4th: I count myself as one of those who replaced a car with a car this year; although a VW Alltrack is sort of flirting with crossover territory.

Our area of Colorado has been in a fire ban for pretty much all spring due to the dry weather. There are some wildfires, and sunsets have been more spectacular lately from the smoke, but fortunately we haven’t had any real ash problems or the telltale stink of wildfire this year so far.

Yeah, it seems like people generally expect A/C to be readily available for everyone. For a lot of areas of the US, it just doesn’t make sense... even when there’s a handful of days every year that you know will be absolutely miserable.

Just ripping off the common joke about corrupt officials and repurposing it for this topic. 

“Good job on rounding up those 600 bitcoins!”

As a bonus, the more people “wait out” the tariffs, the less time they’ll be around as every auto company screams to the hills about declining sales.

I could see duplex being rolled out to call centers to replace the often annoyingly dumb robot that you get when you call any major corporation these days.

As a former F10 owner*, I’ve got to agree with you there.

I have an android phone for work and an iphone for personal use, and to combat this issue, I went out and got like 5 of those cheapie charging mats and placed them all over - at work, in the kitchen, in the bedroom, etc.

I just don’t see any benefit in doing away with the wired data/charge port. Reduced manufacturing costs maybe? Qi is not proprietary to Apple, so they wouldn’t be looking at charging mat profits. As it is, anyone who wants to can ditch the wired charging now. The devices are already water resistant with the port in…

This will come in handy when those uppity belters try to revolt against Earth and Mars, and start dropping rocks on us.

We have an alltrack and it is a bit underpowered, but really it’s fine for what it is. I just appreciate being able to row my own in a new car these days.

No worries. I always test the transmission that way. The rear end - for stress factors.

My wife and I spend about $50-80 a week between the two of us. For main meals, we like to make a monthly (or so) visit to Costco. Our total monthly grocery spending usually ends up at around $300.  

Size isn’t the only factor when selecting a shoe - often the style is just not suited to the profile of one’s foor - having an intermediate size option wouldn’t alleivate that.

I admit I occasionally have trouble telling the difference between half sizes as it is. Not to mention size isn’t usually the primary issue for me, its the overall shape of the shoe not matching the profile of my foot.

Didn’t they put a different turbo in the automatic 9000s? And I didn’t think the 9k had the same transmission problems as the classic 900.

Point taken. CatIIIb autopilots are very sophisticated; however the pilot is an integral part of the operation of that aircraft, whether he or she is directly manipulating control surfaces or not - in something like an A340, the pilot is the systems manager who must be present and aware at all phases of flight, ready…

that they falsely used the marketing term “Autopilot” which suggests automatic driving

I’ve noticed this problem (specifically, iOS not remembering where you left off). Depending on what music I’ve got in my library it’ll always play the first song alphabetically. Annoyingly, for the longest time it was this Christmas song called “Above the Northern Lights”.