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Cake day: December 15th, 2023

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  • The car itself should never come with something that will require recurring payments.

    Cars already do. Satellite radio has been a thing for decades now. I’ve never used it. Never felt the desire to use it. I haven’t even taken the free trial. I’m less annoyed that it exists, and more annoyed that I’m forever fated to receive unsolicited junk mail for this feature that I have to unceremoniously dump in the recycling bin every couple weeks.

    As for the remote start, yeah, it’s kinda bullshit that they’ve removed the more permanent, older version of a feature to replace it with something out of the owners’ control. If anything, it should exist in parallel with the key fob button, not replace it entirely. I’m less concerned about the fact that it’s a subscription than I am about the prospect of that feature dropping support down the road with no recourse for the owner.



  • Mar-a-Lago was built in the 1920s, predating post-Andrew Miami-Dade building code. Given Trump’s ownership of it since '85, I wouldn’t count on it having been updated for modern roofing code. Lucky for him, the area’s only expecting 26 mph winds tomorrow, but I wouldn’t count on the property surviving a direct hit from a major hurricane. Definitely wouldn’t choose to shelter in it.








  • Charge him with what, exactly? He has a first amendment right to fly whatever politically divisive flag he (or his wife if we’re to believe him) chooses, just as anyone else does. As far as I’m aware, the Supreme Court still has no legally-binding ethics rules, so no matter how clear a bias he shows, there’s no crime to prosecute. His recusal is at his sole discretion.

    I don’t know if the legislative branch has the authority to codify a legally enforceable code of ethics that has some backbone, but even if they do I’m sure someone would fight it up to the Supreme Court where they’d just nullify it anyway.