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I used to take my co-workers to the OTR Shell so that they could cash their paychecks at the bar next door.

AAAAAAAH! Porkpie hats and seersucker!

"Whaaaat is the deal with all this exploratory digging?"

I'm sure there's a story behind that Bulls/Bills thing but I'm too lazy to look it up.

That's how it is now. Are you sure that the trend of the past 50 years will hold for another 10, or the trend of the previous 3000?

Most likely car-lite. It's a good compromise between no car and the car as a master.

Indeed true. Government's government and doesn't get to do the rifle-quick moves that young individuals can, the sportscar like moves of a small business, the semi truck turns of a large company. Government (especially in the designed for gridlock U.S. system) gets to move about like a house. And if you've got a ton of individuals still dressing like Korn, well look how slow those other things can be. The lack of immediate appearance of more rail and walkability, especially in an interior state with an anti-rail government and a good-old-boy system for highway building can make it seem like there's less demand than there really is.

Then why do you act like one? You use the Complex's anti-intellectual, denial-filled language that grates at everyone else. There's always going to be a large cohort of younger people in sprawl as long as the heavy subsidies continue; it is far too subsidized at this time to not attract investment. But so many of the twentysomethings out there look like Fred Durst in a flat billed Monster Energy hat now. Like it's 1999. They're not the skilled ones that keep an economy going or can be face-to-face with clients and other businesspeople. While I can't say a hipster offers the best first impression, at least they don't end every sentence with "dog". And how many young people really want to live in the city but are stuck out in sprawl because they live with their folks due to financial reasons?

Yea, if all your knowledge of automobiles comes from the Republican News Entertainment Complex you basically know nothing about cars. I'd rather have a 7-year-old help me out. Yet, these guys think they know everything. Smokey Yunick would spit on them.

Or get a set of mud flaps. Yosemite Sam optional.

Us city folk might not see that kind of stuff much, but it's something that's still very real in backwater parts of the nation. Anyway, um, gravel roads?

Where are you living, the '90s? The car stereo thing has really died off. There's less than half as many car stereo stores as in the past. Go into a big-box electronics store and see how tiny the car stereo section is today. "Invest" in sound systems? What's the rate of return on a set of 15s?

They do mountain and road too. But people from other generations would say Mustang GT, a Grand Touring sized-car or possibly something like a Porshce Carerra GT or Ferrari GT.

Millennial quiz: A GT is what type of of transportation?

I hate to be pessimistic, but I don't really think that cities in "flyover country" with no established rail transit and most of their wealthy residents concentrated in sprawl are going to attract an urban TJ's or Whole Foods in the near term.

Nobody ever tried to claim that Morse code and smoke signals were an equivalent substitute for a real-life conversation. I do remember reading stories about a guy who worked in a relay shack for the telegraph company using Morse code to try and meet women that were using the telegraph system. I think he even got laid a time or two, but he also wound up with a lot of guys showing up that claimed to be women in their telegraph communication. He eventually got fired.

'Nati got luck with the Trader Joe's "only" as far as Kenwood. In Seabus we gotta go all the way to Dublin or Easton.

My roommate was able to go from January to late April without getting gas this year. He's got a Hemi Ram, too. His Giant was getting a lot more love.

Japan definitely appreciates its low-tech past and doesn't want to lose it. In fact, over time there's a good chance that they're going start leaving the tech stuff up to the rest of the world -- much like their rural areas already do.

Sometimes you need a news source that isn't funded 100% by corporations and isn't a subsidiary of the entertainment industry.

Hey now, you gotta watch posting RT articles; some people can't handle the truth.

But they might be selling something cool!

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Talent and ability often skip a generation.

I was eating at a fast food court in a rural truck stop yesterday and I'd say half the people in there were on disability. They were talking about it too; how they got on it and getting their payments. They were all fat.