ig is demanding I log in to see the content.  not gonna create an account to see a pic that is going to be all over the web by later today.

this article is completely useless unless you are on instagram.

because my cats are waking me up precisely 1 minute before my alarm clock every single day, and on weekends when it is off, they are still waking me up at 5:29 sharp.

interestingly sunrise time seems to have no effect on them. (edit) i.e. they are not thrown off by changing sunrise times.  diurnal they are not.

likewise…

the dying part sucks, and many cats are assholes, but that (as with dogs) is more to do with the owner and early socialization than an inherent feature.

get a cat. they will wake you up at exactly the same time every day in order to be fed.

if you already have a road, putting a 3' diameter pipe next to it from your high altitude water source to your low altitude grid, then setting up a turbine at the bottom is trivial, much more efficient and sustainable and also cheaper long term as you are not paying to maintain hundreds of trucks with all of the…

how does the Bolt compare to the Leaf in size and range?

it is more about how they are being used and how they were designed in the first place than any missing parts.

we have known for years where the weak spots in their armor are and that any penetration or fire in the autoloader magazine was death for the tank and usually also the crew.

the only car I’ve ever owned that I truly regret selling was my ‘94 Ranger. had to sell it to shed debt when I got out of the AF to go to college. bad move as I probably paid more in purchase, gas and maintenance for the series of shitboxes I drove over the next 8-10 years.

new off the lot XLT, extra cab, 5 sp, 4x4, th…

there are also many students at prestigious southern universities who have done the same thing

my parents had 2 of the chevy version of that over the years, 2.8 and 3.1 v6s, also got great mileage and took an unreasonable beating over many years before giving up the ghost.

the A platform was a solid design.

holy moley.  that sounds horrific.

you saw the pic of the ford?  and having ridden in both as an adult, I prefer the ford.  front seat on the toyota does not go far enough forward to in anyway be anything other than a pretzel, at least in the ford if there isn’t someone in the other seat you can stretch out your legs...

linkie?

why are you disagreeing with me?  I said it is an awesome road trip car (with the V6, haven’t driven the 4, but I was counterpointing his statement about the car in general)

this car is fscking beautiful.

The back seat of an old school “extra cab” compact pickup (such as the OG Ranger or Tacoma)

OTOH, that same car with the V6 got 35MPG, unkillable and rode like a Cadillac. I inherited mine from my grandma and regularly drove 1000 miles in a weekend (was temporarily working on Cape Cod, driving home to western NY every weekend. got in the car at 5pm friday, home by 11, left home mid afternoon sunday, got to…

the roads from Calgary to Van are amazing driving roads. Winnipeg to Calgary is 1000 miles of nothing, so the faster you can get past it the better.

the wrangler is a horrifically bad _car_. it is good for hardcore rocky offroading, but worse than almost anything else for any other use.