In regard to that first statement, I assume that every form of review via YouTube/social media is paid advertising, at best. At worst, it’s something that the reviewer has an ownership stake in. They can still be good & useful, much like any other form of commercial advertising, but there’s basically nothing to stop…

Contractor: Uses undersized rebar.

The typical buyer isn’t putting several thousand down, they’re maybe putting a few thousand down on that $25k car and still getting 60-month loans. Even a full 20% down at 3% interest across 60 months, that $25k car is $390/month. If insurance on the thing is $300/mo because of the high chance to total it, that’s a…

I didn’t even start on how various executives/board members are frequently on multiple boards, which is who sets the CEO compensation package. Therefore, it is in their best interest to keep the making the packages as large as possible, so when theirs comes around it is just “market value” while everyone ignores that…

Wealthy people don’t want big incomes because then they might actually have to pay taxes and contribute to the country’s infrastructure that makes their business possible, like all their workers have to. They can still obtain extremely low interest loans using those stocks as capital and then spend that cash as though…

It does feel like I just watched review that explains the whole movie. They should have left the brother and black trident out. Let the rumors discuss his role and how manta gets so powerful so we can actually have a story to follow. 

as long as the insurance isn’t doubling the cost...

Castings that are custom, require a high degree of precision, and the size of a car are going to require a lot of labor and high level of expertise to do anything with them. Just like any other low volume, high expertise product is. 

Based on my recent highway driving, I don’t think that the Altima can even be killed by its owners.

I’m pretty sure that’s a widely agreed upon opinion. 

Interest rates can also be better on new cars, so in some cases that negated any savings when I last shopped. 

TIL Audi makes a PHEV A7...

Headline should have been “Ukraine Defense Against Russian Invasion” 

But to answer your question, no – we are not passing on these added costs to the customer by modifying destination charges...These are a short-term solution to get vehicles to customers faster.

It’s been a slowly growing discussion that picked up steam during lockdowns when people realized just how much more efficient they can be when working on their own time. The shift to get employees back in the office seems to have really pushed the 4-day work week to the side. The way remote work & lockdowns felt like…

That was a bad comparison. Looks like they are up to 2 derailments per million miles, a 17% increase over the last 10 years. My second point still stands that the income created dwarfs the costs/fines for any of the rail companies to care though. 

The close button on a freight elevator is good planning. That's the kind of elevator that could require a lot of awkward loads or in/out and you don't want all your stuff leaving you. 

Depends on the intersection and varies pretty wildly. I do not work with them directly, but do design other underground utilities and frequently have to partner with the stoplight people. Can usually tell how functional they are based on the conduits and cabinets present. Some are fake (kinda like the door close…

Derailed trains aren’t tremendously more common than crashing planes, just big news when they do. There are millions of miles of functional tracks making lots of money on a regular basis. The damages and fines are dwarfed by the income of keeping the trains moving by any means necessary. 

HAHAHAHA. Until the payout is measured in billions, this is barely a rounding error in their $26 billion revenue/$6 billion net.