Give me buttons every day. I've accidentally hit cruise stalks many more times than cruise buttons. IMO, I never want to see anything more than two stalks on a steering column—one for lights/blinkers and the other for wipers—and nothing else.

Jalopnik is notorious for changing the topic between the questions & answers. And honestly, for most people in the south, I doubt they'd check the heated options, just like they don't check the AWD option.

Well said. My current car has them, but they were a package deal, and I wouldn't have paid for them if I had the choice.

To each their own. Personally, I've never been impressed with leather, but it can be easier to quickly clean up a spill.

This strikes me as odd. Just about every new car has a USB port or two. You can pick up a low-profile thumb drive that you won't even notice is there. They're cheap. It's completely wired and controlled through the car's system, and you can put full CD-quality files on it if you want. Good music & good fidelity—why…

Yuck. I'd hate to hear a phone ringing through car speakers. But then again, I'm not surgically attached to my phone, and I can even (gasp!) leave it at home.

If there's a button to use it, it can't be "totally handsfree."

Or, you could just use a USB thumb drive for that and get all the same benefits without the error-prone nature of bluetooth.

Yes, they can. In my state (TX), and I assume most others, the process is through a bonded title. The process is like getting a lost title. You file with the state, they send you a title, but that title is subject to claims of prior owners, lien holders, etc. The time period is three years. If at the end of that time…

And yet people complain about how dangerous EVs are because they are a fire hazard.

Figure out how to pay salesmen when the deal falls through? It's called a salary. Some of the best dealerships don't work on commission.

Is lane splitting safe? I don't know, but after spending some time in places that allow it—one, the locals said that multiple motorcyclists die every day from accidents in traffic (but I can't guarantee that's from lane splitting), and two, the only accident I saw on CA highways was caused by a motorcycle splitting…

My point is that the 'logic' you offer for pronouncing acronyms differently than words doesn't hold up. This is because:
1.) My guess is that 80%+ of people don't know "gif" is an acronym, and perhaps only 2% of people could correctly identify what it stands for. I believe this is true of the majority of acronyms,…

One flaw in the debate is thinking people look at "gi" and make a decision on how to pronounce it, which they don't—mainly because there isn't a decent rule on that. Rather, they look at the rest of the letters, and pronounce that. Hence, most people pronounce gif like gift and never even think about giraffe.

"For many, it's an automatic association: when they see G-I-F, knowing it's an acronym and each letter registered individually, the G is soft, thus the jif pronunciation."

An investment portfolio is like your diet—it should have well-balanced and contain good variety. That includes tax-advantaged & regular investments. Regular investments (non-tax advantaged) are useful for retiring early, like you suggest, but also gives you access and flexibility to funds for shorter-term goals…

This is the first time I've heard the F-16 referred to as "Viper."

It isn't the bags that's the fundamental problem. It's the order of boarding, people not being prepared, and the wrong type of carry-ons being used. The time for embarking & disembarking couple be cut in half if people would just act properly.

True, but twice a year they tow a hotel so their family of four can go camping.

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