I don’t know where you got your numbers and I’m no expert regarding auto loans but (you saw that coming a mile away!) I’m not sure that any Zoomer making $25/hr (approx. $50,000/yr) can get a loan at only 5% on a used car. Further, there are many predatory buy-here/pay-here used auto dealers (i.e. high interest loan…

Definitely this—new cars are a luxury (and I’d argue that it applies to wealthy people, too). I never owned a new car until I was 55! (And to be 100% about it: 90% of the cost was a family gift.)

“Avocado Toast Maker” will be the hot new car accessory for 2024.

Yeah, that was definitely wrong of them. Even today fast food businesses shouldn’t do that. You touch it, you take it. Although, as we have learned, COVID isn’t really contact-transmissable.

Duh. Learn to read. I addressed that in my first sentence. No need to be an flaming asshole about it.

Yeah, no, not doing it myself—I have “regular” luxury vinyl plank (LVP) flooring (basically a similar install process but without the magnetic layer) and had professionals (at least nominally...) install it, mostly because my hallway is full of crazy angles like this:

I learned to gamble at 19 when I was with my ski team in Lake Tahoe. If you don’t know, Lake Tahoe cuts through California and Nevada. And on the east shore of the lake, you cross the street into Stateline, NV and there are casinos. One night we went to one of them to eat at the buffet and one of my older teammates…

My worst experience?

True, but Honda managed to make their bad bike terrible during the years he was injured. It truly was Marquez’s talent and force of will that made it a winner and that’s coming from a Rossi fan. And if the Honda isn’t good this year? There’s a high likelihood that he’ll leave Honda. Of course, the question is then…

As somebody who owns three Rossi t-shirts and spent three US MotoGPs (at Laguna Seca) before finally snagging his autograph, I say that Vale should have quit at least two years before he did, maybe even three. The field had loads of talent, more than just four “aliens” as it had in the 2010s, Yamaha was utterly…

Counter-point: Marc Marquez will be 100% for the 2023 season. The question is whether he has a competitive motorcycle or will he be trying to force a non-competitive one to be at the front and endure more crashes. Furthermore, even if he is 100% and the Honda is competitive, there’s a whole crop of hungry and capable…

Uh, counter-point: if a foreign government kills POTUS, there will be severe and outsized military consequences for that nation. Thinking otherwise is to fantasize and ignore reality.

Counter-point: Pizza Hut, Dominos and Little Caesar’s are so awful that we should stop talking about them and never go to/have delivered from them except in the most dire of situations (e.g. car breaks down while on a roadtrip and there is absolutely no other food available in the vicinity and you’re starving).

Dealing with bipolar disorder (Type II) can be challenging, even when the meds are working. Sometimes I have what I call “bad days,” often when either something small has had an overwhelming negative effect on my mood or my morning did not follow my usual workday or off-day routine. It can really be a challenge to get…

As if he ever was in good enough shape, or well-endowed, to accomplish such a feat.

He didn’t—he took a train in and out of the country. Furthermore, the USA even notified Russia of this in order to prevent an actual world war from starting if Russia was stupid enough to bomb the train (or Kyiv) while President Biden was in Ukraine.

#3: my engineer friend says the proper term is “over-molded plastic.”

It’s not so much “high-risk, high-reward” as it is being forced to over-ride the bike to make up for its shortcomings. That’s his “genius” and why he’s the only one in the last few years (including the few before breaking his arm) that he’s been head-and-shoulders above all of the other Honda riders (ditto the last 3…

I think that’s fantastic, Kyle. And maybe someday you’ll get that 997 or whatever your next dream car is. In the meantime, I’m sure your 996 is absolutely awesome to drive and look at compared to whatever you were driving before it.

It’s the U.S.: of course he can sue.