but you might choose hotel A over hotel B for your planned overnight if you knew one had (20) chargers in the parking lot and the other didn’t.

Cracker Barrel. _The_ go to restaurant of road tripping middle america. and they _always_ take their time eating and peruse the gift shop, so arrive, plug in, eat a leisurely breakfast/lunch/supper, go to your car and continue.

more the punisher logo, which has been adopted by all the racist treason monkeys as a symbol of their treasonous intent.

the most laughable one is the thin blue line punisher logo...  

angry jeep eyes are dumb. about 30% of the jeeps in my area have the angry eyes grill kit and punisher logos. it’s like playing “spot the racist!”

until recently Wendy’s because they were the last major chain to have real, unfucked with french fries.

now they’ve gone to the fucking disgusting battered fries like all the other major chains they are dead to me.

does anyone know of a nationwide chain that still sells real fries?

so the moral of the story is don’t rent your car?

are you living/working in the city proper? if so - buy a complete shitbox. if you get a new car it will be a shitbox in 2 years in the city and you will be angry all the time as your car degrades. if you have a shitbox, every day that it still runs is cause for celebration, every time it gets dinged by an idiot (and…

my rule of thumb is that when monthly repairs (over a sliding 6 month window) get to 75% of the monthly payment on the car I would replace it with, it is time to go. this does not include regular maintenance like oil changes and tires (although if it is on the borderline and needs new tires, that might put it over the…

13, not 11. so the gremlin is ~45% better for less than half the car.

my bronco (the full size one) easily weighed double the gremlin and had double the frontal area and got the same mileage.

if they want it to be against the rules then make the rules forbid it.

change the rules regarding wheel alignment so that you can’t skew the rear axle relative to the tube frame, require that the diagonals between rf/lr and lf/rr be equal

change the rules for body mounting so that it can’t be mounted to the frame skewed.

my family’s 1976 Ford LTD wagon with a 400m V8 got 13 on the highway.

road hugging weight. feels solid. safer in a crash than those furrin tin cans.

also, they _bragged_ about 18* mpg (*depending how you drive)??!??

oh, forgot to add... FUCK JOHN DEERE.

both for their bullshit DRM which prevents farmers from fixing their own equipment and forces them to pay outrageous rates at the Deere dealer and for their bullshit labor practices.

hence migrant labor, which the GOP villainizes.

almost like we need a group of workers willing to do the work ‘Murican’s won’t.

I own one of those firearm belt buckles.

fun little toy but not a useful weapon in any way. nearly impossible to hold and fire unless you have baby hands, finicky single action, unguarded hair trigger, no safety at all (so drop it on the hammer and bad things will happen) reloading requires removing the cylinder, not…

you’ve never been near a paper mill, have you....

all along the Fla gulf coast there are paper mills and you get within 10 miles it is just a matter of which way the wind is blowing that determines whether or not you are blowing chunks.

same up in Maine, there are a lot of papermills down deep in valleys where if the…

exactly - up through 2020, microsoft (and apple) were pulling the double irish to offshore the vast majority of their profits and evade taxes.

you know for sure they had new loopholes written into the Trump tax law or else it would never have passed.

“we don’t know anything yet about how these cars drive in the real world, but the rules change didn’t work”

so this is more zero information speculation. we won’t have any real idea how well they can follow until they run on track in real conditions.

there are several things they could have done that would actually have…

but one can not avoid asshat mustang drivers without avoiding mustangs.  ergo....

the rate of growth of pro-soccer fandom in the US suggests this will be a good investment.  solid odds that 10 years from now Soccer will be the #3 US sport in terms of revenue (behind NFL and NBA).  Baseball is on the long decline and Hockey will always have fairly limited appeal (much as I love it)