Yeah, sim drivers have been saying for years that they’re a good way to learn lots of things about driving for cheap. Hitting your apexes, decreasing and increasing radius turns, etc.

Let’s distinguish between “low quality” and “inexpensive”. Never buy low quality tires on a vehicle you need to perform (e.g. no-name three seasons for driving in snowy mountains). Do buy inexpensive tires that are appropriate to their intended function (inexpensive snow tires are better in snow than $$$$ summer…

Star for Chinesium. Definitely spring for skookum wheels

The only thing I generally avoid at HF are power tools, but like you said, if it’s a one time use thing (random sander I’ll never use again), then possibly, but I still prefer buying used pawn shop Ryobi over harbor freight for that. I guess the more complex the manufacture of the tool, the less likely I am to buy it…

The problem is that no union is far far worse than a shitty Union.

You mean like reading Keynes’ work “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”?

You realize that us vs them thing is built in to capitalism? As in it’s a feature not a bug? And that collective bargaining is a necessary feature of functional capitalism? Without it, there is no capitalism.

White person here: that’s probably good advice anyway. Don’t assume someone isn’t a piece of shit just because you haven’t seen them act like a piece of shit yet. I learned that kind of thing the hard way.

I no wut I hav!

I loved that sketch.

No argument there. But let’s consider a car being “scrapped”: often times the parts that can be recycled or refurbished off the car are, especially high value parts. I think even in the case of an “obsolete” battery (for example), the cells could still likely be recycled into new cells for a much lower energy overhead…

One thing to consider with battery energy production cost: the energy cost to refurbish a battery pack is low (replace dead/dying cells), and the practical lifespan of a battery pack is much greater than 150000 miles. So, practically speaking, the energy cost for the batteries it’s a bit misleading.

I’d stretch for one. But then I’m definitely in the “have to ask” group, so not for me just yet.

Better fuel economy, but the range sucks! Anything past 10 gallons and you feel like you’re pushing your luck. It makes me miss my golf’s 14.5 gallon tank...

Matrix xrs at 8200 rpm. Just enough power to be fun, not so much that I’m feeling like the car belongs on a closed course

Inane political bullshit?

No

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I hardly need to provide alternative “facts” to call BS on the methodology here. Whether I have something better is only relevant if this study is better than nothing, which I would argue that it’s actually worse than nothing because it’s given people confidence to draw conclusions where they have no warrant to do so.

The mental gymnastics required to get to what you wrote from what I wrote...