I get that there’s other fees, but if you have a place to live, I’m assuming that you’re paying for electricity already and would have to pay those fees regardless... The only exception is if you’re renting and somehow, the rent includes electricity as well, or living off the grid (doubtful in a large city lol).

What does the OP mean, “killing new cars?”

Can I just tell you, we don’t think about it much, but when this car first came out, it was an epic design. Auto design world kind of gasped because it was an extraordinary take on the familiar theme that manage to look extremely ordinary. It’s one of those unsung heroes of automotive design.

That is a truly magic combination of sketchiness - Floridians and Eastern Europeans

Sounds like the delivery driver is in on the scam, too.

A bazillion Toyotas, a couple of Hondas, and a Mazda or two.

I’ve been a cyclist since I was 14 or 15 and I’m 64 now. I’m originally from Texas and most of my family lives there. I travel there 2 or 3 time a year to visit my mom who lives in a nursing home and avoid my brother who’s a grifting drug addict. There is literally no place to ride a bike that I’ve seen. Texas is a…

“cyclists should not be in the road if there is no bike lane or in an area with sidewalks that are rarely used”

I was about to point out #1.

It’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed, people sitting at least one car length back from the limit line. Is it some old wives tail about you’re more likely to die if you go up to the line?

I used to drive mid-engined cars (Fieros and MR2) and even a rear engined car (Corvair). I found that inductive loops work best when you position your engine over them, which means I had to stick my nose WAY out into traffic sometimes.

You mean Jim France?

I thought I’d do some back of the envelope calculations on the 2024 season so far and see how that works out ...

“Such a scenario would leave it to fans to decide if the replacements — likely drivers and teams from lower-level series — provide a watchable product.”

“There’s a factor you missed”

I didn’t miss it, because it hasn’t been a factor for forty to fifty years. 

So, 49 wins to 5 in the same time period, and you don’t think Max is a generational talent?

seats would open up on a regular basis from attrition caused by drivers getting killed

Death of drivers hasn’t been a major contributing factor since the 1970s, champ. 

Let’s face it, the primary means of getting an F1 seat (and every other racing series practically) isn’t really driving talent or engineering ability, it’s MONEY, usually Daddy’s money. As in the slow guys pretty universally are buying those rides, and the teams need the money. Once you buy your way in and prove you…

There is no reason to hire the likes of Gasly, Ocon, Hulkenberg, Magnussen, Perez, Bottas, or Ricciardo over them.