It’s more fun to some people, including me. Wheeling doesn’t need to be about optimization or ease-of-use. It’s an inherently illogical hobby, after all!

I mean, you could search and find out pretty good studies that take this into account for a total life cycle analysis. In the end, it ends up being a case of if you value total green house emissions vs land fill & recyclability vs total energy consumption. Electric cars come out ahead for emissions (even if your power…

Ferrari maintenance is a lot more expensive too though. 2k service every 40k miles on a 911 and oil changes are actually simple.  It's not a Toyota, but it's close when you compare it to Ferrari.

whores do it for money, sluts do it for fun

Super interesting -  Thank you. Also, I’m a married to a prof who is very into public facing research work and I know that it is extra on top of what you do for your job - so thank you for taking the time to share your expertise with the public!

The author of that story (I read it last week) was on a solipsistic rumination about himself and what he perceived as his role in destroying a business he loved.

“I used to rape women, but then I took an arrow to the crotch.”

Those things are not mutually exclusive. Women can be afraid for their safety and men can be afraid of false accusations at the same time.

I read books about serial killers, and I don’t think they’re cool. I read magazine articles about how people fish by sticking their arm down a catfish’s throat, and I think it sounds stupid. I’ve even read articles where I’m told that shaving your nutsack is what the ladies are looking for, but I’m not gonna do it.…

I respectfully disagree. I think you can cover the less savory aspects of car culture (which we’ve routinely denounced!) without that “glorifying” it. You’re smart people and we trust you to get it without beating the point over your head.

You’re right. We should only cover things that we fully endorse. We will never cover dumb things ever again. If we pretend they don’t exist, they will go away.

Air BNB.

These c***s need to be thrown in jail with some of the criminals they’ve sent up.

This may be bigger than we thought. It turns out that there were many early, unsuccessful attempts at this BMW theft scheme worldwide that only succeeded in disabling the turn signals.

My solution to this in the past has been to just take one of the matching parts to the hardware store

You’d think they’d target Android as it’s actually the OS they use on their own devices. 

Here is the Cars.com version.

I wouldn’t call an off-handed joke a “rabid anti-tesla rant”, but I guess if you’re hyper-sensitive you could perceive it as such.

People who survived tend to have survived.