Meh, it could be worse. With my luck it would be this

He’s an awesome guy. Always had/has cool cars. Always has a Jag in the garage. He had a gorgeous De Tomaso Mangusta for 20+ years that he partially restored himself. His very last project was a channeled and chopped Model A with an SVO engine wedged in it. Talk about terrifying.

70's Tonka trucks. Had 3 or 4, a couple dump trucks and a crane.

I had the obligatory Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars that I played with forever and have passed onto my kids, but my absolute favorite was one of these keys.

The roster of top authors and journalists who had stories and pieces published in Playboy is pretty astounding.  Nabokov, Updike, Irving, Hunter Thompson (OK that one’s not so astounding), Stephen King, Frank Herbert...the list goes on.

It’s really kind of hard to explain to people now that yes, the nudity was the primary draw, but Playboy really did have good articles too.  Long-form journalism and short fiction, vs the listicles that most latter day lad magazines featured.

I made the mistake of Googling “adrenochrome” and skipping the results from Wikipedia and NIH. 

I don’t know what that means, but Google says it’s a part number for Caterpillar.

Wild, didn’t know that. And he died a couple years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/arts/television/tony-mendez-dead.html

Seth Meyer’s cue card guy, Wally, gets featured quite a bit on the show and even has a side business selling cue cards.

yeah i’m kinda torn - this is probably the only time anyone has ever actually made proper use of one of those abominations, and yet I still feel like the guy is a tosser.

“Well, I’m a mother too. I know what you’re experiencing, and we’re all very afraid for our children—even if they’re exaggerating,” Casey reportedly told her...

Rarely does one come across a post that straddles the divide between brilliant and racist, between edgy and gauche, between hilarious and cringy so perfectly. Bravo, sir/ma'am.

He has money. He wants power and fame. He wants to be a hero in fictitious Russian history books. Shit like that. Hell, he might even get off on murdering people, both his own and others.

Me three. Keep stuff as long as possible, buy used, recycle, etc. Bike to work, also, and try to commute by bike when not working as well (hard because of summer and shit infrastructure.) But still driving a car with a full ICE, and not a particularly efficient one at that. Sure the next car will be, at a minimum, a…

I feel exactly the same way!

In terms of your own habits, it sounds like you are doing just fine. But it’s also a reminder that personal responsibility won’t get us out of this crisis. Also, keeping a car going through its full lifetime is its own form of efficiency too. Money, but also the materials to build the vehicle.

Crashing people turns them and their vehicles into uncontrolled missiles, so that only increased the danger to bystanders.  It could’ve been a person and not a tree that the guy was splattered against.

This is the exact same logic domestic abusers use when they beat their partner. “Look what you made me do.” Oh, and guess what, cops are statistically overrepresented as domestic abusers. Funny how that works out.

Every time I’m shocked at how police can get away with killing a fellow human who was not an immediate threat, with the worst penalty being forced to go work at a different police office a few miles down the road.