Watching Twitter’s implosion will be glorious!

Netflix 2012: “For $8 per month you can stream pretty much every Disney movie ever made, every superhero movie ever made, all the Star Wars films, all the Marvel movies, every season of The Office and every Saturday morning cartoon from your childhood.”

definitely not the vax

Good, I am a fan of how he approaches free speech. Sure hope all the servers are waterproof,  the blue checkmarks are going to be so sad when everyone is able to post the actual truth, not bullshit filtered through moderators. 

Fork is not “dev speak for ripoff". It completely legit use of open source software, explitly allowed by open source licenses in the cases you're implying, and a fundamental aspect of open source ecosystem. Please do some research and don't misinform.

One of the reasons the prospective employee is required to agree to repay the company that trained them is that getting a CDL is expensive and becoming more difficult every year. And the result of that training is a commercial driver license that belongs to the Driver and not the company. The prospective employee has…

Exactly. Pretty straightforward useful transportation you can pay off and still drive for a few years without owing anything. OK reliability, or at least not worse than other Chrysler products. I know plenty of people who have had these, even bought them again. They have been fine. Fine, I tell you.

The Jalopnik style guide seems to currently be: find something interesting and then find a way to absolutely SHIT on it.

A Dodge Journey, likely priced in the basement, and still coming with a full factory warranty is not as bad of a choice as people pretend. It won’t be great, but it’ll get you to work and school if you need a car. 

Motorcycle, bicycle, carpooling, ridesharing, or I don’t know, walk.  You know, the same thing people have done for millions of years.

Decades of consumer protection law precedents say otherwise.

Great reporting. However, if you restrict rates, then no one will lender to these high risk borrowers. Given the rates, CAC charges, if the borrowers were good credit risks, someone would be undercutting them.

That girl cosigned FOR SOMEONE THAT SHE BARELY KNEW AND WASN’T IN CONTACT WITH. She signed a legally binding contract, as an adult that is legally able to enter into contracts, that said, “I understand that this personally has proven themselves to not be financially responsible, and WHEN, not IF, they stop paying…

Except this guy really was an idiot.  For the money he had in 1991 he could have gotten himself a car that would have gotten the job done.  He chose to live above his means, buying the equivalent today of an almost $30,000 car.  There is not a single goddamn thing you can say to me to convince me that he needed that…

He wasn’t a victim.   He agreed to the terms.

Predatory? Nobody made him decide that a $3400 car wasn’t good enough for him. $3400 in 1991 would go a long way in used cars. Nobody made her co-sign for a friend with bad credit. Nobody needs a Corvette. And if you have to borrow for it at subprime rates you certainly don’t need it. Sorry, these people had options…

I get you, what they've done is just asinine. But the first guy could have gotten a good used car in 91 for his 3k cash, and who the hell buys a Corvette with shitty credit?

Capitalism IS amoral. And that’s fine. People operating within a free system can make their own choices. Those choices can be bad, unless you enjoy a paternalistic role of the state. Life isn’t fair and I don’t see anywhere that I described lenders as ‘good’ (remember, capitalism is amoral so good and bad aren’t…

Oh please, spare me more stories about the big bad banks. The guy apparently had $4k to put down, he could have had a nice used car for cash. Hell, in 2018 for $4k he could have a pretty decent car, now this story takes place in 1991. A 1988 Blazer was not simply an overpriced beater, he just wanted something better…