I’m quite possibly one of the only people that enjoyed seeing Star Wars Episode II for a similar reason: After the scene where Yoda decides it’s time to just... levitate and generally kick ass, someone from one end of the theater yells “SO WHY DOES HE NEED A CANE?!” and someone from the other end responded “BECAUSE…

Depends on the buyer, but for a lot, it’s a big deal. Some dealers focus on monthly payments, because that’s how people budget, and because it’s easy to say “well, if you get this model in our Super Limited trim, it’s only $25 a month more, and you get a huge screen up front! Don’t you want a big touchscreen…

This. And the realistic possibility the Treasury might start offering 100-year bonds would all but cement low rates for the foreseeable future. The US has only had one year of above-average GDP growth this century. Ever since then - even clawing back from a deep recession, where you’d expect growth to shoot up -…

This. Sales have become such a permanent part of so many parts of our economy that you either have to be desperate or an idiot to pay sticker/label on goods from clothes to cars.

This. The average # of miles driven per household is flat/declining slightly and cars are way more reliable than they used to be.

This. The difference between an elite QB and an average one isn’t that the average QB can’t make a great play, it’s that they can’t do it consistently. 

Illinois just raised the annual rate to register an EV from being much cheaper than a gas/diesel car ($17.50 a year for an EV vs. $95 for everyone else) to slightly higher ($248 a year vs. $148 for conventional cars).

Agreed - it’d be interesting if it sort of worked like barbarians on overdrive at the beginning, and you had to get your empire (and eventually the world) back under control. Science tree reworked to add protection/diffuse certain threats (like purifying water, radiation hardening), and it could build on Gathering…

To people who want to play the “two sides” coin and say MLS’s policy is fair:

This just shows how boneheaded MLS’s policy is: By trying to ban certain kinds of images, they decided to play the game.

If they were going for the Hyundai Pony look, why not just call it the Pon-e? No less dumb than stylized quotation marks and a number (which clearly will not be part of any logical sequence of model #s).

I mean, maybe look at an electric bike/scooter? Though obviously that may not be the best year-round option depending on where you live.  Having said that, a lot of the electric scooters offer motors in the 1kw just like that car, meaning you’re getting the same power to move a lot less weight...

This is the most pointless car color of all time. The color only looks consistent because of how matte it is - meaning not only will it look dirty as soon as anything gets on it, but that conventional cleaning methods (including anything that uses soap and leaves even the tiniest residue, or anything that uses wax,…

Uber and Lyft lose money each time they enter a new market, since they’ve got to splurge on marketing (everything from ads to giving away ride vouchers/free rides), but I suspect they’re actually losing money because they’re burning money on “reinvent transportation” type BS - Uber’s self-driving car project is a…

Is that true? I’m not sure we know that prices are lower than they should be. If the companies’ claims were true, and their customers were really drivers, then frankly, they should be able to get away with charging a small, possibly flat fee per ride and make money, the same way newspapers made money off of…

While that’s true, I think it’s also possible to divorce physical objects, in your head, from what actually went on with the Nazi regime before and after WWII. By focusing on cars, tanks, planes, etc., the stuff of action movies and childhood models, it’s easy to forget why these goods were produced, and what else the…

I really think hybrids will have a place for a while: There’s tons of people who have range anxiety, justified or not, but there’s also tons of that an EV won’t work for anytime soon:

While that might be true, there’s certainly a lot of people who saved, scrounged and sacrificed to get down payment money for homes near the peak of the market (2006-7), under the belief that home values would continue to increase faster than incomes, so if they didn’t buy then they’d never be able to. It wasn’t…

As others have noted, it’s a closely-held private company, which puts it in a different position than even say, Papa John’s, where John was the founder and CEO and a major stakeholder, but not the majority owner.

There’s no way I can see MLS being rated that high up, but focusing on leagues is somewhat misleading: