The last time I was in a dealership specifically to buy a car was because a friend of mine asked me to join her because I know significantly more about cars than she does.

Lucky for me I figured out years ago that Chick Fil A serves dry overrated garbage so I never go there.

There are easier ways to check for wing spar corrosion 

US had the same problem when Japanese cars came in and ate their small car lunch. It took until the early 00's for US small car making quality to be on par with Japanese ones and many would argue are STILL not on par.

Turns out that everyone loves a free market right up until a bigger fish comes to eat more of the market.

US automakers have spent decades setting the stage for cheap imports by cutting back further and further on entry-level models. They could do a lot to undercut the threat of Chinese imports by putting out some cheap cars themselves. 

He’s the very model of a modern major general.

This is part of the reason I simply don’t use highbeams except to signal to other drivers/pedestrians. In any urban/suburban area there is absolutely no need for highbeams. Even in rural areas, my anecdotal experience is that lowbeams are far less likely to make a deer freeze directly in front of me, so I’m less…

I am already blinded by the time the turn off. And that is if they turn off. 

really, I guess that’s what happens when you learn history from news channels

Have you priced any EV batteries? Most are still extremely expensive, so this take is currently valid. If US based battery plants come online this may change, but currently EVs are not cheaper to maintain.

spend years in a shitty old car that makes you hate life

Especially if it breaks down and you loose your job because you cannot get to work. Reliable transportation can be the difference between making it and homelessness. 

A little more time at the range and they might have known what gunshots do and do not sound like.

Maybe if somebody has such bad PTSD that they think acorns are gunshots and empty their firearm at the sound of an acorn, they shouldn’t be allowed access to firearms?

They only deploy that rationale when a law is proposed that will stop them from doing what they want.

I hope so. But then again . . . Boeing is essentially run like McDonnell Douglas now. And let’s all take a moment to remember how their most successful widebody trijet started out: the glorious DC-10. It really was a fantastic aircraft, but there was this one problem: the aft cargo door had an issue where it could be…

As I’ve harped on before, Spirit Aerosystems and Boeing being two different companies does nothing from a quality standpoint—it was tax stuff—cash flow for why Spirit was spun-off in the first place. And now Boeing is paying for their short-term blindness since Spirit has a vested interest in shipping sloppy product…

Affordable? What rich people think is affordable and what really is affordable to the average person are often far apart.

People get all excited about eating at friggen Taco Bell.