'. There are always people who are gaming.

The guard who’s been watching Raven and Chug’s girls is playing Nintendo Switch. We’re going to call him Bruce now. Another ICE Agent: Hey Bruce, gaming as always I see. Bruce: This is Hogwarts: Legacy. The witchcraft isn’t satanic anymore now that JK Rowling hates transgenders. Other ICE Agent: You must be the biggest gamer in all of ICE. Bruce: I was… until they put pink blocks in Tetris and gave Lara Croft smaller bosoms. Gaming went woke. Bruce: Now I just play this horse puckey and pretend to have fun. I’m a shell of the gamer I was. Other ICE agent: Bruce… Do you ever feel like it’s all… a lie? Kirby: I wanna go home. Harmon: We’re in jail, Kirby. They won’t let us go home. Kirby: Where’s mama and daddy? Harmon: I don’t know. But they’re watching out for us. They taught us what to do… Harmon: Remember the magic words Mama taught us to say? When we’re alone and in trouble, and we need to find the good people to come and help us? We see Bruce on his switch. There’s a speech balloon from Harmon offscreen. Harmon: “This cake is GREAT! It’s so delicious and MOIST!” Bruce looks shocked and convicted. A tear drops from beneath Bruce’s sunglasses.

who amongst us

Subject: Okay, so, don't freak out

This website really is cohost 2.0 isn't it

oh that's very funny

I don't even use them for blocking! I just use them to mute posts I don't want to see! Who cares!

Caring about who's got you blocked or who put you on a list is deranged poster brained behavior and I want none of it.

I anonymized them all once I finally realized they're actually public but for a while I had one named 'tech-adjacent white noise' that all the Computers Are My Sole Personality people went on and boy that made a bunch of people really mad

Given the current bsky dev discourse nobody is allowed to get mad at me for having personal blocklists anymore

You know a video game is good when it causes people to completely lose their mind

Love those headphones

Same experience. Local republicans didn't even bother to show up at my polling place.

Closing my eyes and trying to form a constructive way to berate my kid's school system for being fucking stupid without cussing

[sweating profusely] i must go to the post office

So tired of lax security posture being everybody's problem except the people responsible for it

"better" vs not at all

new mexico has the same aesethetic but probably more your speed

You don't want to live in Arizona

To be fair, software people have been making dumb mistakes long before AI and vibecoding

my 318 convertible has done this, I have a new clutch master/slave sitting around waiting to get put in