Lots of parts available from junkyards, and the 5cyl in these is pretty reliable. This is from before Volvo starting having a lot of computer and electrical issues - I had one that I sold at 214,000 miles with no real problems to speak of (family owned it from new).

I live in Belgium, and have lived in Germany. The healthcare is not rationed.

Since they can’t write about Hillary anymore, Pelosi is their new constant target. Nevermind that “slightly louder protest” is the only option available to the party that doesn’t control the Senate or White House, so it doesn’t really make much of a difference anyway.

but vote for him anyway and lie to their friends about who they voted for.

You’re absolutely right, but I wonder if that ends up being a persuasive argument for many. Trump’s average voter in 2016 wasn’t lower class, so the narrative of low unemployment, lower taxes, and increasing stock value will be enough for them. For the people less well off, a part of the “everything is going great”…

Almost all of the European systems have non-profit payers (instead of the for-profit insurance companies in the US) and the government still sets prices for providers even if the government doesn’t directly make the payments.

That scenario assumes that L5 is a technology that can just be implemented as soon as the tech is ready, which is not true.

It’s really tiresome to see articles like these suggest that single-payer is the only way to lower costs and improve outcomes. I live in a European country that, like most of them, has universal care that isn’t single-payer, and it’s a better system than the (single-payer) NHS, at least at the moment (unsurprisingly,…

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.