This person is a frequent r/leaves poster; a subreddit about quitting weed.

And they’ve turned their quitting weed into an entire personality and are now vehemently against it. Now we all get to experience their weird guilt about smoking weed through angsty internet comments.

Yeah the $2m/mi figure is an average, and I suspect it would be more in many parts of NH due to difficult terrain and the prevalence of rock.

At $2 million per mile, there would need to be an awful lot of spot repairs to justify that.

Not that it doesn’t sound nice; power lines and poles gone, ROWs clear and open. Just don’t see how the cost would be justifiable, especially given the likely effect on rates.

Yep. Snowblower is key. My driveway would take me a few hours to shovel, and that’s valuable skiing time!

Plus a decent Ariens blower is like $1200 and lasts 10+ years; cheaper than a plow guy (plus no lawn damage), and cheaper than your hospital/chiropractor/specialist visit from blowing your back out on the plow line.

Of all the states out west, Idaho is probably the most New Hampshirey (other than the increased proportion of wacky religious zealots). Pine trees and mountains and rivers and all that good stuff. Thicc on the bottom, skinny at the top. Also potatoes.

IMO the bigger issue is the fact that the instrument cluster (and other interior backlighting) is always illuminated.

You used to know your headlights weren’t on because none of the lights inside the car were on. Now, the dash is lit up all the time. So regardless of exterior light status, you have no obvious indication as a driver that your lights aren’t on.

Alternatively, cars with DRLs and always-on interior illumination should have automatic headlights so that this isn’t even an issue. Many already do, but it seems like people take them out of “auto” mode.

66° daytime, 63° nighttime, 58° when away for > 24 hrs.

1800 sq ft, 2 heated floors, forced air with propane. As of last week, 280 gallons total usage for the last year.

Have most of the house plugged into the F-150 Hybrid. Enjoying some hot coffee and getting ready to WFH on the hotspot.

That’s how you get crack hawks. You do NOT want crack hawks.

Yep. You use a béchamel sauce (can be cheesy béchamel) for the sauce. Then whatever cheese, and some breakfast sausage/bacon/ham or a combo of them. Some have scrambled eggs on them, some have a fried egg on top.

Best one I ever had used a different crust that was more flaky and buttery, like a croissant that was flattened. Crazy good.

If they’re completely serious about it, I agree. I think a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek, though. It also existed as a cultural thing long before online commentary platforms; I remember being a kid 30 years ago and hearing my parents make comments about “Massholes” driving.

Every state sub in New England does this to some extent.

The MA and Boston subs shit on CT and RI drivers, with occasional commentary on trucks with NH plates. The ME sub shits on every vehicle with a plate that isn’t ME.

Some of them are like that. Ford EV batteries (like in the Mach E) can be opened by dealerships, and individual modules (an array of cells) can be replaced. Link with pics.

Less shipping, less waste, less cost.

Now you’ll have to have a $4 burnt coffee instead of a $12 room-temp mediocre burrito.

I’m sure plenty of folks have had good experiences, and I’m glad your cars have been reliable. There’s some confirmation bias going on too, though. You would’ve almost certainly had the same experience with at least several other brands.

But you can find similar anecdotes about every car manufacturer. I don’t find those anecdotes to be compelling reasons to disregard evidence that a manufacturer is making poor choices and/or major oversights in engineering/production.

They rely on lower information buyers and people who want a new car with features, despite their budget. Kia/Hyundai offer cars with lots of competitive features at a low price AND with a very long warranty.

But they haven’t unlocked a secret to cost effective manufacturing that no other automaker knows about. They just cut corners. A decade or more of poor quality engine manufacturing leading to ever-expanding recalls. Not using security key technology that has been used by other carmakers for over 20 years, leading to very high theft rates. And most recently a major child labor issue. Keep in mind that they opened plants in southern states to avoid the UAW - and the worker’s protection that comes with them.

