Thanks asshole. The point is that it's an unfamiliar vehicle, and it's easy not to notice that the lights are 1 click off where they should be. It's poor design.

Kids pick their nose, suck their thumb and then fondle the grapes, pal.

if you left them on Auto, you wouldn't have that problem

I once had an Audi that had fog lights - I believe it was a 2000 something... anyway - a friend saw me drive away and said one of my lights was out.... turns out this model (European) had rear facing red lights that were on when the fogs were on.

Anyway -yes high output DRIs do seem to be the norm and cause a lot of headlights to remain off.

I agree that it's poor design. This happens to me sometimes when driving my mom's car. It has a DRL mode that is right next to "Auto" on the dial, and at twilight or in the rain it's hard to tell that your full headlights aren't on.

Love that pyramid, where the union dues are the biggest issue. Because managment cares deeply about their employees being ripped off. Deeply, i say. And what's the best part, is that the people who would benefit the most from a union, listen to the execs. "I think for myself, which is why i only get my info from Fox News and Facebook memes."

I get tired of the idiots running light bars and not turning them off when near other motorist. I don’t care that you use them but remember when you got it on and are blinding everybody.

I 100% agree.

"The purpose of daytime running lights is to increase the visibility of your car, so that other drivers can see you on the road. At night, your headlights and tail lights are illuminated, which means that it's easy for other drivers to spot you."

And in hazardous conditions it should be common sense to make yourself as visible as possible.... but, humanity is flawed and we are a funny mix of self-possession, ignorance and lack of education.

Seriously though, ya halfwits: turn on your lights.

Those aren't affordable any longer. Most parks are now owned and managed by private equity firms. The government of the usa doesn't care about its citizens. They sell them out to the highest bidder, and the dumbest of them still plaster the flag onto everything they own.

10 bucks says that 18 year old is a 4chan white nationalist based on no information but his age and place of origin.

Is this prejudice? Yes. But I grew up with this shit. White nationalism is on the rise in rural maine, even among its children. I’m pretty confident in my bet.

Petroleum products isn’t one of those, yet. Electrical infrastructure isn’t economically capable of replacing oil for heat or the internal combustion engine for transportation and shipment of goods. Once you understand that Nuclear power is the best zero carbon power generation option, we can build more power plants to feed the grid and take all the Gas and coal plants offline, and have carbon free electricity.

solar takes a huge ground footprint (beyond the natural resources and supply chain issues to manufacture), wind is not reliable (also takes huge amounts of natural resources to create, as well as the tons of non recyclable plastics used in them) and hydro does not have the capacity to fill our growing needs.

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> You confused me with YSB, but refuse to admit it.

And how am I supposed to admit to something I don't know about? I'm not arguing with myself on two accounts. Was I just supposed to correctly predict that I'm confusing you? Your train of thought makes no sense.

> You do not decide who loses the argument, and if you don't even know whom you're addressing, no one can trust anything you say.

Oh wow, my deepest apologies...I didn't know you were a celebrity/government official/other being in high authority. Jeez, talk about uneducated, huh? If you had hit me with the "don't you know who I am" business sooner, it would have saved me the embarrassment of making a fool out of myself!

> A rabid dog was brought into the US and adopted by a family in Pennsylvania a couple of years ago, and although the powerful dog lobby attempted to suppress the incident, there was widespread panic in the area and a multi-million dollar investigation ensued. It was discovered the paperwork on strays coming into the US is sometimes fraudulent and the CDC suspended the importation of dogs from in excess of 100 countries for a 12-month period.

Do you have a link to back that up, by chance? If so then I'd love to see it. Regardless of whether you have legitimate (and yes, I do mean legitimate...give me a .gov or a .org link!) proof or not, though, you lost me at "powerful dog lobby". Like that even exists. That just sounds like silly paranoid conspiracy theorist talk. Are you okay? Do we need to get you therapy? A nice long hug, maybe?

> A single dog with rabies resulted in the foregoing and you don't think thousands of dogs with rabies would generate panic? Dream on.

If -- and that's a big if -- that story is true...maybe it would cause mass panic. Maybe it wouldn't. Who's to say...especially since it won't ever happen. If you want to try and convince me otherwise, that's fine, but rabies vaccines aren't in short supply right now. We're fine. The dogs are fine. Chillax.

