A nice rule of thumb to remember is that when an app or website are free, YOU are the product being sold to make revenue. 

The company I work for has been getting bought & sold by PE firms every 3-5 years for the last ~30 years. They varied from totally hands off, letting the execs operate however they preferred, to getting ridiculously hands on, causing employees to leave from stupid changes. Some had good changes or provided the money…

Most brands now operate in a weird space where they have some economy entry level while the top spec is a semi-premium that’s not quite as good as a true luxury brand, but getting awfully close (when new). The Telluride, Ascent, Palisade, ect have all been competing at discount luxury models for years, which is why…

$45k isn’t a high price for a semi-premium 3-row SUV when $35k is entry and most brands top out over $50k. Looks like the Acadia tops out around $55k, which is the same as the top-of-the-line Telluride. The previous gen entry level Acadia was priced similar to competition, but it was awful compared to them - smaller,…

Based on his wiki, he spent high school at a boarding school in Rhode Island before attending both Georgetown & UCLA. He never had to think of money the same way most people have to think of money.

That is absolutely poverty level. Mississippi has the lowest household median income in the country, and it is almost double that at $52k. Pretty sure I was able to make ~$17k a year working part time in a kitchen back in 2010.

Seeing that we’re in an election year, I bet businesses are scared the pushback will be even worse than last year. They want to go after the market, but also trying to stay out of some MAGAs campaign speech. 

The competitive part it is huge. Looking back on life as a straight white man with a Catholic upbringing, there were absolutely zero systematic roadblocks to my success in life. Even in a low-income house, my only real obstacles were things like trying to get good grades or save up enough money to do things. That…

In hindsight, maybe the people who burned women alive in public shouldn’t have been the founding moral values of our nation.

A benefit of the expectation for corporations to show values is that it has made some of them show their shitty values. The expansion of pride themes forces companies like Chickfila and Hobby Lobby to acknowledge they are backing anti-LTGBQT & anti-abortion groups that are actively taking rights from people or makes…

This still falls behind a Volvo, G-wagon, Genesis, Audi RS Q8, Avant, or as others have stated, BMWs own X5 M for a slightly less ugly SUV. 

GM: This union deal will kill us! How could we possibly pay for this labor and keep the jobs in America?!

I feel like once a car passes ~$110k it is no longer something where the McMansions will be extending themselves to get it and quickly enters 3rd/4th car territory by ~$150k, just because of how wealth gaps shift so fast at that level. Nothing about this car jumps out to me as my 4th car that sits at the lake house or…

Who is buying this monstrosity over a Cayenne, Land Rover, or just about any other luxury SUV? 

There’s More To 15-Minute City Conspiracies Than You Think

Probably pinterest. There’s a ton of fluff, but I’ve found some really good DIY carpentry things there that offer pretty good step by step guides.

8 lane 45 MPH roadways that cut through cities certainly weren’t the norm for a lot of that time. The number of cars on the road, requirements for added parking, and number of paved lanes has continued to grow every year across the century. Our car-centric society may have just spent the last decade hitting a…

I looked up the dimensions and it appears the Mach E is actually packaged a lot better. The Mach E is 5" shorter overall, but has a larger trunk volume and comparable leg room. I’m a big fan of frunks, so I was mostly curious if the added frunk room would be worth it, but it appears there are no other space…

I think you can comment on all the sites were sold off at their native links, but this is only one left at the header of the group with comments. 

It got sold a few days ago. I was actually just coming to comment here that this is officially the last place people can leave comments on what is left of the dead horse that was the gawker family.