Ditto- I’ve never given a shit about them as too often they’re too much like work (“Find all 1000 Macguffin pieces!” “Kill Baron Von Badass with each Dull Spoon variant!”) for a sticker rather than being something worth spending my limited free time doing. If not completing them bugs someone with enough spare time to…

Seems concerns are A) the 2011 Chrysler agreement was supposed to cap the Tier 2 employees and provide a pathway for Tier II employees to become Tier I, but was not upheld on Chrysler’s end. The union agreed to put off raises in 2007 negotiations to help pay retirees, again in 2009 to help the company, and a third…

Off the top of my head, the Hoover Dam and Golden Gate Bridge, but those were both cases where work was contracted out and the government was there to make sure contractors kept their time and budget commitments. Now it seems bureaucrats who oversee government contracts are former employees of said…

Depending on who you ask, a flavor for coffee-like beverages and other things or a drug consumed mostly by ~16-40 year old white women.

I know newer (at least 2008 onwards) GM pickups have them.

Same. Wish I had kept mine in better shape, it was a torquey couch that could haul anything with only marginally bad fuel economy. Damn rust.

This rule also applies to big station wagons. I used to own one, and once was asked to borrow it. In my youthful naivety, I gave them the keys.

A certain kind of flea market people. My immediate family's participation in the annual extended family garage sale have waned in recent years due to the growing exasperation with people who haggle over the dumbest stuff and/or try stealing stuff, less hassle to donate thing instead.

The lights, the entire interior, the entire roof assembly are Volvo C70 AFAIK

I’m kinda ‘eh’ on the exhaust, it’s eerie how quiet they are with the factory exhaust on the outside, and part of its charm IMO.

For every one sensible thing (i.e. removing the Confederate battle flag from over the SC State House) there's a thousand people who feel the need to pick up the controversy and run with it (this stupid thing, removing Confederate flags from US Civil War cemeteries/memorials and National Battlefields, etc...) There are…

My understanding is that many of the deaths they are paying out on the switch may not have been the cause of the accident and/or death but likely made a bad accident worse with the failure of airbags and the like.

The locks are mechanical, but the latch is operated by buttons inside and out. That said, the emergency release levers on the few I’ve been in are all black and not immediately obvious what purpose they serve if one had poor eyesight, since the label can eb hard to see.

There’s still the Tool and Die Plant between 2nd and Kearsley, that’s where they make nearly all the stamping tooling for US plants. That said, GM operations in Flint were closing up long before the ‘98 strike, and long after for a myriad of reasons.

Somebody on reddit made up a story? Color me shocked.

Power armor is pre-war military technology. The BoS is descended from remnants of the U.S. Army.

The *flying* USS Constitution made me happy.

I couldn't agree more. Some of my earliest memories about cars are from riding in the back of a black-on-white '70-½ SS my dad had as a DD in the early 90s.

I’m not right wing, so I don’t know what you’re referencing there. I’m excited for the future, and am hoping that Telsa will force the established automakers to innovate and develop more electric vehicles. Ideas like the hyperloop is the kind of thinking we need to advance. My point is Elon Musk is human, and while I…

I don't hate Tesla or Musk, but I do dislike the cult of personality that hypes him and his coming up as the second coming of Christ or something.