Fair point I suppose. I used to live in Manhattan however and it was in some ways a total shithole. Fun? Absolutely, when you’re in your 20s. And yea Public transit is very widely used. But the amount of trash there is horrendous. I’d say from a trash production standpoint they’re light years below Seattle, for…

Here is another way to view it. I and my wife are two separate people. We had two kids. We’re theoretically leaving the planet with the same amount of humans as we were. Thats essentially a net-zero effect by your own reasoning. Now we could have had one or zero kids, but we wanted to have children and didn’t want an…

Lol. I was a hyperbolic example, for sure.

She, along with her partner left 300. You can’t treat them separately and say they both left 300 because they didn’t together leave 600. So she left 300/2. But even that line of reasoning is a bit nonsensical because its just the wrong way to approach the problem of “what is a single person’s impact on the planet over…

I care about climate change. I am, however not willing to murder one of my two kids to “save the planet more”. I won’t have any more than two kids, my reasons being more around only having two arms to grab two kids, and no third arm to grab a 3rd kid. Also nearly every only child I’ve ever met has been a bit odd.

I was mostly joking. In the pantheon of “reasons to not have a kid”, the carbon footprint of raising one is…a bit silly.

Wait so now having children is bad for the environment?

Ahh, the old “But he didn’t MEAN TO!” defense. That’ll really play will with a judge.

Does Tesla have a different corporate structure/governance in China? I wish the article would go into more depth here. Because I know Tesla does some stupid shit, but I can’t imagine even Elon himself (obviously no stranger to Social Media Drama) would approve of this sort of tactic. Its insanely stupid, but likely…

Yuuuup! Their lifetime is as long as the warranty lasts, then “who cares!”.

This. Audi/ZF is really bad about this. Their “lifetime” transmission fluid is such a garbage recommendation...

Just make it a goddamn hatchback! This weird tall/suv-ish fastback bullshit has to stop...

“What is a Yute?”

This should’ve topped that list:

I once drove 3 miles home with $9000 cash to pay a contractor and MY GOD was the 50' walk out of the bank to my car terrifying not to mention the drive home.

Damn thats a sweet setup you’ve got. I’m rocking a 2008 2.0t version of the B7 recommended by Lawrence. Its oh so stock except for a upgraded rear swaybar, some sticky summer tires, and some interior upgrades (B8 alcantara sport seats, RNS-E Mk2 Nav radio with a custom firmware). Its been my daily for 6 years and my…

Since this is my wheelhouse and since my almost-exact-car was recommended. Get the Audi, but get the 3.2 UNLESS, and ONLY UNLESS you don’t mind the possibility of catastrophic engine issues. The 2.0t is WAY more moddable (and will be cheaper than that unicorn status 3.2 6mt wagon with Ti package(!!) and Exclusive…

Or, you know, get her a car that won’t break down as much?

WTF are you talking about?

Sounds like your friends picked shitty spouses (or maybe they’re the shitty spouse). I don’t have any married friends who shit talk their spouse on the regular, or are subservient for fear of their wrath. I listen to my wife, she listens to me. She tends to have the upper hand on some decisions and I on others. If…