Get something luxurious and nice to drive. Enjoy your life with your kid. Racing around in a gigantic Dad car in Florida is just depressing. It’s hot as hell and the roads are all straight and boring. It’s not like you’re in Miami where you’re parking it out front of a club to attract people.

Cameras around retail outlets have been low res. The neighboring towns around me all share surveillance footage of theft suspects via the local PD on facebook. It’s led to a lot of crime resolution. Higher res recording also captures vehicle detail and a string of videos locally can help piece together the path a…

For some reason people forget about him but Chef Tell was one of the most popular American chefs in the 70's alongside Julia Childs, James Beard, Joyce Chen, Graham Kerr, and Martin Yan. He had cookware, cookbooks, TV shows, and worked in higher end restaurants. He died relatively young, but made seemingly good food.

Suzuka blue has almost no demand and needs to be priced 2-3k below anything black, laguna blue, red, yellow, or especially white. 15.5k probably makes more sense for this, 18k if it were white.

Porkroll, egg, and cheese sandwich, or buffalo wings and a side caesar salad, or a lamb gyro.

I was under the impression that older Audis are awful to own aside from the Quattro for kitsch reasons? Aren’t they the opposite of what you want in an older collectible car? No communication with the road, bad steering, bad handling, a kind of numb non-visceral engine note, dull interior, and relatively poor styling…

There’s another curveball in all of this in that if he’s had more general tendon issues or what feels like enthesitis he could actually have a form of autoimmune arthritis that’s causing symptoms similar to TOS given the symptom onset of his age and that he had some knee issues in the past. Knee symptoms as a teen -> C…

You didn’t think this through.

I can’t tell if we agree or disagree. I think you’re arguing for something in your evidence that doesn’t 100% match your conclusion? I agree with what your evidence says: that Communist closed economies are non-competitive and market economies are more competitive. It’s also why tariffs are generally stupid. 

I hope your truck makes you feel better!

Do you want an answer to that? It’s America. They’re all depressed, anxious, overweight, lacking in healthcare, worrying about themselves/their kids, working too much, panicking that other people are not working as hard and thinking this is the downfall of their country, angry about anything and everything, and buying…

The USSR made watches with exceptional quality, rivaling Swiss-made. Tanks were pretty good too.

Communism sucks, but your example’s bad if it’s trying to act like the USSR’s economic mobilization and industrial emergence weren’t impressive. The fear of the Great Russian Bear was in part because by some measures of GDP…

http://www.dashboard-light.com/reports/Subaru.html 

But what’s the point of arguing otherwise right now? All evidence in front of me (empirical, anecdotal) tells me that they’re badly made cars with a lot of problems. Why would I go way out of my way to ignore all of that evidence when there are so many well-built cars…

As a sometimes passenger and friend of subaru owners who is constantly hearing about their broken cars I have the opposite feeling. I know it’s anecdotal but of the maybe dozen subaru owners I know, 2 were happy with the car and they both had pretty heavily tuned turbo cars.

One WRX (stock, purchased new, unabused DD,…

All the mass produced interior parts are cheap, the costs go up due to safety tech and engineering to design the cars to meet modern road standards. They throw in better interior materials because we’re better at making cheap materials that look slightly better than the 80's/90's. All the electronics and speakers and…

There’s a guy with a series about cheaply restoring a Fiero on youtube and it’s similarly heart-warming and a relaxing watch.  He’s not modding it up with a bunch of hp or anything, just trying to get the car driving well.

Is this guy some sort of specialty architect who designs houses that are slightly worse than the surrounding ones so that he doesn’t cause jealousy?

This is misstated. Top 5% pay 2/3 of INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAXES not all taxes in the country. The figure is basically meaningless in the context of real taxes paid. I’m in an upper income class and I will probably owe, which I try to do every year since otherwise it’s an interest free loan to the government. 

I don’t know how Jayson Taytum’s deyfense keeps getting worse and worse. That draft class looks like one of the worst in years so far.

Maybe a better comparison is the GX 470 which you can get with 100k less miles for similar pricing. Same engine, sometimes better transmission (later years), ever so slightly different off road capability but still good. The GX has a weirdly narrow feeling interior and it’s 400 ft tall however. Partly refreshed…