Government is the great fiction through which everyone lives at the expense of everyone else. 

The US needs to stop funding those utilities that don’t want to actually serve the customer base. It isn’t about regulating, it’s about supporting utilities that want to actually serve customers. Like Starlink from SpaceX (I hope). I’m just outside of Seattle, but stuck with CenturyLink DSL as even the local cable…

Who needs a dealership when a product is affordable and significantly more reliable than those they replace? 

Most organizations have moved to Teams by now, migrations can be painful. Skype is more consumer-oriented these days. 

Nope, just means your unworthy passenger doesn’t get to use the driver’s cup holder, so you only have to sip your own puddle. 

Maybe he has the one Crown Vic not rusting. 

Overheat much? I haven't see a radiator that big in ages. And not on a racecar. 

An electric weiner food truck could just join my fleet. 

You nailed it, man. I was thinking it would be perfect for modernizing classic Land Cruisers and such, though they’d likely look like typical pickups with body lifts on stock suspension, but I’d pay that price if the platform was reasonably-priced. I’ve even got an 06 LR3 that we love, but don’t drive much past the…

A Beamer? Not much cheaper on maintenance or better reliability than a Rover over the life of the car, just different.

I had a 2003 4Runner and a 2004 Lexus GX, both far more reliable than our 2006 LR3. Not perfect, just usual fluids and filters.

As an owner of multiple past and one current (less patience as I age) British cars, that's an accurate statement. Older Rovers weren't much more reliable, but I could work on them myself. A Land Cruiser is starting to look like the next choice. Whether it's worth repairing is up to the owner, Rover owners just accept…

And for the domestic buyer, there’s the series of land-speed-cruisers (we’ll figure outte hover part later ;)

It also makes me think that there’s a drag series in Forza Horizon’s future. One where Nissan Qashqai GTRs and Renault Espace F1 scream down runways, with a half dozen mad adrenaline fans, enjoying the everlovingshit out of the latest rideshare:

Honestly, this is rediculous.

If deuce and a half isn’t the answer, you’re asking the wrong question...

I found one for sale bobbed into a shorty 4x4 just before moving from Texas. Still wish I had one. Especially in the Cascades.

One thing to also remember is that the “comprehensive” in comprehensive and collision insurance coverage will sometimes cover these non-collision accidents.

I put 36k on a Ninja with a 14k redline, then a few more owners put a few thousand miles on it, and I still see it rolling around town years later. High-strung doesn’t mean unreliable. Any vehicle can be reliable for the long-run if maintained properly and not abused.

I live for the day when biometrics are internal and monitor way more than the basics that devices like the HR do (think blood pressure, blood sugar, white blood cell count, etc. all monitored in live time and synced to your smartphone). Then again, I can’t wait to see what changes as we creep closer to the singularity…