All the street circuits look identical from a TV coverage standpoint. One big tunnel of chain link and concrete with an assload of yellow and red DHL or Aramco logos. Day or night it might as well be racing in a parking garage.

What, exactly would you suggest they replace it with?

Lots of smaller insurance companies are already doing just that. Some of the larger ones, too. I’d bet getting home insurance in costal florida is going to become nigh impossible sooner than later.

Insurance companies are for profit businesses, not public services.

It’s all where you live. Around here the plowing is pretty awesome, and not just in the city.

Oooooof. true.

Honestly, anything more than “just wait for the plows to come through and then drive carefully because it’s icy” is a complex and expensive solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, but that hasn’t stopped Subaru and Jeep from making a fortune selling 4/AWD.

Shape memory alloys are more than just springs- imagine a spring that, when you run a current through it, immediately turns into a straight piece of metal.

It’s got some seriously cool technological potential.

There’s an awesome episode of 99% invisible about a police department in California that changed their uniforms and attitudes (and how much the cops HATED it) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-blazer-experiment/

And I think about this episode every time I hear about cops abusing power, closing ranks and…

“If you have an argument with another car, you will win,”

I have a feeling Columbus is quite nice if you’re not a student but I’ve never been in a place that disliked the students as much as Columbus.

It’s the early 90s, it’s like 9pm and my girlfriend and I are driving to the Kinkos on High Street in Columbus Ohio because they have a color copier and if you’re an art school student, this is makes package design projects SO MUCH EASIER.

If only there had been a good guy with a gun. That would have fixed everything.

I’m interested to know how one can simultaneously believe that, as a wealthy supergenius, it’s your duty to spawn as many children as possible AND that you don’t actually need to support them.

But it’s pretty clear that his version of reality and the version that the rest of the world lives in are two very different…

On the one hand, you don’t stay rich by giving other people money. On the other hand, don’t be a douchebag. On the third hand, the douchebag boat has long sailed for Mr. Musk.

I mean, I don’t know what news you’ve been consuming but they’ve definitely been making it to the news. It’s been a pretty low and consistent buzz for the last couple years.

Kei Trucks and vans. Seriously, we need small, inexpensive useful and utilitarian haulers. Most of us just need to haul mulch and furniture and appliances and big bulky shit that won’t fit in our car/crossover/SUV.

There should be armies of these things for rent at your local big box lowes/menards/whatever. We need…

Since when does acting like an adult mean not following the laws of the community you live in? This is some weird teenage fantasy of what being an adult is.

Actually, pretty close to it. I set my cruise for 73 on the freeway (most freeways around me are 70mph) because that’s the best compromise between gas mileage and not being in the way. In town, yes, of course I follow the speed limit pretty close because why wouldn’t I? I will of course run with traffic if traffic is…

I feel like we as a country have forgotten the very important reason we are able to function as a conrty, a society, a civilization. We have rules AND (more importantly) we CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE. What Fox is pushing borders on sociopathic- the only thing that matters is me and mine, everything else can go fuck…