In NYC and LA they’re all just Ubers

This is poetic and absolutely spot on.
I think, because of the size of those boats, the short people driving them don’t even hear when they run over kids/small adults.

Plastic upholstery on those seats, too. No leather available:

Same here. These tacked on simple rectangular screens over the steering wheel just looked tacked on and typically don’t flow with the rest of the screens in vehicles. 

“See more women in the Flight Attendant role in general so the brain takes shortcuts and just assumes.”

but they said stewardess instead of flight attendant

Perfectly said.

“everyone has a form of unconscious bias”

I just drove a 2011 retired police Tahoe for a week out in Colorado.  It was weird.  It was fine for getting around in shitty weather and hauling our snowboarding stuff around, but I was so happy to drive our 4Runner again when we got back home.

I came here to post this. These behemoths should require a CDL to operate, or maybe just be banned from parking lots.

No alternate universe necessary, just go to Ogdenville or North Haverbrook.

ah, the ol’ Mormon Assault Vehicle

when the top tax bracket stops around $600k - you know how they are trying to divide us.

God this site is toxic, you still haven’t explained why it’s a tremendously stupid idea. But just of the top of my head I can think of a few problems with pure sales tax. Nobody wealthy would even bother buying US goods, it’d be really annoying trying to make small purchases and tax dodging would be too easy with cash…

It’s too bad Sabine Schmitz isn’t still alive:

Amen. Don’t forget about the wide turns. Anytime I see one of these making a right out of the Starbucks, I know they’re going to almost hit the curb of the oncoming traffic lane.

I’m going to repost this on Facebook.

All Stellantis has to do is come up with one more front end design, glue on a couple of badges, and they will have a second Chrysler model for the showroom, to keep the Pacifica company.

I flew on a max on Sunday from Orlando to Midway. Smooth flight. Only thing smooth about that entire day (canceled flights, mass chaos, got home 14 hours after plan).  My initial flight was supposed to be 737-800, which are generally regarded as safe models.

I downloaded an album on Limewire that had a voiceover in the middle of every song, basically a watermark, with the name of a company or radio station that released the bootleg. I played that album on repeat all summer, and even though I now legally stream that album, I can still mentally hear the spots where those…