The grit exfoliates and makes your skin softer by removing dead skin. Definitely luxurious before soaps were more common.

No, but these beads pretty much go straight into the local waterways where they can very quickly break down into micro plastics. All so a human didn’t have to use a tool like a brush or a loofa to scrub themselves. Convenience at any cost.

The pumice action definitely helps but I’m pretty sure gojo is also full of added chemicals to help the soap lift oils more effectively.

I would much rather use that bar of soap than the mysterious liquid gels full of dyes and other junk. If natural tones are somehow gross and icky but a blood red goo that faintly smells of petro chemicals is fine then maybe we really are doomed as a species.

You go back a century or so, that bar of soap would likely have been considered a luxury product.

You grabbed the exact quote that really stuck out to me as well. It’s almost as if they can’t fathom someone relying on a bicycle to same extent they rely on their car.

My local police does have a dive team, or at least access to one, but i could see that being harder to do in the past.

The culture may have been different then, but in my area fishermen will often go out before the ice is driveable. The smart ones wear some kind of floatation device. The younger fishermen would probably go check out the car during a slow part of the day, maybe see if some cool stuff is left behind or take some cool photos of it.

I think adding the 4 step in front may have confused them. I was only ever taught it was the water cycle it was never called the 4 step cycle, probably because water can kinda do the cycle in whatever step it wants. Some rain becomes ground water, some rain becomes runoff, some rain evaporates shortly after falling all from the same rain storm.

Why the hell does your area just regularly let a car break through the ice?

There is also CAFE standards that made small, effecient vehicles require extremely high emissions standards while allowing looser standards for larger, less effecient vehicles. Effectively limiting foriegn market influence while increasing both the price and size of the average vehicle on American roads.

Some areas have mushrooms that are so similar the only reliable way to identify them is using a spore print.

Plants and animals tend to have more distinct identifying features like leaf patterns, bark texture or hair color.

Pretty sure big oil and car companies have been bailed out by the US government in the past. Plus america designs most of its cities so that you need to own a car. Seems like both markets are equally “free” at the end of the day.

It can be both, but at least if i don’t catch any fish I’ll catch a good buzz

Are there any first world countries that retest drivers regularly? I still think drivers should pay for their retesting. It doesn’t seem fair to put that on the taxpayer.

The bigger thing increasing premiums and health care costs is the dangerous road designs in north america rather than the age of drivers. It also increases municipal spending to maintain borderline highways running through the city.

They do actually make 4x4 and AWD vans. I’ve serviced some rural northern ontario cottages in a pretty big FWD van and with enough throttle and the occasional tug you can go pretty far.

Vans are the superior choice for trades for the vast majority of trades. Keeps your tools clean and dry, thieves can’t see everything in the back, the floor is often lower than a truck bed making loading easier, they are usually better on gas than trucks of the same size.

Those seniors could probably afford grocery delivery and rideshare services if they weren’t paying insurance, gas, etc for their cars.

Its horrendously expensive. Unless we make the drivers pay for it but then they will write to their politicians about how unconstitutional retesting them is.

The cameras aren’t a video feed. They take a snapshot if it detects you are speeding. Don’t speed and your photo will never be taken. The municipality also public releases the location of the cameras and put signage up. You could alter your route accordingly if you wanted to avoid the cameras.

Drivers in the US would start treating that middle light as go and we’d be right back to square one

It is the drivers responsibility to ensure the intersection is clear of cars and pedestrians before proceeding. The green light doesn’t immediately mean go, they may be waiting for a pedestrian to finish crossing or a car to clear after running a red.