No, tread is NOT something you maintain, it is binary...
You check for sure, and when there is not enough (or they have been damaged ‘too much’), you get new ones...

EVERY cat should be inside 100% of the time, agreed with a loud voice...

Every outdoor cat should be caught and rehomed inside (or euthanised...)

The filters / pumps / chemicals must be outrageous!

Simple, effective midsize trucks without all of the Barker lounger shit... where are they in the USA?
I used to drive 2.8D Hiluxes on (exploration) mine sites in Australia, I have a ‘68 Series IIa, etc - that sort of thing but with modern engines, etc :)

As inferred in the article, if a TV show shows someone driving a <insert car brand here>, or drinking a <insert beer brand here> or any of another 10,000+ scenarios, <company> can expect to be paid for using that product?

Denver is seeing an influx of ‘Tibetans’ putting a beaded bracelet on you, unbidden - and then demanding money for their ‘temple’...

we are literally preparing to drive our society off a cliff

Why does he use the pen equivalent of a large crayon to write?

ain’t happening... wander back to your purposefully ignorant PETA clubhouse... :*

Boo hoo

As someone who worked a lot of a dairy farm up till about 18 (in NZ):

(i) shit happens <— someone had to

(ii) what the hell is with US farmers wearing white t-shirts? If you do that you need a full mullet, aka Ag Hall President, Letterkenny... (yes, Alberta)

Of course I realised and ‘thought beyond that point’... just forlornly hoping, as mentioned, that he would step up...

Bacon, the gateway drug for vegetarians...

Nope...
I grew up on a dairy and beef farm in part...
I know EXACTLY where meat comes from - and respect that very much...
BUT I have had people over for dinner who are omnis - and can’t eat lamb, etc carved off the bone in the kitchen close by, as they are reminded of where meat comes from... we have a chat about it, IF…

Well of course I did, see note below...
I was calling him out for his platitudes with no substance...

bling... and ??????

I am currently reading an article in the New Yorker (yeah, yeah...) about the rise of Brazil’s ultra right wing Bolsanaro - and a Trump sycophant, and guided by Steve Bannon amongst others.
They noted, in this strongly traditionally Catholic country, more than 30% identify as evangelical ‘protestants’ now, up from a…

Oh agreed, but we can hope... even if forlornly... that people might be decent... ‘even’ in NC...

The mayor, rather than mouthing platitudes, could have shown actual courage, refused to accept his resignation, addressed the bullies directly & with no mercy from the this ‘dias’... and then set on changing the culture...

They have already over rode in places the FEMA science-based flood zoning by ‘appeals’ to their representatives...