I don’t think it’s generational if you’re meaning that most Millennials will forever hate haggling. These perceptions came about when Millennials collectively had far less income and job security than the preceding two generations at the same age, due to the great recession. So there were fewer opportunities to…

Excellent article. You are the gadfly that we need in the auto racing world. Please keep doing stuff like this; this is why I keep coming back.

Yes it was an automatic. People did not consider them shit when new; Honda automatics had been very reliable for decades at that point. They didn’t know that suddenly Honda was going to shit the bed.

Real sheets of copper (not paint) were installed on the ships of the Royal Navy at great expense in the 18th century, which gave rise to the term “copperfastened.” UK slang for something being secure or guaranteed, sort of like how Americans might say “nailed down.”

In the meantime, my grandma’s 2000 Accord suffered transmission failure at about 50k. Things don’t stay the same forever.

There are use cases which don’t involve a new card number. Sometimes you need to shred an extra card because you’ve removed an authorized user or they’ve sent you a new one before the old one is expired, or you’re planning to cancel a card so you shred it in advance (but you can’t cancel it immediately because you…

You’re very right. Having worked as a cook for a few years, I saw a lot of good and a lot of bad managers. It is hard when you are brand new, but if you have proven yourself enough that your chain of command knows who you are, then you should immediately, and in detail, report this kind of behavior to the offending…

Guess I’m lucky or I’ve got the right roads near me, as I’ve never had a speeding ticket, and I’ve deserved it over my years driving.

Thank you!! I can’t believe I never knew about this. Why the heck doesn’t Samsung tell you that they have these things??

Buybacks are a good idea that are, honestly, one of the only gun laws that I can imagine being bipartisan, because they are basically government pork for red states. Instead of Cash for Clunkers, it would be like Cash for Glocks.

Well, I said *sometimes* - of course there are exceptions. Just noting, a lot of people felt that analog versions of their favorite music were better than the earliest digital versions, and cassettes continued to develop well into the existence of the CD. Nakamichi was doing well through the 80s and really only…

Enjoy! I love stories like this. :)

A $4,573 option in its day—$8,106 in 2019 money—the Nakamichi system was good enough that then-director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Neeme Järvi told Car and Driver during a comparison test that, “[t]he Japanese are already in the next century. In this car, I’m in a concert hall. I feel satisfaction from…

Thanks, this is literally the first argument I’ve heard in favor of the hidden-city pricing disparity which makes sense.

Yeah, I heard that one in engineering school.

We have more advanced methods of reclaiming waste these days, but you’re not wrong.

You have described my feelings exactly! I want to be around real people playing fun games. If GameStop wants to facilitate that, I will patronize them again.

My granddad was a sailor in WWII and my grandma had great stories. There were steel shortages during the war, but the scrap drives were largely theater (and it seems like it was mostly recognized as such). The energy required to gather and efficiently melt down and utilize bumpers ripped off cars meant it wasn’t a…

That is a nice period detail. I also note that, at 0:37, when he gets into the car, it looks like they even went to the trouble of including the wartime gas rationing sticker.

I have seen this opinion in many places, but I think it is seriously underrating the power of nuclear weapons even from the limited knowledge of the time (e.g. not including fallout effects).