You guys get vacations? Next you’ll tell me you get holidays off too or something…🫠

Revelations 13: 16-17

And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.

Don’t forget the flipping tables, beating bankers and money-lenders, and saying that rich people don’t go to Heaven.

I live in a vacation town where fireworks are illegal and I can hear them basically every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Both? Both. Massachusetts is right up there as well, and while Boston isn’t as large or dense as NYC, a full 50% of the workforce in Boston commutes every day using the T. That’s a huge portion of the people who go into and out of Boston daily from outside suburbs and towns who aren’t on the roads.

One of the big reasons for the stupid size of parking lots around stores has to do with zoning laws as well. I don’t remember the numbers and it’s gotta vary by district, but it’s tied to a certain percentage of the max occupancy of the building.

Because of the car-focused infrastructure that puts everything else last, we’ve created a self-defeating system that forces people to drive everywhere, thus justifying the massive parking lots that prevent people from using other modes of transport in the first place.

Yep, and I’d add family to the list. A lot of this stuff comes from how parents act around their friends as well, both in public and private.

It’s the original definition of memes: information passed on outside of genetics.

Call it what it is: nationalism. I’ve been weirded out by it since I stopped saying the pledge of allegiance in elementary school.

Fun fact: the pledge was created as part of a campaign to sell more flags to schools.

While this is an old saying, misogyny and disrespect like this are learned behaviors, not naturally occurring.

This kid is, what, 12? And he’s publicly talking on social media about how he thinks he’s got the charm to get in his teacher’s pants. Call it what it is: this kid has been groomed by “influencers.”

This is what happens when you try to sanitize the internet for advertisers children.

Here’s the version I have that I think is more accurate

That was the implication. Somebody’s getting a blow job on my 65th birthday, and it sure as hell isn’t gonna be me.

I can’t say anything for sure since I haven’t had a real vacation in 15 years (that wasn’t just staying at the nearest major city for a 3-day holiday weekend), but the cost of flying is a very sore point even in the continental US.

There are tons of beautiful and fun places to visit in the US, but especially if you’re driving, time becomes a limiting factor. I know people who drive from Massachusetts to Florida pretty much every year to go to Disney, and it takes 2 or 3 days of travel to get down there. The stats say that we have less vacation time than similar countries (Europe, Canada, etc.), and the average American will never leave their home state and will die within 25 miles of where they were born.

I used to work with a guy who had a Tachoma that he loved and he only used it for offroading. He kept a pair of spare axles in the bed to swap out on the trail if he snapped one.

I think he means that the engine, transmission, and frame are the same, not necessarily the body.

Also, I don’t think you two really disagree with each other, as his first comment was:

The big one is a work truck and should not be driven as a commuter. It really shouldn’t be allowed on roads where cargo trucks aren’t allowed.

The horrible sightlines of modern pickups is a different issue, and I was actually going to post that same chart in this thread because I was thinking of it too. I will add that the pickup is about the same size as the tank, though, and has a worse view.

The average American has less than $300 in their bank account. There is no county in the US where somebody making the median salary can afford the average cost of a house for that county.

Vacationing in Europe and going on wine tours would sound like a once-in-a-lifetime trip for the majority of Americans.

The average lifespan in the US has fallen 3 years in a row and is the same as the part of the UK with the worst average lifespan. With the destruction of the CDC and the removal of food safety inspections they keep attempting, I don’t think many of us will have to worry about it.

Besides, Berretas are cheap.

His speech patterns and dialogue match up surprisingly well with Jim Jones of the famous Jonestown Massacre. Once somebody like that has a following, it doesn’t matter how crazy he gets, the diehard believers will literally die hard for the guy.

The first campaign drew the cult together from a cult that was already there (a groomed voter base who will vote Republican no matter who) and the first term bonded them together against an enemy (everybody with common sense) while the Republican party and the entire media insulated them from how bad he is. There were some people who saw what he did and turned away - he got less votes this time around than he did last time, and that’s even with the questions of election interference that keep cropping up - but that just means that the people left are the crazies who would defend him even if he personally started shooting up schools.

American politics is so screwed up that most people have little clue of what exactly happens in this country. A coworker of mine just the other day was effectively saying that daddy Trump had to hurt us because big-meanie Biden ruined the government deficit.

I believe it’s a hormone thing because otherwise nobody would have a second kid. Apparently the hormones kick in and make you forget the pain while also giving you a big hit of dopamine so that you connect having a kid to being happy.

Should’ve gone for the thermite, then at least we could call him a “hot” boomer.