This. I mean, we all ARE actually negatively affected, if indirectly, but I agree. Also, I can’t think of a single cis dude that I know under the age of 60 that is anti-abortion. Like most things going horribly wrong right now, the assholes causing this trouble are the minority who somehow have power. This shit has to…
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2nd: That BMW ad was pretty great. I don’t normally even give up the time spent to watch ads for products I’ll never buy even if I could someday afford them, but that was both kind of sweet and a sick burn.
for a long time, here (KC) was a near-perfect balance between all of those, but it’s starting to get weird and more expensive here now, too. Nowhere near NY or SF prices, but still.
I have to admit, I kinda just don’t “get” energy drinks. The best result as far as energy I ever got from any of them was slightly jittery but no more real energy, and they taste like piss from a cyborg- like piss, but not entirely organic piss. Gross.
I got stuck in a rental Versa for a week or so a couple of years ago, and it would have been meh, okay for the price if it wasn’t terrifyingly slow accelerating to highway speed. I was very happy when I didn’t have to drive it anymore.
The reliability thing for sure. When I was looking to replace my first xB years ago after it was totaled, I looked at the Cube for about a second. It just felt...cheap. It’s hard to put a finger on, but I didn’t even remotely feel like I could trust it as much as a Toyota.
This thing would be redeemable- hell, I’d even consider one- if it got the fuel economy of a Scion xB. As it is, nope.
I literally had tears streaming down my face trying to keep it in...unlike the PM.
This- and this story- made my afternoon. Over here trying not to burst into violent laughter in a quiet office now.
Power and Light- and all of the downtown and nearby development- is sadly pushing out a lot of the old guard of artists and whatnot that made the area desirable in the first place. I remember looking at houses 20 years ago and realtors using P&L as a selling point then, way before it came to pass, and what and where it…
KC is slowly catching up with transit, and with people moving back to the urban core, prices are getting fairly expensive for here. If you have to commute at all it still kind of sucks. I mean, it could be worse- I don’t envy what my oldest kiddo pays for basically anything in SF- but KC is kind of weird anymore.
I’m talking commuting, not long-distance travel- that’s another kettle of fish. Walk, bus, streetcar, small AV/EV thingy in the hypothetical future, annoying scooter in the present from the station to your destination? All of these other than the EV minibus thingy are available in downtown KC right now, and we’re not…
If you can’t keep up with 70 mph traffic, how about you just stay off the interstate and then this is a non-issue for you save the rest of us the effort expended on giving you the single finger salute?
“The government put into place a speed limit that their roadway engineers deemed to be the maximum speed that is safe/appropriate for that road.”
“they stick to the right lane except to pass”
High-speed rail in the middle of the interstate- or even just visible from the interstate in places- would be brilliant!
Agreed, but in my mind, hub that shit and figure out last-mile solutions from the suburban ranch to the train station. There’s a good place for AVs, actually- robo-Uber from your front door to the train station a mile or so away. Or, y’know, walk.
This all seems to me like a problem that’s had a solution for well over a century already. Decent commuter rail is easier than automating cars, right? There’s no reason to get rid of all cars, but we could drastically reduce the numbers of them on the road and apparently give a lot of people the extra free time they…
A decent rail system could easily do this, like it does almost everywhere else in the world.