This has been studied. Just the first google hit of many

I agree with this totally! I have a 2010 clubman that I drove daily from 2015 until 2021 and I loved the 3 door styling; as soon as they gave it 4 full doors the uniqueness of the styling evaporated for me completely.

This will be worth it for the inevitable, breathlessly over-wrought presser Rolls-Royce will release to describe the reactors and their extensive list of customization options.

Nah, needs to never have owned, nor ever again, own a gun.

Nothing brings out lunatic ancap skinheads like the press suggesting American businesses should be accountable to brown people.

Good work, sir. Anyone who can change their mind online is a person I’d have dinner with (you’re paying, though).

I would tend to agree with you, if he didn’t actually possess a gun. This doesn’t appear to be a situation where the officers were pulled into a 100mph chase, and their adrenalin is pumping once they finally catch the guy. This was a traffic stop that escalated quickly because a guy tried to pull a gun on the…

At Walmart, it’s said

I went down that road at first, but upon seeing the footage and realizing that the officer had little time to react to what was likely a credible threat on their life...Its really hard to say they reacted too strongly.  I wish they had tazed him, or used some other non-leathal form to subdue...but the reality is they…

I have to disagree, the driver threatened the officers, then reached for a firearm that after the event was on the floor on the passenger side. the only way that gun moves from his holster to the floor is if he was pulling it from the holster so this was 100% a case where the force was justified. He intended to shoot…

...asserted his independence from the laws of the land...

Oof, this one hits. Dad used to pick me up from piano lessons when I was 8, play this song, and tell me stories about how poor he was as a child and I would just cry. I will forever equate Gordon Lightfoot with being sad in the car. 

In the US, there’s generally not a duty to help/rescue. That’s different from common law systems in other countries - in Germany, for example, “unterlassene Hilfeleistung” (meaning a failure to render aid) is considered a tort, subject to reasonable limits. So in VW’s own home country, this might have been a legal…

because I’m 100% an adult, all I can see in that top picture is....well

Mine all turn into robots... (and I guess aren’t all cars).

Oh you hit me right in the feels.  I was maybe 5 and my dad took a 2' square of cardboard, a marker and ruler and made me a “town” with the local supermarket and some other landmarks with roads and parking spaces.  I played with that thing until it completely fell apart.

One of my favorites is this Corgi VW “Driving School” that came with a set of cones. I had one as a kid, literally drove the tires off of it and found that Lego tires were a serviceable replacement. I recently spent 30 bucks and bought another off of ebay. Its on my desk and I play with it regularly still.

You’re telling me that a steady diet of Facebook and “alternative news sources” without being kept on an even keel with regular social interaction with actual humans with diverse views and backgrounds, was unhealthy?

“Racially insensitive.” No, that is a hell of a lot more than insensitive, that’s the whole kit and caboodle of straight up fuck-you level racism.

That’s my hometown. Every time I go back (2 - 3 times/year) I wonder why I live where I do. Last time I was there I spent most of a day riding in sheer joy at the amazing bike lane system.