When I worked fast food, the GM or Manager would hand me a few food temperature sheets every few months and have me fill them out with a variety of pens.

Hah, I’ll believe all of that; I used to work at a Taco Bell when I first got my green card. Once, a customer walked in on two of my co-workers in the bathroom while one of them was giving oral sex to the other.

Although there is a risk: I am waaaay more productive in weeks with a holiday - working four-day weeks might lead to even more s**t being made.

Yes of course, for that family it would be. I am saying that those are straw man arguments that in no way explain over 85,000 Suburban sales last year.

My wife’s Savings Account is paying... drumroll... 0.1 percent interest. Just call it zero, no need to spit into my coffee with 0.1 percent.

Here you go

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.