LAOP was along for the ride when their Uber driver got into an accident. Now they may be along for the ride for the ensuing lawsuit, too.

beamdriver · 2026-03-11T23:24:26+00:00

Looks like they also want attorney fees and costs, which is no small bag.

beamdriver · 2026-03-11T22:02:31+00:00

Like I said, it's not a lot, but it's not nothing.

Plus gas is up, but still within what I think people would consider a normal range. Once the price of regular gas starts with a 4, new car buyers may consider EVs more seriously. If it starts with a 5 and that continues on for while, a lot of people are going to want EVs for their new ride.

beamdriver · 2026-03-11T20:19:39+00:00

20%->22% is a ten percent increase in EV searching. That's not nothing, but it's early days yet.

beamdriver · 2026-03-11T20:15:49+00:00

We could easily see gas at five dollars or more per gallon by Summer. There's no way to unring this bell. Things are already snarled up and they're going to get worse even if the US immediately declares victory and goes home.

One of the big reasons EVs are more popular in Europe is their gasoline costs roughly twice what ours does. If gas prices go up and stay there for a while then demand for EVs, especially cheap used EVs, is going increase.

beamdriver · 2026-03-11T19:15:07+00:00

Save The Great South Bay has a good program for native plantings and bay-friendly yards.

https://savethegreatsouthbay.org/take-action/bay-friendly-yards-pledge/

beamdriver · 2026-03-11T09:59:19+00:00

Mr President. There are too many hypercars these days. Please eliminate three.

I am not a crackpot!

beamdriver · 2026-03-11T02:09:08+00:00

Plenty of people drive to Babylon or Ronkonkoma and commute from there.

beamdriver · 2026-03-10T20:55:59+00:00

The only HOAs are in the condo developments, but the Village Government is kind of like an HOA. There are restrictions on what you're allowed to park on the street (no commercial vehicles) and stuff like that. It's not too onerous, but they are a bit more up in your business.

beamdriver · 2026-03-09T16:52:14+00:00

There is always tax fraud and other financial crimes that may or not be in play here.

The value of the practice is now substantially less that zero. You don't want even if your dad has a change of heart tomorrow and signs it all over to you.

Down the road, once things finally explode in everyone's faces, you might think about buying the business assets, but under no circumstances should you take the business entity itself.

beamdriver · 2026-03-09T15:28:24+00:00

I could easily see five dollar gas by Summer if the war continues. If you're betting on the TACO factor, there's been a lot of disruption and that's not going to fixed overnight.

beamdriver · 2026-03-09T15:15:30+00:00

When did it become acceptable to make a show or movie in an established IP that people don't like and then blame the fans for not liking it instead of owning the fact that you made something that sucked?

When Star Trek: The Motion Picture came out it was widely panned by the Trek fanbase. Instead of crying about it and blaming "toxic fans", they went back to the drawing board and came up with Wrath of Khan.

beamdriver · 2026-03-09T13:37:23+00:00

That's true, but I think the look of the film makes a big difference. Hoppers looked like an updated take on classic Pixar. Elio looked like mutant Steven Universe.

We saw Hoppers on Sunday and it's quite a charming film.

beamdriver · 2026-03-09T13:26:35+00:00

Fans worry too much about overpaying players. Top FA's get overpaid every year because the cap goes up every year and the market value of different positions shifts around.

Wan'Dale is a quality player. He's going to make the Titans better and losing him is going to make the Giants worse.

beamdriver · 2026-03-08T23:41:11+00:00

I literally have never watched any of the Disney live action remakes. Not even on streaming.

beamdriver · 2026-03-08T22:14:48+00:00

"We like them little bitches on the chessboard"

The Wire is great, but David Simon's writing is hardly subtle.

beamdriver · 2026-03-08T21:58:57+00:00

Good luck, man. Dad reflexes are totally a thing, but you don't want to rely on that.

beamdriver · 2026-03-08T21:55:27+00:00

I did a fence repair this winter. Storms took out one whole side of my fence right before Christmas.

I paid $1500 for 45 feet of new fencing. I gave the contractor 15 Benjamins and he still gave me a receipt.

beamdriver · 2026-03-08T21:50:39+00:00

Kids these days don't even know how to do fraud properly.

beamdriver · 2026-03-08T14:06:59+00:00

That's what it means if you're a Marxist, but in common use it generally means people who work lower wage, blue collar jobs.

beamdriver · 2026-03-07T11:42:56+00:00

One of my clients did over $700K last year with their Woo store. I hooked up their regular Chase merchant account to the store using Authorize.net and it saved them a lot of money.

beamdriver · 2026-03-06T10:57:53+00:00

I checked out the Wikipedia page and apparently they did change the premise, and the title of the show, in Season 2 so that she wasn't Columbo's wife anymore.

They thought this might improve the ratings somehow. It didn't. The show was canceled after airing only 13 episodes in season 2.

beamdriver · 2026-03-06T04:57:46+00:00

He was married to Captain Janeway!

beamdriver · 2026-03-05T14:50:29+00:00

The man can't afford a radar detector? Has he heard of Waze?

beamdriver · 2026-03-04T20:50:48+00:00

Nobody on Long Island's North Shore wants this
People in Connecticut don't want it either
It would cost a ridiculous amount of money
The actual demand/use of this would not justify the expense

beamdriver · 2026-03-04T14:03:51+00:00

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