I once had to drive on the shoulder in traffic: unbeknownst to me, my radiator fan had died and after being stuck in stop and go traffic on the interstate for a few miles my coolant temperatures began to rise. We were between exits (it was Oklahoma and I was still more than 5 miles from the next exit that led to…

In my BRZ at a trackday this week I had a guy in a new Mustang GT complain that I didn’t lift when I gave him a point by on the straight.

A higher mileage or salvage title FRS/BRZ should be in budget, I autocross, track, and daily drive one. Consumables are cheap, the car is a ton of fun, and competitive in a number of classes.

Jobs are being lost to automation, any jobs that transfer overseas are temporary at best and will only last until automation becomes cheap enough to displace even the lowest paid cog.

I don’t think it’s fair to call the truck garbage, you should give our robot overlords a chance before you insult them.

The stats don’t mention how many accidents are from willingly crashing to avoid another 5hrs of listening to bickering and bitching.

There are alternatives to $100 bills:

When the President does it, it isn’t illegal... Wait, I think I’ve heard that somewhere before, if only I could place it...

From wikipedia:

Insurance companies don’t insure them because the utilities refuse to pay the premiums that the insurance companies want because 1. it would make the plants economically unsustainable 2. the actual risks aren’t high enough to warrant the premiums and 3. the small number of plants and the variability in design and…

Nuclear energy is by far the safest form of energy production. It beats out hydro, solar, and wind in safety. The amounts of high level nuclear waste are tiny and are just stored onsite. Individual coal plants have more waste than all of the nuclear waste ever produced.

Maybe predilection would have been a better word than preference, the point I was making is that there are so few men in teaching. I am painfully aware of the reasons many men do not enter the teaching profession.

According to the last (2010) census: 72% of Americans self-report as white, while less than 13% report as black; therefore, 80% of teachers being white is about right for racial diversity.

There are a number of private tracks where you buy houses and/or garages at the track and get access to the track. They are like the golf course developments, but with a race track instead of a lame golf course.

Subaru is always late in their model year deliveries, so the 2017's won’t be “old” until mid to late October. The WRX and STi very rarely see any major discounts. I did snag a 2010 WRX with a bit of a discount in 2010 (really not mark up).

Why not both?

You are only “still” relative to the surface of the Earth. Compared to a “fixed” point (traveling with the Earth on its orbit, but not rotating along with the surface of the Earth) above the Earth, you are on the surface flying eastward at ~800mph.

I don’t understand your response.

I’m a high school physics teacher and rate of speed is grammatically correct. You are traveling at a high rate. The rate being referred to is a speed; therefore, you are traveling at a high rate of speed.

Marriage doesn’t automatically grant you citizenship, you still have to apply and jump through numerous hoops which take unreasonable amounts of time and money. Even becoming a ‘permanent resident’ requires paperwork. And if you entered illegally you can be deported, if you overstayed a legal visa you can be deported,…