The paint is brown, the seats are brown, and I’m guessing your pants will be brown when that intermittent CEL finally reveals what is wrong with the wagon. ND.

I’ve had a few experiences like that. Simple goodwill gestures like that go a very long way. I make it a point to do business with companies who treat their customers this way and I try to do the same for my customers.

Well I had been going to this mechanic for years and thought he was pretty solid. A lot of other people went there too, but after awhile his work went downhill. It was gradual so it took awhile to realize the reason I was going was to talk to the other customers in the waiting room. In the end we realized he was just…

Former Missourian - current San Diegan here: California’s fucking awesome. Too many people, but that’s what happens when a place is actually desirable to live in. Does it have issues? Yes. So does everywhere in the entire world. It has a hell of a lot fewer issues than Missouri (or any of the surrounding states),…

Ironically, many people who have moved to Texas from California are liberals who move here for jobs and cost of living differentials, eg. they can’t afford property in California, or want a lower tax burden/more free income.

“Native Texans” hate this, and insist it is everything that is screwing up Texas—those damn…

Agreed as an 18 year local government city planner responsible for code enforcement.

As a muni employee/resident in my small town, when I hear that I chime in with, “Well, then, I guess I’m self-employed, then.”

“I pay X in taxes” is a backdoor way of saying “I pay your salary/I own you” about government officials.

I advocate you transitioning the “on my mind” part and tacking it on to the end of the “Good for you” response. If your position is sensitive to calling people idiots, maybe leave the “idiot” internalized, but absolutely include the “Good for you, I also pay my taxes!” response.

are you kidney-ing?

He doesn’t actually care, he just pulls that shit out of his bag of irrelevant whatabouts.

give it time, theyll make the fucking comments something you have to click through too. 

Easy.  An instrument cluster that is backlit even when headlights are not on.  Because of that, I often see people driving down the freeway with no headlights or taillights on because they have no clue they are off.

Well, the drivers of the first production EVs are all dead. There was a point in time in the early 1900s where EVs greatly outnumbered gasoline cars. Steam engines outnumbered gasoline too. But because battery tech wasn’t great and roads were getting faster and longer, that’s when gasoline was able to swipe in.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization been following it for years. There has been some oil produced, but every time someone tries to scale it up theres resistance. Its honestly kind of a shame, it would be a good way to get rid of waste while engineering less carbon heavy fuels. 

well you are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct!

I’ll respectfully disagree and say that at least The Peanuts Movie was honestly their most quality work. It was an absolutely gorgeous dedication to Shulz that respected his source material and from an animation standpoint was a huge technical achievement in successfully adapting a 2D hand drawn art style to 3D and no…

This is one of those concepts that is “fine” if you play its rules, but will be indescribably maddening if you need it to do something counter to its logic.

I remember that awesome Ford concept. It was nice to see an EV that wasn’t trying to fake an unneeded grill.

everybody come listen to this person. 100% correct is not our style.