$1200 month won't begin to buy you your own lane.

Right now every car spend about $0.01/mile in gas taxes for the roads. You'd have to pay a whole lane worth of costs to get your own. Going to track days is much cheaper.

Also get a slower car, so you can drive the piss out of it. The problem with fast cars is you can't open them up, basically ever.

Rapidly depreciating 'investments'.

A car is an 'investment' in a very few cases. Even there I'd argue it was speculation 99% of the time.

The best I've ever done is $2500 turned into $45000. Which almost makes my lifetime car 'investments' break even, but that's only because I'm cheap and wrench.

A newer car is a sunk cost.

Just make being a Grommet a crime and be done with it. Useless freaks spinning their dreads and showering the crowd with lice.

So long as cost is not a factor, we should transit rail everything. Build a dedicated line, from everybodies house to their work...

You understand the underlying economics? It takes high population density/ridership to make rail economical. Where it is uneconomical it is also an environmental disaster (money being a decent, imperfect proxy for environmental damage).

Are you prepared for sticker shock? You don't want to know what your own lane would cost.

The Mexican national oil company didn't 20 years earlier with their very similar fuckup.

We don't drive cars only because they are cheaper than public transit, but faster too.

People will respond from very high density cities and point out what I say isn't true for them. They don't need free rides for motivation, because in their situation, public transit is actually better. They should take the moment to get some insight; the world isn't waiting for their advice and doesn't want their lives.

Worst oil spill in history. Nature sucked it up. Hard to find signs.

It changed things, we don't have to be nearly as paranoid. The worst case scenario already happened and wasn't that bad.

Black powder is a low explosive.

But don't let us stop you. Throw some on your grill.

In that era friends and I would walk down the street....if a cop pulled over we'd run like hell. Because we were surely up to no good.

We were idiots, turned the pitcher's mound into the pitcher's crater at a local park 5 4ths in a row. The 5th one, we barely got away. Running like Frenchmen before the actual explosion.

The cops started taking fire crackers seriously when they contained over a pound of smokeless powder and left 3 foot deep craters.

One kid I knew that got his explosive pyromania a little late did a year for his firecrackers. Serves him right for getting caught.

AC is an idiot repeating something he heard someplace. Likely never fired a gun, much less actually 'gunsmithed'.

Look at his claims, obvious nonsense.

Rose colored nostalgia glasses.

The main difference was that cop helicopters didn't have FLIR. That would have changed my teenage years substantially. Of course I would have know of FLIR and changed my behavior.

The cops were still crooked thugs that beat people for entertainment, that hasn't changed a bit.

If they wanted it, they would have nailed it down.

If I can pry it up, it isn't nailed down.

Your first 1000 hours doing new things are high risk. Even 50 year old new pilots are a hazard for their first 1000 hours.

Teenagers however are both learning to drive and learning to drink, so they get a double whammy. The solution, of course, is to lower the drinking age and raise the driving age. So they learn one then the other, not both at the same time.

Everybody I know that grew up in Missouri or Kansas that has the job skills to get out has.

We typically go back to visit in the spring of fall. Never in Winter or Summer.