Coulda been worse I guess...

The premium likely depends on how underwater you are about to be. Big difference in GAP risk between rolling in negative equity on a 7 year note for a BMW 7 series and putting a 10k down payment on a 3-year note on a Camry. You’ll be deep underwater for nearly the whole note on the 7 series but probably never under…

Stompers? Got ‘em! (the Chevy S-10 and AMC Eagle SX/4 are my favorites!)

I came across some of my old ones a few years ago.  I cleaned out the motors and got them running - one of them was a Mack Truck version that had a trailer.

Stompers!! That’s a memory I didn’t think would come back today.

My brother and I LOVED our Stompers. I think they’re in a box in his basement.

I came here to post about Stompers, too! Those things were the best. Spent many, many hours in the back yard running those over courses I created -- and ruined a lot of mom’s flowerbeds, too. 

I’m torn here. I get that Youtube has to make money to maintain the hosting infrastructure it has in place, but at the same time, each person viewing videos is giving away personal data based on their video preferences, which Google is either monetizing or using for their own research. I don’t want to see ads on…

Pushing ads so aggressively will only drive people off of YouTube altogether. I put up with waiting 5 seconds to skip ads for years because I realise ads are how they pay for server space, and I’m sure as shit not paying a monthly subscription to occasionally watch a game trailer or music video. But then they started…

There’s that euphemism that makes my eyes roll every time I see it: “down payment”. Really? When I fork over a down payment, I’m buying something and that ain’t happening here—you are renting. It’s a depreciation charge—pure and simple. But I’m sure it got labeled “down payment” to make it more palatable to those…

I want to say that there were comics or novels that fleshed out the backstories for some of them. Because he tried to make this a multimedia event like Disney has with Star Wars.

“I would like to know more details on how this happens and how the dealership has not been taken to court for theft and fraud.”

Right?? That’s all I could think about when I read this- are they actually going to add in bits to let us know who all of these people are? Backstory, maybe?

Unlikely, but make your case. Can I have a six acre yard in the city, and can I not have to interact with a bunch of other people for days at a time, when not at work, and can I keep a boat in my drive, and not have to pay rent or building/hoa fees?

Not easily finding content you already know about is actually a part of the goal — they don’t want it to be easy for you to get to the content you’re already watching. The whole point of this revenue-or-die streaming model they’ve all evolved into in their death throes requires them to keep you hunting on the site…

Would be interesting to see the stats on how often vehicles crash into the scenery vs into another car.

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Agree with pretty much all of that, though I will go to bat a bit for the Hulu interface.

The absolute worst is when the focused video thumbnail auto expands horizontally. I think it’s Amazon that does this, but whenever I pause on something for a few hundred milliseconds it will expand the item that I’m on so that they can autoplay the preview. This pushes all the others items to the right which makes it…