It is really hard to judge how much bad decisions will cost and really easy to look at bids and determine exactly what the cheapest option is. My clients are always swaying between 3rd party inspection, in house inspection, and just letting contractors self-report. Self-reporting is always the cheapest up until…

Technically, maybe, but also not entirely. The Civil Rights Act was in 1964 and Voting Rights Act in 1965. Before that, “states rights” could really fuck with things and ‘separate but equal’ & sundown towns were still legal. While 1855 gets us back to the ownership of women & minorities, the GOP has really been focused…

GOOD. Anyone who likes the Scion xB, Honda Element, or any of those other little boxy things should be a fan of the little boxy Renegade. I could fit 3 car seats in a mine, full stroller & kid supplies in the back, and park it in any downtown spot. Having Jeep’s reliability is a bit of a killer, but if they keep it as…

I’m going to go with the current gen Dodge Charger being just as big in 30 years as the 1960/70s muscles cars have been for the last 20 (sorry 1969ChargerFan if I got here first). Mustangs & Camaros may have a following, but Camaro is already almost forgotten so I expect it will stay that way and Ford already started…

I’m really curious what the people who dislike the ending thought would happen. Anything else happening would have been a complete departure from all the events that led up to climax. Based on the complaints, I kept waiting for a twist that ruins the movie and it never came. Are they all set on characters never changin…

He had a deep discussion with his ex-wife about how people can change by pretending to act the way they want to act, eventually becoming engulfed by that personality. He had a big classroom discussion about the social circumstances of when it is okay to execute someone for the social good. There was no plot twist…

I keep seeing this take and I really don’t get it. The ending was totally predictable with multiple scenes along the way that set a clear foundation.

Then ya, there is 100% no reason for a cop car to be there outside an active emergency response. 

As someone who makes at least one 300+ mile work trip every month, sometimes up to 5 between different cities, my advice is to get a rental for those trips. The exception would be if the company will be paying you a stipend for the car. If those trips are making up the vast majority of their driving, that means they…

Not sure if this is a drive on beach, but there are plenty of those where people need to watch out for cars. There are tons of families with little kids, though, so about 99% of drivers do a good job crawling along slowly. Most of the cops are in a side by side of some sort instead of a car too, which is way better…

Any engine bay where I cannot reach the battery, filters, and spark plugs without having to remove something else. All of those, especially the battery, should be right in your face when the hood goes up. 

I couldn’t get my 7 & 10 year old to finish Inside Out, so I’m also in no hurry to see it. They like plenty of other Pixar movies, but really didn’t care for this one. Wonder Park was much more well received by them.

Nope. He said some asshole things, got fired for it, adjusted his comedy a bit, and now he’s really successful. He admits why he got fired and pretty much makes fun of everyone, including right wingers. I haven’t seen his full specials, just various clips, but he kind of reminds of Dane Cook or Daniel Tosh. Not the…

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.