Same in many Southeast Asian cities.

1985 Honda CRX. Manual, 50+ mpg highway, zippy and fast, small enough to not hoard shit. All day every day.

Meh. Not everyone’s “California stop” is the same. You could do plenty of damage to a 9-year old at 10/13 mph.

I mean, sure, but there is no cop anywhere in CA that’s giving a ticket for stopping less than three seconds, let’s be honest if we’re all such Solomonic traffic truth-tellers here. The ticket is for NOT stopping, not stopping for 1-2 seconds.

I can say with confidence that when I win Powerball I would buy this car.

I very badly miss my 1985 Honda CRX, and the CRZ made the Star Wars prequels seem like a Godfather II-level follow-up in comparison.

All day NP.  Buncha fun-haters around here.

Ugh. I have Seveneves ranked 11th on my Stephenson list.

The 1st half was very good but incredibly bleak - which is fine! The payoff for living through that was unrealized in an amazingly promising 2nd half premise that went totally nowhere, and the deus ex machinas were incredibly annoying. Everyone goes on about…

Can’t be as bad as Clarke.

Anathem!

Oh no doubt.  A man can dream.

Understandable, definitely.

I am in that school of reader who found Messiah and Children incredible tiresome and God Emperor kind of awesome, so a Villenueve God Emperor final would be great.  Although I admit I’m not holding my breath on that particular fantasy.

Go back to France, comrade!  No freedom fries for you!

Have this talk with someone the next time they say “there’s no one better” or the like.

I don’t understand how people are taking “#1 on the call sheet” to its pedantic extreme here. In telling a story, that can easily mean “someone above me on the call sheet” rather than a Streep vs. Grant parsing.

Great.  Another monster tailgating enabler.  These fuckers.

The internet entertainment comment section is definitively a place where if you don’t shit on something, you really think you’re just worthless.

The commenters reeeaaaaaaally want there to be a story here somewhere.

The exposition of modern society’s and mores and insecurities is also explored pretty well in this thread.