Images of smoking Eastern European jalopy intensifies.

It has jump seats in the back, not even remotely like captains chairs. While they are useful for loading with the split tailgate, they’re all 13-21 years old. OP is looking to trade from a 2018 car because of reliability concerns.

They got the idea right, but it was a shrieking Orange ball of rage.

Depends on how cheap the drywall is.

You may avoid brain damage, but your get cancer form the dust on the way through.

The work/life culture was better than my preceding professional jobs, but the middle management was terrible, with 3 coming and going in 2 years.

I became a consultant for one more year, and liked that more, but they ultimately got out of that business (Shopify and squarespace ultimately took that market around the same time).

I was working in web development and marketing back then, while you’re kinda right, and there were always “fires” (which were bullshit, because we mostly did clothing brand websites and tv show ads, not really important in the bigger scheme).

We did manage to keep them from launching sites or features on Fridays. So we had chances to take them more (but still not enough).

Yeah we called them personal days, s as long as nothing was due that day it was ok to use them for any reason.

Almost, private equity buys out companies by giving the owners big buyout cheques with debt that will be saddled on the new company.

So when they “buy Hoonigan for [undisclosed amount]” what they really did was go find a bank that would give them a billion dollar loan for the “value” of the brand they bought and then after buying the the brand, the loans go to the company they bought.

If the owners are smart, they take a cash buyout and bail as soon as possible. Ken Block died before any of that could happen, but others like Hert and Vinny bailed. I don’t follow them enough to know if they were stakeholders in Hoonigan, or what Scotto is up to, but I suspect they all got big cheques when that deal went through.

Then the private equity lets the now empty brand go bankrupt and guess who eats all the debt? Our retirement funds!

I like working on Subarus for that reason, but they are still statistically more expensive for maintenance and repairs than Toyotas on average. (Not for me though, I do everything but bodywork on my cars).

That said, the new Prius and GR cars from Toyota (who also has a big stake in Subaru) are really attractive. Also, the E-CVTs in Toyota and Subaru hybrids are really nice and low wear designs. The non-e Subaru CVTs haunt my nightmares. I have a crosstrek CVT with 133k miles on it and tightly crossed fingers…

Unless it’s tin whiskers from the early lead free solder…

I fear that shit way more than I was ever worried about y2k bugs.

2. A coffee
3. A person or animal lacking pigmentation
4. A parasite
5. My sex drive

Makes sense. As much as aqua seafoam shame does anyway.

The pictures of stacks of failed clutches in r/justrolledintotheshop were enough to convince me.

Ford had a habit of inventing new systems, but slapping them on the first couple model years of any vehicle before they seem ready.

My dad had a first-gen Explorer Sport Trac with many notorious problems. My favorite was that both inside back door handles broke off it was like being locked in a police car back there.

Non profit, non vertically integrated healthcare. Letting the insurance companies “partner” with the pharmacies and hospitals is monopolistic or at best duopolistic in some markets. And it lets them charge whatever or threaten to leave a community. Which has happened repeatedly in my area. Then the biggest hospital in the area buys up another small one and the costs go up again.

I thought grapefruit blocked the channels that lots of drugs use?

Yeah 0F is -18 and that’s when your Moses starts to stick together when you breath in.

You’re apparently better off swallowing your snot too, since it’s largely condensed water vapor from your own lungs and you’ll dehydrate slower.

Source: have always lived within a short drive to Canada.

I wonder how much more money they make from banner ads than pen sales?

Also:

We Specialize In Wood

The coffee order says Boston, but the donut order says Chicago.

Plus you can do a double check flush to make sure it’s all clear.

Looks like an AI modded bus at first. I’m so glad it’s real!

The central seat and real suspension (instead of a slammed beam) should hopefully make it drivable too. Like a budget T2 version of the Renault Espace F1

Has it gotten worse since the started anrmor and locking the cockpit doors?

I’m old enough that when I flew as an unaccompanied minor in the early 90s, I got to go up to the cockpit to talk to the co pilot. Got some plastic wings from northwest while I was in there too.