There are dozens of us who like this stuff, in the quiet down-low way. Big old mechanical stuff is awesome, but getting associated with foamers is sort of like leprosy.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I know several engineering/IT professionals who voted for the Cheeto That Walked Like a Man, couple of them were very active campaigning in Michigan for him.

The driveway gate at the mom and dad’s old house is narrow. Grandpa’s old van is big and doesn’t turn that sharp. Replacement doors are not cheap, and the phone call is going to be shamefully awkward.

My grandfather’s story:

Love your Wagoneer, the character is oozing off my screen.

Goes both ways. All that structural rust PATINA and booger welds EXPERT FABRICATION might give way from too many wayward toddlers.

I mountain bike and use a bell, using it at a distance is better etiquette IMO than hollering at walkers/runners as I come up behind them. It still doesn’t help with the earbuds-in walkers and runners, especially as you usually can’t pass safely let alone politely on a ~18"/.45m wide dirt trail if the other trail user…

This happened a few years ago near my parent’s place.

Not going to do much. HE shells aren’t going to do much in terms of fire, and might make the abattis more of a mess. If it did get set on fire, now your engineers need to extinguish it, wait to burn out (which could take even longer) or rely on bulldozers only to work on removing it. All of which still delays the…

There wouldn’t be much in the way of human remains left to find after a month or two, let alone three years.

We call it the Detroit Doughnut, and I’ll mention that it’s moving. As the city slowly comes back, some of the older suburbs (Wayne, Westland, Garden City, Redford, etc.) have been decaying, as older residents pass away and many others move to the exburbs (Brighton, Howell, etc.).

There’s always the sawzall & gas axe option.

He was informed about what the Venus probes really recorded and why we never went back, what actually happened to the USS Scorpion, and realized you can’t wall off space or the deep ocean.

Eh, we do some heavy fab and welding in our building so even dishes in the office cabinet start developing a fine gray coating overnight. Washed cup daily for me. Haven’t figured out how to wash lungs yet.

The answer somewhere involves lead, given that I’ve encountered it lurking in downtown Flint MI.

Toad toad toad

While I only got my own place several weeks back due to financial considerations, I love driving, and broadly agree about the seeming arrested development of my generation. Yeah, the economy still sucks and money is tight, but at least can we stop the tired jokes about 'adulting'? Paying bills and cleaning up after…

I’ll take that bet. The car is in Birmingham, which is a hoity-toity suburb in the metro area but not in the city.

- Civilization only falls apart if you make it fall apart, asshole.

That's why I quit Reddit. Outside a few exceptions, it's an echo chamber of echo chambers where it is thoughtcrime to deviate from the groupthink.