Once you get east of the mountains in Washinton and Oregon, the local politics are much closer to Montana than their home state. There are fairly routine attempts by small groups for those eastern halves of the state to secede so they can form a new R dominated state without Seattle or Portland. 

That’s been a thing for a while now. I’ve been to multiple theaters in multiple cities for probably 10 years where you can get drunk. Just push a button/order and they’ll bring more during the movie.

I think this was more an effort to crack down on who gets to call themselves “news” on social media. It probably wouldn’t be a huge stretch for Meta to pay the outlets we traditionally know as news sources, but then they’d have to go through huge efforts (and probably multiple law suits) in determining when they share…

Everyone just seems to hate the more important steps 1 & 2 of reduce, reuse, recycle. 

When I was helping my MIL shop for cars we found a bunch of Rav4s online, but the lots we went to had zero actually there. Did the same thing with Siennas, outside a few top level trims. That was a little while ago, so I’d expect inventories to be better now, but dealers have spent the last few years constantly…

Semi-random question, does racing have similar “prime years” that match other sports? Generally, 27-31 are considered an athlete’s best years because they are most likely to be fully developed physically & well experienced mentally. Is the fall off mainly determined by the point their reflexes are off by that extra mil…

Seems like tiered MPG requirements & legal definition on the BEV equivalent would have been a lot better. Then the manufacturers figure out the hybrid/BEV options that work best across the decades for their offerings. 

Yes, 3 years is the standard length, and most contracts get renewed without much issue. In general, it is bad practice to have contracts that are longer than 3-5 years in almost any industry, as they will benefit the ownership while those on the earning side want regular updates. It allows a lot more flexibility for…

I do consulting and we do multi-year contracts with most of our clients. Deals longer than 5 years almost never work out as well for those being paid as those making the payments. Every year something new can come up to mess with a contract and that last thing you want to do it have to wait 7 more years to negotiate…

Absolutely. All 3 of those vehicles are probably never cross shopped either, so not particularly comparable. It was more of a comment pointing out that Gladiators are arguably the worst vehicle to use for any type of current market indicator.

Now do that with a prius or sienna. It's still a weird market, these jeep trucks just suck in a widely competitive segment 

Depending on the location, it is pretty shocking how well a train can sneak up on you. I’ve had a number of projects crossing tracks that I had to do some sort of field visit and there were definitely a few times that they passed while I was at a safe distance and didn’t realize it was ever approaching. Going around…

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3 - The UAW (unions in general) has to shoot for moon in hopes of just making progress. The big 3 are using teams of lawyers to put as many poison pills and loopholes in the contracts that they can to negate any real benefit.

I fear you underestimate how much people are willing to buy shitty cars. According to the first Google result, Buick moved an average of almost 60k Encores a year for 10 years. Almost 600k of those stupid little things sold and Buick isn’t a common rental car...

Wonder if there is a way to legislate distracted driving much like how DIUs get a built in breathalyzer. Get caught texting & driving - lose your smart phone. Phones are pretty central to our current economy, so the person instead gets a special locked phone that won’t allow any social media sites (kinda doubles as a…

175,000 of them were probably rental agencies. 

This was exactly my experience when I bought last spring. The price difference in new versus 1-3 year old cars in the group I liked most was maybe $1-2k in the $33k-$45k range. Many 1 year old cars were something like $500 off a new car MSRP (accounting as well as one can online for features). My pre-approval was 2%…

Even if I had FU money, I can’t imagine dropping nearly $80k on a custom-built car that I had no hand in customizing. Anyone who can afford a toy this expensive is just driving a Porsche.