It’s only trucks that need to justify themselves to this type of person by working at their capacity all the time too.

I’ve always found it weird that people concern themselves with what other people are buying. I have a truck. It’s really no one’s business other than my own as to why I have a truck. I don’t need to justify it to anyone else. These same questions never get asked of people with sports cars or people with motorcycles.…

I imagine that Finland has very consistently cold weather in the winter which means switching to snow tires is fine. However, a lot of places in the United States can have wild swings from warm to cold temperatures. Based on the best information I can find, winter tires are only rated for temperatures below 45°F…

No,

Here in Finland less than a quarter of cars have AWD and it snows everywhere. It’s not an issue unless you are an idiot.

It most certainly is a negotiation. I’ve worked with an Indian tribe and they’ve become very adept at playing the victim card. Usually it’s a shakedown for a payout; then they start to infighting over which of their own factions get it. See casinos, Keystone XL Pipeline, literally any government social program and now…

Yeah, big time. Some of the writers on GMG are pretty close-minded though: You’re either on this side of the debate, or you’re wrong.

Here’s the top reasons you said you hate discussions summarized as a slideshow.

Seriously, I’m an atheist too, but would never write that, even as a joke. It’s so disrespectful. You want to have a discussion about theology? Cool, but just throwing out insults helps no one. Not even going to get into the stop flying part which is also incredibly stupid, but others have already put forward good…

Yeah, there was absolutely no reason for that. One of the weaker writers here.

Careful - don’t bash Raph too much - you’ll get shadow-banned like I and others have in the past.

I’m an atheist as well, but saw the headline and the first sentence and thought even Raphael had jumped the shark beyond his usual low standards this morning. The site picked up with the addition of Mercedes, but the talent gap  here is still huge.

Makes you wonder if he woke and and just thought, “How the hell can I piss off a major portion of our readership today?”

It’s kind of amazing how many times Orlove writes something on which I agree, in principle, but recoil at the delivery, forum, and relevance. “There is no god”. Ok, I am an atheist... but what the eff? The self-righteous arrogance in this shock-journalism is ridiculous.

Today’s Morning Shift to be renamed Morning Shit

Amen, lately it feels like the Morning Shift exists as clickbait for angry comments more than for daily transportation-related news aggregation. As someone with family in 2 countries, where flying is the only reasonable way to travel between the two, to me wishing for drastically increased ticket costs is the same as…

The point of at least 50% of Morning Shifts (and damn near 100% of Orlove’s) seems to be designed to have some combination of thinking the whole world is like Brooklyn, and shaming people who have the audacity not to agree with that.

That’s just Raph’s shtick. He’s the journalistic embodiment of “If you can’t get attention by doing something well, you can still get attention by doing it badly.”

“I often spend a few idle minutes wondering what America would look like if air travel went back to being ridiculously expensive and we all just drove to Wally World instead of flying to Hawaii.” 

Errrrrr ...