First, a question: if the base model is getting turn-directional swiveling headlights, what makes the ones on the higher two trims even better?

Hah! I don’t hate him but I do hate his singing voice and don’t like Maroon 5's music. Also: he cheated (we know because it went public) and, while we can say that makes him human, we can also say that makes him a shitty human. I mean, really, this was his denial:

I hope he wasn’t thinking that he could drive the Maserati at 185 and still keep his license...

That’s a tough way to make money. I know people steal valuable dogs (like French bulldogs) to resell, but, geez:

If you read the prior comment more carefully, you’d see that was exactly what the comment said.

Hey, Nikki! “crypto” and “crypto currency” are NOT capitalized. C’mon--be a journalist!

DOJ representative: “Mushu! Lick your ass twice if you’re in danger! We can help you!”

While it’s true that the courts (state and, from what you said, federal bankruptcy matters) consider all animals as property, I think that they’d be unlikely to take a pet even if it was a championship-winning animal that was being, uh, prostituted for money for breeding purposes, but instead would keep a close eye on…

“...and when I was younger I was a show-championship prize-winning Persian cat.” — G. Santos

Well, no, they weren’t going to re-serve it but it’s easy for fast food employees to become jaded because of the small number of people who will try and scam them out of free food. And it happens everywhere. I worked at Starbucks (not all that long ago) and there would be the occasional customer who would drink all or…

Nice! I can “feel” the incredulousness!

If you don’t like how your tax dollars are being spent, do something about it! Go to city council meetings, write/email your elected officials at all levels (state, local, federal), organize, petition, or even run for office. It’s just too easy to complain about the few projects that don’t work out.

According to Kelley Blue Book and the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, the average new car price at the beginning of 2023 is $49,388!

You’re only partly correct. However, especially for Boomers, the price of a used car, even financed, was a far smaller portion of one’s income/savings. Wages over time have not kept up with the basic price of living and therefore a used (or new) car is far greater expense for Millenials and Zoomers (is that what we…

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.

Seriously: what’s going on with REI lately? I’m a long-time REI Co-op member (34 years!) but I’m disturbed by the recently-in-the-media reports of poor working conditions, anti-union stance, and now this issue with PFAS? REI had $3.7 BILLION in revenue in 2021—they are not a small company. Maybe that’s the problem,…

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.