He reads like a silver-spoon little shit who thinks everything he does it correct because he’s Max Bloody Verstappen and he can do no wrong. Your assessment is pretty on the nose. I get that he’s still young and all, but it’s his just utter lack of regard for anything or anyone other than himself that rubs me the…

As someone that drives around this area a whole lot, can confirm that the trucks and containers are an absolute menace. The roads in the area are already poorly maintained for all the heavy traffic they get, they aren’t designed to handle throughput like this, and it’s left the whole area as a giant mess of traffic…

I still can’t believe they put an oil pipeline near such a busy shipping route where such a thing feels almost inevitable. 

Ford Contour with the 2.5 Duratec engine. These things are cheap as dirt and an absolute blast to drive (the only car the Top Gear guys all agreed was great) and the engine is a Porsche design that can make a lot of power for this little car if it gets some love.

My parents had one of these for years (and my brother had a 1992 Blazer, too) and while they had pretty terrible interiors and needed small fixes a lot, fundamentally they were great vehicles. They just kept on working no matter how abused they were. I have quite the fond feeling towards these things for the many…

Ah yes, finally someone who understands my complete and utter loathing for HOAs. I can’t believe people willingly subject themselves to legally binding rules enforced by their (often petty and stupid) neighbors. As long as it isn’t a safety thing or something that directly impacts your neighbors property, you should…

Everyone else has done a great job of poking holes in your argument from just about every angle, but I’m not actually convinced the USWNT would lose to many of the men’s teams. Sure, they don’t have the height, which would make set pieces more difficult, but Japan has proved you can still win (a lot) without that…

Annnnnnnnd just like that, Jezebel is right back on the hating Taylor Swift train for no apparent reason. She is out there directing her fame and money towards pro LGBTQ causes and writing a catchy as hell song openly calling out homophobes and all you can do is criticize her? I know practically this whole staff can’t…

I get what you’re saying here and I think you have some valid points. I have to say that some of the major counterpoints I’ve been reading are very good too and they present good arguments for why establishing permanent colonies is an important goal for us to strive for. I would like to just bring a little middle…

Until you’re actually the one doing traffic stops, let’s try not to judge too harshly. You can’t assume anything about anyone because you never know are you pulling over some guy driving home from work or are you pulling over a guy with a warrant for murder, or someone who’s running drugs for the cartels. You can’t…

Old airplanes get beat up and eventually through use in training and combat the airframe develops so many problems that it’s unfixable and unsafe to continue flying (it’s why you see old F-16s still used in reserve squadrons but never old F-18s, because the F-18s take a much harsher beating on carriers and they wear…

As someone who uses self-checkout all the time, I wholeheartedly disagree. Some of them can be finicky, but 95% of the time I can check myself out significantly faster than going through one of the lines to be checked out by someone else (and I honestly rarely run into problems with them not working, so I don’t know…

Oh he would have died long before ever getting to this point without modern medicine. I’ve never seen so many things wrong with a heart all at once and it’s amazing he survived as long as he did.

I really dig the mid-2000s Renault livery from F1, besides all the obvious ones mentioned already.

He could have pushed for single-payer, and it would have failed. He would have spent all of his political capital on a bill that wouldn’t pass congress. The bill they did pass took MONTHS of political wrangling to get it to a state where a majority would vote for it. He chose to push for a bill that would actually…

Most police are actually allowed to use phones while driving if it’s for their job. It’s not just them being jerks, like it is legitimately legally allowed. Cops also have WAY more training when it comes to driving and are thus far more prepared to use electronics and drive safely than the average person. 

Reminds me of a situation on a ride-along I went on. There was a guy with a gun who had spent the past hour running from the cops. I was in a car that was busy keeping people away from the situation so they weren’t in the line of fire. The officer I was with approached a car parked directly in the line of fire of…

To add on to this very accurate comment, no one reports the hundreds of thousands of police-citizen interactions that happen without anyone rights being infringed upon every single day in this country. The vast, vast, vast majority of the work police do is entirely legal and would be defined as “good policing that…

We got burned by watching the wealth that our families (parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc) has built over years of their working lives vanish. I specifically remember talking to my uncle at the height of the crash and he talked about how his portfolio went from great to basically worthless in a year. He…

As a regular driver on I-10 through Arizona, I can say that it’s not empty very often, and even when traffic is relatively light for that stretch of road, you’ll still be dealing with a lot of people doing well over 100mph. Each one of those is a potential for a serious accident, especially if they don’t expect the…