Besides the Alpine, all of those vehicles (while cool in their own right) were smart not to be sold in the US. They would have sold poorly and been financial burdens on whichever manufacturer was dumb enough to try and get us to buy them.

“Lada still sells this thing, and even with updates it still looks 20 years old”

This wall of herky jerky formatted text is horrendous presentation compared to a slideshow.

Trusting to Jesus? I’m pretty sure I read an article about that a month or so ago.

He’s not wrong though. Ford is tossing you the easiest part of the whole deal, leaving you to figure out the most difficult part.

Also, the whole fucking point of a “crate engine” is the easy route...

Once you stop asking no one in particular, maybe do some research.

How does one figure this out or even realize the plates don’t match?

Avis blows balls.

They once rented me a Camry that THEY had switched out the license plates with another vehicle. As the story goes, the Camry had its license plates stolen, but they had just sold a Ford Expedition that they still had the plates for. So, they threw the plates from the Expedition onto the Camry, and…

Hey, if your pet is too picky to eat the food you provide, they have the option of starving.

Can’t see shit. I even tried opening up your comments in a separate tab and window, still nothing. Kinja is legit one of the worst commenting systems I’ve ever had to wrestle with.

Fuck you Kinja. So if someone replies to your post but they are in the greys, it seems like there is literally NO way to view or reply to that comment? I know the notification links have BEEN broken, but I get a notification that a greyed commenter replied to me, I can read half their comment in my notifications, but…

I love interjecting myself into conversations about stocks and bonds to tell people that all my money is tied up in pet food. I mean, I have four cats and two dogs all on prescription diets. It’s really not a joke.

They’re not talking about buying in bulk though. They’re talking about selling tiny quantities of something in a speciality pack made just for these stores rather than the standard size sold in Walmart, Target, grocery stores, and drug stores. There’s a difference in losing out on money because you’re not buying an…

It’s more of a smaller Walmart that spread incredibly quickly and the same social factors are at work. If you depress the cost of goods, you’re depressing the cost of labor, and therefore also depressing the spending capabilities of the community. These things are designed to hurt mom and pop stores and other locally…

Not necessarily low intelligence, but there is definitely a correlation between low-education and low-income, as better educated people can get better jobs. Much of the predatory business ecosystem for the poor depends on their innumeracy. Besides Dollar stores, there are those awful “Checks Cashed”, “Payday Loans”,…

I don’t disagree with you about targeting lower income people but its not really a “scam”. People know that buying in bulk saves them money. The price for toilet paper at Target isn’t a scam because I can get double the amount at Costco for a cheaper per unit price. That’s just how that works.

That doesn’t sound like a DG problem. Sounds like an asshole problem. And like dollar stores, they’re everywhere.

Why do all these types of articles equate low income as low intelligence. People are smart enough to know they’re getting smaller sizes and maying more per ounce, pound, inch, etc.

Dollar General is like kudzu. They’re all over the place. In Sumter County, Alabama there are 4 stores about 10 miles apart on the same highway. In Meridian, Mississippi, there are 6 stores circling the city, with two in the heart of downtown. And there are stores popping up in nearly every unincorporated community.…

It sounds like the “scam” is just being on the lowest end of the unit price spectrum. Most people are generally aware that you pay the highest unit price for the tiny amount, and the lowest unit price for the bulk amount.