Over on Reddit it was explained that this is merely the straw that broke the camel’s back. The latest budget gave tax breaks to high earners and corporations while the burden was increasing on people who rely on salaries, and wages are stagnating with multiple people reporting working with the same company for decades…

God, the velocity sucks. When I try to use the elevations I would use in in War Thunder, the round falls off immediately and hits the ground 1/4 of the way between me and the enemy tank. I shouldn’t have to aim at the sky to hit a tank less than 200m away!

Perhaps you’d like to enlighten everyone on the flaw in my thinking. Which of these premises do you contest?

According to the local websites my electricity provider run, about 75% of the electricity generated daily comes from nuclear, wind, and hydro sources, with the remainder made up of gas (mostly natural gas). According to their realtime monitor, right now 10.7 GW is coming from nuclear, 4.5 GW from hydro, and 1.2 GW…

Ford C-Max Energi.  Only has about 40km of EV range but that’s enough to get me to work and back, and after rebates it only set me back $24k.

I bought a PHEV out of guilt. I couldn’t believe how much fuel I was burning just to carry my fat ass back and forth to work. Every trip took a couple of litres of a limited resource that took billions of years to generate and I’m just lighting it on fire and turning it into pollution. With a PHEV I can go months on…

I’ve been thinking about it, and what I’d like to see from a government owned car company is a Canadian flavoured Kei car. Any car built to the current vehicle standards will be big and heavy, but if the government makes a new class of car that’s smaller, lighter, and cheaper to buy, license, and operate, it could…

Magna has been teasing us with concept vehicles every couple of years, with some powered by CNG, natural gas, PHEVs, or EVs, and some powered with small conventional gas motors under 1L. Magna has experience building vehicles end-to-end so perhaps with some government investment (and perhaps some regulatory breaks to…

I was shopping for a PHEV and my experience was that the 2nd gen Volt just felt like a cheap car. It was tinny and loud, it didn’t handle rough roads very well, and the doors sounded hollow when shut like a cheap K-car. It felt like a $25k car with a $40k price tag. In the end I went with a Ford C-Max because it handle…

My dad never bothered with winter tires since he hadn’t had an accident on all-seasons. When I went away to university, I bought a 5-speed 626 and found some used winters on Craigslist because I thought it would be hard to manage the clutch in a low traction scenario. When I graduated I moved to a large city with…

I think there’s something wrong with that video, Mike. I remember the WC3 characters always looking like the ‘After’ pictures. My nostalgia has no idea where those ‘Before’ pictures were sourced from.

Neutral: I know that this is my ‘90s biases coming through, but all I can imagine is the pinnacle of unreliability that would result from mating Ford transmissions to VW electronics.

One that’s caught me off guard a couple of times is my car suddenly making a grumbling noise and starting to vibrate while on the highway. When it happens my mind always goes to the worst part, thinking that my transmission is about to grenade or that a wheel bearing is starting to go.

It’s real. On my commute yesterday, I saw 2 Mazda3s that were in rough shape. The rust was almost identical between the two that I originally couldn’t figure out how the car I’d passed was back in front of me, but eventually when we hit traffic and slowed down they ended up almost nose-to-tail and it was eerie how…

Why? Is that just an arbitrary standard you’ve set so that you can ‘whatabout’ any criticisms about your personal pollution?

Good news for you then. The IMO low sulfur regulations take effect in January 2020. This will make ships burn low sulfur fuel, down to 0.5% sulfur by weight from the current limit of 3.5%, or else install scrubbers to reduce their emissions to the equivalent of the low sulfur fuel emissions. Ships operating in…

I agree with what you’re saying, but I think the problem is with the feast/famine model of financing video games rather than just shareholder profits. RDR is a bad example because it’s almost guaranteed to set records, but given how expensive it is to finance a game, most studios out there are 1 or 2 flops away from…

PHEVs really mess with that method though. I managed to get 2500 kms out of my last tank of gas and relied on the gas gauge and estimated range readings to determine when it was time to fuel up. If the fuel gauge and remaining range were overestimating by 10L/200kms, I could’ve gotten into a bit of trouble.

People didn’t have an issue with the sandwich itself. The problem was that the only way to keep the hots hot and the colds cold was to serve the burger in an insulated package, a.k.a. styrofoam. People were starting to pay attention to environmental matters in the early ‘90s, including the ozone hole and recycling,…

Bunniesinthe Cucumberpatch.