I’ve seen that even if all the failsafes that result in it floating to the surface work, it still isn’t on the surface.  It simply would be near the surface.  I’ve seen people state 100ft depth, 10ft depth, and all sorts of other numbers.  No idea what is accurate, but even if we assume any of those, it’s damn scary…

I think everyone is missing a key component. As sad and tragic as it is, crummy boats overfilled with immigrants trying to escape to a better life, sinking and resulting in lots of deaths, is a hell of a lot more common that some tourist submarine getting lost. The rarity of incidents are part of what makes things news…

Everything you’ve said is fine and true, but that doesn’t change the fact that calling people names they don’t want to be called isn’t a nice thing to do.  Sometimes people deserve to be labeled if they don’t want to, but if a cisgendered person says they don’t want to be called that, it should generally be respected.

The CEO was a huge massive idiot, and it’s clear that under his direction the company didn’t take safety as seriously as it should, but holy hell that’s an editorialized headline right there. It’s basically a blatant misrepresentation of what the guy said.  Like I said before, even what he actually said should be…

At least ConsumerReports goes out and buys all the cars they test, rather than sucking up to manufacturers to get free loaners. I disagree on how ConsumerReports values certain aspects of vehicles, and they also have a weird way of defining “reliability,” but if you read their actual write ups it’s easy to suss out…

Bingo. Look at how many teams have consecutive wins:

Better in what way? Faster, more fuel efficient? Sure. But I’m not sure it’s more fun. Personally, I’d take the fuel efficiency hit and the occasional PITA traffic (not all of us live in LA or NYC) for more fun.

I’m Certainly not a China sympathizer, but...

I generally support safety inspections—something I stated unclearly in the previous comment—but I honestly don’t believe the correlation is that strong, especially given how weak the inspections are in even the most stringent states. My state has them. It’s a state mandated $26. How much time do you honestly think a…

It’s a residential neighborhood with large yards and seemingly large driveways.

It will also be interesting to see how this plays out over the next several years. Will Texas’s road deaths increase significantly, or will they stay about the same? We can’t be certain either way, but Texas residents are about to find out.

Even if we overly simplify the whole process and we say a restoration is:

~1.4 miles of street parking on a residential street isn’t going to solve your million parking spot shortage. Force the street parking on the side streets off of Winchell. Better yet, parkin in your driveway. Why a public street is storage for your vehicle is beyond me; certainly doesn’t seem to be a best use case for…

Have fun tracking down a assortment of parts that you didn’t put away and label yourself.

It’s amazing that parking is so important that it’s going to result in this.  If people were just willing walk a bit, but nope, gotta stroll up, find a spot right in front, and roll their fat ass out of the seat right into their destination.

You’ve actually got to get to the situation to be any help. Sure, I’m ok with them carefully navigating the “wrong” way up a one-way street, but carefully being the key here.  Nothing about their speed across the intersection suggests any care was used.

A lot of complaints about minor surface rust (back of pads, come on dude) and things that are generally dirty. The sprockets generally look fine, the chain is unknown without cleaning it first. If the chain needs replacing, do the sprockets too.

Even at $12.5k, and the engine is on it’s last legs, plenty of people out there that would milk then engine and then swap it (or the tranny) when it goes.  Sure, miles a high, but looks nice, price is reasonable-ish given the market for trucks right now and things starting to enter the collector era.

That must have been a slow ass boat he was on. The SS United States typically crossed in about 4 days—it could do it in as little as a hair under 3.5 days depending on direction/weather. Other ships were typically in the ~8 day relm (plus or minus a couple days depending on the ship/direction/weather).

It’s top speed was higher than 40mph, proven by the fact that it averaged 40mph on it’s Atlantic crossing.  It had a supposed top speed near 50mph.