It could not possibly be worse timing for my family... my wife and I are in our mid-30s and we’ve resorted to IVF after no success getting pregnant for years. We made the decision a month ago.

We’re not rich. This step took years of saving. We just made a payment yesterday that is more than my car is worth for most of…

GW was 54 when he was inaugurated, slightly younger than average for presidents. He literally couldn’t be 20 years too old to run a country, because the minimum age to serve is 35 in the Constitution. Our youngest-ever president was TR, who started at age 42.

Well, maybe historically, but if that were still the case, then there wouldn’t be anything like a Green New Deal that the sitting president and a sizable portion of the Democratic caucus supports.

Conservatives are using high fuel prices as a proxy for every failure they see in the Biden administration, arguing that we could get prices lower by cozying up to Russia and/or giving Big Oil a break on making any progress. I don’t know if that’s true in the short term, it probably is, but Guterres has put very…

It remains legal in California to practice law after “reading law” - completing an apprenticeship under a practicing lawyer for a certain time under certain conditions. That’s what she is currently doing.

Tomahawks cost $2mm apiece, so you could launch a million cruise missiles, one for each person you wanted to kill, for about $2T. Compared to what sending a million people to Mars would cost, that is chump change.

All of these rules in all European countries carve out exceptions for when it is not safe to deploy such implements and you have to get out of the vehicle for your own safety. Much like it isn’t jaywalking when you’re forced to run across a street to avoid an out-of-control driver on the sidewalk.

The smaller dealerships Honda envisions would be where buyers pick up their new EV after completing the purchase online, or where EV owners go for infrequent service.

If you hear of a “suicide bombing”, do you assume that all the people killed were willing to die?

It’s virtually impossible to create software that can reliably distinguish intentionally destructive control from quick actions taken in an emergency. I don’t think there’s any real-world software which even tries to do what you’re describing, and if it is out there, I’m sure it’s easily disabled.

Such a shame. She’s a beauty.

Why did they stop doing that? Seems like it would have a strong deterrent on suicide by pilot.

Sounds like you’re not washing the winter salt off. I have zero rust on my 2014 Focus ST. Had it since new, including 3 years of parking it on the street in a northern city. I keep it clean and keep up on maintenance.

4th gear:

What’s your complaint about the Cadillac STS? It has comfortable seats, ample soft-touch surfaces, legible dials. The woodgrain is nice. I rode in one before and thought it was excellent.

“Until it’s backed up, people can use the normal menu speaker. So yes?”

An automaker finally makes a truck which actually does everything as efficiently as a modern compact car, and the complaint is that it doesn’t do everything as efficiently as a theoretical modern car in your imagination could with the same powertrain. This is A Modest Proposal level of satire, so well done there, but…

There was a Mythbusters episode where they explained the physics of pickup truck beds. There is a recirculating current within the bed and behind the cab which tends to stay undisturbed by the wind around it.

Couldn’t say. I haven’t been to an In-N-Out that had employees taking orders outside, but maybe they do that at some locations.

Um, it’s not like we’re talking about the theoretical here, I can go to a Chik Fil-A and see that this stuff is happening. Chik Fil-A employees only go from window to window when the drivers are ALREADY backed up and they don’t have any hussle at all UNTIL the line is backed up. They don’t start out with a line at…