I had a Camry Hybrid loaner and loved it. It drove quite well and got 50 MPG going to work except the day I tried to use as much gas as possible and it still got 41. I thought I would hate it because I usually loathe CVTs, but with the electric motor filling in to get the car moving it was actually fun to drive.

I had a new loaner car that kept telling me to pull over because it couldn't read the worn lane markings right and thought I was running off the road. At least I could ignore it, I guess soon enough it will just quit, lock the doors, and call the cops.

They are just in time for Americans to suddenly realize gas is expensive.

I remember that! It was something like if you were poor, you got a big bag of free money every month and were in big trouble if you did not spend it before next month.

First week: You all are using the brake pads up! What is wrong with you! The planes have reverse, use it! Second week: Why are we filing out dings in the props every day? Are you idiots using reverse and blowing up crap in front of the plane? Third week: go to 1st week

I used to buy it for seasickness and while it did help some of my crew when needed, even the patches from the pharmacy could have undesired side effects at their carefully calibrated dose. NFW would I be eating Jimson Weed to solve motion sickness.

That was a great book! I was going to mention it but could not remember the title.

This is misleading. I am not surprised that infra-sound can bother people in various ways. What they did not do was survey various buildings for infra-sounds. I saw no coherent explanation of why old buildings would have more of it. It also leaves off that plenty of ghost stories occurred in pre-industrial and pre-plumbing eras. What they needed to do was use 4 buildings, 2 new and 2 old, with one of each having infra-sound. There may be some psychology where feeling unsettled in a 10 year old building means one thing and in a 100 year old building something else, but this study did not go there or even survey any buildings at all for infra-sound.

Wasn't this very article on SD a few weeks ago? * using a Mint computer right now and it works as well as ever.

133K is upper middle class?? Wow, I have been a lot richer than I ever thought. Maybe in some flyover town that is big money, on either coast that is "at least I am not on food stamps" money. That is a school teacher married to a cop money. In places where a cheap house is $450K, that is not Upper anything.

This is key: My dog would eat roast beef until they were stuffed full no question, but they don't have easy access to it. Humans evolved in an environment where sweets were very rare and also contained important vitamins, so on the lucky occasion they found fruit they would really want to eat it. We are not designed for 24/7/365 supplies of sugar and fat. That said, back in the day we ate a horrible diet, sugar drinks, twinkies, McDs, etc, and were all skinny as a rail. I think pre-internet kids got about 1000 times more exercise than modern kids do.

Junkies are usually skin and bones after awhile, so maybe quitting fentanyl is the wrong thing to be quitting?

I am dealing with the dog issue right now. Every dog I have had previous to my current 2 basically did have the 100 pound bag of food. We filled their dishes whenever they got low and none of the dogs were overweight. My two now are different and different from each other. They are sisters and they eat the same stuff and get the same exercise. One looks like a supermodel, a gorgeous blue-eyed long legged Husky girl. Her sister has the same eyes but is quite overweight. Even being siblings, something is different with her where she gains weight rapidly from exactly the same diet that her sister does not. * keeping clever and very strong dogs from eating is not easy, if I don't feed them they go eat all the rabbits they can catch and start eying the cat too!

The shareholders VERY MUCH care about saving money and will kill any number of people that are not themselves to do it!

YMMV My last two car purchases from dealers were great, they did everything to make the process transparent. The one before that was like the 7th circle of hell, they did everything possible to rip us off until we left. The worst thing was it was a very rare car, we were not going to find another and they knew it. Even so, they went too far and we walked. * Shout out to Volvo, I did the whole thing over the phone. The salesman did a face-time in the car, took our word for it we would buy it, defended it against other salesmen with customers on site trying to buy it, drove it to our house with the paperwork to sign, and took an Uber back. The car has been great too. It was CPO, so it is under warranty, I would not have done that with a no-warranty used car. Car before that the Lexus dealer cancelled a sale when they found hidden issues with a used car and found us another that was a great car. To quote, "We are not willing to take the hit on you telling all your friends you sold us a crap car".