Am I old?

Excellent—thanks for the perspective.

Nice, RustyBolts.

And this comes much closer to the “scholarly” part of the suggestion.

This is good, right? Cars should not be investment vehicles. So to speak.

“How fast can you run?” “How strong are you?” “How hard can you hit?” etc. If athletic ability doesn’t matter, it’s not a sport.

By far the most intelligent and informed comment on this article.

I don’t know where I’d land, but a star for your excellent command of vocabulary.

Making the pop culture nerd the hero of the story instead of some jacked up warrior type is the twist that sets RPO apart, although admittedly it’s not much of a twist.

Fuck those consumers too stupid to outwit these criminal enterprises.

Thank you.

You have my best wishes! My wife is 53. If you’re curious, I told our story a few years ago, though things are different now. I think it should be possible to become a better person to deal with a challenging situation, but personally I’m still working on it, and what counts as being better or worse is a matter of…

Thanks, you are very kind. Epictetus does have an implicit lesson that I’ve taken to heart, which is that people can get used to a situation; persistence is important.

People usually resort to “but your mind - they can’t take that away”

Cool, we have an expert at hand!

Driving over them would result in a “ding-ding’...

That would have made the list one longer than the perfect length of... 23.

This is the best thing I have seen on the Internet today.

Republicans complained about it when Obama was president and are all excited about the same data now that he’s not.

I love how everyone, including Jalopnik writers, are instantly global economic experts on a subject that is more or less unprecedented.