“In order to get an indictment, the district attorney only has to present their side of the case. It’s unfortunate the DA did not seek to present to the grand jury all the facts in the case or seek our input to what evidence we would ask them to consider.”

Fix the truck first, since it’s going to need to be fixed eventually anyway, it has the fewest amount of major issues, and it’s the only one of the group that generates income. Dump the XC70; it’ll never be worth fixing and it’s just in the way. After that, either get the ‘92 240 in shape for the kid or use the money…

Arya was 9 in 1996, so “born” in ‘87 means she’d be 33 this year. Potentially a grandmother.

A child born when he released the last one would be getting ready for sixth grade right now. Write it or don’t, dude. It doesn’t matter any more. All I know is I certainly won’t be buying it or reading it, because after the show ended and there was a resolution, I stopping giving a single shit about what he did.

Knowing that by buying an SUV you’re potentially endangering the life of someone you’ve never met

The president doesn’t “kid.” He never kids. In order to be able to do so, he would have to have a sense of humor. A sense of humor requires empathy, compassion, or both. He has none of these things.

Not until a majority of his disciples are dead. I’d put the over/under at 70 years.

Neutral: Are you driving more?

Also, just because: The text of the ramp story clocks in at a 3rd grade reading level. Higher than I expected, frankly.

His visage and voice make me mildly nauseous—turns out I actually have an atavistic autonomic response to evil, which was both satisfying as well as somewhat alarming to learn—so I did not actually see or hear the speech. I merely listened to the song and read the timestamped transcript.

The (technical) leader of the (ostensibly) free world took five and a half minutes out of his first campaign-rally speech to regale listeners with the terrifying hellscape achievement of successfully navigating a 20-foot 15-degree ramp with adult assistance.

Not to mention that brick from ‘97 uses 2x-3x the amount of energy the flat-screen does.

And I firmly believe that the next time I step foot in Somalia, the United States will have regained the respect and reverence that led my family to risk everything to migrate here thirty years ago.

Running a monitor for 8 hours where I didn’t before costs roughly $0.46/month, I don’t use extra lights because it’s daytime and I have windows, I don’t pay data usage charges, and the Internet is a flat fee whether I’m using it or not.

Of all the Cadillacs he ever owned—and he owned a lot of them; on average, a new one every other year from ‘56 to ‘81—the burgundy ‘64 convertible was the coolest. This isn’t it, but it looked exactly like this.

I know some people assert that the right thing to do is immediately and forcefully disavow anyone in your life who starts spouting hateful ideologies, but I’ve always struggled to understand how that helps.

Oh, you’re one of those. Noted.

Google “neighborhood decline.”

Property values are always relevant to mortgage holders, even when the house isn’t for sale. Lower appraised values means lower LTV, higher interest rates, and less favorable terms when borrowing against equity, for one very common example.

The origin of the ordinances is largely, and almost always, based on the permissible use cases in the zoning requirements. Residential is zoned differently from light industrial, from manufacturing, from mixed-case, and from high occupancy. Different regs, different restrictions, different requirements.