Dunno, I lived in a small town, was three blocks away from the bar, store, downtown and such, walked all the time, and it was fine, except the usual problems of “not from here” and politics. Now I’m in a much larger city that went through the usual unplanned suburban sprawl and I miss the small town’s walkability. I…

Exactly, and this is why I see most of the truckers in the PNW are immigrants on the first rung of the american ladder or are owner operators who do specialized jobs like logging trucks, tankers, ag, and dump trucks.

UGH, I’m fucking living this RIGHT NOW.

Yard Sale!

I’ve had some really terrible/absurd/dangerous routing through waze, enough so I just switched to google maps and never looked back.

In so so many ways 

I like driving in some circumstances, but mostly I find it a chore. I like cars as technical artifacts, but understand that the idea that we need to drive everywhere all the time is deeply flawed and sucks the fun out of driving. basically we should take public transit, ride bikes, and have either Miatas or 2 door…

The right way to fix the problem would be to require anyone selling a drone to verify the person they’re selling it to has the necessary qualifications, either commercial or recreational.

We already have a shit ton of methods of counting time, what’s one more? Also I don’t really want to write the year as 18,345 all over the place so fuck that. Maybe we should just count the years since the beginning of the nuclear age and then I can write the year 76 on everything. That would be convenient (for me).…

I’m a consultant and I’m supposed to bill to the tenth of an hour on projects. I know this deep in my core. 

Time is an illusion that we have all agreed to believe is real. Also the current method of numbering years bothers me very very much as the zero point makes taking about very old dates confusing. we should just pick something roughly 18 k.a. and move on from there as that’s roughly the end of the last ice age, give or…

temps are mild

This. I spent most of my late 20s drinking gin straight, often with a twist of lemon rind. Why pay for some fancy drink when you can get there straight away?

Gin is vodka that someone else has flavored for you. Might as well just get a good collection of mixers and flavor it yourself.

Where I live has some wonderful features, but my choices are to live in an even more traffic choked suburban shithole, a tiny apartment in a city, or some place out in the sticks where I have to drive everywhere anyways. The problem is that I live in the United States, and outside of a few places you gotta have a car.

I love the gorge, don’t get me wrong, but I also love heading up the Deschutes towards Bend, or 197 up to Goldendale, or even heading back on 14 rather than 84 for a change in scenery and also not having to brave Gresham traffic over the 205 bridge. The other road that I’m unable to drive on is 20 over the north…

They are all around you: even on a car enthusiast website there are people who have discovered that daily driving is a chore.

I have the opposite problem driving through the Columbia Gorge: I want to look at all the rocks (professional hazard) and end up swerving all over the place trying to keep it on the road. This is why my spouse drives through the mountains or anywhere else there’s interesting rocks.

I think the dodge dart probably looks at least as good as this thing.

Now, if your partner chooses to share without you both agreeing that this is something you both want, then you have a problem that is not of a technical nature.