Those 90's Toyotas ran forever, but the paint on 90's Toyotas couldn’t survive a couple of winters. I can forgive the new paint and accept the plastic hubcaps, but the price is just wrong. Maybe if it was the five-speed model.

A 1/4 ton truck is easily replaced by a guy with a wheelbarrow. I’ve never been able to figure out the allure, or who can’t fit a 1/4 ton of shit in the back of a station wagon. That Ram was stupid.

What goes missing, aside of a discussion of SBF’s competence, his understanding of financial risk management and the operational structure of FTX, is any serious commentary on why crypto simply must be regulated.

I think you’re minimizing in the extreme. She didn’t just “defraud rich people”, she destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of employees and crushed their retirements; she clobbered her suppliers and customers and so on. Crime on her level is a cascade of harm, not all of it visible to people who concentrate solely on…

I am and will forever be struck by the juxtaposition between the importance we place on education and the demands we cheerfully apply to teachers, and the actual value we place on teacher’s labor. It strikes me as insane that more districts require advanced and continuing ed., but are not footing any part of those…

I had an ‘89 that I could swear had DS airbag. I’m perfectly willing to be wrong on that - no one can claim perfect memory, especially me. I am still fine with that car. I drove those things all over the place with no problem or fear - it was a surprisingly available rental at the time, too.

One of the more frustrating things about the market is that YoY is pretty much the only metric that counts, regardless of obvious mitigating factors. Zuck is an autodidact, founder CEO, and thus is more prone to confirmation bias and emotional investment in his own vision. Any rational human could have predicted the…

They have airbags. No ABS, but airbags and crumple zones, and shoulder belts and so on. I started driving in the 80's in a ‘72 Delta 88 with lap belts and rear-wheel drive in a city with hills that got a fair amount of snow. Teach your kid how to drive correctly and the odds are that they’ll be fine, even without the…

If the rubber has been changed, along with the timing belt, this thing will run forever. It is also a good car to teach a kid how to drive manual, and with a carplay retrofit, would be worth giving a kid who needs their own transport. It’s got kitsch appeal, it’s not a mover and it has enough safety stuff to not cause…

It’s got a hard cover over the boot to help one hide their shit.

I love this sled. I’d be terrified of anything happening to that rear windscreen...

Every three-wheeler.

One should recognize that whatever charmed life the seller has led, one’s own has probably not been, and that taking possession of this vehicle is roughly akin to inviting a black cloud to take residence over one’s head. Bad things are going to happen to this car, and to its new owner. The only joy this car will…

“Corporate” is not the appropriate adjective. You need to be industry specific. You also need to consider size - annial revenues, number of employees, and so on.

Sentences like “...pay a living wage...”, don’t do service to the complexity of the issue. Certainly, inflation is challenging everyone with unpredictable increases to their costs of living. However, the ability of manufacturers in some spaces to sell and maintain any kind of margin is being challenged by the will of…

There was a day in December 1990 when I went to one of the largest malls in the country - it may well be the largest, now - and had an awful time parking. After running the gauntlet of Christmas shoppers, I came back out, put my key in my door - and found out that I had selected the wrong Prelude. So, I was looking…

No! People are differently susceptible! Get vaccinated!

Mild symptoms are most often signs that a vaccine is working. It’s frustrating when people make no attempt to understand how things work. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve heard say they’re, “...never getting a flu shot again...”, even though they never got the flu as a result of getting the shot. 

Remind me again which laws fantasy breaks? Sure, cheating is awful, but we are awfully selective about which famous people’s infidelities we forgive. We are also pretty quick to think that complete financial ruin is a justifiable punishment for unproven allegations that produced no consequential legal action…

The fundamental defect of your position is that the publishers tied themselves to a vehicle they don’t own in a space not known for stability. Twitter isn’t “their” PR vehicle, and it really doesn’t seem like they did any contingency planning, not even for the site’s obsolescence.