I STILL FEEL ALIVE

im not usually a big fan of american cars but god i love the viper so fucking much. it's like a corvette that wants you dead

i watched a video once of a room full of automotive journalists talking and i remember one guy was like "let me see a show of hands: how many of you have spun out in a viper?" and every hand shot up. perfect vehicle.

"ask your gearhead friend for car buying advice" is actually a bad idea most of the time. i know this because i am that friend.

if i know you have any interest in cars at all god help you i will yes-and you into buying a 90s saab off of facebook marketplace

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

THIS IS SO TRUE

I absolutely blame Facebook for this shift. Words cannot describe how freaking WEIRD it was in the mid-00s when there was suddenly this popular website where you were required to use your real, brickspace name and encouraged to post photos of yourself. Every single bit of Standard Internet Safety prior to then said that you should never ever ever do either of those.