Becoming & being PE is arguably an unhealthy amount of my personality, so that would probably drive me a little crazy. I stamp anywhere from 200-300 traffic control plans alone every year, not counting our other stuff. I’m currently one of our only PEs in a few states though, so that certainly affects those…

I took the FE my senior year of college and IL changed the rules a while back so that I could take the test without my 4 years, so I got the PE test knocked out within 2 years of graduating. Nearly all of my company’s executives are PEs who transitioned from designers to management over time, so it is a top-down…

There needs to be 9 figure fines for a derailment. Once the fines got really high for natural gas explosions the market for inspectors became great. As you said, it takes a special personality to handle a traveling job like that, but good inspectors are worth huge money by stopping mega-million fines from ever…

As Bowling for Soup pretty eloquently said: high school never ends

I wonder if that is also only 1 way. So if you manage to nab the ticket to fly somewhere, are you back on a lottery to fly home whenever something out of that airport is available?

It also doesn’t help that the Pheonix area has been steadily growing by ~80k people a year for the last 10 years. Increasingly hot summers plus that many more cars, new roads, and people who may be new to these kinds of conditions. I wouldn’t be surprised if that crowd includes increases in retirees. 

You can still buy a new base model Subaru that requires a physical key in the ignition to turn on. I get a few dozen rentals a year and more often than not, a car has been keyless the last ~4-5 years, but probably ~25% require a key in the ignition still. Still a bit surprising, since Buick is supposed to be…

Those breakdowns are very difficult to properly quantify, since you eventually end up making an educated guess if it is better to have the money flow to an American based company like Ford versus someone like Honda that builds here and how each of those suppliers (and who owns them) impacts various economies. Those…

The other day when I got out of the store after maybe 30-40 minutes inside my car said it was 119 here in Texas. Does not take long to become a big pressure cooker down there in Harlingen...

Looks like a nice little trick some company can use for their newly installed AI customer service. Make it all by text so they don’t have to deal with the challenges of faking a voice and then program it to be on a delay in hopes people will just pay themselves instead of waiting. Throw in a nice barrier like dealer…

Because they get the dual rush of watching an average drama and retweeting some generic statement on facebook that everyone in their neighborhood group will applaud.

The GOP is basically using it as an excuse for their current War on LGBTQ & US History Facts, so I think we already know the results. All they’re missing is a way to arrest more minorities, but the first 2 on that list are still going pretty strong so that may not be necessary. 

They’re saying that the Sound of Freedom is the gateway drug to becoming a MAGA conspiracy nut. I’m sure there will be at least one in the many people who saw this that later says it inspired them to shoot their spouse to reinforce that idea, while ignoring that most people just thought it was an okay action movie and…

The angle of the photo makes it look like his thumb is the lighter. 

We have pop star Barbie that drives a private jet. I say drive because my son prefers that the plane drives on the ground while basically everything else can fly.

-They’re really hard to get. Dealer mark ups around me for them ruined any level of incentive, assuming there even was one on a lot and it wasn’t a bait & switch by the dealer to push me into a pure ICE due to the backlog for PHEV orders.

Washington state is a living experiment for that this year. When I lived there, there was a carbon tax on the ballot 2018 I think, hoping the people would force the gov to pass it since the pols wouldn’t. The tax pretty massively failed, but in 2022 a tax was passed and went into effect this year. If a bunch of seats…

For anyone that wants a small, fun, semi-nice car with AWD and good cargo, Mazda3 is pretty much the only answer in America. Anything else becomes a compromise.

I believe the reviewer this posted made sure to mention that waited to get back to the USA before writing anything official because of how bad the car was

As long as their in R by their name, it really wouldn’t matter. We just had a president spend about 20% of their time in office at their own resorts and not a single GOP member cared.