I call it Focal Matter.

I was playing some kind of personal finance show on YouTube (Caleb something) and he had a Vegas stripper on - she said she had had high hopes for the F1 weekend but that she wasn’t even able to make up the fees she had to pay the house - she lost money because of F1. What a mess.

That’s clearly a representative sample for statistical purposes. I mean, I will admit that I hate all Fords because of my ‘03 Focus, but that’s mainly down to design choices.

Well, the Japanese governmindustry has been trying to get rid of the kei car category for about thirty years now (including Toyota; Keis hinder sales of more profitable, regular cars); this might be what it takes.

What’s funny is that the smaller, less powerful kei version does have a turbo. These wider fenders mean that it’s based on the larger Jimny Sierra, though.

There is a grey, abandoned looking Z34 Coupé near me in Queens - it’s been parked for years in front of what looks like a vacant home. In an area where tiny fixer uppers go fro $800K. It is still on Liberty plates; those were no longer valid as of April 1, 2003, so it’s been there a while.

A car with a clean title that passes CA smog is worth $4K no matter what it is. This is kinda cool; clean it up, enjoy it for a year, and sell it for $6K when it starts getting embarrassing.

$4.30 per hour is less than street parking in NYC. I think the EV companies overestimated how many would use their services, while massively underestimating how much repairing the chargers would need.

Astounding, brilliant, so wrong it’s fantastically right.

One issue is that the bike lane is commonly placed in exactly the area where you are the most likely to be doored. If we ride in the car lane, people menace us directly, so that’s no safer. Being hyperalert helps, but swerving for a door which opens into your face may easily get you ran over by a car coming from…

This seems like a pretty wise solution to two problems.

Yes to getting a punishment earlier on in someone’s drunk driving “career” - and hopefully a lighter punishment for someone who gets stopped in a checkpoint with a .09 BAC or something will mean that they never get to the point of driving with .25 and killing someone.

Christmas: I’m from Sweden, so we give gifts after a long, late luncheon on Christmas Eve. Like by 5-6pm. All the gifts are handed out one by one, and each gift has a verse on it, hinting at its contents. The verse is read, the recipient might make a few guesses, and then they open it. Everyone comments, and then the…

My son has the T-shirt

I have been told that if you studied for a test while under the influence of alcohol, you will do better on the test if you have a few drinks first. (obviously you will score better if you are not drunk either time).

Yep; it’s a nice, confusing variant of the Ship of Theseus paradox.

Here in NYC I cannot really tell any difference. Everyone, no matter the brand is pretty alert, and pretty aggro all of the time.

This car has a very mixed up background indeed. I tried to categorize it for Wikimedia Commons, and it’s a bit hard to pin down. Is there anything Abarth left, for instance?

Well, pretty sure that was expected in Teddy Roosevelt’s days.

Pretty much all other companies in Northern Europe are unionized. They do business fine.