What was your major?

What conclusion am I supposed to be drawing here? I see a few... none of them particularly great about the current situation.

Some of them buy new cars and overextend themselves anyway, or they lease, and both of those are also bad for them, and for the economy long-term. Because they see a new car as a necessity, they have less expendable income to consume elsewhere.

No one can. The car payment on a 25K+ loan is 450 dollars per month. So - assuming you have a decent trade-in, and add insurance, that puts your monthly cost at around 550 bucks just to own a car not including maintenance. Assuming two cars per household and some leasing instead of buying, only the fourth and fifth…

I think you’re being pretty arrogant. The limited sphere of your own experience doesn’t cover everyone’s experience. Being CTO of a company doesn’t make you qualified to comment - and your ironclad certitude despite....everything.... the professional in the article wrote, makes you less credible.

Transaction prices are probably rising because the only people buying cars are wealthier people, hence, more expensive cars - last time I looked at the data, a lot of car categories are holding fairly steady on pricing, except for the better selling segments, like CUVs and SUVs.

I’m going to sound old here - but I stream all of my TV - and music - and I have a 25MBPS connection. I usually get closer to 40. If Verizon could deliver that to me in a cost-effective way and consistently, I’d drop Comcast like a bad habit. Does anyone really need anything more than 100MBPS? Especially on your phone…

I thought the most authentic thing was the shifting.

The dynamite imagery is hard to disassociate with a dramatic reveal.

I’m the type of person that knows a lot about classical music compared to my professional peers (I work in marketing and data analytics) - but really uneducated when it comes to someone that probably works in classical music.

From your lips to the Gods’ ears. People have been calling for this guy’s implosion since he announced his candidacy. I keep holding out hope. 

Compare them to the Jabra Elite Active? I like Jabras a lot. Sound quality is at least on par with the Bose QC35s I had. A little less bass. I didn’t get the Sennheisers mainly because I like the water resistance and the user reviews on the Sennheisers aren’t great.

Hasn’t done much interesting since even before that. 

Lol. American Military News. I was going by the UN numbers. Both show a similar story. All I see in the article you linked are Texas numbers. 

Dunno - I don’t feel like Ive has done anything earth shattering at Apple recently? but maybe I’m out of touch. Maybe this will allow him to refocus on design and it will be better for everyone.

Citation on the deaths numbers?

Yep - I hate it, but here’s the thing. I’d drive the hell out of the Scat Pack version.

I think that would be a pretty hard sell for a politician that wants to be re-elected. 

As a native Spanish speaking immigrant - I think your take is spot-on. No one expects accents and tenses to be perfect, I’ve known people that lived in Latin America for decades and are essentially fluent, but their tenses and grammar aren’t 100% while speaking. But Booker and Beto sounded like they just memorized…

I don’t think that’s the point of this study here. In light of declining new car sales and rising prices, this is important because car manufacturing is a significant economic engine.