“not even that old yet” ? I think most would consider 70ish old, unless you’re running for president
I also consider “about to die on average” to be “old”.
I’m voting for Jimmy Carter in 28’ and we’ll just pull weekend at Bernie’s.
A corpse would make a better leader than the guy starting up Monday.
With any luck that will be arranged.
White House with Jimmy
fastest cars
What
To be fair that 1950s boomer is putting that pedal to the floor, seatbelts off, zero concern for anyone’s lives including their own.
It never states that they had these in their birth years. Just that they had them. Might have been in the 2020s with the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, which is the fastest car and was built in their lifetime. And coincidentally, currently the fastest in my lifetime as well
FASTEST CARS
Drive in theaters, soda fountains, and happy days still exist.
But they’ve mostly been improved upon
Cars in the 60’s had bench seats that were pretty much couches. Hard to beat that.
Cars are also waaaaay faster today than they ever were in boomer days. You could smoke all their 1960s and 1970s muscle cars in a fucking Prius lol, never mind something that’s actually engineered to go fast.
I have lots of issues with modern cars. Horsepower is not one of them. Idk if you can right now, but pretty recently you could spec a 300hp minivan from most major automakers.
My biggest gripes are garbage/dangerous interfaces (use PHYSICAL CONTROLS, fuck touchscreens!), monthly/extra fees for features that should be included with the cost of the car, and invasive tracking.
Oh, and manual transmission is becoming harder and harder to find.
Preach
I mean, probably not with a Prius, at least the first several generations of them. But definitely with something like a WRX or a Civic type r. And those aren’t even expensive cars. Modern electric cars definitely blow them out of the water. The electric mustang would absolutely crush any mustang from the 60s and 70s
IDK, Prius has 0-60 in 7 seconds on the base model at least for the newer stuff. The Prime is closer to 6 apparently.
My point was mostly that even a car that is widely regarded as slow by modern standards would have been considered very fast back then.
Even if you discount electric motors with the acceleration benefits they provide, there’s still a shitload of modern cars that are way faster and handle way better than anything they ever made.
Something about this felt wrong but I looked it up, and…. Nope. You’re absolutely correct! Damn. I had thought the classics were much faster than that, but a 1964 mustang only topped out at around 100mph.
You picked a car with a small engine (for its time anyway). I don’t think a 64.5 mustang was ever considered a fast car.
Fair point.
I’ve done 120 in a basic-ass sedan lol, by modern standards their cars are shitty and slow.
Gotta admit, some of them look good though.
But this is about the latest ones, that is the whole point.
Just say it, you don’t like racism
Here I thought I could pull the wool over your eyes.
Motorsports are boring, i dont care how fast ur cars are.
i heard it’s racist to not like racism
People born in the 1950s grew up with a 91% top-tier income tax rate, which ultra-rich people went out of their way to avoid by spending their excess income on “business expenses”, rather than investments.
Unless this person happened to be born outside of the USA.
Which was better tbf
Absolutely.
It used to be that if you had $10,000 excess income, you could use it to buy $900 worth of stock, bonds, and other financial instruments or you could spend the entirety of that $10,000 on something you tell the IRS you plan to use for business purposes, and pay some salaries for making it.
Now, if you are $10,000 over the line, you can turn $6,300 into stocks, and double your money in 4-5 years. There’s no point in actually spending your money anymore; just keep rolling the excess into the means of making more.
And instead of saving their money they spent it, and the people who got their money spent it, and so on until I got pennies in my ass that are going to Jeff Bezos
Pssshhhhh, bezos money is all digital.
I didn’t say I had a bill to pay, I’m saying I have ass pennies and a trebuchet
Nice! It even rhymes! 😘👌
1999ers have a decent chance of living in 3 centuries. Much more impressive
A guy I once knew had a great grandmom born in 1898 who accomplished just that! She must have had some killer stories!
She must have had some killer stories!
The world wars did kill a lot of people.
When longevity science kicks in, they’ll make theee millenniums too.
My takeaway from this is that racism works
Indeed, it seems to be the secret to a long life.
Well, yeah. Systemic racism was invented by British colonizers as an excuse for abusing and exploiting people with darker skin and to this day, it’s very effective in different variants all over the world 😮💨
Systemic racism has existed as long as concepts of race exist. No one needed to create an intentional system that favors the dominant ethnicity.
Scientific racism was created in France to justify the enslavement of African Christians as normally it is illegal in canon law to enslave another Christian. The UK and other Northern European nations embraced these concepts and built upon them.
British are a nation of inventors so it makes sense
Lol
