Yeah, I have no idea if this means something, or if Politics Gallagher there just brought out some props for “muh inflation” before smashing them with a sledgehammer.

It’s a Ford Aerostar, so the model year will be 86-97, but good luck figuring out which, or when the photo was taken.

Fuckin hell, that’s a people carrier! Not a van!

I’ll give you a dozen self-sealing stem bolts.

Vans hold more people than cars and can navigate densely developed areas better than bigger trucks. Take the W! It’s Vannin’ Time!

Surfboards make it cooler.

Although, based solely on my recollection of the 1987 classic North Shore, I know that the only good surfboards are tri-fin Thruster setups (decent) and giant wooden longboards (perfect), and everything else is utter crap.

Not enough vans.

The T&C was the fancy one! Some of them even had digital instrument clusters!

Was Jesse a SovCit? I’M TRAVELING NOT DRIVING!

God they were trying so hard to save Pontiac some semblance of an identity during those days, despite it being the era with the worst excesses of badge engineering. The cladding and that tiny little “American BMW” grille though… sigh.

And on another thread is the Pontiac Trans Sport, the fast Chevy Lumina.

I have to assume the last four years of production were entirely given over to making Darth Vader vans.

Maybe not the serious shit some folks are hoping, but this statement is absolutely accurate.

Yes but they’re really overpriced and were not left over from an install at some rich guy’s house.

The whole thing is barely a minivan, just a 1985 Chevy S-10 waiting around for the right opportunity to go out for some cigarettes. Just for a little bit, you see…

There is the implication, I suppose: “As versatile as you are… AND NO MORE!”

My first car was its less stylish GM frienemy, the Chevy Astro. Good pep from the torquey compact pickup engine (as long as you had completely normal and dry roads, otherwise it was fishtail city), the versatility to take out the middle row for maximum mailbox vandalism efficiency (in and out like the MF’in A-Team!), and the forward visibility of Wonder Woman’s invisible jet.

I mostly play older games on my Ryzen 5 2400g with 16gb of RAM and an RX 580 I bought off a crypto miner, though I did manage to get Starfield running at 1080P in Win10 with a framerate and detail level that doesn’t make me want to gouge my eyes out. Still, I think I should be pretty undemanding for the current state of Linux gaming, and I’m just about ready to bail on Windows but haven’t yet. Currently dual booting with Kubuntu.

Beyond a few stubborn games, I have Windows CAD software I think I could run in a VM with maybe 8GB of RAM and access to my GPU. What’s the easiest way for a motivated amateur to get that set up? Having come up with MS-DOS, I am comfortable with a CLI conceptually, and I can copy and paste commands like a mofo, but I generally don’t know the exact use and flags well enough to do much on my own beyond apt and mkdir. :-)

In the six months before the Indian elections earlier this year, YouTuber Akash Banerjee created content highlighting the shortcomings of the incumbent government.

The political satirist made videos about topics such as the government’s divisive campaign pitch and its crackdown on the opposition parties. “Independent creators put their neck on the line to reach voters,” he told Rest of World, describing his work.

But for the past week, Banerjee has been stressed about the prospect of having to shut down his YouTube channel, The Deshbhakt, which has over 4.8 million subscribers.

That’s because the Indian government has plans to classify social media creators as “digital news broadcasters,” which would make it mandatory for them to register with the government, set up a content evaluation committee that checks all content before it is published, and appoint complaint handlers — all at their own expense. Any failures in compliance could lead to criminal charges, including jail term.

In the unlikely case you were under the illusion that this was some sort of consumer-protection move.

I run all of my DIY keyboard builds (here’s the latest) off of Pi Picos or clones with USB-C.