Do you have an actual relevant question?  Or point to make?  Anything?

The fridge being 5 or 10 degrees colder (say 35 instead of 45) means it will stay cold for longer. A week with no power won’t make much difference, but if the power is out for just a day, and the fridge door is not opened that whole time, stuff inside might be ok. That 5 or 10 degrees makes it last a few hours longer,…

Sounds rough. It must be hard to be you. I must live in a different world than you. I was given nothing. I inherited nothing. I was raised lower-middle class. I joined the military and learned a trade. No college. No grants. Worked hourly wage my whole life. Married, kid, divorced, kid now an adult, and an independent…

The bigger the government agency, the less accountable they are for spending other people’s money, and the less common sense is involved and the more is wasted. This is almost universally true and not debatable.

This really has nothing to do with police.  This is just big government doing what big government has always done, and will always do... spend other peoples money.

What if I go ahead and get one now (pretty early) and then my work has someone come in and give them in September or October, should I go ahead and get another one to make sure it will last the full season? I lean towards, yeah, sure, why not. Don’t see any reason not to. I have never heard a good reason not to. In…

Yes, but by getting the flu vaccine you are lowering your chances of being put in that position of not knowing which it is. Everyone wants to turn arguments into simplistic, binary, this side or that side. It’s all about chances and probabilities. I know, math is hard, but it’s math. If you lower your chances of…

Given that the weak point seems to be the anchor points that the tethers are attached to, how about one set of tethers (one left and one right) just cross connect to each other. Then, for it to come loose, it would have to break at least 2 more anchor points and a whole other wheel/hub/suspension assembly. Not a total…

I doubt very much you were banned from Bimmerpost for life simply for being “too critical” of the 4 series. Lots of people, including me, have stated negative opinions of the design many, many times without getting banned.

Why is no one asking who should play Bill Clinton?

I had a 2012 V8 X5 for 6 years.  Drove it in the winter, summer, daily, roadtips, it was great.  Had every option and it was literally perfect.  6 years of ownership and not a single problem.

Lifelong power plant operator and pilot. Analog. I’ve preached and preached to electrical engineers and techies who always want to “upgrade” instruments to digital. I can glance at an analog control board and my brain will intake several instruments at the same time. Rate of change is also comprehensible in a very…

When my 98 year old great grandmother moved out of her house and into a care home, she still had an old rotary phone that she had been paying Ma Bell, AT&T, USWest, and whatever other entities were in the chain of ownership over the years, a monthly lease payment as part of her phone bill. Based on some old markings…

This actually jumped out at me more than the cognitive dissonance of using a tree; “Our race trailer is 53ft long, and we load the golf cart, 3 cars, around 100 tire/wheel combos, tools, canopies, etc onto it so it gets heavy, and I like to drive 80 lol”. Truck bros like to pull their trailers as fast or faster than…

It’s one of the best reasons (there are many) why I will never own a GM product. As I drive around and notice cars with a non-functioning light, I can’t help but notice that the vast majority of those vehicles are GM products. It’s been this way for years. The people who design and engineer and build these products…

IF that’s true, then it just means your brother was an outlier, an aberration, a one in a thousand or one in ten thousand exception. There is no question that seatbelts increase your odds of survival by orders of magnitude. That doesn’t mean there aren’t odd examples of the opposite, but the statistics don’t lie, and…

It’s easy to say “If my neighbor had just come talk to me...” But you just never know how people are going to react. There are plenty of unreasonable, unbalanced people in this world and nobody wants to find out their neighbor is one of those people and they are now at war with you.

I have iPhone and Apple Carplay in one car with idrive 7 and another with idrive 6. Tried it a few times and just don’t see the point. There really isn’t anything the idrive (either one) can’t do as far as interacting with the iphone with its native software that I have to use carplay for. I would guess the same goes…

Mostly true, but for 5 bucks and 1 click... I go through tires faster than most people, so no reason not to have one around.

Mostly true, but for 5 bucks and 1 click... I go through tires faster than most people, so no reason not to have one…

Fair enough. I guess where we differ is the level of the bar which would induce panic.