Driver: “I have a dashcam...!!!”

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I’ve been around firearms most of my life. I learned to shoot when I was 10 and later spent 20 years in the Navy, where I was an expert shot with both pistols and rifles. That said, I have never, ever felt the need to carry a weapon on me while going about my daily life.

I’m a gun owner, and I use it for target shooting and I sometimes take it into the mountains for large animal protection if I’m alone (I also carry bear spray as a first line of defense). I’m also a very even keeled person, not prone to emotional outbursts. But even I know that carrying a weapon daily only makes this…

Awesome! Now instead of just unfolding a tent on the ground and blowing up an air mattress I just need to build a barn. Too easy.

For a thousand dollars I will fart directly in your face.

They wanted to be ballers, shot-callers

Once again the age old lesson bites someone in the ass: No title? No cash transfers hands.

Step 1: tow things on camera.
Step 2: put the footage on an absurdly popular YouTube channel.
Step 3: commit insurance fraud on the same job.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: profit....?

So legitimate question: Do you believe people should have any personal responsibility at all? And if so, where should it start? At what point do we stop using the force of government to protect people from themselves? Because this is a slippery slope. You can find Bezos, Musk, and loan companies distasteful, without…

1st Gear: I’ll never drive a car I have to pay a subscription fee to utilize. Full stop, won’t do it. If this catches on in the industry and that means I won’t drive a car manufactured after 2025, or I stick exclusively to budget niche cars going forward, fine. But I flatly refuse to pay an ongoing subscription on my…

Go drive the RDX and the Rav4 back to back and come back.

I am, to my shame, a 2-time loser. And as such, I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that no system exists outside of full automation that can keep drunks from driving while also not screwing over normal, rational drivers at the same time.

When I rode a bike, it was to get from Point A to Point B in an economical fashion. The exercise was good, but not so good (nor so interesting) that I’d do it for that. A stationary bike (I have tried riding in a gym) seems a bore.

I’m heading in the same direction - I used to ride thousands of miles a year on my various bikes (and thousands more on my motorcycle). I sold the m/c ten years ago after too many near misses and I’m heading in the same direction with my road bikes.

My bike commute to work is a mere 4.5 miles but includes a mile on a 50 mph road with no shoulder. Got an ebike and take back roads now. Rarely get passed by a car and it’s never doing more than 25 mph. Commute is 50% longer with this route, but it’s absolutely lovely being off the main roads. Even take my kid to…

Rode fixed gear in NYC for around 10 years, 22 miles a day (11 miles to work each way). Loved it.

Yeah I live in an area where quite a few people commute via light rail + bike, but no way in hell I’m going to start doing that with all the traffic on the roads along with poor / no bike lanes. (IMO) Once you get a family, you got to minimize risks — at least until the kids are independent.

It just sucks that is necessary. I used to ride a lot, but lived in a city with excellent designated bike trails where you didn’t have to ride close to moving traffic. You could easily commute around the entire major metro area safely. We would do 50-70 mile rides every weekend on the trails.
I now live in a place…