Yup. And they just take a lot of wood, and wood isn’t all that cheap. Just read materials will set you back way more than you'd think considering it's "just a deck"

There’s definitely a DC tax in there, but decks are surprisingly expensive.

I think you could draw a fun graph on this. Cuz knowing a little is arguably more expensive than knowing nothing, because you know just enough to try, fail, and have to pay someone to fix it :)

I’m not a freelancer, and I don’t have kids (but I do have a house and make decent money). I find taxes super easy (this isn’t bragging, more like pity). I just use a web-based service (TaxAct), takes me all of an hour once all the relevant forms are in (W2s, student loan stuff, mortgage, investments).

I guess I fail to see how a brush could possibly replace a sponge. Sure a brush is better at getting large stuff off, but for wiping something clean, a brush is not sufficient as far as I’m concerned. We have a brush taht I use for scrubbing, but the sponge does the finish work.

I think it’s funny that physical buttons used to be the low-end feature (that they got rid of despite no one wanting them to get rid of it), and now you have to buy the most expensive Kindle to have physical buttons again...

I find a hard time justifying any Kindle cost just because of the convenience factor of alwyas already having my phone, but comparing the actual reading experience is insane. Kindle screen is so much easier to look at, especially outside.

Isn’t a “dish brush” just a sponge on a stick?

Is this a genuine belief? Also, does anyone give out fortunes that in any way portend the future? All I get is bullshit quips or faux-Zen-like truisms.

The problem is that stopping ability of the car is a pretty small fraction of the stopping distance overall — human reaction time is the really relevant factor for a high-speed collision, and aside from new-fangled “crash avoidance” features, all the stopping power in the world can’t overcome that.

Slightly (or very) off-topic, but why can’t airlines understand this?

Work on a car?

Could imagine the speedo just being a static part of the large screen, in theory. Mini puts the speedo in the middle, so it’s not unheard of to not have it in front of the driver.

As does Alex Trebec, if you’re a Jeopardy fan.

On some cars I’ve had to deal with I’d charge more than 30 bucks to change a lightbulb. My wife’s old Civic you had to go in through the wheel well (or have really tiny hands to be able to reach past the ABS pump)

They claim that they are working on this, but currently no. At least once a week it (I have to try hard not to call Alexa “she”) responds while my wife and I are watching Jeopardy, thanks to “Alex”.

OH man, a June bug will make you see stars, even with a helmet.

In a professional climate where almost no one stays in a job more than a few years (and I say this as an exception, where I just left a job after 15 years), this is an absurd metric to use. Especially where a pretty large majority of women who decide to “start a family” nowadays only take maternity leave and then come…

LOL. Nevahs. The idea of calling rulebreakers lemmings is hilarious though.

Not sure where you live, but going the speed limit around these parts would make you the outlier, and thus the cause of any speed differential. “flow of traffic” arguments may not work with cops but they are valid from a safety perspective.