That’s something I’ve noticed with my recent listening habits. I can listen to some hosts talk for ~30-45 minutes, but I start hitting a wall by then if it’s just them all the time. However, if they have a big rotation of guests, I’m more likely to tune in a regular basis because then I’m able to get more input…

That was a growing issue that we’re slowly trying to transition out of. We have a number of 3-5 year contracts that were established pre-covid and then salaries all went up with no room to adjust the contracts. Fortunately, the executive response was to lower average profit margin requirements so we could continue…

We’re definitely paying more across the board, but I can’t imagine taking on those salaries without the skills, especially with how standard it has become for people under 30 to share their salary. Maybe I’ll have to reach out to those people who left and are now in the management rolls and see if they’re still so…

I’ll generally admit that it is mostly a personal thing. My siblings and I all had Saturn’s as early cars, a few friends had them, and one of those friend’s SC is where I learned to drive a manual. So from about jr high through late college, a Saturn car of some sort was a staple of my daily life. It’s also why I may…

The last few years my company has seen competitors handing out salaries to people in the 5-6 year experience range that used to be reserved for people in the 15-20 year range. However, from those I’ve talked to about it, the increased salaries aren’t really changing the tide so much as they are putting people with…

I’m going to use this as another opportunity to shoutout the greatness of Saturn. What could have been many more decades of the best commuter cars and changed the landscape of dealer experiences, only to be one of the many casualties of the housing market crash. 

They need to quit teasing future cross overs and trying to make Endgame happen in the first 3 films. No groups, no shared universe, little to no world ending level events. Spend 3-5 movies just developing characters and telling their own story. Thor, Hulk, Iron Man (twice!), and Captain America all their own feature…

I was 100% expecting it to be the equivalent of an SNL skit that gets turned into a feature length film. Sounds like they took the idea, but let it have its own story. 

I continue to remain more shocked that millions of people want to tune in live to watch random people box like this.

While that would make perfect sense, I can’t imagine the level of backlash that would come from the people who care most about Independence Day & Christmas by moving those dates. I wouldn’t be shocked if there was judicial interference because someone tried to adjust the day Christmas gets observed (despite the fact…

The office environment has been weird this week. With the 4th falling on a Tuesday, maybe ~20% of people in my orbit took off Mon/Tues for a 4 day weekend while some even worked on Tuesday and just didn’t feel like doing a holiday thing in the middle of the week. There were a lot more people on and emailing me than…

There will definitely be people who are fine with that, but there are also people who refuse to eat in their cars. On a market wide scale, there are probably more people who will stay somewhere that is providing a sit down service than there are people who stop to shop for trinkets. The theoretical future of cheaper…

Can we please just reach the of the part of this time loop where we buy a predetermined package of production companies that supply entertainment across a collection of channels in exchange for money & ad viewership?

What the average consumer can do and what they want to do are not the same thing. Especially when you considered the financial demographic of people able to afford the average BEV. Would they rather walk around the gas station equivalent of Target or wait in a cafe? 

Two of them I routinely drive by have a row of Tesla chargers in the back of the parking lot. While the shops are large, they generally lack seating, so you’d be forced to walk around the shop (which I’m sure is good for Bucees). I expect things like the highway Starbucks with chargers I saw to get more common though.

I live in Texas and the obsession has more to do with it being reliably the best option on the road. Always clean & plentiful bathrooms. The food is pretty good and the only way to get as many drink/snack options is going to an actual retail store. If you’re on a trip and forget something, they likely have what you…

I was all ready to forgo cremation for being buried in my Element

This posting aligns really well with the QOTD of the day. If you drive this, then it is likely your answer to the question, whether or not you choose it.

None. One of the small hills I’m prepared to die on and decompose into without any boxes needed is that burial graves are a waste of space and resources. A buried car is massively more of a waste that could be anything from someone’s usable asset to scrap that can be recycled and it would take up a few graves worth of…

Having worked at a few restaurants, I assume most of the owners hated greasecar owners by simply having met the restaurant owners. Since most kitchens run on the bare minimum labor to operate, having to spend any extra time dealing with the greasecar owners was probably also really annoying to anyone who worked there…