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When you cut flights 90% and then increase 74%, you’re still down 82.6%.

To me, the monthly price of a new car has ALWAYS been a steep amount when comparing to median incomes. However, historically, it actually hasn’t varied that much over the past few decades. Of course, cars are just infinitely better now and will last longer, so at the same % of your income, you can view them as a…

Neutral:

I’ve been loving not needing them so much. Hell, my car has been in the shop for the past week. Normal times that would be a massive inconvenience. Now? I don’t really care so much. I’m letting my mechanic take his time on the job and prioritize others if need be.

And the repair its in for is one of those…

I don’t like when people try to lump cops all in the “bad cop” category. At all.

But Minneapolis? They’ve known who Bob Kroll is for years, and the police keep him as their head. That’s saying that the majority of cops support him.

You’re not talking about “a few bad apples” now - you’re talking mostly bad apples.

Stupid thing to be bragging about - especially when you see that the Ford workers who were sick passed the same health screenings being used at GM.

It’s not just Musk being an asshole - its that his attitude comes through in the way the company behaves as well. I mean, some of the “recertification” fees they have charged after an accident border on the obscene. I’ve known a couple people who have had accidents/damage on their Tesla that the local Ford dealer had…

The answer is simply what ever YOU feel is best. Don’t ask me. I’m 6'6" and there are cars I know of where people have raved about the seats and I found them to be not just uncomfortable, but painful. Bodies aren’t all the same, so our preferences aren’t going to be the same.

Now where this gets stupid is in our…

I know there was one they tested on animals that not only didn’t help, but made infections worse, despite producing antibodies. Wonder if that’s the same one?

My optimism, though, is based on the results we’ve seen on completely new and different vaccine platforms than that one.  I’m actually signed up as a volunteer…

Completely disagree.

We had vaccines developed for SARS that tested well in the lab but never went through even Phase I tests in humans for a simple reason - SARS burned itself out through control measures, and no public company is going to invest in a vaccine for a virus that isn’t a current threat.

We also have MERS -…

Being 18 years old, that Lexus is going to have a lot of rubber parts rotting or rotted out on it. If you go that way, you had better be prepared to replace a good number of suspension components in the near future. Toyota’s reputation for reliability simply won’t save you here - any car at that age will suffer the…

Has Carl Icahn ever touched a company and not turned them into s**t?

Will people ever learn that his model of massively overleveraging a company will doom it to failure?

The first part of that is accurate about the emissions.

But we aren’t oil independent or anywhere close to it. We produce about 13 million barrels of crude per day but consume about 20.5 million barrels per day.

Even if production outstripped demand, oil is fungible, and we’d still be subject to market forces elsewhere,…

4th: Honestly, there is no good reason why trains shouldn’t replace air travel when the train trip can take 2.5 hours or less. When you consider the extra time to/from the airport, arriving early as demanded, etc, there is no real time advantage left for air travel at that point.

And even Amtrak, as bad as it can be at…

Add in that for the low end of the market, the borrower may be underwater, but the bank has already locked in a good amount of profit, even if prices drop like a rock.

20%+ interest rates can make these things profitable even when large numbers fail to make payments on time.

The impact on different segments of the market might be a little different than you suggest.

Think of the 08 recession. Housing prices dropped significantly at the upper end of the market. Those buyers who had been shopping for $600k homes ended up shifting to the $400k market. The $400k shifted down, etc... and in…

Sometimes dealer tactics make no sense...

When the 2nd gen Chevy Volt came out, I visited a dealership that had a 1st gen still on the lot that had been there for 7 or 8 months. Straight up offered the guy the low end of the TrueCar price (after rebates, not counting the tax credit). Wasn’t a ton below MSRP before…

Assholes like these are why it will take far longer than it should to get the economy up and running again, and more people will die unnecessarily.

A little cooperation and widespread testing and we could already be getting back to business - you know, like Taiwan or South Korea. But this shit makes it impossible.

Absolutely. I don’t mean to discount this at all in that respect. For mild/moderate COVID cases I could even see a use - where people are generally not put on a ventilator now, but rather given supplemental oxygen. The positive pressure could potentially keep the lungs open more, allow better oxygen transport, and…

Pressure levels are too low, breath rates are too low, and still isn’t functioning like an invasive ventilator. That’s good for mild cases, but bad for severe ones - where the machine needs to do the breathing for the patient.

This, like many others, can be a great help, don’t get me wrong - but it isn’t a ventilator…

They’re not really turning them into ventilators - not even on par with the $800 ventilator Musk was supposed to be providing.  Not a bad solution for mild cases in need of support, though - could still be very helpful.