Which is another reason why I love my neighborhood. It’s a simple middle class area that specifically voted down a HOA decades ago and still votes it down because the entire place is infested with weird-os.

It’s easy to demonize the neighbors as petty or whiny, but maybe people are getting tired of the wealthy not following the rules that they were taught to follow?

Guy spent $100,000 on a vanity project for his kid and purposely avoided the government because he didn’t feel like he should pay the government a few hundred…

I mean, we know who’s in the wrong. Like it or not, the dad didn’t figure out if one was necessary and/or didn’t apply for a permit. Unsurprisingly, most villages/towns/cities don’t want you to install paved race tracks in your back yard. So they require you to get a permit. He didn’t do it, and built it anyway. Would…

But DC has a clear core. Houston, where do you want to go? Downtown, Galleria, Greenway or the Energy Corridor? There is a metro to Downtown, and it works well, but it’s small scale because Downtown isn’t necessarily the key business hub. But it does do a good job of going from Downtown to NRG.

I hate compressed gasses. I’m a hydraulics guy, I’d rather deal with 5,000psi oil than 100psi air.

Stored energy is no joke at all. I’ve been involved in testing relief valves. There’s no way to describe how violent these things are, especially on steam or very hot water. Guys that have tested them for 30 years, still nearly crap themselves when one goes off, even though they KNOW it’s about to go off.

I’ll sell you my e46 BMW 330ci convertible - with a hardtop, for the same money right now.  It’s a 5 speed, too.

This is why you don’t fuck around with stored energy.

Of course it was an Altima driver, and of course the Cybertruck failed to meet a claim. I'm more surprised when a Cybertruck performs as advertised than when one fails. 

I remember when Ford decided to pivot away from smaller, less-expensive cars in favor of the trucks and SUVs that made more money.

Yet some of it is good things. The I45 redesign has a component to remove the Pierce Street Elevated portion and make it an urban park, routing traffic completely around Downtown.

I’ve been to Texas four times over a span of 38 years, but it was on my latest visit in March, to the DFW area, that the chaos of it really struck me. The absence of urban planning is truly breathtaking. It’s like a developing country with exponentially more money for everyone to fling around building whatever they…

I’m hoping as the used market continues to grow the restrictions on the used EV tax credit are changed - the $25k max and income cap are restrictive. But of course depending on how things go in November these credits may be gone entirely for 2025. So we’ll just have to wait and see.

That was the situation when I got my Ioniq in January. It was 50% of it’s original MSRP before the $4k tax credit and the PO only put 10k miles on it. Perfect condition. Couldn’t be happier.

Your regular reminder that Arlington, TX, the 50th most populated city in the US, doesn’t have public transportation of any kind.

Give Texas back to Mexico.

26 lanes and it still gets gridlocked every day.

HAAAAAA!

I had an ‘81 200SX coupe I bought used in 1987. It was no racecar, but it was unkillable. Like a big metal cockroach. 

I guess if your aesthetic is LeBaron but you want a little more reliability, this is the ride for you?