I actually appreciate that the engine looks like an engine. I’ve opened too many hoods and only seen a vast expanse of plastic panels covering almost everything. You’re lucky if you can see anything other than a place to fill the windshield washer fluid...

Seriously? Do you drive with the hood removed and you have some kind of OCD when seeing the functional bits looking back at you?

Average savings on a Ford Focus: $1,206

Nothing looked very attractive to me until seeing a Lincoln Continental at sub $25k.

Jesus Christ, the only thing in my budget that even kisses $569 or over a month is my goddamn rent. Unless you desperately need specific features for work, that is way too much money to spend on a negative asset.

Oh, c’mon. Survivor bias clearly disproves any assertion that cars like these are unsafe.

An unblemished original survivor that still runs and at a semi-reasonable price, is an almost automatic Nice Price!

That’s if they HAVE functional backups. Don’t be too sure of that.

There is no replacement for displacement offsite tape.

“they even wiped out all of the backups that went to virtual tape”

Calling Gleipnir a furry anime is a real stretch.

Beastars is excellent and people should watch it. That’s it.

The transit 250 killed my desire to own a truck. And this was with 3000lbs of bagged mulch in the back and cooked brakes.

Speaking of vans, I needed to rent a truck last week to go pick up a freezer from a couple hours away (apparently they’re a hot commodity right now). Put in a reservation for an F-150, went to go pick it up, and they said that it had to go into the shop last minute for something, I dunno. But they could get me a cargo…

They said they’d fix the road when pigs fly.

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I *believe* most departments are set up to where certain officer who are essentially designated interceptors get high speed training.  Around here, they're the ones who get to drive the G8 cop cars.  Maybe not most departments, but at least some.  It's still possible that even with the training, they still don't get…

I was wondering what Rosco P Coltrane was up to these days.

The amount of air caught seems to have taken the driver by surprise, as control was lost pretty soon after landing. You could argue that more driver training would help, but at the same time, aside from providing videos like this, it’s hard to tell what positive benefit these high speed chases really provide?

Some services still recognize pulse dialing, but you’re right, many only  recognize tone dialing now. you could get a set of pitch whistles/tuning whistles, afterall it’s just a tone the phone hears.