The debate of a good deal also depends a lot on the buyer. For most cars, you never really know if it is a good deal until you’ve driven it for a while with zero abnormal maintenance issues. My wife had a Nissan Altima that she loved because we got it used for cheap and it never needed anything beyond the expected…

I’ve completed mass utility upgrades in multiple states across the country and reviewed/designed around several hundred DOT projects in multiple states for a variety of government entities. I have spent many years on the actual construction of large-scale utility replacements and seen the real costs of all different…

I ignored it because it is complete nonsense. Using a state that’s been dominated by new construction, has largely sprawling right of ways due to the vast nothingness there, and only contains ~2% of the nation’s population is an awful reference for a nationwide change in infrastructure. Arizona is a terrible metric…

When I lived around there, Culvers was my “need a burger cheap and fast” go to. Portillos for other things, but pretty much all of their food is good. Gnarly Knotts when we wanted something interesting. 

Looks like they are basically following the map of relocated Californians. 

Kind of surprised they don’t. The casino I worked at ran a shuttle on the nights with really big giveaways to open the parking up for more customers. That was also a very small casino relative to anything at Vegas though. 

Basically, all government budgets are use it or lose. If you ask for a set allotment and then don’t use all/most of it, you generally get a smaller allotment the next year while those who used all of theirs may get a larger budget. For DOTs specifically, I have seen many projects where people are losing their minds to…

Especially with how much studios have been consolidating. That is probably something that actors will have to try and unite against as much as possible in the background. They’d really have to work together so that Disney, Universal, and Netflix can’t secretly black list the actors who say no and give short term…

There was a reported gas leak near a pretty busy intersection in suburban Chicago shortly before evening rush hour. I was on site to lay out the emergency traffic control while the crew looked for the leak and we rushed to get it set before rush hour built up. One of those big arrow trucks with cones stacked in front…

That brought back some stinky memories. I think I would take that over the garbage can of water trick, though. Someone knocks on your door a few times and then eventually props a garbage can full of water against it so when the door opens the water goes crashing in.

My comment was mostly joking. That’s about the same way we are with my kids, minus all the hardware stuff. My kid’s school has an account for a reading/math RPG style game, where they have to read or solve math problems and then they get magic animals or win battles for correct answers. That game and some other…

Just because a job is meant to be part time or shortened hours, that doesn’t mean that when it gets extrapolated across a full work week people should make no money. The only difference in it being full time or part time is that you make money relative to the work to put in. In any office job or career that people…

Because concrete and asphalt are free to replace and there is definitely nothing else already existing in all of those areas.

Profits aside, you’re talking about adding years to construction timelines, many billions in construction costs, and major impacts to any local population during said underground construction. There would have to be more transformer boxes at grade taking up more space than power poles already do. All of these new condu…

Because comics are so well known for having singular, consistent story lines? Every comic-based movie has been picking and choosing what aspects they like and what they want to change, with varying degrees of success. They also pretty much have to stack in multiple stories per movie, because each character only gets…

Why are BEVs being blamed so heavily for electric upgrades in general? The nation’s system has been requiring upgrades for decades as our energy consumption on every level has increased. The entire Texas grid failed for a week and BEVs had nothing to do with it.

In wildfire areas, this discussion changes, but the concept as a whole of making everything underground makes it exponentially more expensive to install, maintain, & upgrade. Also, there is a finite amount of safe to access underground space for all of the utilities in our daily lives across many roadways. Shareholder…

That just sounds like an argument for creating a sea of underpaid workers. People say the same thing about fast food & retail jobs. If a job isn’t able to pay people, there should be labor laws to fix whatever loopholes they are using that let them legally trick everyone into working for nothing.

Got to watch a bunch of 5 years olds try to do remote school from their parent’s cell phones a few years back while my toddler was getting babysat by PBS, so that tracks. 

Most that I’ve seen are along the gulf coast and Appalachia, so maybe the millennial tourists in those parts are bigger fans. I’m a millennial myself and the drivers usually look close in age to me, maybe GenX, occasionally with a young child in there too.