Different tax collection schemes everywhere. But don’t feel bad, they get you somehow no matter where you go. While it was certainly nice to no longer pay vehicle property tax or state income tax when I moved from SC to TX, the property tax on your house is quite a shock to a lot of people who come here.

Military personal can keep license and registration at the home or record.

“keep his old registration & license (probably illegal)“

Well, not anymore. 

At least they weren’t racing on an active street.

Not exactly true. The Smart Fortwo CDI took 20 seconds to reach 60 mph well into the 2010s. Ignoring that, the gas Smart Fortwo had a 12-second time to 60 mph as recently as 2015. The electric version took 11 seconds as recently as 2019.

Lol, zero sympathy for this guy. The “Work Harder” writing under the wing is all I need to know to have a good idea of what this individual is like. 

While I generally agree with the premise that no car has been “dangerously slow” for quite a while, I don’t think that applies here. These cars became slower without the owners knowing it, which I would argue is a case of becoming dangerously slow if you suddenly realize while trying to merge that your car is not…

Hoffs has also had a ton of work done, but the key difference is she has a better surgeon, or one who can guide her towards more natural results, and she doesn’t appear to have the insecurities and dysmorphia Madonna seems to have. 

I don’t care that she’s older, or whatever, so what.  Can we just not pretend that surgery like hers is good?  It looks like shit, and people are doing it all the time.  Aged or not, it’s just bad.  There are definitely people out there hating on her for her age, not questioning that, but this pillow face look that is…

“If I were teaching my children today, I would teach them to say, ‘yes’ or ‘no’ followed by an honorific (Mr./Ms./Mx.). For example, ‘Yes, Mr. Butler,’” she said.

It’s complete bollocks. It might have “officially” degraded, but it still does its gasoline thing.

“I never thought that leopards would eat MY face” etc 

I live in flatland - there is no hill or mountain within many hundreds of miles of me that would ever require downshifting (or any other technique besides a little braking) for slowing my vehicle. I do recall the subject coming up during driver training, but that was nearly 30 years ago now. I’m aware that it can be…

Someone I knew was once the passenger in an old van that he and a fellow grad student were using to transport an extremely heavy piece of scientific equipment over the mountains to their lab.

Everyone should know how to downshift to slow their vehicle. It should be standard for all drivers going down long hill/mountain roads.

Last time I was at the top of Pikes Peak there were signs everywhere about putting your car in low gear and leaving it there and coasting down. 1/2 way down a guy in a booth was using a laser thermometer to measure break temps. I asked about it. He said many people with automatic do not know how or did not know at all…

This. I’m 48: when I was kid, teenager and young adult, what we now recognize as actual rape would have been “peer pressure”, date rape (do we even use that garbage term any more?), rough sex, etc anything other than what it was. Rape was something that scary strangers did in dark alleys to sluts who might have been…

They were also slut shamed if they said anything.  I’m Gen X.  You would be horrified by the physical assaults girls went through - in the middle of the street.  Groping was accepted by everyone.  

This isn’t that. It’s right up front that the survey shows girls were “forced to have sex” - in other words, they’re not even recognizing that as what it is in this research.