I’m sorry the entire premise of this is built upon the flawed notion that deficits don’t matter. They do. The US is already borrowing a “crapton of money” in the near future will likely be borrowing a lot more as the economy is tanking, people are losing work, and the medical system is going to be over run. All acute…

It’s the thing that bothers me the most about 21st century urbanism - this idea that it needs to be everywhere. It’s how you get that nutjob from Berkeley saying that people in rural areas deserve to have bad healthcare.

This pickup isn’t taking 3 spots, either. It’s not a crew-cab dually with an 8' bed.

Removing cats is stupid and you should feel stupid for doing it (a generic you) . There is no legit reason not to run high flow cats in 2020. If dodge can do 800 hp with cats you can too 

Guess I found the nerve.

If both break the law, then what’s the difference?

I think rolling coal is dumb. That said, the point is no more to pollute more than the point of having a bonfire is to pollute more. Also, to all the sanctimonious types here, it's essentially the exact same thing as a burnout. Clouds look cool. Everyone here has made some smoke. The "my pollution is better than…

Comments like this expose the bias/naivete of the people making them.

That is no different than removing a catalytic convertor in a full exhaust job or tuning out a CEL in the eyes of the law.

That isn’t my point at all.

I don’t disagree!

I hate to come down even 1% on the side of coal rollers, but let he who has never modified a vehicle cast the first stone here.

That 1% is roughly equal to the vehicles that regularly use all 4-5 seatbelts or sports coupes that find themselves on the track. We should all ONLY buy what we’ll fully use, right? Sell the furniture you rarely use. How many dishes do you have that rarely leave the cabinet? Wasteful excess. Do you use more than a…

The current numbers might be wrong--but only in one direction. Low-symptom people walking around untested could only mathematically make COVID-19 LESS deadly. Not more. What am I missing?

We agree— you just need to accept the fact that “high traffic” counts are a symptom.

It’s because public transportation is a joke.

The distance issue is the same argument against electric cars. It’s not that it’s entirely true or false - yes, most trips can be served will by an electric car, just like many metro areas are dense enough to support a decent public transit system.

European solutions would never work as smoothly in America. Our population centers are sprawled out 10x as far as European cities, so public transit will never be as efficient. And as a result of car culture, we’re also a bunch of sedentary/obese/diabetic lazy fucks, so universal healthcare will never be as cheap per…

America is the 4th largest country by total land area. Plus Russia and Canada are extremely sparsely populated so they don’t really count. So its the USA where we are free vs China where the government oppresses you and you get thrown in jail and die because you alert them to the dangers of COV19. No other country is…

Savvy people have known this for centuries: roads (and railroads, and canals) are not traffic dissipaters, they are traffic generators. Look at the interurban railway boom of the early 20th Century. Those guys ran track out into the middle of nowhere and in a few years nowhere was a suburb. (They also generated…