This is why this morning I took my new-to-me Lexus to an independent shop that has a modded AE86 out front and a 318is with an E46 M3 engine in one of the garage bays. It may be a 100% bone stock LS, but I know these guys care about cars.

Too far gone, except as a race car shell. The interior will be almost impossible to restore in a way that looks right without spending giant $. And who knows what other mechanical gremlins lurk.

C’mon now. Teslas are mechanical devices. Mechanical devices break.

So they fixed what didn’t need fixing and ignored what did (the interior).

Too bad first girl has to play such a clueless character. She’s cute.

Yes, it is.

If you’re on a road near a farm, you should expect farm equipment, unless it’s a limited-access freeway.

How do you expect them to get from one field to another? It’s not like they can teleport.

Thank you. That is all.

Did you read my comment?

The trouble is that people almost never buy based on usage and needs. They buy on pure emotion. If they say “I like A” to start the conversation, they’re going to buy it no matter what you tell them and no matter how badly it fits their needs. Unless they truly are starting without preconceived ideas, giving people…

“the owner’s manual doesn’t always have the best recommendations”

“How much does it cost to fill up” should have been on this list. So dumb.

You’re weird. Cookie dough has an offensive pasty texture. Good cookies (which is many of them) are little chunks of soft, crumbly, browned heaven.

Too bad about all the cracked windshields on following cars. Needs flares.

Parent of a young toddler here... that baby just looks confused.

The social contract and the Constitution don’t mean that you have to agree with everything the government does or with how it uses your taxes. They just mean that you acknowledge that the government has authority to collect taxes and that the institutions of government described in the Constitution are legitimate. And…

Make your own decision about whether the contract is worthwhile to you. If you don’t think it is, move somewhere where there isn’t one.

Again, if you feel “natural law” (which to me means the laws of physics) is good enough, there are plenty of places where that is the only law that applies, and where no IRS agents will point guns at you to collect taxes. That does mean you are on your own when private citizens point guns at you to take your money…

If you want to live without being bound by any laws, there are some perfectly nice countries with no functional government and no tax burden that you can move to. I’m sure the experience of living in Somalia, Afghanistan, or Syria will be everything you hoped for and more.