Because not everybody has those options I guess? There’s a dozen mcdonalds between myself and the nearest Popeyes, and the others are a state border or more away.

As someone who was once a child a few years older than her, and gifted with a slime ball of some sort of substance that was fine in the early 90s but is no doubt now banned for use in children’s toys as a toxic hazard and believed by the state of California to cause cancer, I think I know the answer to that worry.

I just got a set for the first time a few weeks ago. I made my appointment to get them put on about a week in advance, and it snowed during that time so I got to drive in on all seasons in the snow, and then drive out on the snow tires, and it snowed again that night so I got to test them out a bit in fresh powder.

I bought my first set of winter tires a few weeks ago. After many many years of either not having the money for them, or just not bothering, I feel foolish now.

I had a hommade setup like this when I had my pickup. A pair of small pieces of plywood with screws drilled through. The parking lot for the house I was sharing at the time was sloped, and gravel, and had poor drainage so it iced up in the winter.

The real issue is depth of the snow. If you’re on packed snow/ice then increasing your contact patch can help increase your traction.

I distinctly remember binge watching all 2 or 3 seasons of a show about a chicago tow company that ran everything from your normal flatbeds and wreckers to the big machines needed when an 18 wheeler ends up on its side.

Aren’t those Chinooks? 

Weird, my social circle did something similar. I think the XBox owner had 1 regular controller, so we made a collective trip to the store and the rest of us bought our own controllers to keep over there. My Mad Catz got a lot of use and kept going strong as did the other purchased for that purpose. The fact they came…

They must. Around me your usual independently owned but affiliated (BP, Sunoco, etc) station usually has one person working the store from behind the counter. Sometimes two. With the amount of people in and out of such a place during any 30 minute afternoon, you’d have to have 4-6 people to keep things flowing quickly…

We also have drive-thru liquor stores.

It’s so rare that Raph calls it an “ATM” even if there’s really no “A” about it beyond the buttons that initiate the vacuum system.

To be fair, that was a different version of the product.

To be fair, that was a different version of the product.

A few are carbon fiber, but I’m pretty sure most of the trucks still run fiberglass bodies.

This is the same kind of shit that only lets us order ink in Black, Blue, Magenta, Yellow multi-packs instead of just the color we need.

It’s more an indictment of the capitalistic system the economy operates under. For the most part it focuses on short term gains, and “What’s in it for me?” at the expense of everyone else and the long term health of the company/industry/sector, etc.

I feel like this is mostly a marketing exercise, one sales exec’s corporate version of “Hold my beer” as they come up with names for new products.

It is entirely dependent on the card company. When I went on a trip last year I looked into this and in the multi page pdf outlining the card benefits it listed a very specific process including specific documentation required when filing a claim and very specific time frames for getting said documentation in.

Plus, almost anyone can get a card with some sort of rewards program on it, so you basically get free money (or free stuff worth money) for spending money you were going to spend anyway!

If our economy is based around keeping a class of people in “bad paying jobs” and therefore struggling in poverty, having to try and juggle multiple of said jobs just to make ends meet, and whom are one personal/financial disaster away from homelessness, maybe it’s worth the effort? Maybe instead of “good paying jobs”…