You’re right, it’s so not a big deal, but you still wrote an article about it and got paid. Sort of weird to dismiss your own work.

No no, I give in, you win, your silencing tactic wins.

Thanks for mansplaining it to me.

OK Einstein, then why would the author care about asking their opinion in the first place, let alone be ostensibly mad when not getting it? Which is it? Is it bad they didn’t get their “answers” or does it not matter at all that they didn’t get their “answers”? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tone policing implies there’s a correlation between the point somebody is making, and the tone they make it in. Which is 100% not what was being written here. Nowhere are they saying “you’re wrong because you’re mad” or “if your point was right, you wouldn’t have to be rude” which are both common/definitive tone…

It’s not about decorum or protecting the feelings of stupid people. It’s just common sense, even a highschooler on the school paper knows you get answers first, print snark later.

Here is some light reading, Albert:

The crank-open secret compartment on the Jowett Javelin was certainly the best implementation of this idea. Here’s a video:

And there are probably more cars that have had a sheet of plywood in the back than trucks. Heck it’s almost a certainty judging by the parking lot of my nearest Home Depot.

You don’t have to get too far into the math, just look as sales figures. There are definitely more trucks out there doing nothing than there are sports cars.

All three of these reasons are stupid.

“So if I stopped for lunch on the way to home Depot”

Oh you can drive them all you want, but that doesn’t make them not stupid.

The 3-box design allows, generally, for better visibility, as well as better aerodynamics. It is also, for a given vehicle length, usually much lighter.

Can I ask that it be sold here?

You must not have heard of NASCAR.

I wonder how up shit creek the trucker who delivered that diesel is. Everything that is dropped off has to be accounted for, and there is no way the premium tank is anywhere near as big as the diesel tank at the station. They would have known right away that fuel had been delivered to the wrong tank. I would not…

I seen you’ve graduated sarcasm class.

California’s farmers might, everybody else, probably not. How much do you think the U.S. would want/need Californian produce? Enough to make a water deal?

I suspect the wheel design predates the brand it is most associated with, since it is after all just an aluminum version of the steel disc wheels that had been around since the 1920s.