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Yes. Although I don't think it excuses your health-care system.

Regarding the driving—is it just a numbers question in America? Like, more people drive, and drive more, and so more people die driving in the US than in other countries? Or is there something that American drivers do worse than other drivers?

Genuinely curious. Not snark or whatever. I don't know if Americans do die on the road at a higher rate than other countries. I'm going by you here. But if they don't, then it kind of goes against your original point.

 

I think that's pretty generational and by time we get to that point, most of those people will have aged out of driving anyway.

 

Trump Skates. But It's Not the Press's Fault.

"If the constituency doesn’t care, the accused will be fine."

 

I hear there's an opening in landline sales.

 

Yes (as I understand it) to the first question(s). Don’t know about the second.

 

"Overwhelmed by modernity and late stage capitalism's wheezing final years? Would you like to be unreachable for 14 hours a day? Disconnected from the President's latest tweet? I think I can help you."

 

I was looking at a Dodge Hellcat the other day, which is my idea of a beautiful machine, but I was given pause by two things:

1) As a 44-year-old man with a gut and 1,000-yard stare, do I look like a midlife crisis on wheels?

2) It puts out 11 tons of CO2 every 15,000 miles.

The first point, I can rationalize, or escape with tinted windows. The second point—that's hard to justify from a societal point of view. If I believe in gun control, because it's dumb to do obviously damaging things, and if I believe we have to do something about climate change, then I can't really make that leap, and I suspect the government, in Canada at least, won't allow me to make that leap for much longer.

I'm trying out a Honda Fit tomorrow.

 

I drive to run errands, but I also drive for pleasure. Dropping the top on my Miata and running a curvy road busts my stress as well or better than anything else in my life. I'm going to drive myself. I can live with a driverless car as long as I have another option, but I want the ability to feel a shifter knob in my hand, to wind out the engine, to hear the exhaust burble. I don't ride motorcycles, but it's much the same mindset.

If that means I'm old, I'm ok with it.

 

If it's just the former, I don't see much you can do about it. Unless you get people to drive less.

 

Did you drive it? I took one for a spin when they first came out. My gawd it was awesome.

But I quickly realized I would be much safer - and less likely to get a ticket - driving my 6-cylinder TJ.

 

I got a red Challenger as a rental last month. My wife asked me if I had returned my mid-life crisis to the airport the following Monday.

 

Kids today don't just go driving around aimlessly? No, "hey what's down this road" trips?