The commenting system on their site needs some work though.

My dad did say that once he started driving a K-car that was supplied by his employer in the mid 1980s, he only wanted FWD for getting around on icy or snowy roads while visiting his customers’ farms.

Congratulations on not knowing how it works.

Apple was also selling refurbished 64GB versions for $109. I picked one up last week because of the reasons you listed and:

if for no other reason than there is little smuggling from the US to Mexico.

A plant in México would make sense for Tesla if they wanted to be able to supply their US and German plants with parts w/o having to pay any tariffs to the EU or US.

True, since the Nixon administration designed Amtrak to be a failure and made practically everything between the Rockies and the Appalachians get routed through Chicago.

Both of those have been canceled? WTF

It was pretty much the norm for getting around the rural US for decades.

My parents did that in a pickup with a camper in the bed.  IIRC, they needed new tires after they got to Alaska and other set when they got back.

That would be the correct way to address the issue, but it looks like that’s not what is going to happen.

There are periods during which I’m officially on-call, but I still get contacted the rest of the time depending on the projects or if something goes bonkers.

Just saying prices are down due to refineries coming back online doesn’t generate as many clicks or commentary as spewing doom-n-gloom.

Because it already is tainted for having to be on call most of the time and with WFH, I can get more sleep instead of needing to get dressed and drive into work to do the exact same shit. The office also has crappier equipment, furniture, and coffee.

But lots of management types are staying at home while forcing the rest into the office.

Yep.  All of the positive aspects of this are basically the same as if one is taking an overnight Amtrak trip. 

Congress would have to do something as once the trust fund is exhausted, the revenue projections have SS payouts at 80% of normal levels.

Why does the creator of the universe need a multi-level marketing scheme to get his point across to humans?

They will have to once the Boomers exhaust the SS trust fund.

Spread it around so one person doesn’t have to deal with the insanity all the time.