Yeah, the 11k miles in 9 years thing is almost as worry-inducing as the lack of recent photos. 

For sure. I grew up in American cars of the late 70s and 80s. They were terrible.

Oh man. That’s a piece of memorabilia right there!

What a fun little car! My friend had one for a few months when we were teenagers. Hooned the hell out of it, of course. 

Same. Wife is breastfeeding, so the kids’ and her nutrition and sustenance  come first. I could stand to lose a pound or 15 anyway.

Good point. As an actually-executed Franken-project, this is a really freakin cool piece of engineering and execution. But if you just bought it, rather than building it, it kind of feels like taking another kid’s volcano to the school science fair. You aren’t going to get a lot of credit for the effort/ingenuity,…

That’s what I was thinking as well. Seems like there are some real transaction costs incurred when buying a car and returning it 5 days later. Not insurmountable, but seems like more of a last resort than a first option.

I think this is the most important thing. Organizations that can exercise power tend to attract power-hungry people. The added twist is that the less important the organization is in the world taken broadly, the more likely you are that the leadership will be petty people who have largely failed or underachieved in…

Yup, I had one as a rental a couple years ago. Very decent car, especially in the value per dollar spent. 

Yeah, I don’t know why there are so many people here claiming businesses should have been prepared for this. What is happening is completely unprecedented in both scope and scale.

This is an economy car from the 1980s. It may be fun to drive, but it is going to be lacking a level of refinement (sound insulation, etc.) due to it being a 35-year-old economy car. This one’s super clean, but it would have to have a ton of sentimental value to you to command this price.

Also, it’s not clear to me what would be a better option. Sending people to jail? A fine seems pretty appropriate in the situation.

Also, they report that they found the greatest concentration of calls in a bunch of hella gentrified areas (Williamsburg, UWS, etc.) Those largely aren’t transitional areas - they’re some of the most expensive places in the city. And, it appears the police didn’t do anything in most cases. Meaning that a bunch of…

Can you imagine how much Left Twitter would have hated the process around the landmark civil rights legislation of that era? There would have been continual uproar. You basically had a bunch of problematic politicians doing problematic political things to achieve legislation that, generations later, is still vitally…

I think your comment sums it up. Minis have a very well-defined market and are one of the few brands (at least of the brands priced where an average consumer could reach) that seems to be perfectly happy to just sell the hell out of that market rather than trying to be everything to everyone. I assume it must be…

Good point - that’s something I didn’t consider. 

I think you’re right about that. As technology has been designed for mass adoption, that’s generally come with a lack of control - there’s no transparency in how your data is managed or stored...you just accept that Apple or google or amazon is going to keep all your data for you and you can use their proprietary…

I feel like it’s similar to the political media trying to make a Pete Buttegig or Beto O’Rorke-type happen. It’s boring to just have the same obvious front runners all the time, so you have to pretend that some scrappy up and comer is a real alternative to inject some interest into the proceedings. 

I had a boss who was like that. He’s probably 50-ish, so young enough that he would have been working with computers throughout his career (and probably started when keyboard shortcuts were much more prevalent). But his workflow was so inefficient. And it wasn’t just right-clicking to copy, or using the down arrow…

I just can’t really see a world in which I’d spend 17 large on an eight-year-old Hyundai coupe. High teens puts you into a price range with a ton of possibilities. And this car is nearly a decade old (despite the relatively low mileage), so it’s not like you’re getting a factory certified car with the latest…