The main problem with the article you’ve linked here is that it’s written by Consumerist, which is, in itself, a Consumer Reports entity*. I’m not going to dispute the facts of the article, but if you want to make the point that “completely independent” is a good thing, you shouldn’t cite as your source an article…

When you were a kid, did you ever make a toaster out of a cardboard box and make “toast” noises to play with it?

Five Other Guys Named Herb is my new Five Guys Named Moe cover band.

Wow. 7 comments to defend CR.

I’ll check Yelp to decide where to go, but I know a few people who are so afraid of getting the wrong thing that they’ll actually pull it up while looking at the menu - to see if anyone is posting negative reviews about the chinese chop salad or the poke bowl, or whatever.

The same people who check Yelp for consensus on which drink to order from the bar they’re already in; the sort of people who view cars as appliances - these are the core Consumer Reports demographic.

Don’t care if the locals would be happy or not. If I’m ever in Durham, I’m finding a way to get pictures with that bridge. I’m such a fan.

Smith said it very directly in his podcast: He feels bad for spending two decades being Weinstein’s biggest cheerleader. He would literally, several times a month, sing the guy’s praises and send other people to try to do business with him, because he’d done such a boon for Smith’s career.

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It all depends what “off-the-highway” looks like to you. Here in SoCal there are a lot of places where there is simply not enough room on the shoulder to get a car out of traffic and even risk opening a door on the left side. Trying to exit a vehicle in these places literally means opening a door into the #3 or #4…

From the video, it seems there’s a safe shoulder on that bit of highway, so clearly in this instance driving on the wheel is a bad idea. I’m just offering my general corollary to the rule of “don’t drive on the wheel”.

Dear Harley Davidson,

Corollary: If you cannot get safely off the highway, go ahead and drive without a tire until you can.

Thank you. My sisters are twins and they outgrew the “co-dependent/shared personality” thing when they were like ten or eleven.

This is part of how they artificially make sure everyone gets the same amount of time to work on stuff. Your time on the show is tightly managed (due to the need to pull people out of the workroom to do confessionals to camera, etc.) and the way they make sure that no one person gets more time to work on stuff is to…

If only Geo had been able to sell the storm with the AWD and Turbo from the Impulse RS...

Somewhere I’ve got a picture from a poor sod in my car club whose house burned in the 2003 “firestorm” in San Diego. Among the cars he was forced to leave behind when he evacuated was a ‘73 Maserati Bora that he’d had almost since new.

Came to say the exact same thing. Anything that increases my chance of success in the face of distractions and interruptions is a part of my process.

The primary argument I’ve seen against the jack (and the only one that makes sense) is that they’re shooting for some level of water-proofiness. A headphone jack makes that much harder to achieve.

Yep. My rule is “not in my contacts? no v/m, no return call”.