Anyone else remember when Phil Schiller bored the Macworld expo to death explaining why RISC was better than CISC?

We would have stopped them but the planning meeting was at 9am.

I’ve beeen an Apple user long enough to remember when “sideloading” was called “installing software.”

Enshittification is subtle and started long before we realized. Weird nerds who wanted power over skill corrupted the internet back in the late 90s.

As a classically trained driver I’ve found automatics make people drive worse because they have to think less. And they already barely think.

Comparing our reaction to this to the sinking of the Lusitania will be interesting.

Why are all of their songs still relevant 30 years later?

My parents had one when I was growing up, too. Could only hit 65 with a stiff tailwind, overheated at the drop of a hat, and your knees were the crumple zones.

But damn if I didn’t make so many memories in that van. Laying in the popup on the coast of Nova Scotia with the whales singing me to sleep, piling a whole Little League team inside to wait out a rain delay, running errands on Saturday mornings with my dad while listening to Car Talk with our dog standing between us.

I’d love to get one with an engine swap. Apparently you can cram a 2.0L Ford engine in the engine bay.