You can’t “just reopen” a shuttered hospital. It’s a bit like “just driving” a car that’s been sitting in a barn for many years. Getting it moving again is a process. You’ve got to get the ventilation, heat, AC, plumbing, and power all working. You’ve got to test and replace filters, gaskets, seals, vacuum tubes etc. T…

My state is willing to shell out millions of dollars to private corporations to build prisons, but can’t reopen vacant hospitals to treat COVID patients? Something’s wrong here.

Well taking care of the sick doesn’t make any money!! So no, it’s better they die so more prisons can be built!!

This has all the makings of a shitty Lifetime channel movie, or the CW. Featuring Billy Crystal as Carlos Ghosn and John Goodman as the ex-Special Forces guy.....Wait a minute......

Wasn’t a (former? or are they like Marines/the mob where you never stop being in?) Green Beret implicated in an attempted Venezuelan coup recently too?
Army brass must be *pissed* at the optics on this. 

Apropos of nothing -

FYI, retreads for big rigs can be, and usually are perfectly safe. It’s only when it’s done poorly, with low standards, or no QC is it an issue. The carcass of a tire can way outlast the treadlife, especially at the mileage rate most trucks see.

As far as I know the BMV and state DOTs in every state are shut down. Nobody is inspecting the trailers that are out there so none are failing inspection and HAVING to be replaced. The trucking industry is famous for pinching every nickle and putting unsafe equipment on the road (retreads), why wouldn’t they be doing…

Correction: the current battery is big sparky lasagna. The new one will be an even bigger sparky soup. 

So the battery is a big sparky lasagna. Got it.

But, as it is a car, and you know these surfaces will be touched, why not use a finish that doesn’t just attract fingerprints? For example, matte-finish wood looks classy and you don’t leave pawprints everywhere.

I drive under the limit most of the time when I’m in my old carbureted machines. It’s only in my fuel-injected 4.0s that I sometimes get pulled over.

David, we like you around here. With the cars you like, please drive UNDER the speed limit at all times. We don’t want to see you killed. Can your cars even go faster than the speed limit?

That’s Erik.

When you’re a big fancy executive, you get to call it a “dividend” and it’s totally legal.

But it’s not capitalism that’s a problem. It’s that people aren’t capitalisming nicely, right? Or somehow this is “crony” capitalism (which, incidentally, is just regular capitalism) or a few bad eggs or something. Actually, I forgot. It’s the pirates who are taking food from the mouths of hard-working developers. No…

Cheers to you Kristen. I always enjoyed your writing! Good luck in your future endeavors.

I think this is what Carvana and the like (and now CarMax is copying it) are solving - they’ll bring the car to your house for you to test drive.

How is that any different than: ‘I see you’ve changed the oil, so now I must reset three ECUs and upgrade your dipstick. That will be four hours of labor, please.’ Or ‘You need a new key? That will be $100 for the key and $250 to program it’ 

I would quibble with the idea that road noise isn’t something mentioned in a review, but otherwise yeah.