It really isn’t bad. I make a $160k a year roughly, and so can afford other options, and yet still ride the bus, in a city where the busses are far from nice (Denver). They are pretty reliable, are way cheaper than parking, and allow me and my wife to share one car, so we save additional money that way.

I use public transit every day and these things don’t happen to me.

I’ll let you in a secret. Raphael Orlove and Alissa Walker are both just pen names of Jason Torchinsky. I’m on to you, man.

Hola fellow engineer. I love big “gotchas” like this one, like dude no shit it’s $700, why are you using and bitching about an 8-track machine in 2016? You and the 50 other people using them all need to pony up the cash to support the company that makes them, all of their suppliers, and the lengthy supply chains…

One of the greatest parts about the B-2 is that it’s a totally different plane depending on the angle of viewing.

The sponge is a red herring. That in and of itself isn’t that surprising—it’s pretty common for companies to make one enclosure that will hold the internals for multiple products, and a foam brick is a pretty common way to prevent electronics from moving where they aren’t supposed to. Actually it’s one of the better…

This is a near perfect analogy.

Yeah, this guy nails it. Real ramen is as far above packet ramen as a great steakhouse steak is to a ‘steak’ tv dinner.

I’ll leave this here...

I really like cars and spend way too much time on Jalopnik every day but I’ve really come around to the Strong Towns position in the last year or so. Still love cars, still like driving, spend a lot of time on craigslist/hemmings/ebay looking at 45 year old Mercedes but I think that starting after WWII we really…

No surprise—there hasn’t been a Cup in Edmonton in 25 years.

I used to be a very angry driver. Every trip was a swim through a pool of idiots. (Riding a motorcycle enforces that feeling because you notice more idiots, and because the consequences of their idiocy are much more life-threatening your feeling of being threatened supports the anger response.) I noticed that it was…

Have you read the original constitution? There’s some pretty wacky stuff in there. For example, Senators used to be appointed by the House of Representatives, slaves were allowed, women couldn’t vote, there were no provisions about due process, there was no way of actually enforcing the Constitution (judicial review),…

Unions have never done a damn thing for anyone. All they ever did was make a 5 day work week, minimum wage, benefits, create competitive and liveable wages even in non-Union sectors, get children out of the factory and into schools... Wait.... Oh and in some sectors (like the one I'm in) set bars higher for skilled…

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