And I guarantee all this person’s friends on the force knew what he was doing, and his bosses too, and the prosecutors, and none of them did anything to stop them. Which is why we say: Yes, all cops.

I will frequently point out a $85k F350 king ranch or GMC Yukon Denali.  The thing is they don’t look that different from the cheaper version.  Truck prices vary so wildly within one model.  An F150 starts at $34k and goes up to $85k for a limited.  That’s crazy.

Back in my day we had a better class of rich person, either driving a magnificent luxury sedan or a sports car like a 911. Now we have people spending 80k on a Tahoe that drives like a fancy U-Haul and that has such poor forward viability that every child or rock within a 10-foot radius is in imminent danger.

You also get paid to suck Microsoft off in comment sections.

Agreed. Even before these Windows 11 and Edge shenanigans, Windows completely fucked over file index search by integrating internet search. So something that worked on every version of Windows up until Windows 10 all of a sudden no longer works and instead, you get web results when looking for a god damn file on your…

Conservation groups claim that the FAA rushed its approval of SpaceX’s expanded launch operations in Boca Chica, Texas, without adequate environmental review and without requiring sufficient mitigation efforts from the Elon Musk-owned spaceflight company.

Good. That launch never should have happened. 

It was a good browser. But then Microsoft felt the need to install craps such as shopping and buy-now-pay-later options which are enabled by default. And the Bing Discovery which at first you could only disable through registry edit. MS finally included that option in Settings, but it’s still enabled by default.

The saddest part of all of this is that Edge is a good browser, and I would happily reccomend it for most users. At least, it WAS a good browser. Until they started layering in this kind of bullshit. It was even getting a little bit of a reputation as a dark horse. Ignored, but actually better than Chrome, in some…

Your arithmetics need work. 12,500 miles per year at 25mpg = 500 gallons of gas consumed. At 20c / gallon, that would be $100 collected in gas tax. Exactly half of what they are proposing to charge the EV owners.

“The primary cause of the road funding shortfall in Texas has nothing to do with EVs, but rather with the fact that Texas has not increased their gas tax since 1991,”

I think the cost they came up with is the interesting part, not the concept. If you bought a new light duty truck from the Big 3 with a V8 and did only city miles (lowest I saw was 15mpg for non Raptor/trx) at the US DOT average miles driven per year of 13,476; you would pay $180 in road tax to Texas. The charge for…

Dandelions don’t bother me, as long as it’s green and preferably under 4-5" it’s a lawn. 

If you use the US DOT average miles driven per year of 13,476 that means basically everything short of a V8 Raptor or Ram TRX will cost less in road tax than an EV in Texas. If you bought a regular Civic and just did highway miles you would only pay $67 in road fuel tax.  EV owners are getting screwed.

Shame cars don’t already have some non-GPS device that records mileage. Maybe one that Texas could check during an annual vehicle inspection.

If I didn’t mow all May, the grass would be so long by June that it would be impossible to mow

Another good idea poorly executed. A better and more fair option would be to delete the gas tax and make both types pay a per-mile-driven tax based on weight and size. If you want to encourage ev adoption, keep the gas tax but call it a carbon tax and use those proceeds for healthcare.

Sure, just what we need. Slash the budget for the already crippled infrastructure repairs. That'll fix things

AS someone who lives in a community north of Chicago that is frequently hampered by this issue, its about time some attention comes of this. It is absolutely offensive that trains can block 5 intersections for how long they do around here, making the only way around a 30 min driving detour! Thankfully we don’t have…

Technically, Hammond was in Top Gear.