They lure buyers in with good deals, and then deliver a substandard product. They hope you’ll overlook that due to the crazy long warranty, but then constantly fight paying warranty claims.

As someone with nearly 2 decades in the automotive industry, I absolutely wouldn’t recommend one to my friends or family. There are plenty of other vehicles with better design and higher quality manufacturing.

Maybe I’m missing it, but it doesn’t seem like they implied causation?

Seems like they’re worried that a railroad strike would cause a temporary increase in cost, while inflation is already high. Which seems fairly reasonable, but is apparently controversial?

I’ve had the opposite experience. If I have the time (like while I’m driving), I’ll string them along for a little while and fuck with them, and then berate them. Did that for about 2 years. I now receive very few scam calls. Maybe 1 unknown number a month, tops?

From what I’ve seen in various scammer YouTube videos, they share a bunch of data with each other, including who is an easy mark. I suspect that I am now labeled as something like “time waster who is not falling for it” on a spreadsheet floating around Kolkata.

It’s a running joke between my wife and I. All new construction is a self storage.

“Hey, do you have a TON of plastic garbage and hoarded nonsense in your house? Do you need to stash it somewhere that costs more, so that you can eventually give us your crap when you eventually stop paying? Have we got the place for youuuuuuu!!!!”

This is wild. Was it just the 2 shops you tried?

I had the opposite experience. I had my wife take a car in that I knew needed a couple of minor things, and it got a sticker. Same thing with another car I did a few months later. This was at a VIP/Oreillys.

Current NH postings appear to be $20+/hr for warehouse positions, plus benefits. Including college tuition reimbursement. What do you think they should be getting paid?

Maybe he could help folks more by offering financial literacy classes? I’m sure the job is hard work, but it also requires essentially no skill or education. Going to be hard to beat that pay/benefits:skill ratio elsewhere.

I’ve lived in half a dozen northern states, from the rust belt to NH, and this was a problem in every one of them.

As for the weather, we’ll get there soon. If you’re from the twin cities area and are in the Keene area now, that’s about 2 degrees of latitude - or about 138 miles - further south.

Yeah, for a one-man shop, it’s not ideal. It’s worth mentioning that the “scan tool subscription” has been the case for over 20 years, long before embedded modems came along. It helps the manufacturers pay for development of the tool (millions of dollars in cost, often to a supplier like Bosch), and eventually becomes another profit center. Don’t take that as my endorsement, just relaying the facts.

There are also generic diagnostic tools that have 9/10 of the capability for less investment. That’s how smaller independent shops usually do it. One universal tool for most things, and possibly a few manufacturer tools for their most commonly serviced brands. However, with the increasing software complexity and increasing frequency of module updates, I expect they’ll raise prices as well.

It will take years for the independent service environment to adapt to all the changes we’re seeing, from this to electrification to autonomy. Almost none of the independent shops are equipped to service modern technology, and those that don’t invest soon will be relegated to replacing basic parts like suspension and brakes. And as oil changes become a thing of the past, businesses will close. The industry is in for quite a ride between now and 2030.

The module that they’re requesting access to is an embedded modem that essentially allows remote access to all of the vehicle modules. Including those that provide anti-theft/security functions, and all of the modules that operate every feature in the vehicle including the powertrain and airbags.

It’s not going to be very helpful in the diagnostic realm, relative to the diagnostic tool that the dealership would use and is available to the independent shops.

If they can find a way to do this without making the cars vulnerable to theft or interference from bad actors, then sure, have at it. But it’s almost never going to help them repair the vehicle, and they’ll still need a diagnostic computer to do much of anything with the data. That’s my point. The legislation is trying to solve the wrong issue, and in doing so potentially creates a security risk.

I can only speak to certain manufacturers, but it’s generally not that exorbitant. A few thousand a year, which can easily be offset by performing lucrative services like key programming which are often done by dealers.

And IMO, that was the thing to target with legislation. Make the manufacturers offer the software for free or for a lower fixed cost. That would be far, far more effective for the shop and beneficial for the customer.