Well how about Washington state? Surely you can't say it is flat compared to Vermont with the major mountain passes and multiple ski resorts. They don't have inspections either and have lower road deaths per capita.

It all in the context though. A tiny pinhole in the muffler so what a big tear in the flex pipe near the fresh air intake is another story.

ACAB until i need one

> To which I say, that's not the frycooks fault and the EMT should be paid more. Worker solidarity & all that jazz.

Hell no, I used to be that fry cook too dude. Just cause I traded my kitchen clothes for a button up shirt doesn't mean I do not understand the struggle.

The economy is "allegedly" a delicate balance between inputs, outputs and the poor bastards in-between caught in the cross fire.

The labor market isn't well, we can both agree that benefits and wages need to rise and certainly it would not hurt one bit if products and housing inventory went down in price- but that likely wont ever happen.

A lot of our GDP is caught up in health care. A staggering 80%. This is why lobbyists are always shut down things like single payer health care and my republican fellows are too retarded to realize that they should adopt a progressive stance on healthcare because every single american would benefit from it. Politics aside, our economy needs to pivot from services / tourism and move into production if we want to see more better paying jobs. It's all too clear that Covid taught us we cannot rely on other nations to produce product things for us - we need to make more products or we are going to have a hard fucking time putting food on the table, or even having food at all. The fact that farms and manufacturing keep getting shut down in the states is absolutely appalling and the incoming generation needs to fix this - we cannot rely on globalism to fill in the gaps of our needs.

Anyone want to talk about artisanal cobalt mining in the congo? bet ya'll don't know what kinda hell those fellers go through so we can have lithium ion batteries.

sweet, urban sprawl. badass. this is exactly what I think of when I think of vermont

You think this never happens in VT?? Please guy

Because the capitalist system we live in cannot initiate preventive solutions, because that would directly go against the profit motive. If it's not profitable, it doesn't get done. That means that until it is profitable, it won't get done. And at that time, it will be too late to take action

Agreed. It's definitely crazy shit when you get into the nitty gritty of things.

I had a buddy that did some crazy shit to his late 90's prelude. Dropped an H22 in it, super charger, and all sorts of goodies.

We would spend hours on the highway tuning air / fuel rations with honda shop cat doing pulls on 89.

Fun fucking times.

:)

It's just numbers really double triple checking everything. Now performance work like head porting and other stuff is an art kinda like bondo IMO.

I'm arguing that this entire time the minimum wage has not budged, and even if someone at McDs was making 16 and hour, that's still not enough for a 1br anywhere in the country.

I WISH I was making 50-80k with my business. I've never made more than 25k a year, and when that happened half of my income was tips which are not actually a sustainable source of income.

You're just staying a different iteration of "The frycook is making more than the EMT"

To which I say, that's not the frycooks fault and the EMT should be paid more. Worker solidarity & all that jazz.

Oh buddy, not this year. Have fun in NYC.

Lol Been pulled over a few times in my plow truck. No problems at all. You do have to have insurance though. I did not know that and thankfully he told me to show up at the barracks with proof and he would pull the ticked. He did. That was years ago been running that shitbox ever since then and not been pulled over. Probably because I was new in the area.

you will sleep in the pods where our advertisements run 24/7.

yeah - i've gotten better at it since getting into wood working... takes time, patience and ambition. Rebuilding a motor is no easy feat though, props to you for getting to that level of mechanical mastery.

> Yeah notice how all of that happened without wages keeping up.

Right, so me going from 45k - I was downgraded in pay during the pandemic because my business took a nose dive to working at 80k a year is stagnant wages.

Have you seen the sorts of wages that are being advertised even at fast food and gas stations? Those jobs are paying more than what I was making as an enterprise IT pro in the mid 2010's.

I think the thing you're actually trying to argue is more like the bigmac index - if product costs 2.50 and takes a quarter of a min wage working hour to purchase and now is 4.50 but requires the same proportion of your wage to purchase despite making more money - is that more along the lines you're thinking?

Clearly you have never drove behind someone whose exhaust has fallen off on the highway bud. It’s not easy to dodge in the snow! Maybe one day you too will have the blessing ! Have a great day!

Some of us just suck at body work. I can rebuild a motor in my sleep but bondo holy freaking disaster.

But you will still have to pay for zee bugs.

Yeah notice how all of that happened without wages keeping up.

Businesses need to stop depending on underpaying labor, with no benefits like paid sick leave, for profit. This model is not sustainable, and nothing can function if most people barely have enough to even cover rent. How is it bad for businesses if more people have more money to spend?

Ya cause those would cause an accident. FFS

Try that with a cop, I'll wait.

Throw a hay bale in the back. The law says nothing about an "active farm" just need to be doing farm related stuff like moving hay or picking up stuff at the store for the farm.

Correct. TPMS lights can now be on and still pass. That wasn’t the case a few years ago. A change I was very happy about. They did get rid of the tint rule. It used to be any tiny applied to front windows was a failure. The inspection tech must notify you that you can be pulled over and ticketed for it though. It’s an advisory item now. Not a rejection item.

Cool story. Ever notice all the exhaust parts on VT roads? It happens all over.