As GasMan said, you are ignoring the fact that houses and building have fixed amounts of power being supplied, based on what was originally built. My house has absolutely no capacity to add a 50A circuit without thousands of dollars of investments in upgrading my service from 200A to 250A (I’ve looked into this for…

“Only thing is, you can’t legally force someone to A. disclose their medical status including vaccinations .B fire them for not disclosing their medical status.”

Except they can.

“Your employer can ask you for a doctor’s note or other health information if they need the information for sick leave, workers’…

Because breakthrough cases are a thing. Because 95% effective is not 100%. Because variants come out of the unvaccinated. Because vaccines aren’t magic.

Not to mention for some people, the vaccines aren’t as effective (i.e. immunocompromised people). Those people require heard immunity to be protected.

It is fucking…

Lots of jobs have forced vaccination. Colleges have forced vaccination. Teaching has forced vaccination. Travel to some countries have forced vaccination.

Get the vaccine and quit being a plague rat. 

That depends heavily on where you live. Anyone who chooses to rent in SoCal is nuts (people who are forced to are not, of course). Bought my house two years ago. It was barely over the median cost for a single family detached house in the county. That median has gone up over 40% in that time. My partner’s family…

Yep. This. Cars are complex systems with a LOT of different parts requiring different specialties. With most systems like this (automotive or not), people fall into incredibly narrow niches. No single engineer is going to design, analyze, build, and test something like that. They certainly aren’t going to control…

Facts are facts - they offer no value.  Remove the franchise laws and see how many remain afloat.  The fact dealerships will never allow that to happen tells you what they think their chances are...

Your experience is not the norm. The fact you think it is says volumes about how little you pay attention to other people.

I’ve never made it out of a dealership in under an hour. Ever. Even when the negotiation was done in 10 minutes it took hours to get through the process. So either you’re lying, or you’re the…

Light econoboxes? LUXURY!! Everyone should be riding motorcycles. That’s how you actually solve problems!

A manual transmission may stop people from driving it away, but it makes it much easier to push it away and load it up on a dolly/trailer/rollback.

The “screwed” comment is more in response to the people who say manufacturers would jack up prices to the same level as dealerships if they did direct sales. I’d rather any and all profits go to entities that provide value (i.e. the car) rather than dealerships.

You constantly defend these leaches and never once acknowledge the extreme time suck it takes to deal with them (even after the deal is made on the car - you still have the finance/paperwork guy trying to upsell you and not taking no for an answer). Maybe you like spending all of your free time driving from dealer to…

Yeah, I haven’t seen anyone claiming Tesla is benevolent*. Just that if you’re going to get screwed, you might as well be screwed by the people actually responsible for the car - not some dipshit who adds no value.

*Disclaimer: I do not spend any time at all talking to Tesla fanboys, so I’ll admit my sample is skewed.

The right tool for the job. There’s nothing worse than “making due” with a tool not designed for the job at hand and marring/destroying what you’re working on.

I don’t particularly enjoy flaring tubing, but its a hell of a lot easier with my Mastercool setup than those cheap wingnut things. A good puller is worth its…

I would. To be frank, this bullshit is why F1 is so fucking boring. Y’all a bunch of whiners.

I saw this in the moment and literally thought nothing of it. I’ve seen hundreds of similar incidents across all forms of racing. Its a fucking racing incident. F1 is the only place people whine about this kind of thing.

“I still imagine even new Challengers are going for more than they did a year ago”

Wow...really stretching on that one. Are you sure?

The fact any used Dodge is going for MSRP, even against a base model, says mountains about the market. Its also worth noting the study excluded low production versions...so no, Hellcats…

While true for some of these, I’ve been looking at Challengers lately and they are very much going for more than new in a lot of cases. Especially when you consider the deals on the hood when these things were sold new (i.e. Dodge Power Dollars giving $4k-$8k off sticker).

I’m sure this trail is exactly what RAM had in mind when they designed the TRX...

Seriously, who the hell looks at Black Bear Pass and thinks, “my full size pickup is perfectly suited for this trail that requires Jeeps to make 5 point turns”???

Its easy. The 3800 didn’t have a turbocharger like your engine does (I’m guessing here, but to get similar power from Volvo’s offerings that year, it seems a turbo is needed).

Looking at 2006, we can take a midsize offering from Volvo (S80) with the 2.5L turbo (FWD) and compare that to a midsize offering from Buick…

Same. My family had a few 3800s for many, many years and many, many miles...none of them needed any of that stuff replaced. Very reliable engines.