All for preserving small towns and moving away from people, but moving next to a ski resort is not really what you want to do for solitude and privacy.  I’m not making any comment on what Ford is doing here, but I also don’t think it’s fair to make it out like this is a town without an existing tourism industry.

You might want to check the torque on all of the other lugs. No doubt he was cranking the impact up to maximum torque and just blasting them on there. They are likely on there so tight you won’t be able to remove them should you get a flat tire somewhere.

First, it depends greatly on your definition of “easy”. This is CA, so she will have a license and will have passed a background check if the gun is legal.

Your post doesn’t really say anything but, believe me, she will be a prohibited person who is never allowed to own firearms again very, very soon.

You do not have to pass a mental health screening to buy a gun (nor should you). There is a criminal background check and form 4473 also asks if you have ever been involuntarily committed to a mental institution. The background check would probably catch whether you had been involuntarily committed as well.

Redistributing wealth is not why we have taxes. You can use taxes that way if that’s the kind of society you want to have but in absolutely no way are they directly linked.

Yup, you have got it exactly. People want to believe that pouring more federal money into this is going to solve the problem but, in reality, it will only make the problem worse. There isn’t an unlimited pool of slots available, so supply and demand will inevitably do it’s thing.

Land Cruiser transcends these petty labels.

Jeeps are garbage. I say this as someone who owned and actually loved a WJ.

Rust. Toyota. Frame. Rust.

So, the position here is that we shouldn’t go back to restaurants even when we are fully vaccinated, because waitstaff might not be vaccinated? That’s an interesting position to take given the incredible financial impact that the pandemic has had on people who make a living staffing restaurants, and the fact that they…

“and it’s probably a bad idea in general to sell a car with a top speed of 174.”

Of course you don’t trust it. There is neither a track record suggesting you can trust it, or objective evidence demonstrating that you can trust it. There are ways of managing this which don’t rely on surveillance, but that data is valuable and they want it.

Absolutely agree with you, but creating a system of collecting taxes based on usage which does not rely on violent coercion and looking at spending as a whole and not as single issue siloes is heresy. People have internalized the idea that government must operate this way.  They don’t even try to enforce…

Absolutely 100% correct.  There is no need for a complex technical solution that has potential privacy impacts unless, of course, you want that data for other reasons.

There is no reason whatsoever to trust their claims about the security of GPS information.  The government has routinely abused access to data.  Laws to protect personal information are sparse in the U.S.  The type of assurance businesses require of service providers handling personal information is not provided for…

Automotive Engineers: “So did were we able to find a decent vehicle to start with?”

I am generally enraged by the lack of keeping right except to pass in the U.S. However...

Always see facebook ads for these and they seem like a decent idea, though I’m curious how the solder melts at such a lot temperature.

+1.  Not sexy.