If an office dedicated to handling serious legal issues is dismissing 97% of them, they’re not pursuing bad actors, they are bad actors themselves and are actively creating new, worse problems.

Let’s suppose things get so bad for Boeing due to their own trashing of their quality standards and shipping defective product that demand dries up and Boeing goes bankrupt. The Boeing management jackasses will descend upon DC screaming and crying for a bailout—absolutely guaranteed—privatized profits combined with…

PT Cruiser. I even had a 1:18 model of it, in yellow, with the woodgrain. What the hell I saw in this, I’ll never know:

Related - https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/02/second-boeing-whistleblower-dies

Small nit pick: Median would be half above, half below. Average is most likely skewed by huge payments on super premium cars at the top end. I would assume with car payments there are not a lot of outliers at the low end. 

The average car payment (half above the number, half below) for 2023 was $738.

The Chinese don’t have a large American lobby dedicated to covering for human rights violations. 

Colleges are terrified of sponsors pulling funding so they’re capitulating to loudmouths like Bill Ackman and his ilk.

Fuck off, genocide apologist.

The fact that it’s currently the most popular post on the site would beg to differ.

That is a little suspicious.

So NYPD leadership doesn’t seem to know what a “New York City” bike lock is? Like, literally locks that are advertised as being safe enough to trust in NYC by companies that don’t insure the performance of any of their lesser locks in NYC? Never heard of them? Literally an entire category of locks named after your…

Fantozzi believes that there isn’t much financial incentive for carmakers to work on batteries if customers — faced with the high costs of replacing them — are willing to buy new cars instead.

I am in the same boat. We have two paid off cars and I drive a ‘07 Highlander Hybrid with 286k miles on it. $50k+ for a car is insane to me. 

No, the manufacturers are run by shortsighted people who chase quarterly profits. The government didn’t have much at all to do with it.

The government didn’t mandate that Ford kill off all of its affordable offerings. Ford was simply following the cynical “build less, charge more” pricing model that a number of car manufacturers thought they could get away with in the wake of pandemic supply chain issues.

Color me shocked that peeps not making $100K+/yr might have problems making $1K USD/mo payments on a truck too large to fit in a suburban garage and costing ~$2G+ a year to insure....

They all thought they could be Tesla on day 1.

The cheapest new Ford you can buy will set you back over $31,000 once fees are factored in, fully $10,000 more than a base Chevy Trax.

You’re thinking tundra, I’m thinking tire irons and baseball bats. He can reject the harm he’s done to others until the blood starts flowing and cracks in his head appear. Pain is a universally understood measure of “I did mess up”....