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Exactly. #Boymom is the precursor to “Boys will be boys.”

My Mom had all girls and “boy moms” used to annoy her so much. They all seemed to assume that being loud, messy, and roughhousing was something only boys did. She would frequently point out that my sisters and I did all of those things (especially the story where my middle sister and I were fighting and fell onto the…

Think of it as a gift to archaeologists of the future. Hundreds and thousands of years from now, stratigraphists and dendrochronologists will have a very clear layer of plastic from which to calculate precise dates.

And the nurses who complaints about Dr. not following protocol who are routinely ignored wave back. Now there are certainly safeguards that exist, but Doctors (and Nurses) who routinely make mistakes are very likely to have their mistakes swept under the rug rather than report them out. That doesn’t mean that’s always…

I never could stand NDT, and it offends me that he’s considered the heir to the throne of Carl Sagan. Sagan was a constant advocate for science and was personable and empathetic. In contrast, Tyson is a pedant that thinks he’s the science pope.

I think his tweet was terrible timing and dumb, but we basically do next to nothing about medical mistakes, we have anti-vaxxers causing increases in flu cases, our mental health care in this country is a joke, and our safety standards with cars is actually pretty good but our infrastructure sucks and leads to…

He has a point tho, no ones cares as much about the deaths caused by traffic accidents etc as much as they do when 1 person gets shot.

I’m all for green-ifying transport (I happily own a Prius!), but 860W is probably the “at noon on the equator” number, and is still only barely more than a horsepower. Imagine leashing two pro cyclists to the front of your car chariot-style- that’s how much power you’re getting.

Similarly, Amaterasu takes deep offense at this article. After all, Toyota is Japanese, so the sun under which this was born is hers.

I’d welcome more vehicles with the flexibility of various power sources in one package. ICE, plug-in, sun, small nuclear reactor, wind power, it’s all good. Gimme gimme

None of that is a valid excuse to not stop at a stop sign, especially when the intersection has a stop sign for only one direction and is a blind corner thanks to thick foliage.

It doesn’t “govern the sale”, and nobody claimed it did. It determines the definition of the words “wholesale” and “retail” from a legal standpoint. Which has been my point the entire time.

The $ value doesn’t matter, the laws governing the sale are different depending wholly on who the customer is. In fact the retail price can be lower than the wholesale price and it wouldn’t matter.

I think the primary issue is that a lot of us feel that a absurd markup is the norm, not the exception.

Not really... most of my post address the over markup of parts, which is directly relevant to the article above. Maybe my personal annoyance and experience with this has clouded my point of view, but yes I think shop markup on parts are generally a ripoff.

I also address your assertion that the markup is paying for…

So, let me get this straight. You criticize me, thinking I didn’t read your article, and for speaking too generally before you then use an example that’s not specifically in your article except possibly as a very general comment about kids to feed?

By definition, yes. If I am an individual ordering a single product, and there is no expectation or agreement for me to order more, then that is exactly what retail means.

See the thing is your comparing apples to oranges here (cheap crap vs OEM), when a mechanic charges you double what the part sells for at the dealership or manufacturer direct pricing (all oem parts) then i’d say he’s ripping you off. Labor is labor and parts are parts there is no reason a mechanic worth his salt is…

The alternator example is a bad one. A more reasonable example would be a part number for part number comparison. Quality would be identical and the warranty would be identical. Additionally I’m pretty sure most shops charge labor as a way of making customers pay for ease of installation and expertise.