These people in rural towns are perfectly capable of moving to the City. If there is no reason for people to live in an area, they shouldn’t live there.

Not a lot of non-lethal means to stop a guy with a gun. 

He drew a concealed gun. You don’t take your gun out of your holster if you aren’t intending to use it. He wanted to shoot and kill those officers.

A direct line from “fuck around” to “find out.”

“the Fed caused the current problems by cratering the value of Treasury securities by raising the interest rate by almost 5% in a year”

Note that while is isn’t covered by the “taxpayers,” the cost of an FDIC special assessment is passed-through to all users of the banking system, which pretty much includes every tax payer. 

The lack of hybrids in Subaru’s lineup is so confounding. I’d have bought a pretty expensive Outback wagon if there was a hybrid option by now. Instead I’m looking at ::checks notes:: a Ford truck that gets 40 mpgs?

I doubt this is for virtue signaling; those people already drive EVs. The fact is, for around-town driving in a luxury car, you can’t beat an EV drivetrain for smoothness and quiet.

Just like Republicans and government, Toyota says EVs aren’t the future and then sets out to build an EV that proves it. 

TAX CARBON, TAX WEIGHT.

For anyone who’s big aversion to a full-size pick-up truck is environmental guilt, this is like a calorie-free chocolate cake.

Damn, great essay. Thanks for sharing. We’ll be welcoming a new child in July, and the amount of crazy things I’m learning about the process NOW as an over-educated person in their mid-30s, is unbelievable.

I prefer Meatball Ron. 

eBikes are truly lifechanging. I got mine almost a year ago, and outside of a few days of downpouring rain, I’ve taken it to the office instead of my car every single day.

“From my front door in Columbus, Ohio, to the seller in Dayton was not quite 66 miles. The Ioniq 5 had about 48 percent battery life left and showed 98 miles of range, more than enough to get to Dayton.”

Eeek. 

Hopefully that he has no guilt/remorse will make denial of parole quick and simple. 

I wonder if it’s because we all have a casual, surface level thought of “murder,” at least in the abstract. “That sonofabitch Putin/Hitler/Pol-Pol, I wish I could kill the bastard!” So you could at least theoretically understand a murderer. Hell, our legal system even treats murders in “hot blood” different because,…

“That’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see how it works out for them!”

I don’t know how to explain it, but I’d rather watch a 9-part series about a gruesome, brutal serial killer than 20 minutes listening to a phone call with a pedophile.