So the government mandated TPMS, but didn’t require that all automakers display tire pressure at each wheel?

rather than buying new safety seats every year.

Mazda had another good one. 929's of a certain year had a solar powered fan that exhausted hot air out the moonroof when parked. If they had that today, and integrated to the sensors of rain-sensing wipers so the roof would close if it rained, that would be the shizzle. My 83 Civic had a dedicated lidded coin tray…

The purpose of the Autobahn is to move people and goods, not for high speed runs. Trucks will almost never get in the far left lane on a 3 lane segment, but you can’t expect them to just sit behind some tourist towing their caravan going <100kph on a two lane stretch.

Actually, the easy part is patching the hole. The hard part is blending the patch into the rest of the wall so you don’t wind up with a perpetual blister that draws your eyes right to it every time you enter the room. That’s the hardest part.

I hate the low key “are you actually a monster if you eat meat” type statements that pop up whenever this discussion comes up. Its common on Twitter. Vegan moralism is topped in annoyance only by Keto Zealots.

“but if the idea of eating less meat still makes you uncomfortable, you owe it to yourself to ask why.”

We have significantly cut back on our red meat consumption, and now eat chicken or fish most evenings.

I agree. I’ve lived in Oregon since 1958 and I’ve had nothing but helpful attendants at the service stations. I go out of my way to avoid pump-your-own stations. I can do it when I travel to visit family in Seattle. (I gas up in Portland and am good to go). When I go to California for the Rolex Reunion, I can’t avoid…

Wow that’s a hell of a lot to go through because of one shitty experience. I have lived in Oregon for almost a decade, travelled here multiple times before - never have I had a tweaker attendant, nor one who couldn’t generally get the job done (let alone break my car). I’d say that’s the general experience of most of…

I’ve lived in Oregon for 8 years and never had to go inside to pay.

If you have a working oven/outdoor grill, bake potatoes. Out of the oven, put them in a (clean) tube sock and use them like hot water bottles.

Yeah, this is the opposite of a life hack.

Yeah, I’m amazed they took such a simple process as hot water and newspapers (or even Windex and paper towels) and turned it into this convoluted, multi-step process requiring 9 items, and up to 11 steps. Let’s ban plastic straws to avoid landfill waste, but to clean your windshield you need to buy nitrile gloves,…

“Nice but not kind” sounds like a way to describe “American Politeness” (which is coast-agnostic.) That’s the expected “How are you?” greeting, speaking in a moderate tone even when upset (rightly or not), etc. not because you want to or because you actually feel it but because that’s the social expectation/norm. But w…

I wish they would break down these stats by airport. United gets dragged down by performance issues at SFO and Newark. But flying them out of Denver is amazing and I would wholeheartedly recommend. For all the weather we get (lightning in summer and snow in winter) I rarely experience delays, it’s usually a cascade of…

When I was obsessed with detailing my cars (i.e. before children) I sometimes would move the car up and down the driveway while barefeet, because I did not want my dirty/wet shoes to soil the fresh interior.

The biggest problem with the timeline jumps for me is that nobody aged in the decades between scenes. Maybe Witchers don’t age like people, I don’t know the source material at all, but I would think the king, queen and Jaskier should be a bit older.

I watched the first episode last night and was disappointed. The structure was strange and just disengaging. It lacked what felt like really simple (and necessary) exposition. And the characterization was quite shallow—with the exception of Geralt. (I also had a difficult time understanding the dialogue, just in terms…

I saw a twitter comment from someone that said “The Rise of Skywalker would have had a better ending if Geralt showed up and slaughtered all of the characters from Cats.”

Lol