Weekly meal prep. Yeah it means repeated meals, but you can switch it up every week. It’s the only way I get by. Plus I feed 5-6 people. So I’m not making one meal at a time, I’m making twenty or thirty.

The one near me is closed Sunday and Monday, but it’s still open.

The DNC is bought and paid for by oligarchs. Almost all of the richest US billionaires lean Democrat. Musk is an anomaly, and look how he’s been targeted. I’m not saying it’s entirely unmerited.

So of course the oligarchs want the working class disarmed. And they don’t want populist candidates who want to improve people’s lives and cut into profits which is why the Democrats haven’t had a real primary in awhile.

The oligarchs also fund republicans hoping to control them the same way, but Trump got elected anyway. You might actually hate him 20% less if the bought corporate media hadn’t been weaponized against him. A lot of his positions were Democrat positions twenty years ago. Hillary had some crazy “deport the illegals” quotes back in the day.

I’d guess it’s mostly about fuel efficiency which is legitimate. I think the Tahoe falls into a light truck category because it’s on a truck frame. Not sure about the newest models, but it was on a truck frame for most of its existence, and those towing ratings are higher than ever.

“Light trucks” or vehicles like large SUVs don’t have to meet the same efficiency standards as most cars, minivans and smaller SUVs which often use more of unibody frame. It’s bad regulation at work.

Oh you’re attributing things to my comment I didn’t mean. The US government is out of control. Yes we give massive dollars all around, and the government expects quid pro quo. None of it is what the people want, it’s what the government does. It’s all corrupt. But so was Hillary.

$400 million is such a drop in what we have given to other countries. She’s not wrong, but she’s not right.

Okay. How close are we to that? How about giving a huge bump to minimum wage and tying increases to inflation, now? Even the Dems aren’t running on this.

That’s honestly crazy. I used to joke that the van has 13 cupholders and 7 seats because in Korea it’s a 13 seater. But in what world are you using 18?

They’ve consulted and received no real help. I don’t live near a border, so the best help you get from a professional is a short online chat or a phone call. People who have been through it are generally more helpful.

There may be a way forward, but it is unreasonable. Which is half the reason most legal immigrants are opposed to giving a pass to people who try to cut the line.

Ah, so they’re going to go with the ol’ “At least we’re not Republicans” strategy. How about better wages? Medicare for all? Fucking stand for something, anything! I guess they do though: continued wars, wall street and neoliberalism.

It’s already been built wrong, and redoing those places will take decades and will cost trillions. They have been adding little token projects here or there, but our zoning still doesn’t even require sidewalks or bike lanes for new construction. So honestly we’re generations from it at the pace we’re moving. We could pay living wages now though.

I know a lot of people around here aren’t a fan of cars, but minimum wage workers need to be able to afford one. And even used cars have gotten crazy expensive. Even if you can find a cheap used shit box it’ll need expensive repairs quickly.

I know there are places where this isn’t true, but where I live, if you don’t have a car, you can’t get to work, the grocery store, or anywhere really. If you try to ride a bike, you will die. If you try to ride an escooter you’ll get ticketed for riding it in the driving lane, and even if it were legal it wouldn’t be an option in the winter when they don’t even clear the whole road of snow and ice. People go homeless before they give up having a car.

I live in a pretty conservative area. I might pay $15k for a brand new one.

Yeah my daughter and her boyfriend want to get married but there’s really not a path for them to be able to live together. She can’t work there, he can’t work here. Any advice?

I currently own a Kia Sedona but as I explained in another comment I only use it to drive two miles or less on flat ground. It came in two wheelbase lengths, and we have the longer wheelbase so there’s a decent amount of space for luggage, but I can’t drive it anywhere I would bring luggage.

Most modern minivans are smaller than that Sedona and have significantly less cargo space. If you’ve never driven or ridden in a Tahoe, they are bigger on the inside, no question. Yeah they’re higher off the ground, but they’re taller, wider and longer. So if everyone has a small suitcase and a backpack, even if only the suitcases fit in the back, the backpacks can fit in the seating space much more comfortably than in a van.

Also, I’ve never intentionally rented a Tahoe. I try to rent a minivan, I get a Tahoe. But they are more comfortable for a group of six, and that matters if you’re driving 17 hours straight or something like that.

To some extent the same is true of much of Europe. Most places are happy to let rich foreigners buy homes, and they’ll accept high end professionals to come and work. But poor Europeans aren’t welcome in the US, and poor Americans aren’t welcome in Europe.

Wow. My old broke down Kia minivan has thirteen cupholders.

That is really cool, I wish it was more practical for me, and that is more than just the expensive price tag. I’ve purchased quite a few new vehicles, but none of them were ever over $22k. I do like a lot about it, but I also regularly drive long distances on remote dirt/unimproved roads and sometimes drive cross country for 20 hours nonstop. So for now a smaller vehicle with more ground clearance and range makes more sense.

Yes, technically I own one but it has major issues and we use it only as our version of a truck to go the two miles to the local Home Depot. It loses all power and will stop if you try to drive it up a hill. But I can fit a full sheet of plywood in the back with the middle seats out. We’ve tried renting minivans, but we’ve had two problems.

One is that they’re never available - they’ll take your reservation but when you show up to get it there are none available so they substitute a large SUV like a Chevy Tahoe. A Tahoe has way more space and would cost more to rent, which are benefits, but they’re also far less fuel efficient which isn’t great.

The other problem is space. A minivan can move six people but modern minivans don’t really have space for luggage for six people for nine days in the back. I even own a nice hard sided roof luggage carrier I use with my Subaru Crosstrek, but rentals never have the roof bars you need to mount it up there.

For now, our little cars are decently fuel efficient. I would consider buying another minivan but our youngest is 15 so I think at some point soon we’ll need less people-carrying capacity.

I’m in the US and my daughter’s boyfriend is in London. He has visited a few times and they grill him for awhile, but they let him in. They have done this in the past though too. Sme friends and I were searched and questioned for several hours just coming back from Canada one time, and we were all citizens. That was in the '90s.