the only reason ive been ok with a commute to the office is because it forced me to ride my bike/get my workout in. minimum 12 miles each way. i can almost count on my hands as to the number of times I’ve driven to work in the last 6 years.

Working from home? But then how will middle management justify their existence?

This! My employer moved me to permanent remote work at the end of 2020 and it has been a godsend as far as saving money. Wear and tear on the car is reduced as are gasoline costs and I don’t have the urge to eat at restaurants or go to the store on my lunch break since I’m not working downtown. I am beyond …

Home heating oil here in MA went up over $5/gal yesterday. Next fill-up is going to HURT

Funny, my employer does not explicitly prohibit work-from-home on Mondays and Fridays, but it is discouraged. The idea being, of course, that people are tempted to slack off and basically take 3 or 4 day weekends while “working” from home.

We don’t need platform gates or more cops to roust the homeless, we need a metric fuckton of affordable housing and safe, good-quality drug rehab and mental healthcare including inpatient, outpatient, and supportive housing options for all ages. We also need people trained to provide that care, and we need to pay…

Charge Cars has fitted a 64 kWh battery pack and all-wheel-drive.

If have the itch to get an 80s Italian exotic just get a Ferrari 308 be done with it.

And since American voters have the brains of goldfish, you know, buying gas-guzzling trucks & chunky station wagons and always expecting cheap gas

You are choosing to life your life this way.

Once out at sea, they burn whatever they got though.

I doubt that he’s anywhere above ground high enough to be effected by anything other than a combination of a Grandslam and a Tsar bomb right now.

Oh I dunno. If Putin is alone in his dacha miles from anyone I’m sure the world would overlook a Davy Crockett

Image of the damage the next morning. The training building is actually the lower building in front of the office building. It got absolutely nailed. Looks like targeting of one single building to me.

Paper specs aren’t the same as real world. Here’s a quote from Car and Driver.

Russia has a history of not Giving a flying fart about radiation in Ukraine.

I seem to recall a study that correlated the decline in violent crime from its peak in the late 80s/early 90s with the reduction of lead in the environment (from both leaded gasoline and paint).

Fun Fact #2. Still had to pay thousands of dollars to clean up all that anti-freeze and couldn’t dump it on the ground, even though it was food grade stuff mixed with tap water.

Kid was basically a goat. Anything that got near his mouth when in the mouth. Paint, tables, pencils, other kid’s fingers, whatever.

That’s a lot of travel. I don’t envy you.