It’ll probably continue to run and get from A to B. The windows may not raise and lower consistently, and the radio may decide to stop working, but I’d expect it to run. And, it’s likely cheaper to fix it than replace it. I will never understand how people rationalize “well that repair is $2000, so I am going to cut…

Orrrr....how about keep driving the relatively new VW that he is in now. I mean, with that budget and the reliability/economy requirements, he’s just going to get a newer version of what he is already driving. Granted, this is all “free” money so it does not really matter all that much. BUT, depending on where he is…

I would argue that the insane price increases we have seen are only secondarily affected by regulations and monetary policy. The main driver of price increases has been auto financing. Most people are financially illiterate, and car companies figured out quite a while ago that they could bilk people for more by…

I can only hope to be in a position to not have to work because “meh I do not give a shit anymore.” Have fun with that.

So your response is to get emotional and launch personal attacks? lol good one, you really showed everyone. If your ability to converse with internet strangers is any indication of how you behaved at work, there’s not much mystery here.

Not that this will save a doc from a med-mal suit if something does go wrong with the baby.....

I am not a woman, so my commentary is through a man’s lens. However, I am married to an accomplished non-white professional woman and I routinely discuss this with her because she is both a significant contributor to the household income and someone I care about (so I want to see her succeed).

Although it will never happen, I think that companies should be required to publish pay statistics by demographic and position/title. They obviously do not want to do this both because most companies do not want to have to compete against others for pay any more than they already do, and because if there are internal…

The DNC is now putting everything it has into focusing everyone on Trump and how terrible he is. They think that they do not need to change anything internally and that a simple platform of “not Trump” in 2020 is all they need to win since “not Bush” was a big part of Obama’s first victory. This is a tremendous…

Sure, but it is a massive boondoggle which is ultimately a massive handout to the private insurance industry which now has a federal blessing to establish regional monopolies, with the citizens of those regions forced to buy in under threat of tax penalties. The ACA is better than nothing, but that is a pathetic bar…

Nobody around here learned anything from the ‘Jackie’ or Duke cases. I mean, if you are going to jump to conclusions, then statistically you are probably going to be right by siding with the accuser because most accusations have merit in these things, but thank god our judicial system does not work like this place.

If you are interested, here is one article in a very well done series on Uber’s future prospects (they are bleak). The writer is a 40 year veteran of the transportation industry and he goes over all publicly available data regarding Uber’s financials and projections.

Yup. And the responses to your post are, sadly, 100% predictable. The “left” has totally lost its mind since November. The DNC is a center-right corporatist party that pays lip service to progressive ideals, while in practice, it runs the country for the benefit of the 0.1% just like team red. Half of the…

And anyone here is surprised? Newsflash: As detestable as the Republicans are, the Dems are really not much better in practice. They talk the talk that progressives like to hear, but in the end, they are in corporate America’s pockets just as deep. This is why so many registered Dems did not vote for Hillary, or at…

OK, but I fail to see how something like that would make any real, net change in something like the US government. It sounds like a recipe for yet another election where the right turns out and votes for their party, and everyone else is either not motivated enough to show up at the polls, or can’t decide who to vote…

The strategy now seems to be one of, “take your toys, go home, pout, and cross your fingers hoping that all of the worst possible things happen to America so that people will somehow get straightened out and vote Dem in 2020.”

Pragmatism?!?! No, no, we can’t allow that. We need to go home and pout for 4 years, hoping for all of the worst things to happen to everyone, so that they will get scared straight and vote D in 2020! Suffering and misery are perfectly allowable outcomes if it helps our team win next time.

Seriously. Trump’s candidacy was the second-best thing that ever happened to the media-news industry. His election win is the #1 best thing that ever happened.

The left has completely lost its mind as a result of this election, as evidenced by this post. It is wishing death and misery on everyone, including the marginalized people it claims to care about, just to prove a point that it is the “correct” team. The hell with that. There needs to be pragmatism and actual efforts…

With the “literally Hitler” stuff, the left has cried wolf big time, and when someone worse comes along, nobody will listen. Trump is unqualified for his position in many ways, but the left completely lost its shit over the wrong cause. The hyperbole, teeth-gnashing and general inability to address anything but the…