My folks and brother and sister still live there. I visit regularly enough. Nothing fundamental has changed. Olatha is still whitebread. N KC still rolls up the sidewalks at 7pm. Johnson county is still a massive cookie cutter burb. KCK is still whitetrash and black ghetto.

About the only thing I noted was they built a new Plaza further out. So the Johnson county people don't have to see a black person.

What? You must be clueless.

Pecker park is not the whole KC area.

Bullshit.

You've got Sprint, some Aviation related work in Olatha, Black and Veech, the government tit suckers building medical database software and the usual assortment of small businesses building apps for local business.

You should visit N.Cal. We've got single zip codes with 10x the tech as the whole KC area.

I grew up in midtown KC. Bullshit on you! Massive piles of bullshit.

Only KC residents think they are diverse. Because they have both Baptists and Methodists in the country club.

And Olatha? Where the tech jobs (such as they are) are. White bread 'burb from hell. Only good thing there was 'The Roundup' nudie bar.

N. KC? OMFG I'm in new Topeka from 'A Boy and His Dog'.

You need to look up the definition of 'professional'.

You got the fuck out of LA didn't you?

It's amazing how few people still know to pump their brakes when they fail. It doesn't always help, but is always better then leaving your foot down.

Traction control on a non driven wheel? Maybe stability control.

You should only lift your inside rear wheel under very hard braking and cornering. Not a highway interchange at steady speed. There is nothing transferring weight forward.

I'm going to have to call bullshit.

Switch to decaf.

Helps that they get to decide who caused the accident.

Cops are a good reason to install a dash cam.

Most ABS brakes systems degrade to regular brakes systems when the ABS fails. Same is true for power brakes.

Brake by wire is different. Some of them degrade to 'pedal goes to floor, brakes do nothing'.

They universally have almost no pedal feel. You won't know you have a warped disk by feeling it.

Screw that, we need airbag poisoned face spikes to be required on proven dangerous drivers cars. If that doesn't make them focus then the problem solves itself.

That's more or less how it is. So they drive even worse clunkers as they know they will lose them every time they talk to a cop.

Then the cops stop doing anything out of frustration, leaving the laws selectively enforced.

1 Month later they come back. 'That was one hell of a party! We need more money.'

Those idiots aren't in the position they are in because they know how to handle money.