Supposedly the hybrid was about 70% of orders, so AWD would make up less than 30%. 

If you can put up with FWD you might as well get the hybrid and get 33-34 hwy and 40+ city. 

Yeah. I’ve bought a handful of these Gerber knives.

Perhaps. Not sure they would have had one (there was no restaurant at the hotel), and we had like 10 minutes to have a drink before meeting friends for dinner and a concert. It was the key card knife G&Ts or nothing. Hey, it worked pretty well...

Whatever it was, my wife thought it was hilarious. :)

Your post could use some “deprecation”

I once had to cut limes for G&Ts with a hotel key card because I forgot my knife. 

Everything expires....except honey.

Garden Gnomes, you say?

Definitely check out the Maverick. It’ll fit bikes much better (it even has slots in the bed to fit 2x4s for a diy bike mount) and has a hybrid base engine that’s a few thousand less than the Santa Cruz.

They really should have put the Ioniq 5 design team on it. And offered a hybrid option.

There are cup holders in a rear arm rest on the XLT and Lariat trims. 

Grilling is great. We also do it directly on the embers of a campfire. Pull off a few of the loose outside leaves. Keep the silk. Lay on the embers and flip after a few minutes. Or if you have a big fire will a lot of embers, just bury the whole ear in glowing red embers. 

Understanding that a sauna is no replacement for exercise, I’d be interested in any research or evidence to health impacts of the increased heart rate during a sauna. When I do a sauna my Garmin will show my heartrate between 130-140bpm (my resting heart rate is about 50bpm), which is about what I register during…

Yeah, this seems like a big gamble that depends on the mortage rate staying low

Dang. No wonder it caught on so quickly. 

Yeah. Most places don’t have a severance. It really wasn’t that hard to bank the PTO because during most of my time with the org I got 4-5 weeks of PTO plus a couple floating holidays per year. Not saying everyone can or should bank 10 weeks. Just that no one should lose compensation.

Whoa, so if they define PTO as “unlimited” they can treat it as a “perk” rather than “compensation?”

Co-workers “frowning” on others taking their earned PTO is most certainly toxic, but I agree that it’s core to the “American” work culture (which, as you said, itself is pretty toxic), which is part of the reason the workers should be able to determine how and when they want to use their compensation.

Sure, but a company’s culture can’t be blamed entirely on a policy. It’s likely those companies would have been just as toxic with use it or lose it.