jamesconnollykc
Jim in KC
jamesconnollykc

I'm performing surgery as I send this comment. No big deal.

I would love to go to therapy sometimes, but there are three reasons why I won’t as a guy.

Electric E-brakes. It’s a solution in search of a problem. The regular manual e-brake works just fine, and didn’t get in the way when driving.  Aside from the general sense that “making everything electric” automatically makes it better, I don’t understand the rationale.  Also:  makes winter driving less fun.

You know what our customers can’t get enough of? Beeping. All the fucking time, about everything. Ideally paired with cluttered-ass UIs that obfuscate the cause of the beeping. Fuck yeah, beeping.” - Every automaker on the planet, apparently. 

Start/Stop technology, and the inability to permanently turn it off.  You have to disable it every time you drive your car (at least on Toyotas).  It is annoying as fuck and I’m not getting any better gas mileage than my old car of the same model without the “feature”.

I would imagine that most of them have off-season caretakers who take care of the less savory aspects of home ownership, like emptying the septic tank.

I live in a country with close to zero coronavirus cases, and I still ask the same question. Given all the restrictions, why not just do the legal side and have a celebration in a year when everyone has been vaccinated (we hope)?

Where do these cars go when they’re 4 months old?

Not to diminish your point, but this opens the door for...

There are actually people lining up to defend this idiot! Like, yes, this pandemic has introduced a whole host of challenges, and the necessities of remote work and meetings have left everyone needing to adjust to how they do things. But I can say the easiest part of my workday, every single day, has been not

I blame Snake Plissken!

Id go with a 2017 or 2018 S60. Reliable, comfortable af, and decent safety tech.

A corner for hope for those who think we all should DELETE FACEBOOK

Guten abend

Nah.  Too boxy.  ;-)

Been there, done that. Years of emotional unavailability and meager at best consideration of my feelings or needs. Despite my every ounce wanting to work things out with a woman I was 100% committed to, after 27 years I just hit the wall and realized I didn’t want to die with the feelings of loneliness and betrayal

Frankly given his obsession with oddball Chryslers the danger of a meth neighborhood is that he'd expand his collection.

People who dont stand in the middle of the road get hit 0% of the time. True story.

Luckily there is no possible way for this feature to be abused.

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