Either a lot of people have moved to my neighborhood from the UK, Australia or New Zealand, or people in my neighborhood have given up on trying to park well.

I'm getting tired of having drivers pull out of a space from the wrong side of the street and almost hit me because they couldn't see around the vehicle in front of them and their side mirror is facing the wrong way to see oncoming traffic.

My local police department is generally only giving parking tickets for serious violations, such as parking in a handicapped space without a permit. On one hand, I would like to see occasional parking enforcement. On the other, I don't mind that my local police really do focus on the major issues and aren't trying to raise revenue through parking and traffic tickets.

If you made it this far through my rant, I'll reward you with an E28 that parked correctly. They even turned the wheels the right direction when parked facing uphill.

@bandit Can you fit a wedding dress comfortably in that car?

I guess so...

@dr-zoidberg In general, composting is a good idea. However, the cabin air filer is probably not a good location.

@facw My wife and I have been waiting to travel to Canada. My wife's brother became a father back in November, and we want to visit our new niece.

My wife also wants to give her brother a dope slap for picking the girl's name. They named her "Heidi", which isn't a problem in itself. However, the last name is "Ho".

@boxer_4 Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line and use the following menu. Press 1 for an oil spill. Press 2 for a refinery fire. Press 3 for an oil train derailment. Press 4 for a pipeline leak. Press 5 to repeat these options.

@way2blu said in Know how all those 4Runners & overland pickups say “4WD” on the mud flaps?:

That said, I realize now I should have had one say “2WD” and the other say “RWD” just to keep things weird

If one is going to say RWD, it should be the one on the right with the left side saying LWD.

@ttyymmnn That's why I like Calvin and Hobbes. It's just complete fantasy and doesn't represent anything that could actually happen.

@ranwhenparked said in SS Medina/MV Doulos (1914-present):

during which her worn out steam engine was removed and replaced with a 4200hp 6-cylinder Fiat diesel, which had been original delivered to the Italian Navy in 1949, and then sold to Costa as surplus property. The new engine gave a slightly higher cruising speed of 15 knots, and was obviously far more reliable and economical.

I think this may be the first time I've heard of somebody ripping out the old engine and putting in a Fiat engine for improved reliability.

@sn4cktimes My guess is that buying the set for $7000 would come out of one budget and having you try to make things comes out of another budget. It may be shifting the accounting work based on what can be spent. Sure, it costs more in the long run, but internal rules can often lead to wasteful spending.

@pip-bip

@bicyclebuck All I can think of when see the pictures is the Rush song "Subdivisions".

@gmporschenut-also-a-fan-of-hondas It could be worse. When Frankfurt had to replace their runway, they couldn't shut it down. Each night, they would remove a tiny section and replace it with a special formulation of concrete that would cure enough to handle the next morning's takeoffs and landings. The challenge was that a bomb squad had to check for unexploded WWII bombs after the pavement was removed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/style/out-of-the-night-a-new-runway.html

@dr-zoidberg I work in a building in one of the warehouses just down the street from Postdoc Brewing. It's an occasional after-work hangout, or a place to grab lunch if they have a good food truck.

@dr-zoidberg

Paranoid viewpoint: I wouldn't want tracking because I would worry that the police might subpoena records from the insurance company if they thought my vehicle had been involved in some incident. From that point, it could become a fishing expedition.

Cynical viewpoint: The insurance company could look at every little driving infraction as a reason to raise your rates. What? You didn't come to a complete stop at a stop sign? You are now a risky driver and your rates are going up!

@rpmesq As a taxpayer, I'm going to claim at least partial ownership of this fleet.

@flatisflat

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wake-up-sailors-scurvy-is-a-hoax

@dogisbadob

I am a regular jogger and I have been run over and almost killed, so take this as coming from somebody who can sympathize with the victim and his family. I'm also the father of a 17 year old, so I have a little bit of an idea of the mind of a teenage kid.

This kid is young and stupid. However, in my opinion, charging them as an adult would serve no benefit.

It's not going to act as a deterrent to other kids. They just don't think about consequences. They can intellectually contemplate consequences, but they will exhibit rash behavior where those consequences don't come into their minds. Other kids doing something similar aren't going to think "Maybe I should be careful because Kasama Smith got charged as an adult and went to prison for a long time."

If sent to an adult prison, Smith will be a significant cost to taxpayers for a long period. Smith will come out of prison with few or no skills for surviving as an individual adult in the modern world. Smith's family may not support her upon her release, leaving her to either be a burden on the social system, or she may turn to crime ending back up in the penal system.

She is in Maple Valley which is part of a system with good diversion for juvenile offenders. It's part of the Issaquah school district where I live and where the victim grew up. There is a high school in the district run in conjunction with the department of corrections, Echo Glen. She would still be part of the juvenile justice system, but there would be an attempt to get her life back on track.

I don't know if victim restitution would be part of her sentence, but that isn't uncommon. There is nothing she can do to make the bring the victim back or make his family whole again. I've seen Echo Glen do a lot of good things and I think it would be a good option for this kid. She is young and her mind is still malleable.

@mr-ontop It's from the old UK show "Wheeler Dealers", with the mechanic Edd China. This was from the episode with a Lamborghini, with the famous bull logo on the hood.

@midengine I'm too cheap. I run 1500 - 1800 miles each year, so I go through at least 4 pairs of running shoes. They are worn to the point where they aren't good for running, but they are fine as everyday shoes. Why spend money on new shoes when I've got half a dozen pairs in the garage?

I consider myself frugal. My wife just shakes her head. She has given up on trying to turn me into a normal human.