Well sure... :)

Calling bullshit on that- we put 2 in a civic. Carseats are not that big. Definitely not bigger than a seated adult.

I’ll be honest- I’ve never owned a car with more than 200 hp and I have never found myself thinking, “this situation could only be improved with more power...”

To be fair to Slate, the gist of the article was that there really is no need for cars that can go 3-4 times the speed limit. And they’ve got a point. The same way we don’t need giant truuuuuuuuks to drop the kids off at school, the same way we don’t need hockey mom Expeditions to get the groceries, we don’t need…

But, since most modern roads are literally designed not to slow you down and in fact make it easier for you to drive faster, you kinda have to rebuild the roads to slow people down. Remember, a posted speed limit of 20 means people are probably driving 30. Just like a posted speed limit of 30 usually means folks are dr…

How much of what you’re talking about is government, and how much is NIMBY? Like, Indianapolis and the Monon Trail-

Government: “everything we have studied says this MUT will be a net gain for anyone even remotely near it.
NIMBYs “it will become a CRIME SUPERHIGHWAY bringing those people to my virginal suburbs from…

Oh yay, Exxon is involved. They make everything better.

Dan Savage (of Savage Love) had the best fiscal argument ever for making cities more usable by non-drivers- it allows the city government to tell drivers to shut the fuck up about traffic. “oh you’re stuck in a traffic jam? then take the train/bus/bike/any other way to get around.”

Right, but you can’t solve all the problems at once. So first, slow things down.

Everyone. Because driving for the holidays is the worst. I have to drive 5 hours to my parent’s house to celebrate thanksgiving because we as a country refuse to build any kind of alternate form of transit. Our holiday season begins right around the time that you want to drive the least, especially in the midwest- ice…

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.