I was taught a N was any black person who wasn't acting white enough.

if you don't like dogs just stay home. we don't like seeing you in the grocery store either, but we can't run you out of town.

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> You said, "Again, if you hate "filthy dogs" then that's a you problem. You did not say if "YBS hates filthy dogs ...."

If you have to resort to being hyper-specific and using semantics, then I'm sad to report that you have lost the argument before it even started getting off of the ground.

> If the rabies vaccine became unavailable, it would be more than "a couple of dogs" with rabies, it would be thousands.

I focused more on the "it wouldn't take but a few cases of human rabies for people to stop loving dogs" bit for that comment. "A few" cases wouldn't really cause mass panic. A whole mass of cases would definitely be cause for panic. But you underestimate homo sapiens, especially in these times...some of which would say fuck-all to rabies and keep their dogs even if they had it, as insane as it sounds.

> Those limited supplies continue in many locations, and while you might not consider close to 60,000 deaths from rabies -- one of the most horrible deaths known to man -- worldwide of any consequence, the people in those locations where the disease is rampant avoid dogs and treat them like the diseased vermin they are. If dogs in the US began developing rabies, people here would avoid them, too, and if you think otherwise, you're freaking delusional.

If they developed rabies. And they are, but it's not enough to cause crazy amounts of panic in the US specifically, let alone Maine specifically.

I can understand people avoiding rabies carriers (including dogs) in countries where the disease is rampant. But dog and dog owner culture differs in those countries vs. the US. If the CDC put out some kind of a warning that said "stay away from your pets" or "please put them in a designated location for the time being until scientists develop a rabies vaccine and it becomes available to the general public", do you really think people are going to listen? Do you really believe people would give up their dogs or, at worst, kill them so that dogs as a species would go extinct like what all the haters of dogs want? Do you really believe people have that kind of common sense to deviate from the norm and do what they're told, even if it's morally and sensibly correct to do so?

Because in my honest opinion...after the pandemic, the answer to all of those are three hard "no's" across the board. Some people need dogs as (legitimate, licensed, well-trained) ESAs because of disorders or diseases they have. Others view their dogs as their children in everything but blood relation.

Perhaps the point I'm trying to make is: if thousands of dogs got rabies and the rabies vaccine was in short supply or unavailable entirely, I don't think it would go the way you think it would go.

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We're working on it at the state level. One step at a time.

There's a lot of serious shit we definitely should ban, though

I’ve seen dogs eat their own poop, no way are they cleaner than people.

> What do you mean by "again" and "you problem"?

You must not have read my response to YBS after he said he didn't want to be around "filthy dogs", so let me reiterate:

> Well, that's a problem exclusive to you. I don't think your opinion is the majority.

As for the "that's a you problem" bit: I'm of the firm belief that the majority of people enjoy the presence of dogs. There's a reason why they've been one of America's most popular pets over the years, if not the most popular pet in America. 2017 and 2018 alone had 38.4% of homes owning one, which amounts to over 48 million. I don't think that's changed all too much in 5 years, and I don't think it'll be going anywhere for many more, either.

> You're wrong. Only those in what is commonly known as "the Western World" are dog crazy. In many countries, China, Korea, Vietnam, etc., people eat dogs, and in most of Africa and the Middle East and much of Central/South America, they are considered vermin. In the US and Canada, the current dog obsession is totally dependent upon the rabies vaccine. If the vaccine suddenly became unavailable and dogs began developing rabies like they did up until around the 1960s/70s, it wouldn't take but a few cases of human rabies for the love affair with the dog to come to a shuddering halt.

...You're aware dogs descended from wolves, which have been around for millennia? I don't think the love for dogs would stop just because a couple dogs got rabies. Emphasis on "a couple" because other canine animals, like coyotes and foxes, get rabies very often (more often than dogs, I'd argue), and in Maine specifically, they are considered vermin by many. Hell, I'd extend that to the rest of the country too, why not? Haven't lived in every state but foxes and coyotes and other such animals killing people and animals isn't Maine-exclusive.

Hell, things got really close a good 15 years ago with human rabies vaccine supplies being limited, and that didn't change much in the long run.

Heat is the reason. Loads of people aren't going to be able to afford changing their heat source if their current one is banned.

Just banning things has serious consequences when people depend on those things to live.

Typical redditor