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Shared bedrooms have really fallen out of fashion.

Most people don't want "idyllic college towns" anymore anyway since the towns don't have enough jobs. How many of those schools does it take to match the enrollment of our urban schools in Ohio?

MTV was called "narrowcasting" and it would have been more applicable in the 500 channel era to have an AOR only station. But since people were used to broadcasting a la CBS, NBC and ABC MTV leaving off Black artists would be considered racist. CBS Records had to threaten to pull their other acts from MTV since they wouldn't play Michael Jackson even after he sold 20 million records and had been successful on broadcast TV.

I was sitting around with a friend drinking beer and somehow it was germaine for me to blurt out "More people live in Maryland than Ireland" It was like 2010 and there wasn't any way to get on the internet conveniently where we were. So he grabs a dictionary and looked up the population of both. He goes, "Nooo way. It's true."

^Like how in the SSU pronouns case where the school had to give up and lose the lawsuit filed the professor since it was getting too expensive to fight. I doubt he had enough money to keep it up himself so some conservative foundation was probably funding the whole thing.

While much of Freud's work has been disproven, considering that was the Paleozoic Period of psychology, there are a lot of ways mothers do keep their offspring kids forever without intending to such as making them excessively risk-averse (in order to ensure their survival) and raising them in places with poor job prospects. They think "Well, surely everyone else will like them just as much as I do" and "Just as long as they go to college it doesn't matter where I raise them." Since less than 7% of students these days study the humanities as a major what goes on in Humanities departments isn't making much of an impact on society as a whole especially when you consider how much college enrollment is down.

A lot of the most recent designs do have smaller pillars and lower door lines (such as the 2018+ Accord) but it will take a while for the design elements to propagate through all model lines and even longer for the perceptions to change regarding "small car = gunslit windows". Personally I don't like those upright seating positions. They make me feel like I'm driving a bar stool.

Not to nitpick (again) but the Subaru horizontally opposed engines should have no problem being 10cm below the hood line even without raising it since they're so much lower than a V or inline.

No full size pickup trucks are available in Europe also.

"Novelty" comes from screens now. Everything else is blank.

Ah, supercars are mid-engine so therefore the head gets hit by the relatively soft frunk.

Since the supercars have such long hoods the idea is that people will slide up instead of get hit directly I guess. Vs. getting hit by an old Mini where the windshield would bash straight into you.

I like the hostage situation theory

The European "blocky" pedestrian standard is a bit of a myth since cars sold in America are not subject to them and there are plenty of supercars sold in Europe such as Lamborghinis and Ferraris that clearly would not comply. What the European standards do is forbid cars that would break people's legs off such as an '82 Firebird or an ACR Dodge Viper with the front splitter attached. While SUVs and crossovers do sell better in Europe than in the past, they are subject to engine displacement tax that punishes large engines in a way that the US tax system doesn't. That makes them less desirable.

People really underestimate their ability to cause an accident as opposed to them being hit by someone randomly. It never crosses their mind that big stuff like SUVs and trucks are more likely to be in single-vehicle accidents, hit other vehicles and turn over. And they carry more momentum when they crash which increases crash severity. And they are more likely to be hit by others since they take up more space.

I bet it was 30-minute lunches that killed it. They probably would have gotten rid of it a few years later anyway since it didn't have a drive-thru. Or "Pickup Window" in Wendy's parlance

NYT treats comments like LTEs.

Time poverty is just as bad if not worse than monetary poverty for people not having kids. Time poverty not only refers to a lack of free time but also the free time being at the wrong times.

A crypto meltdown would not make all real estate lose value or ruin 2.5 generations' careers that's for sure.

Plus they have other ways to zap us like through the Statehouse, getting the Koch Buddies to block the Downtown Zoo, SMRT and Hyperloop instead of rail and supporting Ginther's center-right attitude.

We threw so much internet at the virus that some layoffs in tech were inevitable. But firing people just because it's cool obviously isn't cool.

Nothing is safe with a hospital around.

$58 a month to merely exist.

I forgot about that. There certainly is a dearth of those kinds of towers here these days.

Yeah former Columbus ones all have too many straights for that moniker to really apply anymore.