Depleted uranium is almost the same density, and cheaper! Radiation wouldn’t be an issue, but a block of DU bouncing down a race track might make some sparks and catch fire (it’s pyrophoric), which would make races much more interesting tbh.

A week impound and license suspended? This car should be confiscated and destroyed and the kid should permanently lose his license...at the very least, make it like 1 year suspension for every 20km over the limit.

Yes I’m sure the auto industry will be fine when 90% of those 84 month/6 month deferred payment auto loans come due and don’t see a single payment. I have a feeling lots of the people who are currently buying with those deals are a hair’s breadth from unemployment and insolvency over the next few months. We’re still…

Why do more “wholesome” (meaning, those that claim to be less processed), and soft drinks in particular, seem to go out of their way to say they’re made with “cane sugar” when really the key distinction is “sugar” vs. “HFCS”? Can’t say I’ve ever seen “beet sugar” on a label (to include bags of granulated sugar), but I…

I have a 30-ish inseam and am somewhere between flat-foot and low tip-toes on my 2015 Multi. The bigger problem is getting a leg over it with the panniers on if I’m wearing tight-ish jeans, but that’s what pegs are for (kinda).

I have a 2015 Mutley S and it’s the first motorcycle I’ve owned where I don’t feel like it’s not sporty or utilitarian enough. Had a Street Triple...sporty, but impractical. Had a BMW F800ST...practical, but boring. The Mutley is just perfect in an every day sense. It’s a bit heavy in a parking lot, but that weight…

It’s called a mutual fund.

Financing doesn’t stretch non-existent income. If my car payment is 5% of my monthly net income, I have the income. But I’m also not going to put aside a huge lump of cash each month to save to pay cash for a car, when I can save that money at 7% and finance a car at 4%. A financial advisor will pretty much never tell…

When I bought my car (used) last year, they defaulted me to a 60 month loan...it had been a while since I bought a used car, but it used to be that 36 months was pretty standard. The finance guy at the dealership was surprised when I asked for a shorter term and the shortest they would give me was 48 months.

Seems like the Brits had more of a colonial siege mentality to exploration, like “we’re the most powerful nation on earth and we can subdue anything through brute force.” Whereas Amundsen was heavily inspired by the Inuit and took a much softer and more thoughtful approach. The more things change, the more they stay…

It separates the Amundsens from the people you haven’t heard of because they never made it back.

Yep, this was my first thought...the real crisis isn’t car sales, but existing car loans...both sub-prime and the long-ass ones that ensure you’re underwater for the entire time you own the car.

My brother-in-law is a salesman at a big dealership...they do a ton of volume so I expect that they’ll last longer than most. But they treat their salespeople like absolute garbage so I expect that when the time comes, the sales staff will be cut mercilessly and remaining staff will be forced to pick up any slack and…

I think from the rear 3/4 view it looks okay. Very much an 80s Ferrari. All other views, though...yikes.

Yep. Being well-liked and having people turn out to vote for you are two vastly different things.

40k people a year die in car crashes and yet no one is saying “don’t drive because it’s dangerous and you don’t want to be in the hospital right now.” I would also assume that more people are involved in household accidents than motorcycle crashes, but everyone is staying home and playing with their kids and doing…

It’s not just Never Trumpers...it’s the Obama-Trump voters who were content to overlook his racism and buffoonery because they didn’t like Hillary, or it’s the marginal white Obama voters who hated both candidates and just stayed home...both of these groups are generally reliable voters for whom a guy like Biden will…

My mom taught me to do it with thread...no fancy east coast liberal elite dental floss in my Idaho childhood home!

Love how their little logo history website just sort of casually rushes past the 1940s stuff.

He had a 5-minute redemption arc, so all is forgiven!