Using pedantry to avoid the argument is a tale as old as time on the internet.

Proportional risk should also take into account the severity of injuries resulting from crashes. You’re MUCH more likely to be killed by a car than a scooter. And MUCH more likely to be seriously injured. I’m a driver and a bike commuter. The shit I see going on in cars while I’m riding would terrify you. It doesn’t…

I’m personally more scared by cars since you can essentially murder someone with it and get nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

He’s in the UP so he’s probably just yelling to make sure everyone can hear him from way over/up there.

Find some particularly vile Trump quotes, tell your father that a well-known Democrat said them, and see how he reacts. Melt his brain. Also, I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but if your family are “insanely & adamantly” supportive of Trump, they aren’t good people. The two are mutually exclusive.

I was tempted by these, but the rear seat is just too cramped for our family. We will soldier on in our Flex which will hopefully make it until the I.D. Buzz is available.

The base trim is an absolute steal at that price. You don’t get leather, but you get a fine looking faux leather. Plus, you get all of the advanced safety features, like auto cruise, standard.

I know precisely jack shit about all the various caps and supermaxes and what-have-yous, but Russ seems like a good fit for my Pistons. They have a couple guys with big contracts expiring a couple/few years from now that are tough to move. If they got Russ, they could keep butts in seats for a few years and then…

I think it’s safe to say that after yet another fact about this insidious and vile organization comes to light, the only reason one could still be actively using Facebook is because one is completely and utterly addicted. There is no good reason to allow a company to completely abuse your trust and privacy in this…

I love lazy morons like you who think having to be cautious for 5 seconds is an intolerable inconvenience. You’re the scumbag driving a 4000 lb steel living room. Drive like you could kill someone because you might.

1st Gear: the carve-outs and special considerations the car industry gets while the planet burns and thousands die are absurd. Instead of manufacturer averages, MPG regs should be for every car. Safety should be non-negotiable. So, if you want to build/sell/buy a giant SUV, that’s fine, but they’ll have to get 50 mpg…

Their existence is not crazy, I am one after all. The crazy is the cognitive dissonance about their choices.

That comment section was interesting. Lots of "driving 100 miles a day is really bad for the environment" replied to with "yeah but I've got a huge yard and I can't do city life and I have 4 cars and 3 boats" with a dozen stars. It appears "car guys" have difficulty internalizing how selfish and harmful their hobby…

I’m obviously not talking about the impoverished here. If you can afford to BUY a house in the suburbs and PAY for a car (gas, insurance, payment, maintenance), then you probably have choices. CHOOSING to live further away so you can have a bigger house, more land, etc and then driving 55 miles polluting all the way,…

Imagine reading this and continuing to talk to your Alexa instead of throwing it in the trash, where it belonged from the beginning.

That’s fine, so long as you acknowledge your happiness is costing a lot of other people theirs.

We have a pretty awesome situation here, but our college town is having growing pains too. A big problem is that cities are mired in debate with NIMBYs about developing more housing, so the prices go up, which pushes more people out to the burbs. High housing prices should be a trigger to automatically start…

I mean, this says a lot. 

“Cheap” is a relative term. It usually doesn’t consider the external costs, which was my original point.

There are certainly other factors at play, like our country’s psychopathic resistance to development, which leads to astronomical housing costs in cities. But, you could rent? Buy a small condo?