Rough average for corn yield is 170 bushels an acre; so you’d need to harvest about 45 acres an hour - so figure around 360 acres in three 8 hour days to cut enough corn to pay it off. The average farm size in Iowa, as of 2012, was only 345 acres. Nebraska is a bit better - with the average farm size of of 980.

5th gear: There’s a lot of automation in stuff like big combines; but they’re still manually driven.

You’re missing the editor who would have sent this sentence go live on a farm; with a suggested replacement of “It’s clear that no level crossing can be as safe as a grade separation” or even just striking it. 

There is a lot going on in your picture for #3; but I’d just like to point out that the stop line is doing nothing for this grade crossing. There should be a redundant traffic control before the tracks, with a second control at the intersection and an exclusive cycle to clear the through traffic.

It’s not so much “Buy them new” as “The few that do appreciate”. Sure , some cars may go up in value and enthusiast cars do wind up with bathtub-shaped value curves; but that’s not really the majority of the market. It’s not how 99% of the buyers act, and 99% of the vehicles aren’t ‘enthusiast’ vehicles. Just to pick…

Please, just stop.

The time doesn’t line up. Colbert was born in 1964, not 1950. Colbert’s dad and two brothers were killed in the Eastern Air 212 crash in 1974.

The short answer is the current FMVSS 108 lighting requirements mandate two separate headlamps that provide both lower and upper beams; or two sets of headlamps that provide lower and upper beams.

I’m not that familiar with the Corvette’s mirrors; but it looks like they’re electrochromatic autodimming interior and side mirrors. It’s not the glass, but the EC fluid layer that’s showing the crazing lines.

I’m pretty sure that’s just a screen name; just like I have a government name and am not just the disembodied voice of an old-timey gospel singer.

“If the driver is going to lie that they are actually a passenger, is it really the manufacturer’s fault at that point?”

Costner’s Robin Hood gave us this Mel Brooks fourth wall break:

Jason’s summary quite garbled what the topic was. Several Senators have floated the idea of assessing a tax on unrealized gains; Musk was simply pointing out that based on his financial situation, he would need to sell shares to pay that assessment. There currently is not a tax on unrealized capital gains.

Apples and oranges - negative outcomes of a new drug don’t externalize.

It’s just lazy. It took me all of four seconds to find the letter from the UAW to its locals, which includes this quote:

5th gear:

I’m wandering into topics that I don’t 100% know; but my understanding is that one of the root causes of the 2007-8 collapse was the implementation of a new mark-to-market rule; which requires assets to be valued on a balance sheet based on their current value, something that was impossible to do with the blended…

You missed the biggest difference. The mortgage backed securities mixed low and high risk loans into the same tranche; washing the bad loans and making it difficult to judge (and price) the bonds.   A lot of firms bought them thinking they were gilt-edge AA and AAA bonds.

It’s also worth noting that Kane has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, being close to $27million in debt; and was sued by a lender after that filing, where they’re asking for $15m - an alleged fraud of $1.5m, with 10x damages.