Ten years ago I passed out in the street due to severe anemia. A cop wandered up and was screaming at me about being drunk (I was drifting in and out of consciousness). Fortunately some of my friends came out of the restaurant and called for an ambulance - but if it had been up to Officer Unfriendly I would have…

In fairness, one of his biggest material costs is going to be marine plywood and that has gone up by a factor of 3-4X in that time period

That was my first thought - but the disappearance of gas stations from airport vicinities in many different cities around the world has created the same issue for regular rental cars.

Drive one.

As husky owners - we have used Whistle’s latest collar tracker with success. Battery lasts about two weeks which is great.

This just shows that there is absolutely zero quality control or human oversight of the system - everything is put on the person receiving the ticket to prove he or she is not guilty.

You are exactly right. Kinja hasn’t worked properly for a year or more and most commenters have just given up. 50% or more of the people who have stayed are shitposting teenagers which makes the whole experience of commenting unpleasant and counterproductive.

And it’s even different in different countries. Started out as 1 month in the US, then grew to 2, now 3. It was always 3 months in Japan, and 1-2 months in the UK.

Citation needed for extraordinary claim: “their core policy position right now is just cutting all those people checks periodically in perpetuity”

I was reliably informed in a thread last week that I am an old man with a prostate problem when I mentioned that someone may want to stop every 3 or so hours on a drive to piss, eat, or stretch their legs (or all 3).

Let me clarify that for you:

Observation, reading, paying attention.

It’s muscle memory for most of us who do it. I don’t care enough to spend the time and energy it would take to change that habit - I’d rather spend that time and energy on something productive like learning a new language

The Sport Quattro S1 is the car I would buy (or recreate) if I ever became stupidly wealthy.  It just resonates so strongly with me.

What’s at the root of this problem is too many motorists have a visceral hatred of cyclists, even when they do nothing to cause inconvenience to the driver.

Of course they are - they own a full size truck modified to “roll coal”

I haven’t sold to them (yet), but they make it very easy to work with them.

I used Tom McParland as a broker for my last purchase - paid him $500 to search and haggle on the vehicle on my behalf. I was in and out within an hour when I went to pick it up.

If only slide 6 hadn’t given you the instructions to do exactly that

I look at them every so often and come back to Clarkson’s equation. $20,000 buys me 100-150 nights in hotels in rural areas. I have a good tent and camping equipment for truly wild locations, and I think I’ll just get a hotel room for all the others.