“To me, “chomping at the bit” and other commonly misused phrase make me feel nauseated.“

There is not a single mod you can do to this specific TA without wrecking the value.

Having driven one I see no reason to “set it free.”

I’m not sure it hurts the site.  It makes the seller look like a tool, but ultimately, the site’s not responsible for sellers bad choices.

I just poked around used Civic R prices and...It seems like buying with a dealer markup is an excellent way to lose a lot of money in about two years.

I would love to see the movie I-Robot.  I did not enjoy the movie that used the title I-Robot.

I didn’t mind the pace and overall enjoyed the movie, but you really have to let a couple of things go.  There are some eye roll opportunities.

It’s neither a great movie nor a bad one. I enjoyed hanging out with it. We had snacks and a couple of beverages.

Things change an I guarantee at least some members of the board are looking at contingencies. 

“If you look at the past 120 years, the company has always evolved, never stood still,”

The 4Runner, the prado and the GX are all on the same J150 platform. They share all the same hardpoints. The relationship is not dissimilar to the ES/Camry relationship. The 4.0 V6 is a total workhorse and honestly the performance differences between it the V8 are minimal. The GX is much nicer inside, but if you…

Nothing I say contradicts the sellers account.  His account is what causes me to think he broke his head.  By his own account he is doing all of this with credit, in a bad credit market.

But they aren’t only selling them to foreign investors. They sell them to the highest bidder who is more often American.

The value is lasting peace.  Chinese investment in the US is better than an aircraft carrier when it comes to preventing armed conflict.  History is full of lessons on this.  Isolationism leads to competition that leads to conflict and ultimately war.  When you have shared interests you have less conflict.

In the case of the Saudi farm, the owners are the problem. The problem is water regulation.

The Roman Empire did not fall because the Goths stormed through the city gates. It fell because trade started to fail between the regions. The cheapest and best way to avoid global conflict is to have robust global trade.

It all depends on priorities. I can totally see going GX over 4Runner for the V8, the plush stuff and for me the audio upgrade has a ton of value.

The first essay I read by her on the issue was focused on the idea that some women were transitioning because being a woman in a patriarchy is so shitty that one might just want to get the hell out of that experience by switching gender identity.

Number 2...I think there was a very interesting conversation to be had with the TERF crowd. Originally the stated concern was the society is so abusive to women and their self esteem is so often stripped away, that some would rather be a man, than deal with the female experience.

This story was shrug worthy to me until I got to the “I’ll enjoy the new car but my payment on that one will be higher as the down payment is now lower.”