If this is going to be her “learn how to wrench” car, doing the brakes when the time comes can be a confidence building project with some PB Blaster and a repair manual :)

Maybe someone has recommended this to you, but get a box of disposable gloves, preferably multiple mil thickness nitrile. If you ever do brakes, the gloves will disintegrate from brake cleaner (and carb cleaner), but in general they hold up well for poking around the car and keeping your hands relatively clean. Or…

Agreed. the Car View interface is horrid when trying to select music, such as trying to get to album X from a band and all Spotify wants to do is shunt you to their ‘radio station based on band’. I just use the standard interface and search using voice.

I think the modern Model T is the Fiat Panda or Dacia Duster. Cheap, goes pretty much everywhere, fits enough stuff.

The special license with special training is pretty much the same level of proficiency you need for automobile driving. Pretty much any jerkoff can get a motorcycle and a license if they want. Motorcycles may be faster, but faster can get you in trouble quicker. Motorcycles are less stable and do poorly on surfaces…

East coast and I often do 150-200+ miles at a stretch. And I figure it’s a good 50 miles round trip to get to a charger in some spots.

If Acura is transitioning back to names instead of alphanumeric codes for their cars, the Integra is the place to start, with the most name recognition of any of their models. Of course, the next most popular name is the Legend, but that’s reserved for the RLX, which is no longer sold in the US, as big sedans are out…

I named the pack of delinquent deer around my town the Insane Deer Posse. There’s two state parks nearby, no hunting except for a tiny patch about 3 miles away, so the deer can prowl with impunity. So they lurk in the shrubbery munching away, loitering in the roadways, eating your landscaping, and chilling in the…

Seriously, the Four Pests famine was the epitome of effed up central planning. What a complete tragedy/disaster.

I’m happy with my underpowered 2006 Matrix. Got a few maintenance issues to work on this fall, but I’ll gladly take yet another 100k miles before worrying about the auto market. Now if only I could source enough bubble wrap to keep it from getting totaled in an accident. Then I’m screwed.

Japan did not institute birth control policies. The country had a robust birth rate and a growing population until the mid 70s, then it started to tail off (via Wikipedia). I would suspect this was due to Japan transitioning from a rebuilding/developing mentality to a developed country one. And after the economic…

There must be a support group for people like you. Advise joining it ;) As long as it isn’t lead by Torch; that only leads to chaos!

Congrats, you were in the lucky majority of infected. Just talked to a very young co-worker who had COVID, said it was like a bad cold and made him tired. I was really glad he was back to being healthy and running cross-country.

Well said. Most police can’t do anything that won’t support Daddy Trump. And it pains me to say it, because I hate generalizations.

Oh, sod off. Now that I said it...

Everyone has a grumpy about the TSA, but you’re right. An effective TSA would be the best of both worlds. In Europe, there’s guards with scary guns, but things move smoothly.

In other discussions about the flight -cough Reddit-, there’s a feeling that Shatner did a hard pass on the champagne after losing his wife to an alcohol-related drowning. Bezos should have cleared his celebration with Captain Kirk beforehand. He has enough minions to script the landing celebrations properly, given…

This sounds like the trend afflicting the construction industry. Shoddy construction with lots of bells and whistles. The bells and whistles distract from the poor design and workmanship. A customer buys it, the builder pockets the money, and really doesn’t care about repeat customers, since houses and RVs tend to be…

Thank you for saying this. My mom lives in a 55+ neighborhood and she tells me there’s a huge difference in quality between her builder, and the big development company that split construction in the development. Of course, the big development company then built a huge swath of family houses nearby, which means those…

This just reinforces the idea that Wegmans is the Happiest Place on Earth, not Disney.