And China would never lie.

Either the United States is right and it’s a spy balloon, in which case they had every right to shoot it down for overflying their sovereign territory or the Chinese are right, and it’s an out of control weather balloon, in which case the United States had a responsibility to take it down due to it being an aviation…

I have news for you - everybody spies on everybody, ALL THE TIME. Including our closest allies, who spy on us and we spy on them. It’s just not talked about in “polite” society, and everyone normally tries rather hard not to get so blatantly caught, and for it not to become quite so public.

To be fair, knowing where the sites are, and collecting communications data from the people living in and around those sites are two very different things. I’m not saying that’s what’s happening here but it’s hard to fault someone (who isn’t an obviously disingenuous grandstanding politician) for regarding this as a…

I find the very silly need to keep claiming it was not a spy balloon and it is all just some vast conspiracy to be quite entertaining.

Tax season, used car prices go up...

Sometimes the dealer terms are better. I shop with financing in hand from my credit union, but I let the dealer try to beat it if they can. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t.

When I got my mkVII GTI I used dealer financing because they were offering incentivized rates, and offered a discount on the sticker if I went through them. I did come with credit from my bank, but only as a backup. After I paid enough to the dealer’s bank I refinanced the remainder through USAA at a drastically lower…

I walk into the dealership with pre-approved financing through my credit union and let them know that if they can beat that rate I’ll go through them, if not, I’m using my credit union. It’s about 50/50 as to who wins.

Okay Ivan. You earned your rubles for the day.

No, it started in 2014.

I haven’t purchased eggs throughout this issue, but I think I’ll still wait because that price is more than I like (I really don’t want to break a quarter an egg). I have missed them somewhat, at breakfast time and when I’ve recently wanted to bake, but I just try to think about times previously, like WWII, when…

Was just about to post that very same thing, its just plain corporate  greed.

Flu, schmoo. This is profiteering.

Maybe the problem isn’t having too many engineers, but having too many executives with unrealistic ideas about their ability to predict the future.

So are the insurance companies reducing rates for cars that are hardly ever stolen ? Yeah I know the answer. While I agree that Kia/Hyundai created this problem, you can trust insurance companies to make it worse.  worst kind of organized crime 

This is when you need the government to step in and just say no you cant do that. Plenty of older cars can be stolen with a screwdriver. next they will stop with flood insurance for all the south east us. drop health insurance coverages for people living in certain areas due to lead pipes or toxic waste causing higher…

I miss the old days of MSFS. The amount of freeware for FS2004 was just absolutely unreal. I had gigabytes upon gigabytes upon gigabytes of aircraft, airport, and traffic mods. All for free. 

Terrible use of fractions. It’s 1/4" by 1/3"

The issue is that 63/200 inch is idiotically specific, when they could just say 1/3 of an inch and it’s close enough and much easier for someone to understand.