Sorry about Caesar :(

I feel very badly for him and his wonderful family. Such respect for a brave man! Witch hunt!

You make wise observations. Worrying about wheel gaps could be due to being young. I’ve learned the hard way that mods for appearance aren’t doing it for me now that I’m older. I’ve even kept the stock wheels on my Forester!

I’m not a Subaru expert. Thank you for your detailed explanation. I lowered it an inch or two (?) and I figured I was getting it back down to the factory Impreza level with a little stiffer springs (and matching shocks).

“Lowered Subaru (A Subaru no no)”

I passed after removing the bulbs from the Airbag and Brake warning lights. (brakes work fine, fluid is fine, I assume bad fluid sensor or e-brake switch. Airbag is throwing bad control module or connector codes.)

He’s doing back and forth on the timeline in his writing. I thought the same looking at the photo.

You’ve got your priorities straight.  Looks like if from the rear. Windshield doesn’t seem as flat as it should be.

You hit a stationary 200lb object head on. The semi and SLK were running side by side at essentially the same speed. I’m guessing the SLK moved into the semi’s front bumper. The SLK basically performed a PIT maneuver on itself and (relatively) slowly wrapped itself around the semi. I can completely see that there…

I forgot I read those interviews too. So much for my probing insight into the psychology of famous people.

1st Gear - It sounds like Musk gave a decent apology, not one of those generic “if you were somehow possibly unreasonably offended by my comment because you’re a snowflake” apologies. And personally to the people he affected too.

You’re more patient, masochistic, or have a lot more time on your hands. ASOFAI is too recent of a read for me. I still remember too much of it. I also don’t want to wade through all those damn food descriptions again! One advantage of physical books - 10 or 20 years later after I’ve forgotten them, I can re-read them…

Thanks for the reminder about Seveneves.

Not sure if you’re a masochist or a bibliophile.  Or both.  As I said above I’ll have to re-read it.  But it’ll only be my second time.

Wow, a long post like that normally would get snarked off Kinja without being read. I read the whole thing. I also read Cryptonomicon years ago and don’t remember that part at all - I’ll have to re-read it next time there’s a few free years in my schedule.

I don’t have an appreciation for the slammed aesthetic either. I ignore it and look at the incredible skills and work put into the car.

Completely forgot about that. We did the same thing. oh well. The world changed.  We grew up.   Papa John didn’t.

Look at the single payer plans. i.e. the VA system, Medicare for your examples.

Much worse. With your ACA plan, you have to pay until you reach your high deductible but then it covers everything above that. These won’t cover the things you really need insurance for.

It’s surprising the variation in medical practice. My local endo’s are way too pro rTSH for everything. Your endo’s opinion is probably correct but the minimal difference probably is not worth the symptoms of hormone withdrawal (lots of studies on that) for low-med risk pts (and what my endo’s argue). I like to do…