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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Based on my lived experience I don’t think it’s as much as the brand as it is the horsepower available to you, I have owned a Kia Stinger briefly, that’s a fucking Kia, even though Albert Biermann former head of BMW’s M division helped create it, but it had a V6 engine and 370hp stock, if you put your foot down it roared and kept pulling even above 160km/h.

    The thing was I bought it as a weekend fun car, but shortly after I had to change work and needed to commute to work and let me tell you, it’s hard to drive a car like that calmly. There was even a psychological effect that “I can’t let this Ford Craprerra overtake me”

    And yeah, with that amount of power at your feet, everyone else is in the way and blocking you.

    Plus those fast cars are an entirely different feel on the road, my regular A to B car, I can’t go much above 160, because you start to feel it, my parents Euro Econobox Skoda fabia, it feels dangerous when going 120 on the highway, in the Stinger I went 200 kph on the highway and felt nothing, the only thing made me feel dangerous was how fast I was gaining on other cars and that they might unexpectedly pull in front of me




  • It’s a double edged sword in that for some people this is meaningless bullshit, in that they are struggling to pay for groceries, there is nowhere to lower their standards to.

    On the other hand I have watched quite a bit of financial audit videos by caleb hammer, and have seen plenty of statistics that shows that simply put lots of people especially Americans are caught up in consumerism and live beyond their means for either status, or because that’s where they get their gratification from.

    The solution is to accept that no matter what you buy you will be only happy for a fleeting moment, better to embrace minimalism and fuck consumerism, it’s also better for the planet, not just your wallet.