My car was assigned minivan at birth, but now identifies as a VW beetle with a Porsche engine swap.

Or the bridge would still be covered, but your bus wouldn't...

I look at number of connectors... Who cares about wattage, I just need a mass of cables to tuck into every spare bit of space... Fans hate me.

Having worked both retail and call center, no, they're not in the same league. People can be assholes over the phone, absolutely, but it's quite different from face-to-face. Someone threatens to kill me over the phone, I can say "I'd like to see you try" and hang up, and the worst that happens is I get fired. In person, they can carry out the threat.

Lol now I want to see the crow remade with Jason Lee, thank you.

More specifically General Motors buying and dismantling city rail lines in order to sell more buses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

Good thing they ended Back to the Future with a paradox, thus ensuring there could never be any sequels.

It's the American way...

There is no viable alternative to a car when it is 20 below and you have to drive 30 min to get to work.

Funny you bring that up... bicycling in extreme cold is very similar to skiing, I've done it... no skin exposed, breathable layers, you have to worry more about getting too warm than too cold

It's not half a century ago, more like 10-15 years. Basically the old style with 3-4 speeds and a torque converter wasted power, and I still had one of those (brand new) from '06 to '09. Most automatics now have mostly the same innards as a manual, often a 6 speed, but with automatic actuators.

But those things you're excluding are the most important parts of the source code...

Aye sea what you did there...