The town itself wasn't on fire; the coal mine near and under the town caught fire and has been burning ever since. After poorly organized attempts to put out the fire failed, the residents were more or less forced to move due to either the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, or later on the state government trying to…

Smedly Butler ring a bell?

The only role the BBs have to fill in the 21st century is naval gunfire support (NGFS). The refit and operational costs for these are huge, but you’re forgetting the support and infrastructure issue. All of the remaining spare parts and battleship servicing facilities were scrapped by 2010. The Navy estimated back in…

‘I believe at least around half of all the food gets thrown out.’

Not sure if my GTX560Ti will make the cut, might have to save up for a new rig and pick up the GOTY edition instead :|

‘Deathproof’ I believe.

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.