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Cake day: March 21st, 2026

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  • Please stop posting this as an authority saying it’s valid. It’s an internet discussion with a robust debate about whether it’s valid or ambiguous, which means it’s ambiguous. The only valid conclusion here is that while one might have their own convention on this, it’s not universal and this should be phrased another way. “Replace meat with beans,” for example.











  • This is all accurate but I think the same effect was hitting everyone in the whole franchise. They were all incredibly famous and getting all mannner of offers to do everything under the sun and it was going to be hard to keep all of them together for that much longer. It wasn’t exactly Harry Potter where all the principals were children who grew up making the movies. By the finale, even the actors who started young were in their prime.







  • The thinking is: forget international - just build enormous tanks for Americans because they love them and will pay more for them. Only problem is they run up against some limits with respect to fuel economy laws.

    The top selling vehicle in America for like over a decade is the Ford F-150 truck. 80% of cars sold in the US are trucks and SUVs.

    Ford motor company doesn’t even make a passenger car anymore - except the Mustang which is a small run sports car nostalgia wank.

    These companies aren’t trying to make the car of tomorrow for the whole world. They are trying to make as much profit as possible from a somewhat captive market which happens to be one of the wealthiest in the world.

    All clear now? It’s evil and it sucks but it shouldn’t be a mystery.