Top gear needs to die. I love the new hosts and the new show, but the whole thing reminds me of a show they did recently- they found old cars that would be perfect for new drivers because they were more authentically drivers cars- and the cars were legitimately cool, but at the end of the show, they all came to the…

I’m saying that even convenience stores have figured out that you have to pay people a living wage. The folks who scream “we can’t find any workers to do these jobs!” Are usually folks who pay for shit and no one wants to do those jobs for the money they’re offering.

If you can’t find workers, you aren’t paying…

This is literally the problem with everyone who’s crying that they can’t find workers. You can totally find workers. You just have to pay them better.

Shit, KwikTrip is saying they’ll pay assistant managers 53k+ benefits right now.

After his latest social media gaffes, I wonder how long he’s gonna be running tesla?

Sure, you can afford to build it here. Can you afford to re-build it every 5 years? You think you pay enough insurance to make it worth it to them to rebuild your entire house and all the things in it?

But this is 21st century ‘Murica, somebody’s gotta get sued for anything and everything.

You know that most of those “frivolous lawsuits” aren’t actually frivolous when you look into them and that in most cases, they only look frivolous because the company getting sued sicced their PR firm on the problem?

But you have to ask, (and I know it SUCKS to ask this) in the end, didn’t they make the right decision? Since then there have been 3 more catastrophic hurricanes and several more regular hurricanes, all of which still cause millions in damage- that’s an expensive proposition.

their problem is to return a profit for their shareholders, and they will make sure they are serving their fiduciary duty.

And existing homeowners are finding that the insurance companies would rather drop a whole state than deal with those incredibly costly properties.

This is industry wide. Losses are piling up due to an increased frequency of repeating natural hazards- fire and hurricane damage as well as a whole new one I’d never heard of, the DeRecho that blew across the midwest in 2020 doing damage that’s still being fixed.

That adjuster has them plenty in legal fees, you can bet they are no longer employed.

To be fair to State Farm, the insurance industry overall is dropping customers who live in areas affected by repeated natural hazards.

One of the first things you lean on a motorcycle on the road it HOW BIG the road is and HOW SMALL you are. It’s basically the only thing that allows a sane person to ride on the road with cars- you are so small and maneuverable compared to a car that if you do see a car starting to merge into your lane, it feels like…

Insurance on bikes is cheap because they don’t expect you to survive the crash and you won’t do much damage when you hit something.

I’ve got a 16 gallon tank in my Outback. My girlfriend has like an 8 gallon tank in her Prius. We can go about the same distance at 80 MPH in either vehicle.

I’d say it’s the same with any person who’s dedicated their car to a politician, but yeah, you don’t see too many others like this

OK, to be fair, 1988 was 35 years ago. Which is a long time. But still, yes, trucks in 1988 were definitely less insane.

rock crawling abilities that will never, ever, ever be used.

The funny thing is that since this is an old city, there’s a shit-ton of narrow streets where you can barely fit a firetruck, and yet none of those neighborhoods have burnt down. And when shit does burn down, it tends to be an apartment complex with tons of room for firetrucks.

Back when “new Urbanism” was a thing, there were several developments in my city where they wanted to build a new neighborhood that felt like an old neighborhood. So, smaller front yards, porches, sidewalks, more public park space and... narrow streets. And the city said no. New streets have to be built super wide…