A couple years ago there was one lifted truck obnoxiously bright wheel well lights in town. I saw three of them on the way to get ice cream tonight.

Giving blood today in a cold gymnasium. The phlebotomist sees my arm and goes “oh it’s like you have a built in sweater, I’m so cold” Ummm thanks? 😒

It’s pretty, but soon I have to pick every one of those leaves up. 😩

Car Nerds — What Renault car did my wife spot in central New Jersey the other day??

HA😂 Funny story, but this was when my son was little and he mostly ran around in flip flops, but by the time this car got wrecked, he had what he called "Mazda shoes" which were sneakers he would wear whenever we went somewhere because there was a solid chance we would have to walk.

I’ve been trying to buy this E320 for almost 4 months. (Long story I’ve been documenting on Mastodon) What’s the longest you pursued a car then successfully purchased it? Give me some hope or crush my dreams…. #weirdcarbs

It seems possible that MTG was the only Republican of any note to not realize this was all a grift. I love that for her.

At Lumon Headquarters — you can fit so many Severed in here. The “Universal” Tesla destination chargers would not provider their bounty, Keir must have been mad I downloaded the Tesla app. I will sit with my shame.

as someone who has had the misfortune of regularly emailing with the super rich, I can tell you they do all write emails like that

The coffee at the Dunkin in the NJ Turnpike Rest Stop where I charge my car once a week is served ridiculously hot. I want to drink a coffee while my car charges but it’s done charging by the time the coffee cools down. First world problems.

I seem to have been put on a very specific scam list for people who have been trying and failing to get an EV charger installed for 2 1/2 months.

Township lost my permit application for an EV charger. This is quite the process.

Its pretty funny watching them absolutely beat on these cars on a track for what must have been a long day of filming then having a little ad, "By the way you can buy these exact cars on Hagerty Marketplace" Ummm no thanks..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2I3...

My wife found a loft bed for my daughter on Facebook marketplace. We had to go to someone’s house, disassemble it, carry it down narrow stairs and we paid $80 for it. The owner drank tea and listened to the radio as we worked. The bed is fine, but I still feel like I got played.

Now that I am starting to give up on getting that Craigslist E320 I went to look to see if anything cool was for sale out there. Man there are slim pickings right now.

Shameless self promotion of my awesome Yugo brooch.

Over two months and I’m still charging this thing with a 25ft extension chord sticking inelegantly out of the garage. And it’s kinda fine. I can drive about 400 miles a week either by making one 20 minute fast charger stop or taking a different car to work one day a week.

this is genuinely too funny www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

it's onion stuff

There is a pretty great story in the latest Hagerty magazine where the author made a sight unseen 3rd party purchase of a 1982 Rolls Royce. It went about as well as you imagine

All the techno-fascist and their boot lickers thought they had the perfect trojan horse of "anti-woke / anti-trans" propaganda to literally take over the country. They may have overplayed their hand.

As impressions and reviews start to trickle in about the Polestar 4, I can't get over how it's being called a "coupe-like crossover." It's just a sedan. I've sat in one not for one second did I think I was in a crossover. insideevs.com/news/777906/...

Volvo 760 Diesel with M46 manual transmission sitting in my friend’s body shop yard freshly painted. It had been sitting inside a different body shop for 20 years that shop shut down, so they brought it to Mike.

When people ask me how I lost so much weight I’ll pretty openly tell them “Zepbound”. That often brings up a concerned “but you can’t be on that forever..” to which I have to politely dodge. Because as long as it proves medically safe I’d happily be on it forever.

www.polestar.com/us/manual/po... Today I learned my Polestar has some sort of cloud based warning system where other Polestar and Volvo vehicles will send out a warning of slippery road conditions or a vehicle with its hazards on, that warning will then be displayed on my dash if I'm close. 🤷‍♂️

If the Bluejays don't win it here I am going to sleep and assuming they lost.

Was the left fielder playing for a tag up with 2 outs? What is happening??

Sitting in my car listening to Pandora just across the river from South Philly and a “Save NYC from Socialism” ad plays. Someone’s got a good grift going.

Halloween is pretty great around here. Just immaculate vibes. Literal trainloads of kids come into town, many from poorer neighborhoods plenty of candy for everyone. Smiles and happiness everywhere.

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

Sure it’s potentially dangerous, but 50mph wind gust play into our family Halloween costume theme perfectly. Think of the content!

“I’m connected to a lot of people in the EV1 world who have EV1s, illegally or legally. And they have been giving me a lot of advice as well.” — someone needs to make a lightly fictionalized feature length film about the dangerous world of underground EV1 ownership.

I’m like 95% sure the original post is rage/engagement farming and not AI boosterism. No one could think this was good/promising.

Need to meet the staff member who drives this, no one drives a manual(!) Chrysler Crossfire by accident in the year 2025

I will believe until the day I die that if the democrats ran a non-Binden middle aged fit businessman looking guy in 2024 they would have one. No further analysis is needed than that. A lot of people were operating under lizard brain level racism and misogyny.

I’m not saying Mookie Betts is a bad shortstop but it’s incredibly annoying that every time he makes a routine play they talk about how he should win a gold glove.

Fun Polestar ownership fact. The car comes with LTE internet access for all its gizmos. Does this access run out? How much does it cost when it does? No one knows. Polestar has never turned it off on anyone and us owners have decided it’s best not to talk about it.

I continue to be unimpressed with the cost savings of an electric car. Since it's a low electricity usage time of year you can clearly see when the car was plugged into a level 1 (110 volt) charger with the tall light blue lines. The dark blue line is last year's usage.

I just saw two largish (impossible to tell their actual size) drones flying around at night. About a year ago sightings like this more or less caused a mass hysteria here in New Jersey. My wife just said “so what” when I told her about these ones. So hard to impress these days.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

I got to stretch the Polestar2’s legs on some of the excellent roads in the Appalachian foothills this weekend. I could complain that the steering lacks feel. The truth is it’s the first car I owned in a while that is capable of way more than I am as a driver. It was pretty fun.

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

I saw my first M5 Wagon up close today. It’s huge.

I only drive my cybertruck on alternate weekends

Meeting the family at our cabin after work. For the journey I had to decide whether I trusted my mechanical handiwork and take the Volvo with 277,000 miles or my electrical handiwork and use the untested NEMA 14-50 outlet I installed during my last visit.

I was talking to a guy at work who is a semi-sane person stuck in a conservative media bubble, about my EV. He’s EV curious but does not want to be “forced to” buy an EV. 🙄 But he also said “Electricity should be cheap it’s AI’s fault it’s expensive.” I’m counting that as a win.

It’s hilarious to me that Rivian is launching a $4500 e-bike as 12 year olds zip along everyday at 30mph on e-bikes that cost $500. There is no shame in a bespoke luxury item, but this is a solved problem.

Invest a couple billion dollars in me and I will open a series of woke home improvement warehouses in shuttered Toys R’ Us. By woke I simply mean not shitty. We will also carry way more metric fasteners than current home improvement warehouses.

So you can buy a Mazda CX-50, Toyota RAV-4 and Subaru Forrester all with Toyota's hybrid system? Thats kinda wild...

I'm agree with the argument that the democrats shouldn't caste out everyone who ever said/wrote/did something stupid when they were younger. And that being too puritanical alienates democrats with young men. I'm just not sure that grace should extend to people who CURRENTLY have Nazi tattoos.