Hey now, they look good on my ‘65 Galaxie... probably because the car is almost 60 itself though... ;)

Is it really baffling, tho? These are humans we’re talking about here. We see portraits of mythical humans in dog taints.

Running screaming from the cognitive dissonance that will force them to see that there is no magic space wizard and we are not his chosen sea monkeys, and that we have to actually take care of our house if we want it to stay habitable. Unfortunately, a lot of them are people who do not have enough of the lower end of…

Said “no” repeatedly to an extended warranty at a Nissan dealership 10 years ago. Finance guy said, “well, I guess you like gambling, then. You a gambler?” I don’t know why it pissed me off so much, but I completely shut down and stopped responding entirely. He kept laughing nervously and asking me if I wanted water.…

This is all I can see every time.

Yes, because every transaction is done with a newly generated “card” that is created just for that transaction. Basically, your actual card information never gets transmitted to the vendor. Instead (in the case of Apple Pay for example), Apple makes the payment on your behalf with a one-time-use ‘credit card’, and…

Visually, everything on it works, except for that damned grille/headlight shape combo. The grille is too “smiley” and the way it undercuts the headlight housings looks like the thing is apologizing for itself (“excuse me, pardon me, coming through...”)

Again, you’re not wrong in a technical sense, but all of those cost comparisons are looking at per-unit cost over time. It’s still really, really hard to build a Nuclear power facility. It’s still really, really expensive up-front. It can still take a decade before we see a single watt. It works in Europe because…

Again, no.

...and how we fund things currently. At close to $10B per, a nuclear power plant could tax the entire GDP of some small nations. Doable? Sure, but would require very heavy government subsidy, which is how they manage in Europe.

I’ll say this to you as I said to noname, there’s a whole lot that you’re missing.

Storage is an issue that is getting a lot of attention and capital:

Maybe what it says in the manual? Maybe what it says on the screen before you start driving? Again, we are talking about a name here. If what something is named is all it takes for you to completely abandon all sense, frankly, I’m not sure how the hell you function on a daily basis.

Exactly this. For example, I love good audio. I can aspire to own a crazy good amp and speaker setup that costs thousands more than something like a $300 Denon receiver and Polk monitors because it would be a huge upgrade. On the same token, I get why an Audi A8L is 3x the price of a well-specc’d Camry, and why a…

Lol I barely have 30 - 50 dollars to drop on a toy... 

I had this same experience. I’ve always been a Virago nut - just couldn’t get enough of that maintenance-free shaft-drive smoothness. I owned a Virago 250, a 535, a 750 and an 1100 from ages 19 - 26 (before moving up to an FZ1000 because cruisers in general will really numb your ass on a 112-mile round-trip daily…

Hear, hear!

I’ve called myself a grand millenial, but elder millenial is also good. 

...or locked in said garages as seizures from criminal proceedings or unpaid civil penalties of one sort or another.

Lousy Smarch weather...