Oh, please explain.  I’d LOVE to hear how this is “bigotry”.

Boomers have been a plague in so many ways.

Remember Al Gore’s lockbox? If, back then, we had adjusted social security by phasing in an increase in the social security retirement age to 70 over 30 years, starting immediately, social security would have been 100% solvent as far as the eye could see. But boomers refused…

But everyone knows aged beef is better.

I’m perfectly fine with a carbon tax with a “dividend” or “tax credit” or whatever you want to call it.

Look, there’s a cost to any pollution. It might be microscopic or it might be huge. But we’re not applying the cost to the products that are generated as a result. So, for example, coal and to a lesser extent natural…

Read the whole thread. The $18-19k figure is referring to what the $20k car of today would cost absent safety and emissions features.

A Yaris, as you point out, isn’t a $20k car today. It’s already cheaper.

The total cost of all those safety and emissions features is FAR less than people want to pretend it is.  Just…

With this new investment added in, Toyota Motor North America says it has invested over $3 billion in the San Antonio truck plant. That’s a pretty damn significant number—and it promises to keep production local for the foreseeable future.

The three companies’ hourly employees contribute between 3% and 4% to their coverage, compared with 29% for the average American worker, according to a October 2018 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The lesson of the day:

Engineers at automakers generally know what the hell they’re doing.

Some aftermarket shop hacking vehicles together don’t necessarily, and neither does the sucker who parts with good money for those modifications.

Did it have a passenger side sideview mirror?

Back then, the car I was driving was a older Mazda. You name the feature, it didn’t have it. A/C? Oh, hell no. No A/C, no power windows, no power doors, no cassette, no CD (just AM/FM), no power steering, no power seats, no independent rear suspension....

No way would a car…

Power windows and power doors were also options.  That car would be viewed by the public as barbarically primitive nowadays.

$10k? Not at all likely. $18-19k? Sure. Don’t confuse the extreme prices for replacement parts from the dealer with what the OEM pays for them. Hell, I have to replace the radiator fan on my Mazda6. The MSRP of that part is $709.28 through Mazda. No way in hell did they pay more than $50 or so for it when they built…

That’s not how it works at all.

Each ticket you buy has the same odds of winning. But if there are 100 million possible combinations of numbers, and you buy 2 tickets, your odds are now 2 out of 100 million instead of 1 out of 100 million.

Unless you’re dumb enough to buy the exact same number combination twice.  Only…

Who is asking Henry Ford for his opinion? It’s not like he’s going to tell us.

But as awful of a person as Henry Ford was, there’s also no evidence to support that he wanted Hitler to win WWII. He was a war profiteer willing to work with anyone, sure... but that’s different than hoping the US would lose.

Pfft...

Trump may not even be on the ballot in California in 2020. Under their current law, he has to release his tax returns for the past 5 years by November to be on the ballot in 2020.

Of course, they’re desperately pleading for a Bush appointee to block the law, saying it violates the Constitution by putting another…

Oh, that’s just the start. Because the ‘19 Yaris has more passenger volume and trunk volume than that ‘90 Corolla - it actually is pretty much dead in between the ‘90 Corolla and the ‘90 Camry on size.

It also beats either one by a good 50% on fuel economy.

And it’s a shit-ton safer, too.

Pretty much. The Trump administration’s only legal hopes here are :

1) Prove that CA is acting an arbitrary or capricious manner and its standards aren’t as protective as the federal ones (nope, no go on that argument)

2) There are no extraordinary or compelling conditions for them to require tougher standards (um, good…

Well, you do have better odds of winning the lottery when you buy more tickets. Buy twice as many tickets, double your odds of winning.

It’s just that the limit of 2*x while x approaches zero is still 0.

Splitting up representation at a single company will not improve unions.

Splitting up the AFL/CIO so that unions have to compete to represent an entire company’s workers would.

Not sure which you meant, but if its the former, you’re naive.  If its the latter, then you’re on to something.

Bullshit.

Even without “right to work”, you aren’t forced to participate in union activities. That’s federal law.

The point of “right to work” is simple. When you get the exact same benefits whether or not you contribute to the union to fund those benefits, people drop membership. It’s plain and simple, and happens…

Look at your W-2, box 12, code DD. That is the value of your health insurance.