Millions, literally millions, of people believe in homeopathy. That shit doesn’t work either. Yet, many people believe in it so much they refuse actual medical treatment and some of those die because of it.

Huh. I just get them to rotate the tires while changing the oil. It’s an extra 20 minutes, but I’m usually next door eating lunch.

I don’t know you personally. You haven’t shown credentials, or refuting data. You could be an expert, a shill, a bot, or simply a rube. I can’t tell because to me you’re just a string of letters on a screen. So yeah, without any supporting evidence, I give exactly zero weight to your testimonials.

If you understood, then I explained it well enough.

Nope.

Nope. That’s skimming and you do not retain as much that way.

Nope. Shit’s a scam,

Or don’t, because speed reading isn’t actually a thing. You can either skim something and retain essentially bullet points, or read every word at whatever pace your level of literacy allows and retain as much as your memory allows.

That’s not how buying works. Paying cash means I’m out $45K in today’s dollars. Financing means I’m out the discounted net present value of $45K paid out over however many years. You wanna use $43K as a number? Fine. That $2K difference is effectively them paying me to buy their $45K [whatever, item doesn’t matter].…

Because interest rates are less than inflation, which means they’re actually paying me to buy their car.

YUP! Though I usually call them “suckers”, “rubes”, or “amateurs”. Cars with 40-50K in miles are selling for maybe 5 grand less than what you can get new and the financing is universally worse.

Along those veins:

He’s also really short. Like 37% the size of a normal person. Story checks out.

I think you mean “neck guy”. Mitch McConnell has no chin. Just a smooth curve from mouth to neck waddle.

Sure, being ugly makes things harder, just as being good looking makes things easier. However, most people are not that ugly. The vast majority of people are...honestly...unremarkable. Like 95-98 out of 100. It’s an ocean of mediocrity. And the older you get, the more things trend towards the middle. Beauty vanishes…

Gallup.

I wouldn’t read much into Sanders, to be honest. His candidacy was as much a protest against Clinton (and the national party rolling out the carpet for her) as much as a preference for socialist policies.

Scrimping is still shitty advice. You wanna afford a house? Go to mf’ing college and learn a marketable skill. Doesn’t matter if it’s accounting or HVAC repair so long as somebody in your area wants to pay you a living wage for it. The alternative is poverty. No amount of scrimping or couponing on earth will get you a…

Speak for yourself. I, for one, *have* made grudging progress in turning the s/o into something resembling a civilized, clean human being with a respectable wardrobe.

Honeymoon Phase? Pfft. You must be single. The first year is the Argument Phase, where two people now in the position of sharing a big chunk of their life and property, hash out how exactly that’s going to work on a daily basis.