If its too loud, it should be fined. You can whine and cry about this or that regulation, I don’t care. I’m poor. You are rich. We play by the same rules. Pay the friggin fine, and stop acting like a cry baby.

“Tech for tech’s sake” I know its a bit of a simplification, but American car manufacturers use ‘whiz bang’ to sell their cars, and wiz-bang is cheapest in the form of tech. Japanese manufacturers focus on reliability, and thus lean on older, well know technology. That’s why my 2011 Tacoma has hand crank window, no…

Your “bad back” is not because you are old. If you think like that, you will always have it. Stop it, my man. Ageism is bigotry, and its self defeating.

I’ve driven manuals my entire life, and am also a retired mechanical design engineer. The real reason they sound loud in reverse is because there is no design benifit to make them quiet. You don’t want a car that reverses quietly. Its a safety issue. I know its a little thing, but there is no reason to invest money…

I think its fake. I’ve fired the M60 hip fire before, and shoulder fire. It fires a 7.62mm round that kicks hard, and becomes almost weightless after the first round leaves the barrel. If you don’t apply downward pressure (onto a bipod, or shoulder harness) the barrel rises with each round. Look at his big belly. Its…

Laws should require the truck owner to pay for cleanup and repair, which would be covered under insurance, of course. If enough of these fires happen, rates will increase. Maybe we need to go back to cable cars, like I rode every day when I was stationed in West Germany in the 80s.

You know the cliche that airport security is all show? Well here you go, presented on a silver platter. I wonder how many airport stores are securing their scissors as I type this.

If you are a gamer, you likely have a feel for random numbers. Here’s the thing with them... they clump. With truly random numbers you will see clumps of long odds things happening together. Its when this doesn’t happen when you should be sus.

The Tacoma consistently wins reliability awards. My single cab 2012 Tacoma with a manual, and 4 banger is my favorite vehicle ever. I’m in my 60s now, and have been a truck guy my entire life.

There are two reasons pickups last longer. A) there is less there to break. B) they are designed and tested to last for 150k miles, instead of the 100k miles used with cars.

‘87 Comanche w/ I6 and manual.

It “seems like that” to people who don’t know politics. She picked him because he has charisma, which she lacks to some degree.

A CIS man wearing eyeliner off putting.

I feel like Nascar could do a lot better if it would get away from the whole thug fan focus.

Meditation mode in a car. What could go wrong?

They are fun. No regrets owning my TJ back in the day.

I once flew from El Paso where it was 100F to Minneapolis, where it was 85 and humid. Walking off that plane was like getting kicked in the ass. Dry heat is so much more comfortable.

Spiff up your wheels? The only thing wrong with my Tacoma is peeling paint on the wheels, and the radio volume control won’t work (so I just keep it loud). Don’t judge a book by its cover.

It was not nearly this bad back in the 70s when I started driving. I ‘stole’ my mom’s car when I was 15, having only a learners permit it was illegal for me to drive alone. My mom was way too high strung to teach me - she’d be jamming on the brakes over in the passenger seat. So one day I snuck the car out, promptly…

Firefighters are “burning goodwill”, too. The whole LEO environment, fire fighters, dispatchers and paramedics included are exposed to the dredges of humanity. 100% of the ones I know are affected by this, including my sister, step-father, and one of my best friends all became jaded, and anti government conservatives.…