Tom, is $899 for a Document Fee, then an additional $433 for License/Title fee, typical? That seems pretty high to me, but I don’t buy new cars all that often. Almost $1350 on top of tax, delivery, and then the car itself seems insane; regardless if you’re getting $9k off...

Isn’t this pretty common for IPOs though? Major investors and others are able to get in way below the IPO price point and sell off for immediate profit, the stock drops, settles, then over time rises if the company is actually functional.

Finding out Keanu Reeves is a genuinely nice guy makes the world seem slightly less shitty.

I’d look to the 3rd row option that was available in the RAV4 as an example. Yes, you could stuff kids in there, but it was a bit.... comical for me to try (5'8, 160) to wedge myself in there. It worked, but it was not something you’d want to use often.

 

That roof though!

But squared off backs are great for aero!

I suspect that many Tesla fans like Elon for that exact reason. I don’t own a Tesla, nor am I an Elon bro, but I really have no problem with how he presents. He might not be very good at it, but the grandiose presentations from other CEO’s don’t particularly impress me either. I don’t think anyone is concerned about…

Musk has always done amateurish presentations, but that is fine, it makes him look human. Better than a robotic presentation by most CEOs who look like they are robots.

I don’t mind the looks even if it does look almost identical to a 3, but I’m really curious how there can be a usable 3rd row in this with the aggressively sloped roof and dimensions that don’t look significantly larger than the 3. 

No, the CxOs responsible going to jail would be satisfying.

If the bank knew the homebuyer was running a meth lab in the house and then claimed that they had evaluated the odds of the meth lab blowing up surrounding homes and had judged it to be “worth the risk” then, yeah, sure. They should have liability in your example. It’s such a poorly concocted example, though, that I…

Would you lend a dime to a borrower if the house or apartment they are presenting as collateral is falling apart?

If corporations are people, I am for the death penalty.

If corporations are people, my friend, here’s one that deserves some time in the slammer.

Usury laws now.

Look, they can goose the stock price by doing this and get another bonus or three before the company goes belly up. What else do you expect from suits?

The alternative is the managers falling on their own swords and taking paycuts.

Which relies on them not being greedy.

/long, depressed sigh

Our games company isn’t making enough money. Fire all the people who make the games. We’ll save millions by not paying those salaries.

It strikes me that they could save like 100 jobs by just lowering C-suite’s paychecks to not-absurd levels.

Oh yes, Bobby Kotick’s predatory incompetence is for sure worth that much and not just because board members and C-suite executives are involved in a giant circle-jerk.