The community gets asked to post their stories, using the site’s Kinja commenting, and it gets summarized in screenshots, in a slideshow?

This is the worst use of a slideshow.

Nothing against Lawrence, but I cannot read his articles. The slideshow format is shit. Sorry but going to pass.

I work in energy trading. This comes as zero surprise to me (us), ERCOT is exactly what Texas wanted, and this is the natural result.

My office has been cold, so I have my desktop mining Ethereum to generate additional heat.

I don’t give a crap - there’s been significant (for the region) ice and snow here the last 2 weeks. We also have a 3rd gen 4runner with blizzaks. We’ve stayed in when we can, mostly just to avoid idiots on the road, but throw it into 4wd and send it into whatever weather happens to be occurring when we run out of beer.

How did you end up with a US model in Germany?

I will try and look them up, it was 4 years ago at this point. I will get back to you if I find anything.

The republic of Chuvashia at night. I had a shift in the city of Kazan (capital of the republic of Tatarstan) and was carrying video equipment from Moscow, a 12 hour drive, but we were delayed 2 hours by a terribly managed railroad crossing, so we only had 10 hours to get there. I had a passenger, but he didn’t have…

The minefield between Mauritania and Morocco / Western Sahara is quite tense the first time you drive through it. Stay on the soft sand - if you think you see a road surface, that’s more likely to have landmines.

Don’t forget you also need to stay away from puddles and blow trucks in other words leave your car in the garage for the winter, if you have one.....

1. Get the salt off your car ASAP after driving through it. (Even if you’re someone who prefers to wash your car yourself, this is a good excuse for a trip to the car wash.)
   

That sounds about right. Even with all that pre-production effort, there are still very talented people at the door assembly process that make final adjustments on each doors to make the fit perfect. To an outsider, it looks ridiculous to see people tugging on the doors pretty hard, but that’s what it takes.

IIRC VW employs an entire team just to make sure the sound the door makes when it closes is right. I’d imagine there’s quite a bit of effort involved in getting the panel gaps right as well.

Dozens of people spend months just focusing on panel gap tolerances where I work. Those people laugh when they see Teslas.

Hell yeah, but you said Ferrari lol. $80k for a 981 GT4 is the route I’d go as well.

At $143K for the TRX, you could get a 2019 low-mile CPO Raptor for under $60k, AND a Ferrari 360 for $75k, coming in at $135k combined! It’s this logic that makes me think I’d never buy one single expensive car - I’m also poor, so there’s that.

These people gotta be paying at least the dealer markup in cash, banks won’t write loans for more than the collateral value. Can’t blame the dealers for trying to cash in on the stupidity of the wealthy. Are people really that impatient?

I used to hate selling cars with ADM’s. At least at the dealers I worked at, it was pure profit for the dealer and not counted towards gross commission for the salesperson.