I mean, that last bit is pretty subjective. $30 is 15% tip, $35 is 27%. Neither is rude, it’s up to the tipper and the server.

Yeah. I’m of the firm opinion that splitting evenly never works in a big group. There’s always at least one of the following wildly unfair situations:

You know, parents seemed to survive just fine before SUVs blew up. Why is it so hard to believe that families could survive with a sedan or a station wagon? Anyways, most large families that really need more capacity simply get minivans. Most rear-facing child seats and ALL front-facing child seats fit fine in the…

It’s not really a new thing with SUVs, it’s unnecessarily large vehicles in general. Before SUVs, it was land yachts and as ridiculous as the current truck/SUV craze is, they’re at least more sensible than the once-popular gigantic coupes (or sedans) that are now pretty rare and don’t exist at the low end of the market…

Even smaller crossovers gets you stuff like the Ford EcoSport, which can’t fit a watermelon without folding the seats down.

I have bought Mobil1 from Amazon before. They had a 5 quart jug of full synthetic for like $20 or $22. That was cheaper than Walmart at the time so I bought it and it showed up 2 days later and I did the oil change. 2 days isn’t a long time to wait. I don’t see how it’s different than going to a store to buy it.

‘solid actors like Tyrese’ - What? seriously? Tyrese is the ‘solid’ actor of the F&F ensemble? In what universe?

Yeah it looks like it could store at least 20 kilos of ... tools on each side. And the gasket would probably prevent any ... thieves from sniffing out the scent of your ... well used tools. Only five made, and they were called the Ford Escobar Ltd.

To be fair, outside of a manual transmission Tacoma or Colorado, what modern pickup isn’t boring to drive on the street? Sure, some of them are pretty quick and some of them ride and drive very nice, but I wouldn’t really call any vehicle that is large and has an automatic transmission “fun” in ordinary driving.

I don’t know how to feel about the deluge of labels showing up in the LGBTQ+ space. In my mind labels are designed to quickly convey information and labels that don’t explain anything or obfuscate are useless. For example, if you said to someone “Frank is a feminine male” we can all draw conclusions some of which may…

I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying at all. Calling people by their name as opposed to some other name isn’t really a courtesy, its a societal norm. Observing how people identify and treating them appropriately isn’t any different in my opinion.

It has precedent in other cultures for sure, but this argument is always presented like a sledgehammer to faulty logic rather than an entire paradigm shift.  If our ideas of masculine and feminine in the West came about naturally, and other cultures developed their own and should be respected, the idea of not having a…

So long as everyone understands that there is a give and take on both sides of the equation. Calling you by your name (or any other moniker you adopt) is a courtesy others extend to you... it’s not some sort of inalienable right that should be wielded like a cudgel.

Nonbinary is just a fashion statement, at this point. All the cool kids are denouncing their biological gender! I wanna be cool, too! Obviously, I’m not talking about people that are inter-sexed or hermaphrodites, as that’s a physicality that some people are born with.  I totally understand that.  But, all this mental…

Damn, buy a 6" crescent wrench for $10 and quit wasting your time and effort with all this Rube Goldberg-esq work-a-round guff.

And if you must buy new, and there are reasons to do so and it’s not automatically a wrong answer, you can find new Mitsubishi Mirage ES’s and Nissan Versa sedans for about $10k.

I’m a fan of buying cheap cars AND cheap houses. In both cases, it makes it easy when you gotta move on. Or you can rent them out and it doesn’t matter if the renter isn’t as meticulous as you are.

Sage advice, in summary...“buy cheap cars and expensive houses”.

This is really good advice. Also, the insurance on a 5k Camry is going to be like $250 per 6 months as opposed to around $500 per 6 months on the brand new 20k car.

Is that really any different than the multitude of sports cars that are sold and never taken to a race track? They just sit in traffic everyday and then on the weekends take their wife’s car on longer trips because she thinks it is more comfortable