I run Adblocker, and it’s still a shit show with half page ads

You cannot stop bullying in school. All you can do is make sure you’re not a target. They go after the weak, or poor, or strange looking. It’s effed up. But the game’s the game.

It’s like when Ford announced they were relaunching the Mach 1. Hype-city. Then the news that it would be electric. And a cross-over. People lost their minds. Initial renders were released and the internet collectively vomited. Then they were released and car journalists could review them, then the common man as well.…

It’s one thing to play the game same as everyone else. It’s another thing when certain powerful players lobby to have the rules re-written in their favor. That’s the difference.

Pay things with a credit card instead of check/debit. Pay your credit card in full every month. You get an extra 30 days from the time you charge something to the time you need to provide cash to pay for it.

15/30 year are what home mortgages are. This is a commercial loan, not the same

If I was a bank, and it was my job to loan money to people who would pay it back with interest without defaulting, I would require a higher minimum too. If they can’t afford 20-30%, what happens if they lose their job or get sick? Are they going to be able to pay their mortgage? Foreclosure is a bitch and costs money.

Dodge v. Ford came out in 1919, and was a State Supreme Court case. A corporation’s only purpose is to make money for their shareholders. Full stop.

A manual in a boring car has little appeal beyond making left turns. But something exotic or even light (miata, fiat, mini) is shit loads of fun

Tell me you ski in Tahoe, without telling me you ski in Tahoe...

TLDR: if you drive in the snow, snow tires are more important than AWD. If you drive in the snow, go slow and steady because it’s harder to brake/steer.

Hell, with modern clutches like you’d find on a BMW or Mini, the car holds itself for 1-2 seconds when you take off in first gear. You can tackle hills without using the handbreak and using 1 foot on 1 pedal at a time!

Had done a few country drives supervised in a 90's era Ford F150. But my first actual unsupervised solo drive where I had to get somewhere and had no one around was in an 80's era Bronco II, in bumper to bumper street traffic. Stalled half a dozen times on the hour drive. On the way back traffic had cleared and it…

Most of the tactile responses we deal with on a daily basis are sloppy and crap (but functional). Highly precise and premium ones are a welcome change. It’s like the first time using a mechanical keyboard; opening the action on a well-oiled rifle; snapping open the kickstand on the Surface tablet; the click on an…

Was at a Ford dealership that had put a $50k markup on a First Edition Bronco, pushing it north of $100k. On a fucking Bronco...

The only real hope we have is that the new Z sells a fuck-ton of manuals. If that happens, you may be able to get automakers to take notice and offer manuals in something besides their shittiest trim 4 banger model.

Well, a highly advanced global supply chain had been working just fine for the past hundred years or so since the assembly line was invented. It’s almost like a once in a century pandemic has serious impacts on all aspects of life or something... You also forget that the efficiencies of such a model also drastically…

The Dems are going to be the end of us. It’s impressive how whenever we vote them into power, they spend the entire time (1) not using their power and (2) doing nothing while the GOP take actions that will make it harder for Dems to ever win again. It’s the Scorpion and the Frog, over and over.

Not in FB’s defense per se. But for perspective it’s important to remember context of 2016-2020. No one took Trump seriously and expected other people to knock him out of the running or wrangle him in once elected. That... did not happen. What were once fringe conspiracy theories began taking hold in the party, and…

These troublesome customers are identified by their name and dob, and possibly address. Those items are “personally identifiable information.” There are data privacy laws that subject companies to rules/regulations on what they can do with such information and who they can share that data with (either for $ or free).