Screw that, I like my HOA.

For $400 a year, I get manicured public spaces and a neighborhood pool with pavilion I can use for cookouts.

Sure, doing some upgrades to my property have been a bit of a pain, but only because they’re slow to answer. Let’s consider what I’ve had to ask for permission for, and their responses:

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My god, were you born yesterday?

How much of his businesses were sold off? NONE. He knows EXACTLY where the money goes when he pushes spending through his businesses. And on top of that, after swearing that he would pay more, he pushed through more special tax treatment for real estate developers with his tax bill,…

Can we get the Tesla fan boi spin on this article?

“See, this is just part of Workhorse’s strategic plan... they were always going to lose money on those first products so that they can get the cash to buy a factory to lose even more money later...”

Meh, if you look at Hondas from those periods, they weren’t really that spectacular in fuel economy. And the Civic wasn’t a case of generous EPA estimates - when Honda found out that batteries were failing rapidly, rather than eat the warranty cost, they reprogrammed the vehicles to use the batteries far less, which…

Where was this “large manufacturing facility”? Amp was converting vehicles in Blue Ash, and from what I recall, their facility never was larger than what is now the Tesla dealership. I could certainly be wrong, but I would never call that tiny little building a large manufacturing facility.

They did start with the…

No, they never investigated if he was financially beholden to anyone.  They were investigating if he colluded with Russians who interfered in the election.

It’s pretty convenient that Trump was too stupid to succeed at his efforts to collude, and that his blatant obstruction of justice can’t be considered a crime because he told his attorney general to write that as a rule, isn’t it?

I’d be fine with legitimate investigations. The Uranium One deal was already investigated by the GOP, though. We don’t need 19 investigations like Benghazi. I’d be fine with investigating Biden, too.

Neither of these is even comparable to the insane levels of corruption of the Trump administration, however.

You arguably have it, though -

You have a president who, according to the special prosecutor, actually made attempts to collude with russian actors in the election, but was too incompetent to succeed in his efforts. He has admitted extensive business ties with these same foreign agents. And he’s been self-dealing in…

American Airlines: $1,221,461 billion (up from $1,172,728 billion)

3rd: There’s nothing wrong with the overall business model, but I’m not sure they’ll make it at those prices. They do fit in a niche, for certain. Current available services in Cincinnati can run $100-180 a trip for fully accessible ambulettes (no medical service on board, just a fully wheelchair accessible van).  Or…

Well, at least in Honda’s case, they never quite understood what they were doing in general. The original Insight? WTH? You’re going to build a two-seater at that price? Then they follow it up with their original Civic Hybrid, which they botched the battery on - leading to them reprogramming the vehicle to protect the…

1st:“Neither is particularly interesting, or notably efficient”

Really? Prius is interesting at the very least in the “my god, look at how ugly that thing is” kind of way.

Insight matches the Prius on efficiency, is the same size as the original Ford Fusion, and comes in about the same cost as the original Prius,…

Of course this would come from David Tracy...

I worked in the plant that built these. I wouldn’t touch one with a 50 foot pole. Their quality was absolutely abysmal. Factory management couldn’t be bothered with improving quality, even if it actually meant that you’d also boost production numbers and reduce costs. All…

Sure, but consider what they get for those high taxes - healthcare, tuition-free college, roads that don’t suck, solid retirement benefits, etc. If you took just our private education spending and healthcare and flowed those costs through the government, you’d see our taxes would likely look much higher. Hell, we…

It may also be the product of what life was like when I was growing up:

Crank windows, forget the idea of power doors, A/C if you were lucky, seats were more likely than not black vinyl, and if your vehicle lasted 6 years, it was a miracle.

What we get on cars today as standard brings them within spitting distance of…

Sweden has extremely high union membership rates and those unions and trade organizations set minimum wages for nearly every single sector of the economy. Their government also mandates extensive benefits and provides extremely strong protections of those unions and trade orgs. It’s laughable that you think they’re…

Ok, for that trim I would see that cost being about right.

It’s just well above what I would consider “well-equipped”. :)

Los Angeles County population by year:

2010: 9,822,433
2011: 9,876,727
2012: 9,938,436
2013: 9,998,105
2014: 10,048,408
2015: 10,097,037
2016: 10,120,540
2017: 10,118,759
2018: 10,105,518

Kinda hard to believe your apocalyptic predictions when at the current % loss it will still take 22 years to get back to the already crowded…

That’s easier in Detroit than most cities, though.

And they could use eminent domain to grab the holdouts at market values, which aren’t nearly so high in many areas. That’s terribly unpopular, but it can be done.

Reminds me of doing business in India/China.  China?  Oh, the government will magically make the land you…