Depending on where you live, it honestly might be cheaper than you think - if you live in a place where rigid conduit is required, depending on what choices were made when the house was built, there’s a good chance that an electrician could just pull the appropriate size wire through the existing conduit - though you…

Neutral: For consumer (not commercial truck/van) EV chargers need to be near where people sleep (usually houses or apartments), and, secondarily, where they work (for employers located in places where most people drive). Everything else is secondary, since most of us don’t fill up our years with extended roadtrips…

Sure, and Nissan has certainly had some great cars through the years, but if you’re the “last choice” car marker, you’re 1) not on the shopping list of a lot of car buyers and 2) have a pretty firm ceiling when it comes to average price, etc.

I’ve seen a fair # on the road in Chicago, but they’re badly outnumbered by Teslas (which are rapidly becoming the default “luxury” marque around town). The problem is they’re firmly a city/suburban trip car, and not a particularly fun or good looking one - if you didn’t care about the way it was powered, it’d…

yeah, but how many are vehicles people actually wanted? There’s some older Pathfinders on the road that feel like they fit the bill, but AFAIK people buy Altimas because they can get a good deal, not because they had a poster of one on their wall. They’ve become the “we can get you into a new car even with bad credit”…

The statement is far from completely false.

With the Bulls this millennium, the real measure for success isn’t if you win or lose (you won’t win), it’s how memorably you fuck up along the way that.

I mean, fair point, but it’s $60. A working computer that connects to the Internet, plays games, streams, can videochat, and it costs less than most new console games do.

I don’t have much use for one personally, but these things are a godsend if you’re around kids with a crack-like addition to screen time.  (I don’t…

I mean, fair point, but it’s $60. A working computer that connects to the Internet, plays games, streams, can…

Well, transit needs better funding in general, but:

I almost wish I believed the Ricketts didn’t care about the team’s performance, since the worst teams frequently have the most “hands on” owners (see: Charles Wang and the NY Islanders as one example). No, the problem is that the Ricketts own the cubs more as a hobby than a serious investment - sure, they use it as a…

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.