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Also I'm guessing that the people with 6-digit pad life are doing a lot of freeway rather than stop-and-go.

That does depend on the car. My Corvette (C5...I suspect the C6s had the same design) had a caliper bolt that was almost inaccessible unless the car was on a lift, and was spec'd for 115-120ftlb of...

Hadn't heard that one.

One story he told had to do with a family friend who was in the queue a rocker. The guy said, "I used to worry that I wouldn't get it before you [Sam] die, now I'm worried...

Those are like Sam Maloof lead times, but his "factory" consisted of him and two helpers. They turned out about a piece (chair/table/whatever) per week: the real gotcha was the multi-year backlog....

That is pretty much exactly what I said in the portion you redacted. If you don't want to compare current data to historical data, don't. But there are decades of current (i.e. satellite) data...

Have a cite for that? (I'm finding lots of stuff about how names are picked, not so much about what qualifies a storm for naming.)

It seems quite logical that "historically" (prior to weather...

So you're not old enough to remember the 1970-1980s. That, sir, was serious inflation.

That's a problem for a lot of people, going back well before 2019, but it really wasn't what you asked about...

How about the computer you're using to access this forum?

Heh. I've long had the impression that the overlap between economics and politics is nearly 100% for a largish percentage of the population.
(Of course, the same is true for politics and religion,...

It would have to be something that doesn't require you to verify your email address by sending email from it. Off the top of my head, that's a very short list, and I'd be surprised if opening a...

The real issue is that when inflation is (near-)zero, it doesn't mean that prices aren't higher than they used to be, which is really what most people complain about.

(The people who expect prices...

Cost-push inflation tends to have a ratcheting effect baked in unless there is active pressure to reduce prices when/if costs go back down. Whether you call it "greed" or "maximization of shareholder...

Higher rents -> higher real-estate prices -> higher insurance -> higher rents -> lather, rinse, repeat.
It's a classic feedback cycle.

If you google the word "recursion", it pops up a question, "Did you mean: recursion".
Some body there does indeed have a sense of humor.

1972 DU grad here. My take on the whole Coors mystique was always that it wasn't guys from the west talking it up, it was the eastern tourists. They'd drink a can or two on their first day at high...

My various "house" policies (homeowner's, earthquake, and umbrella liability) were fairly stable, small changes over the years. E.g. homeowner's went from $680 in 2007 to $925 in 2020, earthquake...

Thus perpetuating the cycle.

People on this thread seem to be sloppier than usual about who they're quoting/replying to. Just sayin'...

That seems highly unlikely: removing the firing pin takes maybe 5-10 minutes max.

<sarcasm> I'm not sure there's enough room in my gun safe to store all my hammers. Suggestions? </sarcasm>

You can check with the local PD (N.B. not always an authoritative source when it comes to things like this), but I suspect that if a trigger lock is sufficient for CA, it's almost certainly good...

Nelson Riddle, actually.

We usually do two driving vacations oer year, both one day's drive each way. Those four days usually involve a Carls Jr lunch: burger for me, fish sandwich or salad for the wife.

Otherwise, maybe...

It's all "bells and whistles and clutter" until you actually need it. :)

I had a professor once who walked into a class and saw a CocaCola can on someone's desk. He made some idle comment about how "they" put something in it to make it addictive, presumably having heard...