I second your answer for a number of reasons, the first few of which are self-explanatory.

The Accord is the answer.

This does not portend well for driving fun for Gabe...

A 74,000 mi. early 2000s Ford Taurus is still an early 2000s Ford Taurus. There’s no way a reasonable person pays that much for this little. No Dice buddy.

Absurd price.  I’d pay 4k but would be happier at 3500

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” Words of enduring wisdom, but especially at a moment in history when both new and used cars are brutally overpriced if you can find what you want at all.

The reason people ditch cars that have life left in them, is that it’s easier to make a $500/mo. car payment, for a car that probably has a warranty and likely less to go wrong mechanically, than come up with that $3,500 and be down a vehicle for the duration of the repair.

Everything but the drive train is same on an EV, and while the drive train is significantly different it is also much simpler. Maintaining evs tends to be a lot easier. Yes when batteries start going bad that is a more complex repair, but people are already doing it. I would argue it is no more complex than having an…

I’m in the fix-it-until-it-can’t-be-fixed-no-more camp. Having grown up in a family of auto mechanics, I am used to the treadmill of “buy an old car with some life left in it, repair it until something major breaks, then dump it and start the process again.” When I was young, we never spent time or money on stereos…

NP if you already have a Corvette project this would be a parts car for.

“...needs to be replaced ‘after last night’s burn outs.’”

It might be for the best you can’t sue a fellow employee. In a case like this I would fully expect that the dealership/company would try to throw the worker under the bus immediately. Granted, even suing that worker would likely not yield anything meaningful since they don’t control the org nor are they usually flush…

It could not possibly be worse timing for my family... my wife and I are in our mid-30s and we’ve resorted to IVF after no success getting pregnant for years. We made the decision a month ago.

We’re not rich. This step took years of saving. We just made a payment yesterday that is more than my car is worth for most of…

That’s what I’m wondering, though: what happens when the leopards come to eat their faces?

Eh. The staunch anti-choicers that I know are very silent on IVF because for them they’re more likely to need IVF than an abortion.

America is a Christian country. It likes to pretend it isn’t sometimes, but it very obviously is. Neither abortion nor IVF (not LGTBQ+ rights for that matter) are compatible with Christianity. Some Christians like to pretend otherwise, largely because they don’t like to think their preposterous belief system is…

I’ve already been called a murderer when some find out I did IVF to get pregnant. It blows my fucking mind.

Waiting for the influx of “they just should just adopt!” or “this only affects rich white women!” comments.

It’s very weird to see Jezebel rewrite it’s attitude to the 2016 elections. Most of the writers have left now, but this site was decidedly anti Hillary Clinton.

I wish I was more surprised. Progress is not inevitable and I really think this country as we know it will be ending sooner than anyone expected.