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I once saw my sister pouring half a jar of pickle juice down the drain, and I was like “hey, wait, why are you dumping that out? She looks at me like I’m an idiot, and says “What? The jar is empty.” (I decided to avoid the argument that would start with me saying “if it’s “empty”, then what the fuck is that going

This country is a seriously bizarre place to live, and Buc-ee’s is a microcosm of our American existence at present. This combination gas station-grocery store-way of life is a mirror we have erected to show us ourselves.

There’s a Pearl Jam jewel case in the console, if that helps.

What’s going on with those straps?

Well, I was gonna complement your car choices, but I’m taking offense to...

What I love most about it is not having to schlep tires up and down stairs anymore.

I don’t know what Lexus is smoking, but there’s no way it’s gonna fit.

Canadian geese are the raging assholes of the bird world.

Yeah, something is really messed up here. You buy a brand new $54,000 car, and when it has major issues within “a few months”, your solution is “welp, I guess I have to sell it”? Does it not come with a warranty? Am I misunderstanding something here?

the ending of Nineteen Eighty Four when Winston has been abused within an inch of his life and comes out the other end feeling nothing but love for the fictitious leader right before having his brains blown out

This is borne out by the fact that 3 or 4 brands/tires basically trade places near the top every year in the CR rankings. Which specific tire is deemed “THE BEST!” in any given year doesn’t matter as much as just going with any of the brands that regularly appear near the top of the rankings.

Will Elon Musk and the Republicans get a chance to reply on Jalopnik?

crew members have filmed their view from inside the planes and it does not look fun.

Two cops deployed tasers but neither of them worked. (Guy only had a t-shirt on, so I don’t know what was going on there.) But it looks like they could have easily subdued him with pepper spray, or batons, or a good old fashioned gang tackle. (They had plenty of time, and the guy never made an aggressive move toward

I attended one of these “educate the public about police use of force” things a few years ago. Many of the other people there bought into it and were like “ah, yes, I see why you totally have to shoot people in a situation like this.” What those people were missing was the fact that the “situation like this” was an

A delayed image would be much worse than no image at all. At least if you know your camera’s busted, you aren’t relying on it. The thought that I could be looking at an image, but not a current image, is pretty disturbing.

Yep, they claim to buy all products (including cars) using “secret shoppers” who act like any other random retail customer.

the slow-motion disaster

scientists from the University of Manitoba used B. napus and B. rapa to develop the strain, which was premiered in the 1970s

When I was younger I made up just such a table, laminated it, and kept it in the car with me so I could always do a rational cost/benefit analysis of whether it was worth it to me to risk a ticket.