The work seems well done, but it’s still work done eight years ago, five years removed from the owner who had it done, JDM, and a deleted cat and a CEL.

Which is it, sticker price, actual sale price, or out the door? Those are all very different things. It seems like you’re moving the target to validate your complaint.

It can still be useful to look at inflation-adjusted household incomes over time.

That’s fine, but it means you’re looking at vehicle cost relative to your family’s situation, which is not necessarily reflective of what was typical or true for the average family. If a dual income wasn’t typical back then and only became typical much later, you’re essentially pulling the elevation in the standard of…

Why the average double income when so many wives were homemakers? Why not just average household income? Just curious.

See this reply and this one — the AHCA is a special case.

They need control of 38 state legislatures to ratify Amendments. They have control of 34 state legislatures, enough to call for a Convention. Counting on them to not actually call for a Convention in the states they control is dangerous.

So the often willful failures of the primary educational system should be taken out on the students who’re continuing their education beyond it? WTF is wrong with you?

I ask because (1) once 0-60 times get down to 4 seconds further differentiation isn’t meaningful on the road — whoever decks it first will take the merge and (2) curb weight affects handling and real-world fuel economy and speaks to how well engineered the vehicle is.

Oh yes, a snarky response from a tool.

Please, tell me more.

Because that’s where they’re profitable.

Curb weight? Quarter-mile time?

They absolutely do have consensus for major changes and have been making them. They don’t have consensus on healthcare. One thing. That’s a special case of new entitlement desired by their white constituents. They’ll need to come up with a way to pass that off to the states where it can be dismantled.

Too bad no amount of birth control technology will obviate all needs for pregnancy termination.

What’s to stop them? The Democratic Party? Spontaneous grassroots campaigns in the key districts in the key states?

Supermajorities aren’t required, only simple majorities. And while we celebrate their inability to do something about healthcare because of the entitlement problem, they’re tearing plenty of shit up. You think when Republicans have control of 38 state legislatures that they won’t be able to caucus to agreement on…

They have ten state legislatures that have passed laws requesting that Congress initiate a Convention. They have control of thirty-four state legislatures.

Here’s your sign.

Chaos. I expect there’d be storms of lawsuits filed every which way starting before the convention was called for by the 34th state. I expect the conventioneers would countersue and ignore attempted injunctions and continue — after all, you can’t forbid them from peaceably assembling. Outside, protesters would clash.…