Even family member’s dying won’t change some people’s minds.  A cousin of mine had her husband die and one of her daughters on a ventilator and she still refuses to wear a mask and get vaccinated.  Some people are just fucking stupid.

no emphasis? We’ve got people trying to wear masks made out of mesh... I think the tacit assumption is that most people who are wearing masks have realized that they are doing it for a reason and are doing their best to protect themselves and others. I don’t think this is a problem that’s caused by people who are…

Tell me about it. My (unvaccinated) kids (7&6) are going back to school on Wednesday... I haven’t slept in a week...

Right, but remember when the ‘forecast’ was 100K dead total? And that was being conservative so when it was 80K the administration would ‘look better’? And we’re now at just shy of 650K and half the country still doesn’t give a fuck. It’s going to be a million+ before this is all over. And we still can’t get…

I can’t help but feel like the news outlets are simply turning up the volume/intensity on the “scare news” of how bad this continues to be and will get.

I’m pretty sure we’re just supposed to call them vaginas.

So I can’t be the only one who keeps the sound off by default.

I’m guessing the difference in cost between what they’ll spend for the ‘22 and how much they can make off the ‘21 is less than they would have spent in nation-wide advertising which is essentially what this is now.

How about the Poster Child for “Good Chassis, Poor Engine”?

This is so typically american... We DEMAND progressively lower prices. Then we bitch and moan about the absolute rest stop toilet level product/service that we get, like the two have nothing to do with each other. THEN we complain that the FAT CAT RICH GUYS are doing this just to line their pockets... Like, we don’t…

I mean if you willingly drive a Daewoo™ Lanos™ don’t be surprised when you get stranded on the side of the interstate in the middle of West Texas with 110° heat.  

Personal opinion: A kid’s first car should be bought outright, never financed, never leased. They are going to beat it up and/or destroy it, so there’s a good chance the car itself will not last as long as the note on it. Even if the parents are making the payments, it’s just not a good investment. Buy a cheap used…

When you start plumbing the depths of 20 year old beaters, individual care, attention, and maintenance records are worth 100x more than factory build quality.

The key difference now is that almost half the country is fine if it literally burned to the ground. So long it was their side that carried the torches.

It’s never Lupus

For what it’s worth, these jackasses don’t appear to have pulled over, as it looks like they are actually stopped in the middle of the fucking highway....

Nailed it.

None of this is new, it’s just repackaged in a cycle. Fritz O’The Ham mentioned phones and cable boxes, and that’s right where my brain went. After decades of phones being rented, people owned phones. Companies used to own their servers, now many operate entirely on “the cloud” <insert eyeroll>. There will be a day…

I find this whole thing to be somewhat ludicrous and at the same time hilarious. No one points out that this “subscription model” is basically the way that things started with telephones (like, the land line ones). You didn’t own your phone, you basically rented it. Same thing with Cable boxes.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be video?  It’s already impossible to sit in a waiting room or at an airport gate without someone blasting the audio on their phone.  What ever happened to people sitting quietly and just reading an article or browsing through photos?  Is that too hard?