Honda should just bring the Freed over to the US, even if it’s just for one generation. It’s basically an overfed Fit with a sliding door. I saw a bunch in Japan and they seemed impossibly practical for families living without access to big parking spaces:

lol I’m reminded of the time I took my mom to pick up something at Crate & Barrel last year and she asked, “Why does everything look so old? Like, everything came from the 50s.”

This entire time, I always thought someone using “upmost” was misspelling “utmost.” Now I realize it was just simple misuse!

It’s ridiculous that every corporation that offers good-paying jobs tries to jam itself into some city that costs too much for its employees to be financially successful.

I’ve always wondered if speed bumps, in general, at any speed, are bad for cars. I go over about 15 of them a day, and I can’t help but wonder if my car is getting knocked out of alignment even though I crawl over them.

Or the Murano slotting between the Rogue and the Pathfinder.

Based on my neighbors in the townhome complex: about 80% of them fill their garages with junk and park their cars in the guest parking spaces or on the street.

I always have to remind myself not to look up the ages of these celebrities because lordy, it makes my bones creak.

IMO, they need to start actually fining cheaters. I heard certain jurisdictions been piloting camera systems similar to the FasTrak and red light crossing cameras to take photos of passing cars and fining those that don’t qualify. Knowing how government implementation works, however, we may never see the tech in our…

You don’t even need the doll. I once saw a guy who just put a hard hat and construction vest around the passenger seat.

Another Bay Area commuter— the sheer volume of traffic between 3-8PM is insane. I bought a PHEV to get the HOV sticker, but it saves me maybe 5 minutes tops before I get stuck in the same stop-and-go traffic as everyone else because, in addition to carpool cheats, legitimate users need to come to a near-stop to try…

Nothing says, “I love you, sis” quite like a modern-day griddle. It’s oppressive, much like conversations with extended family members around the Christmas tree who may ask, “Who is James Charles?”

My toast game changed when I started using cranberry sauce instead of regular jam— same fruity hit, without the cloying sweetness. Now I just buy a couple of jars around Thanksgiving time to make sure I have enough to last me through the year.

I was about to post something about the furry art thing being pretty positive, but after reading your post, you reminded me of all the inane drama I saw (and occasionally participated in) on Furcadia and VCL.

Sorry. I’ll admit that my understanding of the Y2K problem is much more limited than climate science. I failed to appreciate the amount of work people put into averting disaster because it happened relatively quietly— on the outside, it looked like nothing happened and we panicked for nothing. So have a star!

So you’re saying I should return the IKEA nightstand I bought for my mother-in-law? But the flatpacking makes it so easy to wrap!

You can ignore the fearmongering or view it as being targeting to people who haven’t tried to minimize their environmental impact to the best of their ability (kudos to you if you have already).

The Montreal Protocol wasn’t limited to CFCs, so hence ODS.

Re: ozone layer. The world did make an effort to reduce ODSs via the Montreal protocol and now the layer is making a (slow, but measureable) recovery according to the EPA.

Not sure what being an introvert has to do with it, but I did read that article on Lifehacker and the comments rightfully pointed out how impractical that is. Manufacturer recommendations will always err on the side of maximum safety, not practicality. Good luck telling the commuters in rush hour to stand single file i…