This story was originally published on April 30, 2018
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Tactics like this aren’t to resolve, they’re to escalate.
Ah, yes, because if there’s one thing we’ve all learned over the last few weeks, it’s that the cops can be trusted to do the right thing.
A friend of mine who works in finance described the situation to me thusly: a company can take on debt (even if they don’t actually need it) and use that money for general business expenses. These include things like paying dividends to investors. Because debt has certain tax advantages, they can make a savings on…
I’m convinced that most major corporations are just a house of cards — nothing more than accounting tricks to keep their heads barely above water while the executives enrich themselves. Tap one little card at the bottom and everything comes crashing down, except for executive salaries of course. Gotta take care of…
“...by which time, my house will hopefully be sold,...”
The conversation between host and guest was usually decent, occasionally quite good, but it was the cars that were truly transcendent.
Wow I got meme'd that's so cool. I guess I am officially an "internet person" now.
My dealership gets these as trades pretty regularly, and they just don’t hold up like a family vehicle should. Any of the author suggestions would be a safer bet.
We do. Available turbo, a wagon, not-shit quality, comfortable a.f., available awd, no pretense, and polarizing styling. It’s pretty goddamn jalop.
It’s Canada. They asked politely and said please, so the driver really had no other option.
Not related to the article, but according to Kinja Support they deployed some changes to the comment section last Friday. They seem to be showing up for me now, how about you guys?
A fellow fan of the sounds of the ur-Fleetwood Mac? Outstanding.
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Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
(The “(RIP)” note re: Oppo was regarding Oppo as a .jalopnik... Edited for clarification. There are no plans to shut down oppositelock.kinja.com that I’m aware of.)
Oppo right now:
Can you tell him Oppo is still alive and well?
And make sure his tetanus is up to date.