I agree this has everything to do with China. Why isn’t the author answering the main question: With Russia openly defying the treaty why would the US stay in it? On what planet would it make sense to “honor” an agreement that both hurts you and no one else is honoring? 

So Russia cheats, and likely hasn’t honored it for years, and we respond with a missile test, and you say we are all worse off for it because we show our strength?

Sure, makes sense. Putin will definitely respond with fear when we send him a strongly worded letter indicating he needs to stop cheating.

The only reason…

One could make a pretty good case that Russia—a country that assassinates dissidents abroad, backs regimes that use chemical weapons against civilians, and intentionally bombs hospitals, is the bad actor here. One could also make the case that Russia needs to be punished for violating the treaty, and the U.S. is…

If the coat fits...

Also maybe the semi (which can’t swerve or stop) shouldn’t have been going 30 or 40 mph or whatever it was doing with about 20 feet of visibility.

Watching one of the nightly news shows tonight. They interviewed the camera man, and he had it on a tripod. He ran as soon as he seen the semi coming.

The classic run away and crack a brew at home due to the “traumatic experience” to get out of a DUI was definitely employed here.

Yeah. How many taboola ads did I inadvertently open trying to make this reply, as the site hops around like a drunk kangaroo.

remember kids, never drive beyond your vision

100% fuck that semi driver for driving that fast in those conditions. He had to have known that he wouldn’t be able to slow down fast enough were he to come upon, say, A WRECK BLOCKING THE HIGHWAY.

That camera person probably needed a new pair of pants. Had that semi not overturned, they would have almost certainly been killed. Then again that must have been a pre-set camera or they had really slow reaction times.

The article presupposes it’s for emissions. But what specifically do they do to help meet emissions requirements?

I’ve seen lots of GM straight sixes but nothing with bumps and plumbing like that.

You took the first paragraph personally, doing ok over there?

I’m sorry that you feel marginalized by pet owners.

As a recent parent, experiencing all the parenting things - sleepless nights, a constant flow of money out of my accounts, pooping and peeing with reckless abandon, and and a constant base level of stress about his health and wellbeing.... I think you need to calm down just a touch.  No one is implying raising a cat…

Good. One more car that matches my socks.

Yeah its as if calling someone a name isn’t worth getting a multi million dollar payout. We live in crazy times.

Holy shit, are you the result of a troll algorithm?  

They believed in you and it really speaks to what they saw in you. Look at you now. You have a whole lot of people that are so thankful for you. Keep writing truth to power and we will continue to read, learn, and grow.