A safe space to complain about jackass humans

how is serviceability in a modern minivan? isn’t it the Pacifica that you have to pull a front wheel liner to access the battery?

Straight for the chain too!

My mother INSISTED she buy us a rocking chair for nursing, in our tiny apartment. It took up like a quarter of the available floor and wife and baby preferred the big comfy chair we already had. Couldn’t wait to get rid of it.

I’m pretty strict about buying large items and luckily held us back on some of that shit other first time parents buy. It helped that we were broke, of course. I’m also pretty pushy about selling or chucking stuff we don’t use anymore, despite my MIL’s horror.

We still have too much crap, though and it makes me sad sometimes.

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Man, having a garage has been so good for my anxiety.

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My garage changed my life. “Just put it in the garage until we figure something out.”

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I have the same rules about the cellar/bike workshop. The neighbors all think it’s a miracle that I can keep it so empty.

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And from the chain to the disks!

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They’re all pretty bad, space maximized, serviceability minimized. They know your average new minivan buyer has better things to do than fuck about with maintenance on the weekend/evenings.

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In Japan, automobile owners must obtain a shako shomei sho, or “garage certificate,” showing that they have secured a place to store the vehicle overnight at their residence or in a parking garage; leaving it streetside is not an option.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-06/what-drove-japan-s-remarkable-traffic-safety-turnaround

hell yeah

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That rules.

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Texans would obviously riot over that parking rule lol

I try not to be a street parking ninny but there is a house a couple doors down that I counted 9 cars and two motorcycles at this morning. The only ones parked off street are a functional Tahoe and two disabled 2000s Impalas. Another Infiniti is parked across the street and is also disabled, it has been on a jack with the windows and sunroof open for long enough that it’s on street view now.

I appreciate there is some socioeconomic stuff going on here but man it is a mess

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Re: minivans – my neighbor just bought a deep metallic purple toyota sienna on like 19s with air ride and it lays out. It also says warnings in japanese when you put it in reverse.

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RE: minivans, :point_down:
https://tarck.cc/t/2ton-deathmobiles/21596/871

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My neighbors across the street are the same way. 5 or 6 cars parked on the street/in the lawn at all times, but they’re just a large family living together. All nice folks and the cars don’t hurt anyone parked there.

The guy around the corner who flips junk cars on CL though, he’s got shit parked on both sides of the street nearly to the corner and it’s always a headache squeezing through there.

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Yeah most of the houses in my neighborhood that have outrageous parking situations have lots of adults living there, so while its annoying when trucks and vans are parked all over lawns and sidewalks I usually take it as an opportunity to count my blessings.

It mostly gets me ruminating on car-dependency and the lack of suitably dense and affordable housing and the vicious circle those things have created in towns like Austin. Presumably in Japan they have more options

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Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it if we all had covered parking spots or garages we could all park in every day, but that’s just not how it is.

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Checking in from Brooklyn

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Really enjoy that account.

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This rules

But also a world without cars doesn’t need bollards

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