The competitive academic process that you run through to get a placement as a trainee for one of those ultra-lucrative specialties is one where you basically end up eliminating everyone except the most self-absorbed backstabby asswipe.

MT Mazda5s are getting REALLY hard to find. I keep trying to push that idea, but I understand the point that a beat to hell 10-15 year old minivan (iirc they stopped selling the manual sometime around 2012) that the other adult in the household cannot drive is pretty much a non-starter.

Both can be true. I’m pro-drive and anti-commute.

It was only a matter of time until Trump’s wall, like everything else he touches, becomes unhinged.

Wouldn’t money laundering require that the restaurant report large cash transactions that make it wildly profitable?

White supremacy will keep its power by letting light skinned Hispanics into the club, if they wish. We already see it happening, just pay attention to how many arrested white supremacist terrorists have Hispanic sounding last names.

You do notice it when you live in what used to be outer edges of the metro area. If you’re familiar with the Bay Area then you must at least know about this continual white flight eastward, first to the inner East Bay suburbs in the 60s and 70s, then to the Tri-Valley in the 80s, and further inland into the Central…

And Delaware State University is a great HBCU; knew a couple of people who went there.

Not yet, they’re still from Spain. I think they just pay the higher tax for the time being, but the next generation one is supposed to be from Mexico.

If it’s a pre-98 diesel, does it have to pass smog?

Likely because then you’d have to have a high voltage hookup between the car and trailer, and have some sort of standardized plug for THAT. Also the same reason that range extending trailers never took off.

GM no longer has a European arm where they can bring a competitor to the other European-origin vans.

If I am a fisherman, can I barter for tuna?

Who wooden be impressed by the way this Changli grew into its best self?

You mean like, Nokia Bell Labs?

As if suspension, body, and consumables work goes away with the move to EV.

The problem with PHEVs is that it might make sense for most people on paper, the only people that PHEVs make sense for in practice are the people for whom a full electric of the same capability would make *more* sense.

That’s easy: Standard ATM keypads are made with a Braille mold, and to make separate Braille-less molds for drive-up ATMs wouldn’t make any sense. One SKU instead of two, in other words.

It’s almost like quasi-state sponsored terrorism takes training!

Join the club, my man. Minivan pricing is totally insane right now, so I don’t think you can really get into one $35k OTD.