JordanZ

It’s just an old town in the literal middle of nowhere farm land USA. It’s a dying town. The 2025 census estimates put the population under 800 now.

My uncle is retired so the distance didn’t really bother him. He bought a 1200sq/ft(~111m^2^) 1 bedroom 1 bathroom house built in the 1890’s in a town with a population of about 900….It was still $87K. So you were pretty much right on.

I drive a manual Miata. I’d absolutely love an Autozam AZ-1 (Autozam is a Mazda brand). I also ride motorcycles. The Miata is actually harder to use than the motorcycles in American traffic due to its height. If you want to turn and a truck/SUV pulls up on your side you’re just stuck staring right at the middle of their door panel, zero visibility. On the motorcycles my head is at least high enough to see through their windows. Obviously this wouldn’t be an issue if the other driver didn’t pull forward to the absolute limit but that next to never happens.

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I bought ram from Amazon some time ago and somebody had done a sticker swap and returned. The ram sticks in the package matched the box according to all the stickers but the kit registered in software was a lower end set with different part/serial numbers than the stickers/box. The funny part was when I bought it the price difference was only like $5 but about a year or so earlier it was closer to an $80 difference.

Yeah that kind of stuff is covered in the second half. The first half and the title seem to allude that people just think EVs drive worse than their ICE counter parts somehow in cold weather.

various YouTube videos, and Reddit and Quora threads — often featuring inaccurate or misleading information — all essentially telling potential EV owners that if they want to drive in colder months, they're better off buying a gas-powered car.

When I told a friend of mine I was going to the Arctic to drive EVs, their response was: "Do they even work in the cold?"

This isn’t even really news…the numbers dipped from the pandemic and they’re returning to what they were prior.

Non-resident births dropped from 1.6 per cent of total births between 2019-2020 to 0.7 per cent between 2020-22, but they bounced back to 1.5 per cent between 2023-24 and 2024-25.

Most people don’t do this for some reason but you really should be removing snow from your hood and roof already. I’m not sure what Michigans laws are but in my state if a chunk of snow/ice flies off my car into somebody else’s vehicle while driving and causes an accident or damage (cracked windshield, whatever) then that’s my fault and can be cited and my insurance will have to cover the other drivers damage.

It’s pretty common to see the big contraptions out here to pull crap off the top of semi trucks/trailers for this very reason.

Oddly enough this was never something I even questioned about EVs. There shouldn’t be any real difference in winter drivability just because of a different power source. Tires do most of the heavy lifting there. Cold weather does other things to EVs but the general drivability doesn’t degrade anymore than an ICE vehicle. The second half of the article goes into a lot more of the drawbacks of EVs and why they’re less of a drawback as time goes on.

My vote is just a cylinder. It’s been used for the hard drive activity light for decades already so shouldn’t be too much of a leap. Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.

For all Steam’s faults…they host games forever it seems. A game I use to play was pulled from the storefront but stayed in your library(assuming you had it prior) because the publisher shut it all down back in 2017. I can still download and launch the game but the servers were gone so you couldn’t really play. Apparently pretty recently people found a way to get bootleg servers up so players were appearing as online again.

I’ll agree it’s still a point of failure if Steam just up and disappears but I’ve never had a game actually disappear from my library yet. Unlike basically every digital copy platform for movies (digital copy codes from physical copies). Just because you ‘own’ a digital movie doesn’t mean it won’t just vanish one day. iTunes will generally give you a couple bucks if you bring it to their attention that it’s gone but other platforms basically tell you to pound sand.

We basically have the exe issue with PC games on disc. I’ve got a few of those but most have been community patched so you just copy the cd contents, copy a file or two on top and launch the game for a modern os. Obviously some security risk here if those patched files are malicious.

I’m kind of curious how things like this get tallied. Basically it’s a physical box of the game with a download code but no cartridge.