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I don’t see how this particular idiocy means that we should end traffic stops. They more or less ended traffic stops for motorcycles in NYC and it led to low-grade anarchy, large groups of people riding enduros and ATVs on sidewalks and wherever they feel like. The city is now trying to combat this by picking up…

They generally don’t, though. I know several Suburban and equivalent owners and none of them have more than two kids. Here in NYC, the majority of them belong to Uber drivers so that their customers may present a certain image when they go to the airport.

There are uncountable empty luxury apartments where I live, and they are still building more. They are also adding office space at an alarming rate, of which there is already a huge surfeit. If this was turned into spaces where normal people could live, there wouldn’t be a housing crisis.

It is startlingly wrong in every way. I wish I hadn’t had the wire spares pointed out to me, but now I can’t unsee it. And yet, I’d still rather have this than a regular Mustang...

I watched it live on TV and I was soooo excited. I love these stories of all the shenanigans.

I enjoyed the first season (even though the lessons he learned were as painfully obvious as those in the books I read for my 2-yo), but I have a feeling that any further seasons will be utterly pointless.

No, land should receive protection when necessary, whether or not some rich person can afford to buy it all up. Once wilderness or an “area of natural beauty” has been destroyed it cannot be recreated.

If and when I buy an electric car, it would absolutely not be an SUV. It would be compact and efficient to maximize range. 

It’s funny. I always thought that the way to introduce “new” technology was to make it look as normal as possible and super easy to use. The Prius proved me wrong, though, but it seems that Toyota may have learned their lesson perhaps too well.

Sadly, interest rates are almost always higher for used car purchases, all else being equal.

Selective maths.

The average US family has 1.9 kids. I have two siblings and we fit fine in a J-car as kids, we drove from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean for a month every summer with all of our luggage including our tent. It’s 99% percent status/misperceptions about security.

They are buying (mostly) within their means - only the top quintile is buying new cars of any kind, and they (I probably should say “we”, but living in NYC changes my place in the pyramid) all buy luxury cars.

I personally know a multi-multi-millionaire family - they own a Model 3 and two aging Highlanders. And an ancient Lexus LX470 as a beach vehicle.

And as long as inflation keeps up, $300 will be like $50... I just watched a documentary about Lebanon, where a guy who got a mortgage for the equivalent of $250K was able to pay it off with $5K after a year’s worth of absurd inflation - he is lucky; his job pays in USD rather than Lebanese Pounds. His friends,…

Get out of here with your math and research and crap. (I also imagine that the average 200K family has a $6K mortgage and a whole bunch of “essential” expenses).

I recommend buying that vehicle outright once the lease is over; you’re not likely to be able to replicate that deal...

Cue several commenters who will prove that paying $1,000/month for an F-250 will actually earn you money, what with permanent 12% returns from stocks and Bitcoin and NFTs and whatnot.

Does all this add up to Elon finally having jumped the shark? A hundred years from now he will be a symbol of this era, and people will scratch their heads at our idiocy.