Sympathy or not, the point is that the change in reporting rules and loan rehabilitation changes serve the banks quite a lot.

A lot of current-high-earners had credit trouble when they first exited school because very few people make good money right out of the gate. The rehab rules encourage people to rehab their…

It serves the banks, too. Lots of high earners have crap credit because of student loan problems.

According to the cited study: “A Trip represents that start and end movement from location to location by any mode of transportation.” Running errands around town: lots of trips.

But that is 1400 out of how many total spots?

But there are only lots of stations because of the low adoption rate. Even in hippy-dippy SF, it seems the charging-versus-noncharging parking spaces seems to be lower than 1:100. If widespread adoption happens, the infrastructure is going to need expand 100-fold (or more) to keep people from having to be towed around…

This, totally. I had to pass on buying an EV because I don’t have a parking spot anywhere near an outlet at my apartment, and my landlord, who won’t even put laundry in the building, sure as shit isn’t going to install an EV charging port. New construction apartments in some cities are limited by code (for traffic…

That’s called a “shifting burden” and works like this: police prove that it was used in a crime. Owner wants to fight the seizure, they now have the burden to prove they’re a victim.

I understand you have a beef with the concept of civil forfeiture, but it has its place. It just gets misused/abused (improperly applied) by the police who completely overreach on application, and in some states, the concept got flipped on its head so that the property owner bears the burden of proof.

The kind of shit…

It isn’t necessarily abuse of power if the legislature specifically vests them with the authority - it would just be exercise of police power. I’m confident that given the total disregard to everyone else, these guys are doing way more dangerous stuff, and probably shouldn’t be driving. Impound and sale at police…

Public transportation is getting plenty of investment, but it has a problem area in which it will never be able to beat autonomous cars, irrespective of how much investment it receives: other people.

If you live in a major city, the presence of crime on public transit is a real problem, and one that requires at least…

Two observations of Vision Zero’s implementation in San Francisco:
1) “Traffic calming” measures have moved traffic from major thoroughfares to side streets which are less well equipped for high rates of speed, and the City seems to have done nothing to study these effects. I’d bet that over time traffic deaths will…

Maybe you can help me, then:

Me: <Reads title on main page> “Those are going on a Lada.”

It’s kind of shocking that they can design a vending machine that people can’t steal gum out of, but they can’t design a mailbox that prevents you from stealing envelopes.

Lots of checks are stolen right out of the mailbox: thiefs toss something sticky in attached to a string and fish out mail, preferring near the first of the month to catch rent checks. They wash out the name and then cash them. So if you can, mail them AT a post office to reduce this likelihood. You usually don’t have…

Excellent selection. Love the color.

(To be fair, “Best Decision I’ve made. Selling my Prius for _________” is usually a true statement.)

I’ll admit that normally I hate the Q&A, but I ended up in a series of panels from Adult Swim for Robot Chicken, Rick and Morty, and Archer one after another, and the Q&A sessions ended up being the best part of each panel. They spent 10 minutes at the end of each panel mercilessly roasting anyone who got near the…

Your friend got a lemon. I bought a 1993 Toyota Pickup at about 130k miles, sold it at 190k because I didn’t need a truck for work anymore. Just talked to the person I sold it to, and they said the head gasket went at 245k miles, so they did that and the timing chain guides/cover because they had been broken off for…

Has it? Trump’s only in the beginning of year 2, none of those international issues are solved, and things continue to get worse by the day on the domestic front. Trump hasn’t even faced a serious international issue other than Russia, to which he continues to concede issues or wall back sanctions against whenever…