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^At least tech got to stick their hand in somehow.

Yeah 'cause by that time the cops had seen Terminator 1 and knew that having a door sitting open to a room full of cops was a bad idea. Those other '80s movies that made a police station look like a store where you could just walk into and talk to people were way over by the '90s.

It's actually a dollar since there are four quarters

Maybe they'll jump out of their cars and spend money if the cars are going faster.

Has the title of this thread always been MJK instead of MLK? How did none of us notice it over the course of 16 years?

Yes, armies of small gyms making monster gyms unnecessary. That was the story in Grandview before the LA Fitness.

Di-vine, dahhling

Place definitely looks like it could have been a jewelry store at one time

Tech gets a boost since "people are using the internet more" even though what that means for any particular tech company varies significantly. Doesn't matter, "people are using the product"

Are they immune to the parts supply issues that every other automaker will face in the coming months? They have fewer parts than ICE cars but it only takes 1-2 missing parts to stop a line.

Maybe they're just doing interior stuff now that the windows are installed

I like their food. Prices aren't super bad but you'll pay for brunch. I mostly went to the Grandview location. Pretty sure I went to the Polaris one once. I wouldn't be surprised if this development is still a tough place to do business after 13 years of fits and starts.

And people in the southern counties have to drive through miles if Uncool Crescent to get to the good stuff. A lot of them work in the Uncool Crescent, too.

^That is true for the counties you listed. But some of the things you hear people say in the southern counties are pretty intense.

Send all the violent cops to trade school so that they can beat the crap out of each other on private property or take it out on inanimate objects such as I-beams and giant hunks of aluminum. Then fish all the educated people out of Starbucks to take care of the mental health issues and marital problems that cops for some reason were assigned to. BOOM

Only people who make a lot of money say that.

Columbus also doesn't have the culture war between the city and suburbs that other cities do. It does have a culture war between the semi-rural areas and the city though.

^If we want to add a third Crescent to Franklin County, there is the Underdeveloped Cresecnt running from west of Hillard all the way down to the SW portion of the county, to the south of Grove City all the way east to Canal Winchester then curving back up west of Gender Road and east of Noe-Bixby all the way to Chatterton Road. You do have to pass through some warehouse development at Rickenbacker though.

Well, if environmentalists in the '60s '70s and '80s focused on good urbanism, rail transit, stopping urban decline, growth boundaries and other things that prevent sprawl, people wouldn't have to drive 100 to do outdoors activities. BMX, dirt bike and auto races back in those days didn't all take place 100 miles from town (mountain bikes weren't really a thing yet). They were right next door. Almost all racing events in Southern California from back then took place in places that are sprawl now. The tracks, pristine spaces and old unmanged land are gone, replaced by malls that have already died since then and more subdivisions. Nowadays, environmentalists are fully aware of how good urbanism and preventing sprawl keeps nature alive, close by and useable but back then too many of them looked at sprawl as an inevitability and cities as broken spaces so instead they focused on closing off large amounts of land due to the presence of a rare plant or bird somewhere in the vicinity. That caused more sprawl. They didn't lift a finger about rail transit or affordable housing. These were the old "No!" environmentalists that did more harm to the movement than good. It's a good thing they started being phased out by the '90s and replaced with the "Yes, if we do it this way." ones. A few of the old "No!" ones are still around though. The sprawl remains and the fun got pushed out to the Inland Empire and NorCal. Or the Midwest and Texas.

Yes, buying in the Cool Crescent costs at least 3X as the Uncool Crescent for a comparable property.

A lot of people simply default to it since they haven't thought about these sorts of things.

Working on bikes is way easier than cars. I've been working on bikes even longer than cars. Eff working on derailleurs though.

Going car-lite does save you money on gas, fluid changes, filters, brakes and depreciation (somewhat since miles stay low) but tires are pretty much no good after 5 years despite mileage. Batteries and brake fluid also have a time limit. Don't let people tell you that the fluids are trash after a few months due to water absorption -- that takes years.

Yes. Changing your own oil saves maybe $20 but you have to get jackstands or ramps, a jack, an oil filter wrench, an oil pan, a wrench or ratchets/sockets, then take the old oil to the parts store to get recycled afterward. The main cost is the oil itself since it's not $1 a quart like it was in the '80s. Getting under a car on jackstands or even ramps really isn't all that safe, and you probably should have someone else there in case the worst happens. I only change my own oil on 4x4 trucks that don't require jacking and I haven't owned one of those in a long time. $20 isn't worth the risk plus the oil change places grease your suspension fittings, load test the battery, test your coolant for age, check the hard to access differential and top off fluids. Most individuals are only going to do "the thing that needs fixed". An oil change place sure isn't as good as me at adjusting fuel and spark tables on a Tuned Port Injection system but they're way more efficient than me at the things they do. And good luck diagnosing a modern car without the killer diagnostic tools that dealerships and specialty shops have. "But I have Google and my phone!" Good luck, buddy.