Whenever we get big rains during winter in the south and then the temps drop a bunch overnight. Rains all day and then turns the road into a sheet of ice at night. The next morning, the roadways (especially Dallas it seems) become a Mad Max (ice) Fury Road. There are always major pile ups, so you never know when someon…

Showers were my biggest need until I moved to Texas. Then I simply had to decide that my life is worth more than the few grand I would save by not driving.

Toyotas are one of my disliked rental brand because of how much I hate their UI. It almost always seems to glitch out or freeze up more than any other brand. Depending on the car, I’ve needed to download and create a Toyota account to even get the phone to connect for all the android auto features. Despite having this…

Every union my clients use has been recruiting to fill various construction, plumbing, HVAC, and electric rolls. One client has partnered with their contractor to give free training to get more young people involved. I've done thousands of projects across the country and no union has intentionally limited their…

Unions rely on pensions. It’s in their best interest to have a full supply of workers after retirement to ensure those pensions hold strong. Membership is more limited by the supply of work than a union’s willingness to allow more members. The more worker from the more sectors that are union, means the ownership…

The logistics are a lot more about where the money will come from, how to spread the foundations to maintain mobility, maintenance, and what to do with the power. The engineering on these isn’t exactly high-end stuff. There are tons of canopies in liquid soils along the gulf coast.

An SUV becomes a “coupe” when half the trunk space and head room in the back seat gets cut off by a sloped hatch. 

Why not both?

Seeing as the general “SUV Coupe” design is one of the ugliest car shapes to have ever existed, that’s a pretty low bar to clear.

(he hadn’t really been in any movies and still didn’t have great name recognition)

While some of them may be closeted, I expect the majority are just simply bigots.

It does more accurately fall into a hybrid of modern wagon/SUV, but I think a lot people get reminded of the big 1950's style family wagons, so I see it more often called wagon than SUV by people who like it.

There were a bunch of those squat potties when I went to India, including one on a train that was just a hole to shit on the tracks. It was weird at first, but I would definitely prefer them over some of the awful toilets I’ve seen. It’s pretty easy to hose out those rooms, they were at least sanitary most of the…

I’m not aware of any major failings of the car from a reliability perspective. They are well praised in most car-centric circles as basically being such a good, big wagon. Non-car people that I know think they are ugly because they look/act too much like a wagon. I’ve had a few for rentals and rather liked them, but…

For the family on a budget, the Ford Flex remains one of the best deals for a used SUV. 

Top athletes (entertainers in general) have a much better argument for their salaries than just about any CEO. The biggest athletes in the world can actually be considered underpaid relative to the value they bring to their brand, especially in sports with a salary cap. Lebron literally changes the value of a…

If they live in the city, they are easily looking at $3k/mo in rent. My relatively cheap 2BR apartment 45+ minutes from the city was $2k/mo (5 years ago). You can’t buy a house for less than $400k in most of that region. When I lived there, you couldn’t even buy a condemned property for less $200k. Other than…

I don’t feel like trying to calc out the typical weight/kW/efficiency ratios to see if these numbers are even feasible, but it feels like the weight either needs to go up or the range down based on current tech. Since NEDC is typically higher than WLTP, which is higher than EPA ratings, that 310 miles could easily be 2…

While you’re generally correct about basically every procedural character living an urban fantasy when it comes to money, Gibbs is one of the few where abandoning his house and all of his belongings holds well with his character. One of his agents could fit all of his personal memorabilia in a shoebox and it wouldn’t…

I’d rather just buy one of these