I'm new to EV ownership, but everybody seems to love A Better Route Planner so I downloaded it and started poking around and it seems weird so many L2 and L3 chargers are missing or misplaced, and decommissioned ones are still there. With 1M+ downloads I thought the horde would be more accurate.

Pssst, hey, other business owners, the Federal 30C tax credit for installing Level 2 or 3 EV charging will be available until June 30, 2026, which had been set to expire December 31, 2032 before the "Big Beautiful Bill." Get going if you want help on that convenience for your employees or customers.

This is how fun the ancient internet used to be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguX...

This is what happens when you ask your six year old to name your new car.

It kind of blows my mind that Michelin *took* the mid-premium all-season tire market with the CrossClimate 2's by saying "hey, let's just do high-resolution tractor tires."

If hotels in the midwest really wanted to provide an home-like experience the lowest drawer next to the sink would be absolutely crammed with old plastic shopping bags.

One of the most annoying parts of having a super-duty Amex account is learning just how many ways you can't use your super-duper Amex account. What's the point if you can't buy a car on your credit card?

Look at how much we used to give a crap about inspirational and epic imagery in education. The publisher spent time and money on this shot. Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Weird Facebook ads... come on, I am not Quentin Tarantino.

It is 7:59 pm on a Thursday and I am explaining how to solve algebra equations to a six year old because George W. Bush thought federalizing curriculum was a good idea and let a bunch of beuaracrats set standards while actively ignoring educators.

Want to see what poverty in America looks like? www.reddit.com/r/povertyfin...

#Parentconfidential I sneak jarred sweet red cabbage into her peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She hasn't called me out once.

Welcome to Michigan, land of the drivable wreck. That dent was rusted, this is old damage. I wonder how long this guy's been driving this Patriot around like that. How many tires has he worn to the cords? Not even mad, impressed. He was keeping up with traffic no problem.

Anybody else ever think about the tremendously huge car culture footprint Vector left for company that only ever produced 40-something cars including prototypes? Truly, a modern Tucker.

A 55 gallon drum of Goo Gone is impressive and has hilarious implications, but just think about how much that would be at retail, and how much profit they're taking on you when this drum still makes money. www.grainger.com/product/1NNW...

I kind of can't wait for the end of Stranger Things when it turns out Barb is alive and the lynchpin who saves the world and gets a happy ending.

If you've ever worked on cars as a hobby or burden, this channel Garbage Time is 100%, exactly the experience and made 50% more fun to watch on account of the Aussie accent and style of humor. www.youtube.com/@GarbageTime...

Damn, guess I have to break out a real dusty bottle of champagne. Dick Cheney leaves behind a legacy of death and destruction and nothing at all that's admirable. He will be forgotten.

Windows 11 and the current iteration of Sharepoint are basically unusable. Work gets done in spite of this hot garbage. Get an army of bulldozers and have them push every server farm that hosts this trash into the sea.

Want to know what generational trauma looks like? Read through the comments here. I will forever be grateful to my parents for breaking the cycle. www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comm...

Nobody ever tells you about the big stupid smiles you'll wear perpetually when you have a kid. The whimsical nonsense is the strongest cure-all I've ever experienced.

I wonder if Lawrence Fishburn looks back at his time as Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee's Playhouse with fondness or embarrassment. I choose to believe fondness.

Amazingly our little town still has a local newspaper and in it recent reportage has highlighted a rise in tools being stolen from trades trucks and warnings about vehicle thefts. I remember this from before. It happened during the great recession. As a leading indicator.

Daughter found an old Canadian paper dollar in the house and after explaining paper money went to the foreign currency jar to get a Looney and show what they use now. Then I realized how we Detroiters didn't notice how we stopped pocketing Canadian quarters with the shift the cards and phone pay.

You might not like it but this is what peak 1990s performance looked like. If you lived in Texas, every other vehicle on your street was exactly this or the GM equivalent.

Little bit of Leonard Cohen, apropos of nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8u...

My timing could not be funnier. I decided to finally put up gutters on our hundred year old garage only for nature to deliver the hardest drought since the 1980s.

I'll be in southern Ohio for something at the beginning of November and the National Museum of the Air Force has always been a bucket list item for me. Was planning on going but have zero hope it'll be open on account of the GOP's inability to govern. Thanks Trump.

A Venezuelan woman won the Novel Peace prize and now I'm wondering how long it'll take before the toddler in chief starts lobbing MOABs at random targets in Venezuela.

I wonder how many tens of thousands of middle aged boomers in the 90s built hot rod template cars. God, Boyd Coddington must have made an absolute mint on all that billet junk jewelery he sold.

30 years ago being online was a luxury. Today being offline is the luxury.

This is genuinely terrifying. When retail investors are pumping the market, gold is skyrocketing, and institutional investors are rebalancing portfolios into foreign exchanges and into other instruments it's exit time.

Saw Ford GT shooting down Southfield freeway towards Dearborn this morning. Ruby red with silver stripes glinting under the warm fall sun. Still the coolest spaceship with four wheels.

I'm horrified by the illegal, unconstitutional and just plain inhuman actions of this administration, but I'm more concerned that these types of people have had 80 years to study what went wrong the last time this was tried, and 45 years of concerted effort to build a machine that doesn't fail.

Kind of don't know how I'll explain the progress of, current state of, and future trajectory of technology to my five year old when automatic doors at a grocery store was mind blowing during my own childhood.

Been thinking about this probably not super scientific polling result for a bit. Yes it indicates strong unity on the issue nationally, but the implications of the 10-18% of Americans on the other side are alarming. Is that the percentage of people cool with pedophilia?

An example of the reality distortion field that envelops the Metro Detroit area. Our little town is lousy with Regal TourXs (ours in the back), I know of at least three more within about a mile of our house. Based on local observation alone you'd swear GM sold these like hotcakes.

Thank you, CVS, in addition to your "From the Road Original Scrolls"-length receipts, you have now enshitovate again with this: Semi-bogus sale tickets obscuring almost every single product on every single shelf. That really makes finding what I came for sooooooooo easy.

Soft secession has begun.

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

Went to metal mart yesterday to pick up a piece of 36"x36"x1/8" steel tread plate to fabricate a sump well cover in a basement. $145. That would have been $50 tops last year. Thanks Trump.

Is it weird that I feel more naked forgetting my pocket knife than I do when forgetting my phone?

I recently realized I am allowed to just work from the Detroit Institute of Art if I want. For free. Well, maybe parking.

Sat in my '64 Continental for the first time in about 12 years. Had to clean out the junk I stashed inside as I was moving. Life really comes at ya fast. Now that our tiny human is becoming semi-autonomous I'm finding time to rediscover myself, my interests, and tackle the put-off to-do list.

Yeah, that's some good summer. Just let this last forever.

Being human is knowing that I will never achieve relaxation at the level of our three legged cat.

Next January the Chevy Express will have been in continuous production for 30 years without a major redesign. Is that a record? I really don't know.

Nope... nothing to see here. No cause for concern, study, or coordinated effort to address the root causes. Go on about your business.

I like how Trump is being all tough guy with his illegal military deployments in large liberal cities, DC first, apparently NYC and Chicago next, but hasn't even whispered the name Detroit. Last time the feds visited they brought tanks and left with casualties. Also, how about those Epstein files?