I’m not bragging about my driving skills or ignoring anything - several publications have tested the difference between snow tires on FWD/RWD cars vs AWD cars with all-seasons, and the former does better. Snow tires are pretty common in Denver, and a lot of the joiners who buy AWD vehicles drive even worse because…

Unless they stop making new EVs, there is no reason for them to appreciate - anyone who would buy a used car would not do so if they could get a new one cheaper. If a company raised its new prices way above margin, another competitor would just undercut them. Tesla will not be the only fully autonomous company when…

I’m a Denver native, and have never once gotten stuck in anything but the largest blizzards, in which most SUVs were stuck as well. This is no AWD but equipped with snow tires. Friends with Subarus and other AWD cars have (anecdotally) not really been convincingly better in the snow if you have good tires and know…

Really? I’m from Denver, and I have met a ton of joiners there who bought Subarus exclusively because they think they need them for the occasional bad weather or dirt road when they go hiking.

Yeah, the people who buy a Subaru because they “need the all-wheel drive” for a couple inches of snow are in it for the brand, not because they are being objective about their needs.

The GOP worships corporations - I’m not sure they think of it as corruption so much as they just think that someone who worked for a defense contractor would be the ideal person to run the DoD like a business. Their enrichment afterwards is the retcon to justify the system.

I lived in an officially Muslim country until very recently. You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. You’re spouting the exact shit people used to denounce Catholics with (loyalty to the papacy over country).

The joke is on them - I moved abroad in 2016, but I can still vote in all the same elections.

The way racism and civil rights are taught in school effectively builds up a caricature of what a racist is - racists are depicted as cartoonishly bigoted creatures of pure evil. That caricature is very useful to people who hold bigoted and racist opinions. It’s why they react with such indignant hostility when they…

These military apologists seem to think if we cut the outrageous budget of the US military that we’ll immediately be overrun by unnamed enemies.

I too am permagrey on Splinter, despite having been around for years.

The B-2's initial price wasn’t that high either - I wouldn’t be surprised if this thing costs quite a bit more than the initial estimate.

I’d rather see more investment into roads and bridges, that are literally crumbling.

If each bomber costs $686 million, then 100 will cost $68 billion. That’s $214-ish dollars per person, not $2.

If they buy the top number mentioned, it would cost almost $200 billion. It’s pathetic that some people think that is a necessary expenditure.

He’s 62 now - odds are decent he’ll be dead before his earliest release date.

23 years would make him 85 at earliest release - if he lives an average lifespan, he’ll be dead by then.

This is how I feel about all security guards - even if an armed intruder attacked, say, an armorer car, is it really worth people dying for?

It’s also insane to lock people up indefinitely for a misdemeanor. These people saying “they committed a crime” should all get put in jail for their next speeding ticket for a bit of perspective.