I was going to say Unimog but someone beat me to it so, Pinzgauer it is:

Agreed. ‘Car-free living’ seems like a hollow promise when you’re stuck in the same type of architecture-free cookie-cutter apartment complex as the rest that exist in Phoenix. At least with the other ones you just get in your car and leave.

Everything in Tempe will get stolen if it’s not bolted or chained down....and even then.....

For you special I find article https://cdllife.com/2022/tesla-semis-cab-design-makes-it-a-completely-stupid-vehicle-trucker-says/

That burning you are feeling from metal on a bike is likely because the saddle has been stolen. I have not seen a bike that had metal grips or seat; not something easily missed in 6 decades of riding bicycles.

It was print rather than video  but I  saw an excellent review of the Tesla Semi compared to a Volvo electric truck by a Polish trucker last year. He basically ripped the Tesla as an ergonomic disaster  where the Volvo was great in everyday service 

Other than the architecture (no comment on my end) you had all my thoughts, nearly word for word. Why not more/better covered spaces?

But also, fuck golf courses.

How about “water free living”? We Blue States shouldn’t be expected to federally subsidize dum dums in desert (mainly red) states and their socialist water projects. Certainly not for fucking golf courses.

As a fellow firefighter, you’re spot on. Fire departments across this country are expected to handle medical/trauma emergencies, vehicle crashes, picking up 400 lb people off of floor, hazardous material incidents, flooded basements, dogs stuck in storm drains, assistance burying a cat....and oh, almost forgot to…

Also firefighter here - I was worked up like you when I first read this story, then walked away, then realized that he has no idea what he is talking about.

So the main source is a YouTube video from a content creator that openly admits to shitposting in his bio. Lots of stats pretending to show firefighters are useless, but where is the evidence that American streets are as wide as they are because of fire trucks? Fire trucks aren’t any wider than semis or box trucks,…

This is a huge problem for people trying to build neighborhoods- Back during the boom in “new urbanism” AKA “let’s build neighborhoods like we used to, where the streets are narrow and the parking is in the back via an alley and the yards are smaller and have big front porches”- and developers kept designing them…

As a firefighter for 30 years and these days mostly chauffeur, I can speak with great authority in saying that you have no idea what you are talking about. You read a couple of articles about firefighting in Europe and I guess now you know are a subject matter expert?

It’s not really that simple in America. The other countries already had established roads and infrastructure centuries prior to the US even being a thing. It can be done but it needs to be strategic and a change in work culture needs to be done first, no more of this return to office BS if it can be done (obviously…

Also, why is it everything in North America must be bigger? Our ambulances are also bigger, and our cops require SUV’s because they’re too fat and/or kitted-up to fit in cars like police overseas (or police here 20+ years ago). What a world.

Hearing its music often enough can contribute to homicidal impulses, but the ice cream truck is killing kids via the long game - setting ‘em up for a life demanding instant gratification, destined for obesity & the diabeetus!

Believe it or not, it’s possible to care about more than one thing at a time. And if you’d like to see fewer people die, that means changing our infrastructure to prioritize safety over speed. One of the biggest obstacles to getting that done is fire departments fighting every single change that might possibly make…

“A/C needs a re-charge” = “Add another $1000 to replace the A/C compressor, lines, condenser and everything else related to the system.”

A few years old, low mileage, yet half the price of older, higher mileage cars and questionable details about the title.