I’m sure the only possible reason is heat and humidity and not because some lawmaker thought that cracked or damaged windshields are a danger to society.

This explains why there were so few cracked windshields there and are so many here, though.

So post-menopausal women should be dropping like flies.

I lived there for 25 years (plus a few the first time). My mom owned at least 5 cars, I owned 6 cars, my husband had a work car. Never did any of their windshields spontaneously combust from heat. I lived in Tampa, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, and Tallahassee. That’s just not a thing that happens unless your car is…

Lived there for 25 years. Owned cars without air conditioning for a good 10 of those years. Trust me, you’ll live if you turn your car off.

This is a law in all kinds of places, including Denver and other cities in Colorado (http://www.denverpost.com/2016/04/01/puffer-cars-with-remote-switches-to-become-legal-in-colorado-in-august/). Supposedly its so the police don’t have to waste resources chasing down cars that shouldn’t have been stolen in the first…

TBH, my dad’s second franchise got all the wrenching knowledge and I am envious. My sister for sure knows more about cars than I do and that sucks.

Ain’t no thang. Figured it was a fat finger, TBH.

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They’re super brittle, though.

This stuff is photodegradable (all plastic is, ever been around PVC that’s been exposed to the sun for a while?). The bed of a pickup is exposed to the sun. This seems like a not great idea.

The train is $9.

The transit is better place than anywhere I’ve ever lived, but I moved here from Florida, so that’s not saying much. If you come from someplace with scant transit, this will be like nirvana. If you come from someplace with kickass transit (NYC or Boston or the like), then this will be like hell. Generally you can get…

Lip balm. Yes.

The rail from the airport is commuter rail, as is the B line to Westminster. There’s a difference between it and the light rail, which runs to the south, southwest, and west parts of town. As someone who works in rail transit, this is a big and necessary distinction. Commuter rail generally shares right-of-way with…

I don’t disagree that there isn’t a way, I just feel like this is what technology exists for. I understand that some people are resistant to the available technologies at this time, which is why you would need to offer a choice. Further, again, the idea behind the gas tax is that it’s a user fee, applying it to…

“In practice, it takes a bit of getting used to, because there’s no coasting, as such—whenever you’re off the throttle, you’re breaking. “

Say you’re on a trolley and there are five people tied up on the tracks. You have the power to throw a switch and have the trolley move to a second track where there’s only one person tied up on the tracks. Do you kill one person or five people?

Seriously, this is the oldest and most simple thought experiment there…

I’m really not sure how to take your first paragraph, so I’m going to err on the side of caution and assume you’re being sincere. So, in response: Floridians (being an example for which I have firsthand experience as I lived there for 25 years) only file a federal income tax return. There is absolutely no form that…

I think we could have a more technologically advanced method for collecting the tax, in large part because collecting it as part of income tax might be hurtful to the working poor. At some point your odometer will communicate with the gas pump or you’d have an plug in your house that communicates with your car and the…

I’m not sure I agree entirely. The point of the gas tax is that it’s a user fee. Yes, people who don’t drive use roadways, but that cost is already generally passed on to the consumer (when talking about the shipping of goods, for example). By making it an income tax, you lose all the corporate input into that money…