I'd like to kick the person who brought fire ants into the US square in the nads. Fire ants are the worst. I got bit by one last week on my left pinky finger while fixing a sprinkler head that made my entire finger swell up and made it stiff to move and get kind of numb for a couple days. They're nasty little things that can ruin your day, especially if you accidentally stand in ant hill, which is very easy to do.

We have a friend who buys cars for the large rental companies like Enterprise and National, who said that the shortage of computer chips is what's causing the slowing and/or shut down of new car plants. He said that the rental car companies have resorted to buying newer used cars to replace the cars they sold off during the earlier days of the pandemic and since there's little new car inventory, they have to get them somewhere. The lack of new cars and the buying of newer used cars by the rental car companies are driving up the prices of all new and used cars. Our SUV got totaled by an inattentive driver on April 1st, and we bought a used Suburban LTZ but had to pay probably $3-5K more than what it would have cost 6 months ago.

I guess I got lucky with my purchase of a 2016 CR-V in January. It was in Fort Meyers FL and I got it wholesale, because it sat on their lot too long. It is "only" front wheel drive and it seems most people believe they need all wheel drive anymore. I could only find a few fwd vehicles up here in the northland and plenty in FL, so that is where I went.

This is very interesting. I was just in Arizona for a week and had a Hertz rental I picked up in Mesa. It was 2020 KIA Sorento with Fla. plates on it. The car had 42000 miles on it. After driving it for a few days I noticed how new and clean it was, interior was spotless ! Outside not one door ding or even a light scratch ANYWHERE , no marks on the threshold of the back hatch from loading luggage, not normal for a 42K rental car ?

How the HECK did someone put 42,000 miles on a 2020 model anything, when most of us weren't driving anywhere ? My wife has worked from home since last March 15th and hasn't put 3,000 miles on her car yet, when she was driving 16,000/yr for work.

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The King Power MahaNakhon is a bizarre skyscraper in Bangkok - and one of the tallest buildings in Thailand. It stands 78 stories high and opened in 2016, with architect Ole Scheeren among those that created the design. The cutaway parts of the building are meant to give the effect of it being pixelated.

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The V&A Dundee opened in September 2018. It was designed by renowned Japanese architects Kengo Kuma & Associates and is their first building in the UK. The museum stands on the banks of the River Tay and the shape of the building is said to have been inspired by the cliffs on Scotland's north-eastern coastline. Part of the building juts out over the water and is meant to resemble the prow of a boat, honoring Dundee's shipbuilding history.